Thorny

Or another Jack Quinn aka Mark Stone Tanking is a point of view, Antipin

Well done Golf clap

Rochester only has 1 right shot F? Lol crazy

First is negligible second is a small win third is chaos/opportunity

So we’ve acquired a 7th, a 4th, and a leadership void so far

god plans Linus Ullmark laughs

Tickets are expensive and as mentioned, every seat needs to be sold for viability

8 looks like a sweet spot, looking at the teams around us. We aren’t tanking, but no there’s not much to watch for. I don’t think success here really would mean anything as far as next season goes (as we saw last) Still, I expect them to keep fighting and would expect nothing less. You don’t back down from the expectation to win once it’s installed

Probably looks worse if we were relying on a guy who turned out to be near the end of his rope as an NHLer haha I am also left handed. Born on national left handers day

Winnipeg’s ticket sales have been very poor and with such a small building we need to fill it on a consistent basis. There’s smoke to the rumor in the sense that, I’ve been at the arena lately, and it’s a bit of a shell of what it was But it’s been better since the new year and I think the fans are starting to actually believe they are good everyone was calling for a rebuild before the season. Bettman recently threw some water on the fire but he reiterated attendance needs to improve

True, that would work. I just really like the idea of Benson and Quinn on the same line. Two best Fs long term I think and I think they’d work well together. Especially with a powerful C in between which could be either of the two imo, if they are on their game.

Benson - Cozens - Quinn Peterka - Thompson - Tuch Greenway - Krebs - Skinner - - Byram - Dahlin Samuelsson - Power Johnson - Clifton/Jokiharju UPL - Backup goalie, and a few good, 2-way competent veteran depth forwards. Prefer a “middle 6” designation, tbh. I’m not talking Jost level depth realistically we need F upgrades even better than that: but this is a bare minimum. Trading Casey may point to an attempt at a legit top 6 F add im just not holding my breath

Interestingly, Jake alllen driving home on tsn how utterly difficult it is to be part of a 3 goalie tandem…hmmm

Trying more so for the Nashville model that didn’t quite get it done vs targeting the sabres 06 model that didn’t quite get it done. Top-level D depth being the biggest strength over top-level centre depth

Do we expect Johnson back up soon or extended stay in Roch

Make your strength REALLY a strength. Establish an identity, perhaps? im definitely trying to look at our forwards through the prism of how good they’d need to be while being qb’D by an elite D unit im not saying we have to chops to make it work (and so far we haven’t) but that we could specifically forge our identity around Dahlin Power Byram seems reasonable to me as an avenue to chase its a 1 a 1 and a 4 overall lol if you can’t build around that you weren’t going to have the competence to assemble an elite F group anyways lol Just make the GT as fail-safed as possible and supplement the forwards as if you are expecting as little as possible and we might get through this

So the (risky) but logically sound play was to assume our ability to find another 2C much more attainable than a first pair D (which they obv believe Byram to be)

I think there’s probably a better chance of finding success with 2 legit, top level “2Cs” (low-level 1Cs) than we do of Thompson establishing consistently as an elite C. Thankfully their contracts appear to allow for that reality Because as of now it’s that one year that’s the outlier re: elite or no, not this season

nah, f*ck riley boychuk wait, wrong boychuck

Could be. Can you be a cup contender with 2 2Cs, if you have 2 elite defenders? Was Nashville a cup contender for a couple years (actually asking)? I think this is possible i certainly know we can be a solid playoff team in that scenario. We have the top 6 c depth to be a playoff team Quinn can be mark Stone, and we trade for Eichel

Even if true, and I believe it to be a gross exaggeration, this doesn’t represent a considerable obstacle to finishing 16th out of 32

Speaking of experience, I would love a safety net backup we could set our watch to behind UPL. at least, relative to Comrie and Levi if it’s Levi they have to be SURE sure

Dahlin is in his prime and Byram should be in his so, I could see Adams thinking as soon as next year, if Power takes a jump. It may totally not be by next season, or even ever. But I think Adams thinking it could happen next season is reasonable If it’s not, and we miss the playoffs: he should simply be fired But it absolutely could work. Skate or die

I’m not interested in setting up the excuses before the season even starts, no offence. It’s year 5. Byram is a good player, right? Did he have a NMC? That it’s “most” players is a myth. That deal alone proves the good players are there: it just also proves what I was saying that you have to pay to get them Adams is responsible for fielding a playoff team next season. I don’t care about nmcs. It’s a league relative competition im tired of living in an even more undesired location than buffalo and watching them make the playoffs every year. There are threats of relocation and they are adding Tyler Toffoli at the deadline. We haven’t made it once since they returned to the league i might watch the jets come back, make the playoffs a bunch, and bump off to a new town again before the sabres get back to the playoffs lol come on. Just make the playoffs I don’t know him and I wouldn’t put it past the organization to try

It’s a worry. I just sorta think the fact we’ve dealt away two mainstay forwards already and it’s not yet the summer may be a pretty significant sign MAYBE KA is actually looking to tweak the F group too along with the D tweaking we just saw. And this proactiveness seems to me positive/preferable in general. maybe we are finally willing to pay the price necessary to add the players we (at least feel) we need