Randall Flagg

Deferring to the point too much with tired Leaves out there

I feel like Brown looks terrible but the Pats don't come out of this looking any worse. They didn't need him anyway

Cozens is impressive on the boards. He looks like he's become a better hockey player...since Monday.

I see you Cozens

yeah, like get a good winger then at least --------------- outstanding period for most of those players.

Cozens' line changes are like the anti-Skinner or anti-E.Kane's line changes.

This lineup is playing well for going against a bunch of good Toronto players.

Johnsson is gonna score thirty this year

And ooh la la Cozens

When the hell did Willy change his number? To be clear, I'm going to use "Autumn Matthews" a lot and it's not like "Cindy Crosby" it's a shot at how his best hockey is always in October and it gets worse from there

The forecheck is giving the Leaves some problems. Autumn Matthews is gonna score 15 in October alone Jokiharju hasn't been impressive to me since the start of the prospect tournament

Strong start from Cozens too.

The Sobotka line with a strong start Yeah, and he didnt really have any options there, I'm just picking on the kid

If there's one play that is emblematic of Mitts' NHL game, that's it ?

True it does seem worse than usual right now.

I don't think they'd be wrong that Jack and Sam aren't what we'd perhaps hoped, but what Jack and Sam are can be some of the best players on a good team if the management has been good. But I shouldn't get so far ahead of myself here, I can wait a few weeks to see what they're looking like. My offseason optimism for this team just stemmed from the potential for an array of possible moves that never happened (made more frustrating by the joke of an offer sheet MTL gave a player I wanted badly - it actually happened, and I would have gone so much bigger on it than they did) so as we sit near the season with what we have, I can't help but feel Callaway-level gloom

What I mean is that, for the umpteenth year in a row, if this team does what it usually does, and appears to be capable of, it's going to be 10-15 points worse than what a majority of posters expect and have already outlined they expect. And I see a playoff level team expectations from four of the first six posts in that thread, even if some have us juuuuuuuuuuuust outside, an 88 point team is bounces away from being a playoff team And I think this is the year people start coming for the throats of Jack & Sam if it happens

Thank god my Hulu streams have gone away from those commercials - they were driving me insane

I tried applying Occam's razor to the trade once back when we were winning games never again ? I did get the impression he was being genuine when he talked about Sobotka as vet depth though, like he actually believed Vlad had trade value. And people did NOT like me suggesting he didn't last summer Who the hell signed up for this plan? I hate it

"Slightly above. 500 and flirting with the playoffs, get in by a miracle at the last second." "Expectation: Playoffs." "Expectation: Roster as is: 88. Roster with another 2nd liner & Gardiner: 96." "Due to key player injuries, we barely miss or barely make the playoffs " (with key injuries, mind you) These were in four of the first six posts that explicitly listed expectations. If it plays out that we're playing most of the reasons we played 55 games last year as a ~64 point team, well, I stand by what I just said. Fans here and elsewhere will generally assume the team is going to be pretty good any given year. I'm just sensitive to this angle because, quite literally, every other notification I've received on this site over the last three years is people taking issue with me criticizing some aspect or another of the team. (Though it hasn't been as bad recently. It peaked last summer when I would spend two days putting something together and only receive comments about my attitude once it was posted) But I should be better and just say "man, I'm not happy with the idea that the team is most likely using Scandella in its top six as plan A." And I know we have injuries. But even before them, people were skeptical about Joki and Pilut beating Scandy out, and he has the handedness edge over Bogosian. The idea he slipped into top six because of injuries doesn't hold for me, it's been talked about seriously all summer

Allen's 200 yard passing streak is actually the second longest in the league, behind Mahomes. That's pretty surprising

So if Cozens were to make it over Mitts, do people think he'd get more than 9 games, or is that just going to be a 3 week thing?

I'd even argue he took [insert Sobotka's total games played] too long I still can't fathom why we accepted that cap hit in return, I would have rather gotten just Berglund back with the other stuff

I saw a lot of "i expect this team to make the playoffs" and "this team has enough talent to make the playoffs" in the expectations thread.

Rodrigues played a lot of center as the season went on. I don't really remember who he centered the most though Phil started to catch on with the Sobotka stuff in the second half And yeah when Jack was out he took Jack's spot