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If the Rams give Goff a big contract when he's off his rookie deal they're insane.

Jared Goff is such trash when he faces any kind of pressure.

Gronk maybe being hurt has replaced the commercial as the best part of the game.

Most entertaining part of the game so far.

And seriously, you have Greg the leg and you settle for a punt that nets 20 yards? I swear, teams learn nothing against the Patriots. You can't coach scared!

This is the league that can literally get any performer they want for halftime and they choose...Maroon 5 and the lesser half of Outkast. Robert Woods with a drop when hit. Shades of Buffalo past. Okay, so upon further review, it was a great play by Chung.

Yea, I'd trade the San Jose 1st for Toffoli. Why? Do you think his career season is a mirage?

It doesn't make any sense at all, but I think Idris Elba could probably make a movie about painting good, so there's that. I'll definitely see it. To be fair, rice machines have always been terrible, even if the movie helped popularize them.

You honestly enjoyed watching the tank team? Different strokes for different folks indeed...

Kane is second in the league in scoring. As to the rest, they were leading future HoFer Marian Hossa and Duncan Keith. Seabrook was in his prime and a stud. Among others. Those teams were loaded. Take 4 years off Kane and Toews and this year's team would still stink. It's about the whole of the team, not specific individuals carrying turds to glory.

Kane and Toews make a combined $21 million dollars and all they're doing is leading the Blackhawks to the bottom of the West. They've won 3 Cups and they can't carry a team when the rest of the roster is garbage. If they can't, why should we expect Eichel and Skinner to?

Well, that took about 20 games too long.

No player, no matter how great, can carry a team. This is hockey, not the NBA or NFL. McDavid is clearly the best player in the league, and the Oilers still stink. They brought in a proven winning coach in Hitchcock. And they still stink. Culture shmulture leader shmeader. Teams with enough talent win, teams without it lose.

It's weird to me you'd frame it this way, as stats such as corsi et al. have consistently said players we think are good are actually bad, and the team is actually bad when the record says it's better. And it routinely gets shouted down with stuff like "If you think Risto is bad you don't know what you're talking about" and so on.

Everything is secondary to having enough talent and good coaching. I know we don't have the former, and I don't really think we have the latter. If this roster was stacked like Tampa or Toronto and we still sucked, then okay, let's talk about other factors. But you could drop Mark Messier on his prime into Eichel's slot and it wouldn't move the needle at all. Edit: speaking of Toronto, they don't even have a captain. Seems to be working okay.

I like a lot of what he's done, but he catastrophically misjudged the center position. If someone wanted to argue that's a fireable offense, they could. Edit: I probably shouldn't even say I like a lot of what he's do done. It's more of a mixed bag than that.

Why? Because he can't single handedly propel a deeply flawed roster to a high level of success? The problem isn't Eichel, it's everyone on the ice when he isn't. What are we supposed to do, triple shift him?

Enroth's career numbers are worse than Hutton's, so yea, we probably do lose something. Wanting Hutton to play less is totally fine, but bringing up Enroth as some kind of alternative is comical.

You've never been more wrong. And yes, I'm including the time you said sometimes you prefer green beans to asparagus with your steak.

And Enroth isn't even in the league anymore. I know you loved him, but we'd gain nothing by making that swap.

He's been around forever and the organization continues to make mind boggling decisions. Either they keep hiring people who don't listen to him or he isn't very good.

The time to get off the Enroth bandwagon was...about four years ago.

He had 29 points last year on one of the worst teams in the league. He's a negative possession player. No thanks.

Pageau is not a true 2nd line center. At all. And Ceci costs almost twice as much as Beaulieu, so if we want to retain him even as an RFA, we'll be on the hook for more money.

Sign me up for the Washington deal, it that Ottawa deal is rough. Heavy on cap for no notable increase in roster quality.