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Interesting. I've never heard of doing that.

If Eichel was on my beer league team I would hate him.

No one is afraid of our forwards.

Lol that was 100% an accident.

Same. I think what you'll see is that opposing teams are not taking us seriously in the defensive zone. They aren't spreading out at all. They know that our forwards wilt under the threat of pressure and will make bad passes, especially up the strong side wall to the point. We blow a ton of offensive zone possession by simply refusing to work the puck behind the net and below the circles. We're a very easy team to keep on the perimeter and we have basically no threat from the high slot (like where Corsi talks about the third forward kinda hanging, moving around between the top of the strong side circle and the high slot splitting the defenders and drawing the weak side defender out into the slot). No one is buying what we're selling.

The problem is the weight. Cages, bubbles, etc., add weight to the helmet and increase the amount of effort it takes to turn your head, which is something pros really need to be able to do as fast as possible given the speed of the game. You'll never see pros wear a cage or anything unless they absolutely have to because it's so restricting. They want the helmet to be as light as possible. This is why Bauer can't seem to phase out their old 4500 helmet. They have tried to convince people that pretty much everything else they sell is better for your brain, but that old bare-bones 4500 is as popular as ever. 504g for the 4500 compared to 597g for the top of the line Re-Akt.

The expectation was for them to be a cusp team. Cusp teams struggle and are often still developing. A cusp team with a new coach and GM is a lot of variables that can all go upside down. It's not my fault that people's expectations were too high. And again, we're 30 games in. Things are coming. As for the last bolded: :rolleyes: kay. Whatever you say bud. If you wanna live in a world of oversimplified takes, then have at it.

This is a little over the top, but I get your point. He certainly eats minutes. He's having a down year this year on production but so is the whole team. His value is high. But everything has a price. I don't disagree.

I'm sorry, you're right. Hockey players are robots and all develop at exactly the same pace and in the same way.

Trade anyone for the right return, no? This draft is full of D prospects. I mean, it's not the move I would make, but if you can get a 1st for Risto, do you do it and maybe take 2 D prospects in the top 10?

I want to be disappointed in his progress. I said I wanted to see more from him this year. But I still can't get past him being 19.

For one thing, this season was never going to be anything other than evaluation and development. That much is obvious now. And I think the results so far are indicative that this process is working. We're 30 games in and players are being shopped, guys are getting benched. Trades are getting made. Given how little real, actual progress Bylsma made in two years, we should probably be realistic about this team being where it is. I don't think things could progress any quicker given the sorry state of the team as a whole. Gallant in Vegas is a completely different situation. They're an upstart team of guys who needed to come in and get things going real fast. No history to worry about. No team cultures to break. No systems to unlearn. No "stars" beyond a couple of aging vets. Every guy there is competing for a job because only a few of them have contracts beyond next season. Botterill has said that he wants to get some competition going on this team. Too many guys with nice contracts, too many guys not feeling the heat from players in the minors. He's starting to follow through on it now because clearly it is a major problem. This team has had a miserable few years, including the tanks. There are a lot of problems to be solved that a team like Vegas simply doesn't have to deal with.

:lol: I thought about wearing a hockey jersey but I don't really own any ugly ones. I never bought a Slug.

I don't agree with this at all. Bylsma was fired precisely because he didn't do the things with the players that he needed to. And GMTM was fired because he was paying zero attention to it. I think you'll find Housley perfectly capable of discipline. But you have to be patient and let him develop a working relationship with the players first. You can't just walk in like John Wayne to your first head coaching job and start throwing haymakers before you even know who to target.

I don't really care that much. My company means well. I'm just more annoyed at how inane it is. Nah. They didn't mean anything malicious by it. They're good people. The office girl who comes up with this stuff just doesn't think things through and there's no one really supervising her.

I refuse to humor the office girl who comes up with this sh*t. She can go back to Paychex if she wants to waste my time with stupid corporate BS. I'm here to work.

He's 19 years old and has only played 12 games this season due to injury. Relax.

I don't blame Housley. I think he needed to settle in first and get to know the team, the players. Develop a rapport. He's a first-time head coach after all and this problem wasn't going to fix itself overnight. These guys were like this before he ever got here. I think guys like O'Reilly and Okposo benefit more from playing than not playing, so benching them really doesn't get you anywhere. Girgensons was the latest benching victim and rightly so. We know he can play better and he responded last night. Housley will bench people when it's appropriate. Sam's had his line/ ice time demotions but I don't think it matters much. I think he's behind physically and that isn't something you can really do anything about until the off-season. It's distinctly possible that he really is doing his best, but that his best isn't enough, because he isn't prepared to offer more. I like the things that have been done so far by Housley (and Botterill) to get individual players to respond. I think they're both getting comfortable now and feel like they can start taking some action.

They're letting everyone who wore an ugly sweater leave at lunch time today if they want. I normally have no complaints about my company but that is laughable. Spend $40 on an ugly sweater to buy yourself out of work for the afternoon :rolleyes:

I can't find the motivation. I can just watch them suck from the couch in HD. The 12 pack of Genny in the fridge cost me $6.

Right. And I'm not going to say that he's like...actively malicious. I just think he's probably not an overwhelmingly positive influence either. I doubt he's putting in the extra work at the gym or on the ice. I doubt he's religiously studying game tape. Things like that. And since he and Eichel are buds...

My grandparents used to give us ribbon candy until we told them we didn't actually like it. Also the couches used to have plastic on them. So goddamn Polish.

We got one of the bosses a nice fleece hoodie with the company logo on it last year, but that's about it. My dad always felt bad when employees would give him gifts. He considered it an abuse of power. Same reason why he wouldn't bring fund-raiser stuff in to the office when I was a kid. He didn't want employees to feel pressured. Our company tried to do an ugly sweater party today. No thanks. I'm not spending my hard earned money on that kinda garbage.

I don't remember who it was, Bogosian I think, tried to feed Jack across the high slot for one of those last night (on a PP maybe?). The pass didn't quite get there, but I think guys on the team are aware that it's a play they want to try.

I know this is tongue-in-cheek, but I've posited before that I think Reinhart is the real problem if you want to look for the ring leader of the core who is a bad influence on someone like Eichel. I think Sam is sneaky lazy.