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Lol almost blasted you for liking 37 year old Colin White (who plays defense)

No doubt I think he'll be sorely missed if he leaves, but IMO he's overrated as a coach if he actually considers Toronto a viable option

Kronwall actually had less give-aways than Shea Weber, Myers, Chara, Hamonic, Byflugien, Klingberg, Subban, Burns, Karlsson, Wideman, Brodie, Karlsson, Yandle, Doughty, Markov, Trouba, Niskanen, Hjalmarsson, Lindholm, Hedman, Seabrook, Keith, Green, Mcdonagh, Girardi, Letang... and many more. The only number 1 D-men who turned the puck over less than him were OEL, Piertangelo, Giordano, Shattenkirk, Wisniewski, and Phaneuf. And those are totals, not counting injuries/time missed that guys like Giordano sustained.

We drafted mostly all forwards last year, more than a few were big

People forget Backman went ba bye. Outside of Sproul, Ouellet, Marchenko, and Jensen... we don't have much. Heaven forbid even one of those guys busts, and suddenly we have no defensive depth in the prospect pool. Like you said we drafted almost all centers last year, and for a reason. I expect D-men to be a prime focus this year.

To me the knock on Babcock is 1. He's never won the Jack Adams, and 2. He inherited a team that had Lidstrom, Datsyuk, and Zetterberg. if he goes to a team like Buffalo he can prove that he turns players into winners (if he wins). And would probably win the jack Adams if he got that team to win sonner rather than later. However his predecessor, Scotty Bowman, would probably scream WHATEVER YOU DO DON'T GO TO BUFFALO

Yeah all that business sounds like horse s*** to me. I highly doubt a decorated coach is basing his decision on one players performance, Specifically a player who's never played in the NHL and isn't named Connor McDavid.

Don't worry about it too much. I'm pretty positive ESPN doesn't have the inside track on Mike Babcock.

Pics or it didn't happen

I'll refer you back to the very post you quoted lol #DumbAtAnyTerm And ur whole "I could dig through stuff you said that proved to be wrong but I'm not gonna waste my time" spiel is 100% correct. It would be a waste of your time, because I am never wrong. Ever.

^ found the guy on welfare

Isn't Eichel playing 4th line center? Pretty sure Larkin has been top2 lines all tournament. Guess doom n gloomers go as far as the worlds these days

Yes you are. Prior to the Clarkson signing you were all "at all cost" and I think he should get this amount per year. You never even bothered to mention term. Now after the fact you are claiming it's all about term lol. Very convenient. Forget term. Fact is you wanted to pay him, and Clowe, almost the exact cap hit they're currently at. Which is DUMB at any term. Ha Ha HA ha deal with it

No, I'm assuming you meant outbid Toronto. 10 million is twice as crazy as the 5 you wanted to give him lol In regards to your 7 yrs comment, I'll redirect you back to one of my other posts that you apparently didn't read

I'm not sure you're aware of what any cost means lol

Lol you can stop trying to spin this so it's all about term. Face it, you would have given them both cap hits that are almost exactly identical to what they have now. That's a huge mistake at any term. Again, congrats about Weiss thou

And here's your OP from the thread you started entitled "Clowe Haters" lol

Anddddddddd here's what you said about Clowe from the same thread. Congratulations about Weiss though lol

This is literally an OP from a thread you started. Nice try though.

So what? You wanna trade for Mike Hoffman? Maybe we can trade for Jiri Hudler while we're at it

Maybe not yet, but I get to watch a lot of him out here in Buffalo. If he had players around him he'd be good. dude does everything. Skates, hands, hits, smarts. Love him and his crazy name. All the other Sabres, even their high picks, are jokes compared to him. EDIT: Girgensons Boner achieved

Girgensons is seriously the most underrated player in the league. On almost any other team he'd be a star. EDIt: I realize all his all star votes were from Latvia

Wow, there are so many things wrong with this It's hard to even start. Bare in mind according to these stats Tyler Johnson is the best player in the league and Jiri Hudler is the 10th best player in the league... and Mike Hoffman is 11th

Small? I'd rather draft someone big