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DrunkenCanuck
Vancouver Canucks
Location: Check your PM, AB
Joined: 07.14.2009

Friday @ 8:12 PM ET
You take that back!
- GalacticStone




He is going to be a King or Ranger and you know it!
Drapz
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Windsor, ON
Joined: 07.10.2007

Friday @ 8:12 PM ET
Gets fired from NBC of course TSN has him on.
DrunkenCanuck
Vancouver Canucks
Location: Check your PM, AB
Joined: 07.14.2009

Friday @ 8:14 PM ET
Gets fired from NBC of course TSN has him on.
- Drapz


Things are a changing. SN quietly fired Botterill after her last performance.
Woderwick
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: David Clarkson's Water Bottle, ON
Joined: 02.12.2013

Friday @ 8:16 PM ET
Just requested an invite to join. “underhill14”.

Thanks G!

- underhill14

I did as well

“Wodrink”
Cuz Wodwick was taken and so was Woderwick.
Drapz
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Windsor, ON
Joined: 07.10.2007

Friday @ 8:17 PM ET
Things are a changing. SN quietly fired Botterill after her last performance.
- DrunkenCanuck

Anyone have a link to her and Bieksa talking?
DrunkenCanuck
Vancouver Canucks
Location: Check your PM, AB
Joined: 07.14.2009

Friday @ 8:19 PM ET
Anyone have a link to her and Bieksa talking?
- Drapz


They spliced the clip and posted it on X. Didn’t show her having the lefty meltdown.
Woderwick
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: David Clarkson's Water Bottle, ON
Joined: 02.12.2013

Friday @ 8:20 PM ET
Things are a changing. SN quietly fired Botterill after her last performance.
- DrunkenCanuck

For voicing a hockey related opinion.
Stoopid…
She’s voiced that same opinion before.
DrunkenCanuck
Vancouver Canucks
Location: Check your PM, AB
Joined: 07.14.2009

Friday @ 8:23 PM ET
For voicing a hockey related opinion.
Stoopid…
She’s voiced that same opinion before.

- Woderwick


So by that logic I should hear the opening music and Blue Bark during the first intermission tomorrow evening…
dmnted
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Rented to Bruce Banner ;)
Joined: 08.30.2006

Friday @ 8:34 PM ET
Leafs to test their power kill skills
dmnted
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Rented to Bruce Banner ;)
Joined: 08.30.2006

Friday @ 8:38 PM ET
Leafs to test their power kill skills
- dmnted

it was not successful
dmnted
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Rented to Bruce Banner ;)
Joined: 08.30.2006

Friday @ 8:39 PM ET
Leafs to the PP!!!!
DrunkenCanuck
Vancouver Canucks
Location: Check your PM, AB
Joined: 07.14.2009

Friday @ 8:42 PM ET
Leafs to the PP!!!!
- dmnted



“Let’s Go” ~ Ron Wilson
dmnted
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Rented to Bruce Banner ;)
Joined: 08.30.2006

Friday @ 8:43 PM ET
Leafs to the PP!!!!
- dmnted

JT with a PP Goal !!!!


BOO Yeah !!!


Leafs up by 1
Drapz
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Windsor, ON
Joined: 07.10.2007

Friday @ 8:44 PM ET
JT with a PP Goal !!!!


BOO Yeah !!!


Leafs up by 1

- dmnted

That C must have been so heavy
Monkeypunk
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Whenever, wherever, ON
Joined: 06.27.2013

Friday @ 8:45 PM ET
That C must have been so heavy
- Drapz



Look at what it's done to Matthews!
Monkeypunk
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Whenever, wherever, ON
Joined: 06.27.2013

Friday @ 8:46 PM ET


Seriously.

(frank) off with these calls. It's embarrassing.
dmnted
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Rented to Bruce Banner ;)
Joined: 08.30.2006

Friday @ 8:46 PM ET
Leafs to the power kill once again
DrunkenCanuck
Vancouver Canucks
Location: Check your PM, AB
Joined: 07.14.2009

Friday @ 8:47 PM ET
Look at what it's done to Matthews!
- Monkeypunk


Right? Now he’s Tim Kerr 2.0
dmnted
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Rented to Bruce Banner ;)
Joined: 08.30.2006

Friday @ 8:50 PM ET
Leafs to the power kill once again
- dmnted

successful it was
joel878
Joined: 06.13.2009

Friday @ 8:57 PM ET
Eichel and Reinhart won Cups. Buffalo just wasn't smart enough to keep them healthy and happy to have it happen in Buffalo. ROR was another they let go.

There's a long list of players Buffalo either drafted and dumped or whiffed on at the draft.

- Rare_Jewel


Eichel and Reinhart winning cups had precisely zero to do with Buffalo tanking.

Florida and Vegas didn't "just keep tanking" either.

Classic speak from bumhole.
dmnted
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Rented to Bruce Banner ;)
Joined: 08.30.2006

Friday @ 9:01 PM ET
Monkeypunk
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Whenever, wherever, ON
Joined: 06.27.2013

Friday @ 9:16 PM ET
Eichel and Reinhart winning cups had precisely zero to do with Buffalo tanking.

Florida and Vegas didn't "just keep tanking" either.

Classic speak from bumhole.

- joel878


Eichel and Reinhart are examples of good players that the Sabres just didn't, couldn't or wouldn't properly build around. Both did go on to show that they could be successful players, so I think there's some evidence there that the Sabres did give up on them - or at a minimum fail them.

The Sabres, as you'd noted, drafted in the top-10 for 10 straight years between 2013 and 2022 (Ristolainen, Reinhart, Eichel, Nylander, Mittelstadt, Dahlin, Cozens, Quinn, Power and Savoie).

Of that list, I think you have Dahlin, Dozens, Quinn and Power are still on the team.

Obviously we can argue that they could have drafted better - they could have managed their deeper picks better (over that same time they also drafted Zadorov, Compher, Guhle, Hagel, Luukonen, Olofssson and, I suppose, Samuelsson - so not a lot given the dozens and dozens of picks they made). But a good team is really built on the ability of your top few stars - they dictate the team. Obviously this isn't for all teams - but many teams are built that way and the depth players hold the fort for the stars. Buffalo kept moving out their stars, giving up on them, and never really supporting them. If that team is ever going to see success they need to support them.

So in a way - in the conversation - you're both hitting on problems with the Sabres rebuild. A rebuild starts with a new foundation and you can't establish that if you keep tearing apart the new foundation.


GalacticStone
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: We shoulda let Uncle Billy finish the job.
Joined: 01.29.2013

Friday @ 9:16 PM ET
JT and Marner earning those $13m contract extensions!
Whipper
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: GalacticStone made avi, AB
Joined: 07.04.2006

Friday @ 9:24 PM ET
They spliced the clip and posted it on X. Didn’t show her having the lefty meltdown.
- DrunkenCanuck

Anyone have a link to her and Bieksa talking?
- Drapz

Wait, what happened here?!?!?
Monkeypunk
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Whenever, wherever, ON
Joined: 06.27.2013

Friday @ 9:27 PM ET

I'd need to see a replay, but wasn't that boarding by Chiarot on Robertson?
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