Thorny

When you‘re right you’re right

Can feel one coming…

Once the Buffalo Sabres are…..ashes. Then you have my permission to die Crabcakes and football?

Dahlin over 26 minutes already what can you say, we save him for these big playoff atmosphere type games

It doesn’t really matter now but this is the type of game next year that IF you lose you need the single point cookie hasn’t been crumbling for us that way this season

Good kill Jesus

What a beautiful uniform matchup

The Minnesota cluster-f*ck Man

The Minnesota Miracle Man

Right where we want em

I’ve never blocked anyone here and I’ve never blocked anyone on Twitter. It’s personal preference but Echo Chambers are too scary an alternative

It hurts to hear the truth sometimes, I know

-13, -7, -36, -22, +12, -12 Dahlin’s plus minus hole bugs me in that I hate the idea he might never climb out of it. That +12 from last year I thought might indicate the beginning of a potential climb out but now we’re right back in the muck. Used to bug me with Jack too Since I’m already that, perhaps I’ll get some double negative action going on

If we had 3 shots that period we didn’t get goalied

No I said namesake kin. I don’t know if that’s even a proper turn of phrase but I assumed the connotation was discernible. But it’s not that common of a name, I’d guess there’s a reasonable shot

What a great development from this season. KA has a really chance here to finally turn a weakness into a strength: passing up the opportunity to roster a capable backup next season would be disastrous when this close I’m not actually Spartacus, no

IM SPARTACUS Ally Sheedy! My most famous namesake kin Great shooting kid that was 2 in a million

Teams will be game planning in a way for Tage this season they didn’t come close to last season, that’s also a factor

Sure every team (in the east) made the playoffs with a positive goal differential, but teams miss with positive differentials all the time. It’s not tangibly relevant to this season. OUR team isn’t making up that kind of ground with a mere 13 further goals. Mathematically, ~ 6 are going to be spread out over games we already won. Of the remaining 7, half come in games we lose regardless. Probably an extra 3.5 wins with an average PP: that seems about right. 7 more points and we are still in a tie for 18th. This is what I mean: you are shaving fine on an already bottom of the barrel goal. When you haven’t made the playoffs in over an eon, surely we need to do better than that. That’s we’d be a positive differential team, maybe, with an improved pp isn’t enough given all of this context. If we don’t beat the Kings 7-0 the differential isn’t positive anymore. It’s way too frivolous, and devoid of context, to hang out hats on that. Maybe every positive differential team got in last year, but the minimum number in the east was +17. The year before it was +30. please aim higher than a pp coaching change followed by putting your feet up, KA

The PP is a big part of it: that theory is strong. Don’t mean to say it’s not. It’s just very important that we don’t pretend it’s a one-stop answer to all our problems. Because there are other very significant issues.

Sure, I’m good with that Just wanted to point out that the “squint really hard at a really low level expectation already and plan to make a solitary change that maybe gets us half-way there in a best case scenario and hope for the best” line of thinking is very frivolous.