Thorny

Sometimes there are multiple right answers, others it’s difficult to find a satisfying course of action at all. This is one of those times, I reckon. Tuch is going to be a causality somewhat of what Adams’ undeniable failure. We can hardly, hardly fail to retain a player of his quality when we only need more, yet we are clearly on the verge of needing to pay him probably double, what he has, for declining performance starting at 30. we cashed in his good years on “development” years. KA had no urgency: now we are forced to choose between the lesser of two weevils

Well, no, but I do admittedly get a chuckle out of the conversation all arriving back at “the draft is meaningless for improving our hockey team” Ya, we are gonna get a good player no matter who we take! The steal of the draft, I am sure. And so will every other team picking in our vicinity. There’s no relative gain, can only lose ground. Adams has proven drafting isn’t a means to an improvement end, not without other vital components Survey says: the luster on it is lost. Used to be a huge draft guy, planned my lake weekend around it

F the jets

Don’t trade Power There’s an easy freebie

We’ll see what happens with the reshuffle

Cozens more playoffs goals than the Adams’ regime

I am

Hell no HELL no

I’ve said this before: it’s less about the 5 extra games we get (if that’s all we got), and more about the fact regular seasons have generally been meaningless by thanksgiving for a decade. We aren’t a part of the league for the 82. We don’t get to enjoy the majority of the league’s season, not just the post

My central rooting interest is that the Oilers lose. Pp dependant frauds Yes I am biased, I just don’t like them Series would probably be over if not for that coaches challenge, they’ve been very lucky

Wilson just destroyed the Habs playoff will be a whole different animal for us, if we ever get there

Yeah. Him under performing or over seems mostly to come down to being a function of expectations Which is most of these guys

IT’S BEEN O-

Strikingly fitting considering his availability track record

EXACTLY. It’s forever “development” and “diagnose” with this team, they are always selling things that have the connotation of more time being necessary, the implication results won’t be here in the now. They just need to stop. No one is falling for it anymore They *seriously* are going to try to sell the idea they “figured out” what is going wrong, and they cashed ANOTHER season to do it? How many times do I need to say it? They are the youngest team in the league. They don’t spend to the cap. Those are the issues. Those are documented, demonstrable obstacles to making the playoffs. We already knew these things. please do not buy what they try to sell you They want to run a professional plumbing company that’s about leaning to plumb on the job. Results may very. Welcome fans! Welcome players!

Only Toronto in “control” of a series

Incredibly one sided east series right now At least in terms of the series scores

I agree they seem a bit different

It doesn’t retroactively make Adams approach to the goaltending ok. I promise Don’t need to go around rooting for failure

“The sabres will get a good player.” run it

No way Ullmark saw that, what a great decision to shoot with so much traffic Classic playoff ot goal Reminds me of a miller goal lol

Maybe it’s against his MO. He disliked the CHL so because he was enamoured with the idea of “extra years of control” with college players. Extra years to wait before making a decision, really. (It’s not like there’s no merit in the theory, Botterill’s issue was the nearly full-stop implementation).

You only sign Byram if it’s for his actual worth. Paying him based on the increase in metrics he sees because of Dahlin is shooting the value you gained by drafting Dahlin in the first place in the foot. You don’t pay a cent for the value he’ll give you for free, it’s poor utilization of assets : that’s the two-fold benefit of a true elite impact player like Dahlin, it’s not just his ability it’s the free value in another player. Key is “free”