darksabre

It's not about pure logic. Sports teams aren't machines. They're living, breathing organisms, made of human beings and all of the associated baggage and history that comes with that. Why does one business fail and another succeed even if they are constructed the same? This organization is poisoned, it's infected, it's stained with disgrace. That carries a lot of weight. Can it be fixed? Maybe. But it's a heavy lift. Effective management may not be enough. And we should accept that it's possible that no one can turn this ship from the course it's on.

How so? Does the influence of historic events not extend across generations, even centuries?

I'll echo wildcard. Until the team is good again everything is the direct result of the tank. The stink of desperation, the recklessness, the lack of planning, the empty prospect pipeline, the hapless owners. A confluence of conditions that created a particularly catastrophic event from which everything afterwards projects. Like Marty going back in time and punching Biff Tannen, it changed the whole course of history on that timeline.

Everything is inherently related to the tank. Sorry.

Oh no, my immediate reaction was "interesting" 🤣

For all the talk about how the players loved Krueger, you wouldn't know it from their pressers lately...

Yikes, that seems like a wild overpayment for a goalie who only has 62 NHL games to his name and has never carried the starting load in an 82 game season.

Depends on which goalie plays. If it's Elliott, we lose. If it's some random goalie who has never won an NHL game, we lose. Wait...

I knew I could count on you.

I don't know how you can watch him play hockey and think he's contributing anything whatsoever. The only thing Taylor Hall has done this year is get hit in the face with stuff.

I'm sticking with this.

Agreed. I think we should be able to get Ullmark done for 4-4.5 per depending on term. I don't go any higher than 4.5 though.

Honestly, I suspect what you might see happen is that a lot of us younger folk will be rushing out to get it ASAP and that slots won't be as hard to get as we get closer to summer. I'm not seeing much in the line of hesitation from people in the under-40 group. (and I say this as someone who has never had a flu shot in his life)

Stoked to be able to sign up for a vaccine today. Grabbed a slot down at Corning for the Pfizer two-stage in mid-April, but then found out I could get the J&J one-stage at Wegmans, so I'm signed up to get that next Tuesday. If that goes well then I can cancel the mid-April Pfizer one, but I have no idea what to expect from a lunch-time Wegmans appointment. Maybe a sh*tshow. 😂 This whole system, with multiple websites, providers, is quite chaotic. I'm glad they let older people get the first dibs, because signing up now is going to be a young person's game.

I think the argument for claiming him is that you would get about the same type of stats as Risto for a slightly lower cap hit.

Fwiw my buddy who is a Philly fan thinks this is dumb and that Fletcher/Vignault are scapegoating him.

Wow

Technically it started with Lazar in place of Hall and Hall jumped on to provide more offense 😂

I just want it on record that I think Taylor Hall is garbage.

I'm never gonna get over how useless Hall is. What an absolute joke of a hockey player.

Hodgson will always get a pass because it was literally hurting him to try harder. Screw Taylor Hall.

For real. Dude had no idea what he was supposed to be doing in OT. Got caught behind the play twice and the second time ended in a goal.

Risto trying to singlehandedly throw this game away

Uh oh

Lol that's insane