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I just sat down because reasons. If things start rapidly going downhill, I accept full responsibility.

Due to accidents, took me an hour and 20 minutes to get to work this morning. Commute home? Well, I left at 5 and I'm currently in park with my car off on the highway. Good times! ????

Risto for RNH (E5)

Careful, we're a few days away from watching Cody Ford play a full game at RT ?

I hate you.

Then what's she doing with @WildCard?

@Brawndo > @WildCard As if there was ever any doubt.

It's always fun to me when it's suggested people are going to be unhappy if the team is good. Are you kidding me? Were you living under a rock during the win streak last year? Even the most pessimistic amongst us want a bandwagon to jump on!

Michael Jordan quit. Twice! Three times if you count baseball.

As much as I want to say it'll be Sobotka just to screw with us, I'm going with Olofsson.

Look at Sobotka's position versatility!

Or he knows that's where Sobotka is going to play so he has to say nice things.

I can't believe a GM as good as Doug Wilson came into this season with Martin Jones still the starter in goal. With the rest of the roster they have, that's management malpractice.

Sure, just be ready for the I told you so when it ends up not being good enough.

But maybe the coaches are asking him to be bad?

Did I hear right that Cody Ceci had a weak play in front of the net? Are you telling me that it wasn't the Ottawa coaches who made him bad? Well, I'll be damned. How could we have known?

Scenario: Okposo spends most of this year on the 4th line and puts up 20 points the next two seasons. Everybody is fired. New coach comes in and puts him back in the top-6 because he thinks it was the last coach who made him a poor offensive player. Completely ignoring the consistent decline through 3 coaches (Bylsma to Housley to Krueger) and the tape showing a significant skill decline on top of production. Are you really okay with a coach thinking that way? I have a huge problem with it. There is absolutely some wiggle room for coaches to say "I'm going to put this player in a position to succeed." But to use that reasoning to wave a hand to all decisions, to say nothing of the obviously egregious mistakes, is just way more leeway than is justifiable. Because there simply isn't a strong counterargument ?

Coaches do not frequently make trianwrecks better. At the margins, again, I get it. Sobotka isn't a marginal case, and his poor play dates back to an entirely different organization and coach.

I understand the reasoning, but only to a degree. Taken to its logical conclusion, what you're really saying is we simply cannot know whether a player is bad. I just don't think that holds water. If it does, what are we all even doing here? Moreover, "I can make this player better" is pretty much what all coaches think. It's as much ego as it is any kind of sound reasoning. Edit: It may hold some water, but only at the margins. If a player looks average, maybe he can be a little better than that with a different coach. But at the extremes? It's an awfully tough sell to say a player who is horrible is actually okay and it was all the coach's fault.

Part of me wanted him to just to watch the fan-made mushroom cloud that would form.

I'm declaring victory and leaving.

The season immediately after the tank was the best since the tank. That we have gotten worse since that season seems to suggest the rebuild was more of a problem than the tank itself.

Or Sobotka, evidently.

I can't believe he was on the air. No judgment at all, I just imagine I'd be a quivering depressed mess unable to get out of bed. In the very literal sense. I don't know if it's better or worse for it to happen that way, or whether it ultimately matters at all, but that's an excruciating sequence.

Well, that's about as awful as it gets. I can't even begin to imagine what they are, and will be, going through.