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Personally, I’d take a stretch of multiple enjoyable regular seasons leading to playoff berths ultimately ending in disappointment than I would multiple terrible regular seasons to the tune of the worst run of all time in professional sports followed by coming in even lower by expectations than the Leafs because we can’t finish higher than 22nd any single season but that’s just me He’s so damn good

Ya I was being sort of tongue in cheek

Blue Jays really struggling to start off..who would have thought the run-it-back, rely exclusively on internal improvement from everyone all at once strategy instituted during the offseason could backfire?? - - - It’s funny cause just now Buck Martinez picked a good time to explain the Dodgers are so successful specifically because they block all the prospects with competent roster players 😭

So are you looking to give Krebs first crack at 3C this year? He’s your guy for game 1? Byram wasn’t even CLOSE to as good as Power was, I don’t think we’ll be able to see eye to eye on evaluation here “Move the extras for a top 4 D” yes, our scraps that we don’t want will fetch a player as good or better than our 1C did…doesn’t seem very realistic tbh

Maybe a 40-50 game trial for Krebs next year on the menu? He should get a development year in the role (On a side, more straightforward note: before the Mittelstadt trade we needed a top 4 D man. If after trading our leading centre on the roster and biggest trade chip we come away still needing a top 4 D, on a roster that already had Dahlin and Power before said trade: the trade failed)

Ya I mean if this is the do or die year for Adams, playoffs or canning, might as well let him have the coach he wants the most and that’s Lindy. We should get to see his full intended plan That Lindy is the coach it turns out I also really wanted is a nice plus

Things change fast when you lead your team in scoring an are your team’s best centre demonstrably, which he hadn’t been before. The biggest thing is the piece we dealt him for. It looks odd at first and the early returns were very poor. It’s worryingly looks like another potential “hindsight need not apply” blunder. We didn’t really need another second pair left shot D. I understand Adams doesn’t care about handedness and probably doesn’t think he’s a second pair D, but those aren’t my evaluations, personally

C. Mittelstadt up top there seems like a guy in the mold of the centre we should be targeting this offseason imo

There’s definitely a mental transition from earlier years where we were conditioned to think we needed to flood the system with prospects to emerge victorious by quantity. Once the system is more established the mindset necessarily shifts to utilizing said pool as currency The better you are at drafting the easier it gets over time. We don’t really need any more prospects yet we get a free 7 every year. With less holes to fill, that puts us in a much better spot than a few years ago once/IF we get the main club up to par and it’s getting closer

Good post. I think I agree with the conclusion of your “weird thing” at the end, too

Is this just a goals thing though? It’s impressive regardless, and im not going to check them all, but we seem to be cherry picking a bit as im not sure I’d call, say, Point’s season similar. He only had 4 more goals, sure, but he also had 55% more assists Aho had 83 points. JJ had 50. There’s a sizeable gap there Tho, I’d imagine JJ probably played on an inferior squad

Jeez I feel like my memory starts with RJ

Hopefully without the egregious diving McDavid and Draisaitl were sort of PP fiends eh

And I feel like Benson is primarily a playmaker Edit - I see this has been covered But he is Ben Affleck I stand by that part

Sorry, quote from Role Models. doesn’t mean anything

This is the most I can ever remember the board being so nearly unanimously in favour of moving picks and prospects even the good ones. Definitely saying something.

So some good players there and Ristolainen.. not bad

I said it’s possible and we should do it, not that we will. Teams definitely treat firsts like gold

They both white, they both Ben Affleck

Because 1st round picks are drastically overvalued Have you seen the movie Draft Day with Kevin Costner? It’s really good. If you watch that you’ll see what I mean not in terms of my post it has nothing to do with that, it’s just a really good movie, you’ll see

I’m calling shenanigans on that. Not for JUST a 1st, but considering where our first falls I think it’s easily the most expensive piece in a trade for a legit top 6 f

Oh.you mean Shenanigans? oooooooooooo! - - -

Did you say, “yes sir?” or was that “ya, sure.”? (We will ruin this thread lol)

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