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Maybe Quinn is salvageable

Got low low low low

Who?

Elon Musk is the shadow president

This administration has and continues to argue that once sent to El Salvador, there's nothing the courts or anyone can do. They're using El Salvador prisons as the new concentration camp so they can claim they are outside US control once you're there. They can take anyone and ship them off in the night with no due process.

This is fascism and it will be weaponized.

There's a chance an offseason of training gets him back. Issue is, there's pressure from all over now. He'll have to work hard.

Unlike Adams and really most ppl, I don't form 1 opinion and never change it even when evidence suggests otherwise. I'm on record in a few places of saying I'd give Quinn 15 games to figure it out but for this exercise, it made sense to move on.

The media post trade was laughable in their descriptions of Cozens. Without looking them up I think I saw talks of how he's a 60+ pt player, talk of him as a 1st line Center, LOTS of talk about him being a physical 2-way center. It was as though no one had watched him and just skimmed some old draft reports on him or something.

Winning matters but them winning now as opposed to winning in November doesn't matter IMPO. They still missed the playoffs and we have watched the heroic run to whatever place 5 or 6 years now and IT NEVER carries over. If they are good next year it won't be because they won some games at the end of the season, it might be because they learned how to win, but winning now versus November is whatever. At least in my opinion.

How bad is UPL? Well in his 3 years as an NHL goalie he only has 1 season above .900 and that was last years .910 the other two seasons are .891 and currently running at .885 this year. His goals saved above average is -22.2 thus dar. He only has 25 quality starts in 53 starts. His GAA is actually lower than what it was when he had the 891sv% going from 3.61 down to 3.23 this season. So the moral is he lets in more goals on average, while being pretty awful at consistency. His even strength sv% is down from 2 years ago (I use 2 years to show his other bad year as a comparison) and his ppsv% is down and his short handed sv% is down. He's been one of the leagues worst goalies in 2 of the 3 years where he's been a bonafide NHL goaltender but I am supposed to believe that the .910sv% he posted last year is the truth when ever other year and all the other starts say that the 0.887sv% is his average. I mean what are we doing? Adams blundered again. He couldn't get Ullmark signed and he panicked the 2nd UPL played a good 25 games, signed him to a bad deal at 5yrs and now UPL is back to being the backup level goalie he's basically always been. Sure maybe he figures it out, but Adams can't keep being the guy who lets his players eventually maybe figure it out at some point. For comparison, Ullmark is basically always at 0.917%. 0.915, 0.917, 0.917, 0.938, 0.915, 0.911. Compared to 0.899, 0.910, 0.885. UPL just isn't good enough.

no

One of these things is not like the other...

I dont think it will hurt Östlund. He'll be fine.

No, I said he had 3rd line production. I am more interested in seeing Östlund on the 3rd line than Krebs because I want to know if Östlund can be more than Krebs. Again, Krebs proved he can produce at a 3rd line rate and he got a lot better defensively, but I know what he will bring and the season is toast, so why not see how far away Östlund is? I think Östlund has earned a look with more talented linemates. Actually I said "He's a solid 3rd line type of player" so I should quote myself correctly.

Riemer is the starter tonight.

I think putting Östlund on the 4th line is a waste. He would be perfectly fine on the 3rd and would actually have a chance to get points.

I think he's better than Byram but is stuck on a very mediocre Islanders team. He's also a 6'4" RHD compared to a 6'1" LHD.

I think one of the issues we have as a fanbase is that we have constantly been feed a steady diet of 19-23yr old players. The production takes a little bit of time, which is what Ottawa is banking on with Cozens, and the overall ability to be consistent takes time. Krebs is a good example and a player I was guilty of dismissing. He's a solid 3rd line type of player and hopefully will maintain or get better at that. I don't think it is reasonable to be disappointed in Benson's production because he's 19 and if this was his rookie yr, no one would be blinking at his production. The disappointment comes from expectations not being met. Benson is a curious case because of his age and the way he plays hockey. No one wants to hear it anymore but we will have to be patient with Benson until he is 23or so and really hits his stride.

No, it is. Some guys who are average though get better with time, that is harder to see. There's a lot of draftees that you can tell see the game better than others, Benson, Reinhart, and guys like that.