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Totally unrelated to the "Doohickie is wholly misguided with respect to Romo" ( :p ), Mario Williams was cut by Miami. Talk about a precipitous decline.

What we really need is somebody (see: not me) to convert the come from behinds to a percentage. Sure we have the most, but if we only pull it off 30% of the time, while another team does it 50% of the time... Then we need someone to look at the strength of the teams every team is trailing against heading into the 3rd, and how that affects (if at all) each team's propensity to pull off the comeback. For some reason, I don't see this little project getting done :lol:

Fastest skater please. Mostly because I want to see Jack and given the recognition he gets league-wide, he'll get to try in a real All-Star game in approximately 2025.

Humorous observation I can't take credit for: they traded Subban because of Therrien, and now Therrien's gone less than a season later. Whoops.

:w00t: :lol: :lol:

We could have best them to the punch. McKenzie reported that Montreal requested permission to talk to Julien on Sunday.

If Murray reached out to Julien but didn't pull the trigger, then he's a buffoon.

I'd be more angry had I expected us to fire Bylsma after the season.

On the flip side, who have we sent out that would really move the needle for this team? Would I prefer to have Brian Flynn over Deslauriers? Yea, sure, but replacing Flynn shouldn't have been hard.

Nobody likes a quitter :p

Interview from a reporter in Pittsburgh on Bylsma's time there: http://media.wgr550.com/a/118409667/02-13-andrew-fillipponi-with-howard-and-jeremy.htm? History. It's repeating itself.

$2.8M next season and $3.8M in 2018-19 is pretty significant to me, especially with low/no cap growth. I'd rather bury in Rochester for two years at $4.1M hits. https://capfriendly.com/buyout_calculator/matt-moulson#results

Well let's get Bogo traded and find out :ph34r:

How? Why? In a "my god he's so bad I love how bad he is" kind of way?

Strapping yourself to all the players who weren't good enough to make the playoffs in a given season isn't exactly a recipe for success either, innit?

I have no idea how this was the reply you came up with to my post. I didn't even mention Eichel. Oh, and comparing pro sports to regular jobs is always the wrong decision. It's just different.

This is going to come off more dickish than I intend, but I'm saying it anyway.... BREAKING NEWS: Embattled coach believes system is fine, players are the problem. More seriously, I have a theory that relatively small systematic differences actually produce large differences on the ice. I understand that hockey isn't football, so the degree of schematic differentiation can only be so high...but I also have a hard time believing Darryl Sutter is particularly emotionally inspiring, and that's why he has had such better results than his predecessor. There's a lot of evidence for team-level and individual-level differences in performance after coaching changes, and I am not even a little convinced that it's mostly because of getting player buy-in (though buy-in of course matters).

I am incredibly sick of people trying to turn this into an either-or issue. Murray could have assembled a flawed/incomplete roster AND Bylsma can be under, or inappropriately, utilizing what he has been given. Both of these things can be true. Not a single person on this board has asserted they'd be a Cup contender and 110 point team with a different coach.

Are we going to be invited to your funeral?

I just don't think age should preclude a player from recognizing when something isn't working.

Bylsma's system has as much in common with Sutter's as a chihuahua has with a German Shepard.

How do you define "substantially"? Over the course of the full season I think Bylsma probably has them ~8 points worse than a top coach, give or take. So at this point, maybe 5 points? I think that's substantial.

The burning question has to be whether it's only Eichel, or if he's just the poster child for a group. My long-held fear is that Murray also wants to play that way. Let's hope not.

For the first time I have hope he may not be.