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Let’s Go Blue Jays!!!!! Jumping up 2-0 would be enormous. Getter done Gausman!

Come on, man. You never miss an opportunity to take a shot at the kid.

Good start for the Jays. The have momentum. The Dodgers will try to bury that game and come back.

Seriously, I've been through this *****. He's doing great--much better than I did. Plenty of sympathy for him, and I mean that. But it's not affecting his play.

And why would sitting out help him? Sitting him out is isolating him from something he loves doing. He may already feel isolated due to the situation with his partner. He could become preoccupied by it. I think that maintaining his responsibilities to the team, being actively involved in helping his team, and being among some of his closest friends on the team is actually good for him. He cannot fix her. He can make her feel better by being who he is. And if he does feel the need to get away I suspect he would get full support from Lindy, Adams, and Terry.

I don’t know. I think that Ruff has been the most influential in encouraging the changes in reshaping the roster to being more physical and less finesse oriented. With respect to Jarmo, it is a good thing to have fresh eyes and different voices in the room.

Which also allows us to just let Levi continue to develop at an appropriate pace in Rochester like we did with Miller so long ago.

Team has some identity but they are thin and these injuries are holding the back. They aren’t a strong unit yet so they struggle when one or two pieces are gone. the attack with the sticks and not going through the motions is making the difference in the mean time A few more injury returns and they’ll be hot

I'm not sold on Quinn yet. He's a guy who vanishes when the going gets tough.

With all due respect, it has to be more than that. If this is actually true and not just a momentary thing. We've brought in experience before and we're playing (haven't actually done the math) with as much youth. It seems like this is just a better group and I hate to say it, but KA would deserve credit. Again, if this continues and the brakes are pumped. Benson, Doan Kulich and even this version of Quinn are better than Mitts, Peterka, Cozens. In several games these players held us down until some of the vets got going and made up for the Norris injury immediately. I'm not dumping on your post because I think what you brought up is definitely part of it, but it visually looks like more than that.

That's a very good question.

No one talks about Jarmo Kekalainen much. How much of these moves are due to his influence?

Guess with the back to back, no morning skate.

Well Kevy put together the team that's out there now. You can complain it took too long but it seems to be coming together. Maybe it's the Jarmo influence?

They chased Fried as well.

What i like is that he took swings at new goalies this season and eventually will luck his way into something really good. So now Lyon is playing at a high level (that save last night late and Tuch’s goal 10 seconds later is an example of what would not have happened last year). and Ellis coming from the Blues organization could be another goalie ready to break out at the NHL level. So maybe KA finally hit the winning goalie lottery

I had hope, but didn’t give the Jays much of a chance, either. My main reason was starting pitching and what team could chase the other’s starter to get to the weak bullpens both teams have. I was shocked at how they chased Snell last night. If they can do the same to Yamamoto, then all bets are off and the Jays should be favored.

Ok, the team is playing better and confidence is building. They have an opportunity to gain points on the dreaded Maple Leaves. Ellis should be starting again, he earned it. UPL had the shortest conditioning assignment in the NHL. Who gets the net? I would love to see the first line collect a bunch of goals and the Sabres run away with it. Instead goaltending will probably decide tonight’s game.

He is playing fine. He will bust out on a streak bc....he is dahlin and really damn good at hockey. But yeah...the love of his life is in a bad spot. He's human...I'm sure there will be days he is impacted. But I'm not going to worry about him...he's got plenty of family and friends that are doing that already. Go Dahlin!

There’s a thing about playing in front of good goaltending, that just makes you look like an idiot if you’re still losing. Also, one must never underestimate the calmness good goaltending can add to a team, without anyone even noticing,

My son was always a multi-sport athlete growing up. He played minor hockey and baseball both at the highest level. Sadly, for hockey... only the one sport kids ever made it to play in the OHL or College. If you want to play at a high level, you gotta be a hockey robot. The literature will tell you otherwise, but it's true. You'll also hear that some NHL'ers like McDavid were multisport, and in fact they weren't. They might have played a little house league lax or something but if there was a skate that night, lax wouldn't happen. For baseball, there's a couple kids that played rep hockey (albeit at a lower level) that got college committments, but most quit by the time they were 13 or 14 and focused on baseball thereafter. I don't regret not pushing my son into focusing on one sport... To throw all your eggs into one basket with no guarantees of making it, you're going to miss out a lot of fun. That said, if he was a guaranteed 1st round OHL guy, or a future D1 starting pitcher the smart move would have been to go one sport with him.

You make an incisive point about KA and how he functions. He’s not much of a visionary as he is reactive. And even recognizing that, he had to be pushed by others to rectify problems that he hasn’t satisfactorily addressed. He’s a checkers player in a chess match. He’s basically a pedestrian tactician in a position that requires a stratisgist.

Thanks! Probably the best place for her and her recovery but it has to be mentally tough for Rasmus to be at a totally different part of the world at this moment.