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Fair to say this was the flames Best game of the Year. By far. Even huberdeau and Zadorov seemed engaged.

We more or less write the same thing same time

Agreed, watched the Stars against the Leafs early in the year, paid attention to Seguin (usually I study blueliners or favorite players or scouting for my fantasy teams lol). Anyway he is a North/South straight line player with no cutting ability or speed. He is a fearless and capable net front presence on the power play. Still highly skilled but nothing like he once was. He is blessed to be surrounded by highly skilled young players and a system that still utilizes what he can still do. Overpaid? Oh my God yes, he and Benn both but unlike other teams with bloated contracts who cut the player Dallas, one of the Smartest teams in hockey manages to take advantage of what they can still do. Seguin on one leg is still very useful and skilled and a warrior. Overpaid but still talented.

Numerous sources have Kane going home to play this year and next with Buffalo, just under 4million per. It makes sense, the Sabres want to contend, Kaner a local boy the hope to move the needle. I would be weary, backstrom had the same hip surgery and just walked away from the game. Still if he is 90 percent the player he was the Sabres added him for nothing but money.

I know he is an icon, but lou lamiorello IMHO is insanely overrated. Drafted martin brodeur which won him several cups, but his signings (see Kovalchuk, ect . All...) His very questionable trading record and especially his piss poor drafting over the last 20 years make him the GOAT of all time over hyped execs. Now with the Islanders he signed the entire damn team to seven and eight year deals which is questionable for Tampa but at least they have recent cups, on the island they are a middling team, aging, nowhere to go because even 4th liners and backup goalies are overpaid for too long of a term. Other than drafting Brodeur he has done very little to earn his rep. Reporters glow about how secret he is, how privately charming he is in a curmudgeonly way but seriously, going back two decades he accidently took an 8 seed devils team to a surprise final in 2011, the leafs were good but he deserves at most little credit or even blame if you count playoff failures, he took over a mediocre isles club and made them more so. His reputation is far overblown. Honorable mention Brian Burke. The man's voice makes grit my teeth so hard my fillings nearly pop

@JR Ewing Man I agree with you on Holland. The happiest day for me in the last ten years as a Wings fan was not the signing of yzerman but Holland moving on. His drafts in later years after Jim Nill left were wretched, his trades were overpayment for bandaids and signing mediocre plays such as Weiss, abdelkader, HELM, Ericsson and so many more to long term crippling deals was dreadful. Some day he will go to the hall as an executive. I won't watch. He left scorched earth, less than five players remain in the organization he left in Motown. He inherited a team built by the great jimmy devallano took advantage of Nill draft picks Zetterberg and Datsyuk to win a cup in 2008 and then slowly ruined a once proud franchise with one inept move after another. He is one of the two most overrated exes who ever built a team in NHL history. Just awful. I thought McDavid and Leon might be able to carry the team in spite of him but it looks like not. Holland should have never been hired.the game literally passed him by the day a salary cap was implemented and he could no longer sign a hull/Hasek/robitaille with pizza money to buy a cup. (Sound of me climbing off my soapbox).

Had to happen. Knoblaugh a good rep in the AHL.

Raska is a small guy, lousy skater, non scorer. He hits a lot and fights a lot and is an okay 4th linee in the AHL but too small to play that role in the bigs with nowhere near the skill to move up to the third line. AHL fodder, probably good for half a dozen games a year in the bigs id injuries and desperation occur. Busts his tail, plays hard, just not a player.

Two trades. One day. Undersized power play specialist Calen Addison was dealt to the Sharks by the Wild for a 5th rounder and non prospect Adam Faska. Shortly after the Wild added Zach Bogosian from the bolts s for a 7th rounder Addison can QB a power play very well but is an awful defender and in spite of offensive ability from the back end because of deficiencies could not stay in the lineup. The Sharks desperately needed a puck mover on the back end, they have literally been playing five forwards on the power play. Bogo has mostly been a healthy scratch, he is solid as a 7th blueliner, stay at home, plodding, no offense but can defend in his zone. The exact opposite of Addison in fact. So young maddeningly soft offensive blueliner dealt away to save the coaches sanity, a meh D plus prospect, a slight pick upgrade and a decent stay at home defender the return. Sharks get offense, Wild get decent return and Bolts help an old friend get a chance to keep playing. Good deal for all.

Glad to see them get the monkey off their back, Blackwood is a legit NHL goalie, played his tail off, I watched the replay, man Hertl wanted this one bad, he won one crucial faceoff after another and was double shifting much of the third. Duclair played by far his best game as a Shark, Eklund who is a nice building block played over 21 minutes. Even givani smith got in the act with the rough stuff. One night, one game, they got the desperately needed win, team still awful, but love for one game, lol.

