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He'll be on the Panthers' second pairing in two years....

Other than he has a good hockey name, I know nothing about him. Or Lyckasen or Konecny either.

I was dismayed when Zach Benson made the team. I was wrong. I'm just saying that while it makes sense to look outside for 3/4C help, we might be sitting on someone that is ready to pop into the league with the same success Benson had last year. No matter what Kevyn does, I will withhold judgment until I see how it plays out. There may be a different dynamic with Lindy as HC. If he does have an influence on the roster I will tend to trust Kevyn's moves going forward. Kevyn has his own way of doing things and as much as he says he seeks inputs from those around him, I think having a senior hockey guy like Lindy to vet Kevyn's moves can only help.

Dadonov is like the Stars version of Jeff Skinner. Or maybe Afinogenov. Crazy talent and creativity. Terrible passer.

So, if they managed to offer sheet Mitts for low $6 million range, they would have effectively traded a 1st and a 3rd for Byram.

Me too. The goal meme writes itself. WOW BLUEGER!

Yeah, I read that Boston may want to move Ullmark after basically ignoring him in the playoffs. If Swayman is #1, cash out the #1B and go with a #2 goalie I guess.

I love the internal inconsistency in your post: "Thompson needs to go to wing" but "Mitts trade is one of the few no doubt great moves", like trading a center and moving another center to wing is going to improve anything. You're funny. Or trolling. Probably trolling.

Especially with Reinhart, I don't think it was Covid. I think Kevyn had already decided to move on from Eichel and saw Reinhart as part of that core he wanted to move on from. In fact, looking back, I think the one year deal he signed Reino to was the first concrete indication that Adams was going to shake up the roster. I look back now at XGMTM and JBot and I really regret that they just couldn't build a cohesive roster with a decent culture. Instead they brought in a bunch of misfits (as in pieces that didn't fit together) and leaned too heavily on Eichel to save the franchise. What an epic failure that turned out to be.

I saw them here in Ft Worth a couple years ago. Solid is a good description.

It's called intensity.

Reino with the OT winner in FLA

My point was the Mitts trade was dumb. We really didn't need another high-talent, pretty-boy Dman (regardless of handedness) at the expense of a solid 2/3 C. But Adams decided to invest in Tage and Cozens and walk away from Mitts. I don't understand that. I just don't. The gap created by trading Casey away is greater than any contribution Byram will make, imo.

No, no, no... just ask Kevyn: You can never have too many LHD!

Zach Benson - Yanni Gourde - Brandon Tanev Jordan Greenway - Peyton Krebs - Tanner Jeannot I like the looks of that.

I think this is a good assessment of the situation. Offer him 1.3 to 1.5M and see how it goes. He's a solid depth defenseman and I think he probably could squeak into the top 6 on some teams but I'm not sure those teams would want to pay him $1.9M either.

They definitely found their game in the second period.

Or what about the time I met Brett Hull at DFW Airport? You wanna here that one again? 😛

And boy what a greasy goal it turned out to be.

I gotta believe Lindy will have a feel for the guys before preseason starts. This whole "wait until" stuff has to be over now if the Sabres are going anywhere this coming season.

Definition of a cold front: Over the last 3 miles of my commute, the temperature dropped from 81 to 64. It's raining pretty good but I got into the office before the downpour.

Because you draw conclusions from things no one else draws. Maybe you're just more clever than the rest of us. I don't know.

No, not really. If you take just Collin County, the county where Plano is (which does not include Dallas) there is a population of 1.159 million. In the Buffalo Metropolitan Area, which includes Erie and Niagara Counties, the population is only 1.137 million. It's hard to understand what a population juggernaut the Dallas-Fort Worth region is. It has suburbs that are bigger than "big cities".

Nothing. To PA, life is a series of running gags that only he understands.