For me, the line remains playoffs. Have always stuck with that. Now, that was never my line for praising the GM: making the playoffs once in 5 years would be the absolute bare minimum to simply avoid firing. We’ve averaged 76 points for the entirety of Adams’ tenure - the plan hasn’t gone well. But, as crazy as it seems since we are in 29th, if we make the playoffs*, if I was in charge I’d be a man of my word and retain Adams for next year.
*If the cutoff had stayed at like the 84 point mark it once was for a while and we had made it, you can call it goal post moving if you want but I would have been sorely tempted to renege on my statement due to the anomaly that type of qualifying would represent. But the Wings are pacing for 93 points now so that’s more less out the window
if we make it, it’s full value, and as ever “we are what our record says”. And we’d be a playoff team. And Adams should get a 6th year
But assuming we miss it’s tar AND OR feather
Better go 22-7 and win the tiebreaker