Caps after 12 games were 1-11. The all time record for most losses to start a year which the Sharks have tied is 11, set in 1943-44 by the rangers. No other team has ever went more than 8 games to start a year without a victory. The rangers actually had an excuse, it was the war years and their roster was depleted as players joined the military. Different world.

Lohrei always looked solid with the buckeyes, he is HUGE and not afraid to use his size. I remember his last year at OSU, he was on the ice, game against Wisconsin I believe, a penalty was called against the opponent, he stayed on the ice for the entirety of the power play then another minute or so before he went out for a switch then he came back out about a minute later. In short, he was on the ice for about six of seven minutes still banging and bumping finally assisting a goal by Cole McWard (now a Canuck farm hand). People both teams switching constantly he looked strong and fresh the entire time Very raw defensively, like very, very raw. He makes up for it with size and snarl. In other words, a perfect Bruin. I don't believe he has had a fight yet but he is massive, he is going to hurt someone someday if they are dumb enough to challenge him.

If San Jose loses they break the all time record for most losses to begin a season. Honestly I don't know who's under the most pressure, the sharks certainly don't want that ignominy but the flyers certainly don't want to be the first team to lose to them

If the daughter of Scotty Bowman married the son of Al Arbour, and that child were coaching this team I don't believe they could do any better That said, I doubt Quinn makes it through the year. It is easier to fire a coach than to fire 19 players no matter how much they may deserve to be fired.

I was one year old lol. Good Lord

Improvement. After losing to Vancouver 10-1, they performed much better last night against the penguins. They only lost 10-2.

Hang in there, at least you have your bruins......

Looking the roster over if the two vet centers don't waive there is literally nobody (other than a few kids who you won't trade) who will get more than a 5th or 6th rounder. Simply the worst non expansion team I have ever seen. Do you blame Grier? Do you blame the piss poor drafting on Wilson?

Poor kid lol.

This is the absolute worst non expansion teams in NHL history. Bar none. I know a lot of folks in Shark land accept it and hope they can deal assets at the deadline for high picks but other than Hertl and the injured Couture nobody on this flop of a team has anything other than negative value. Oh a few kids, but you don't trade them you use them as building blocks and hope they don't pick up too many habits from the foreign legion of a roster. This is such a bad team. And Hertl/Couture have no move deals and love San Jose.

This bad 10-1 loss to the Canucks. In ten games the Sharks have ten goals, Vancouver scored ten against in one game. Bad of biblical proportion.

Kinda wondering the same, whether he tried to hide what pinto had done or was obstructing the investigation. That whole situation still has a foul odor. He made so many dreadful trades and signings, trading a ransom for Debrincat then recouping about eighty cents on the dollar the most recent. long term deals to players too much too soon. But his first move should have gotten him fired on the spot. He dealt Zibenajad AND a second rounder for Derick Brassard. Other trades, young very good goalie Filip Gustafson for one very average year from the husk of Cam Talbot, (that one is for you @TropicalFruitGirl26 lol). God what an awful deal. He dealt Nicholas Paul for an ok player in Mathieu Joseph who he spent all off-season trying to dump the contract he signed Joseph to. He traded for Derek Stepan and his 6.5 million dollar contract from the coyotes who were broke and desperate and took on the whole contract. Did the same with gudbtanson when the ducks could no longer afford his 4 million per season. He gave up a second rounder to Pittsburgh for Matt Murray then signed him to a horrid long contract. He drug out trading mark stone and when he finally pulled the trigger all he got were two picks who bombed and brainstorm who is still fighting daily for an NHL job. He traded for Duchene waaaayyyyy overpaid. He did massively win the Karlsson deal getting top six center Josh Norris and the pick that turned into Stutzle. He also deserves credit for drafting extremely well His free agent signings were as bad as his trades, korpisalo will not live up to his five year deal. Most years he signed drl Zotto or hainsey or that type on one or two year deals and of course they had nothing left so the next year he signed another one just like them The Karlsson deal must be factored in but he was terrible at cap management, and for every Karlsson deal there were half a dozen of Stone, Murray, Zibenajad, Duchene, Debrincat trade one and Debrincat trade two. Glad he is gone. I love the young core he built through the draft but if he stuck around he would surely screw it up by trading a couple away

Ridiculously late. 4sounds right.

Dude as a wings fan who could barely watch them for several years, you hAve my sympathy. This Sharks team could literally shatter several non expansion records for futility. Good match in cupquest btw. Congrats , I thought I had one move left Sunday but didn't. Probably wouldn't of mattered.

In their last six games they have four goals. One goal four separate times, shut out twice.