Thorny

I was referring to his decision to be born

It goes back to one bad decision Terry made that no one could reasonably have saved us from since - and I ask you, can we really still hold a solitary decision he made a decade ago against him? People make mistakes.

I can only argue under the prism of the consensus: be it for, or against I only care about internal logical consistency. We can operate under the idea that we’ve needed near perfection since the tank to right the ship, but then sentiment should reflect that

Because of the tank

We are 3 points back of WC2, but the Leafs have 2 games in hand so it’s more like ~5 points. 5 points out, with a further 3 teams sandwiched in between. It’s…not ideal. We aren’t at “must win” yet but realistically, kinda? The chances of us having a *good* chance are quickly eroding Can’t afford to stack non-wins anymore

Oh come on

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Bills got kinda screwed there

They beat themselves a lot eh They might just feed the Eagles narrative. Sorry I just don’t think they are that good

LOL If you are going to encroach..

He’s gotta catch that

Eagles are not quite what their record says they are and they are missing Johnson. Bills of a couple years ago roll here; I think this game is still there for the taking

Remember when McCabe plastered Laine He’s a piece of sh*t So I should stop fantasizing about the playoffs?

No idea why the OP is getting torched. He’s been statistically bad He’s not THE problem (why do people always want to pigeonhole the “problem” onto one thing? It never works like that), but he’s a symptom: a symptom of the type of aggressiveness the GM shows in addressing the roster if you just assemble a bunch of guys that “aren’t the problem” you still haven’t rostered the guys you needed who could be “part of the fix”

It’s true, even people giving Levi the benefit of the doubt suggested a solid #2 was very important. We find ourselves in that predicted spot, missing a solid second guy, even if the first guy ended up being someone else (6k instead of Levi) “Who was even available?!” “What good teams even were there?!!” 😂

They should absolutely, positively trade the pick. Too much of a good thing to a certainty This is what I was kinda getting at in the “lowest point” thread. Regardless of how we define it for the team, it certainly seems so for the fans. We are starved to simply make the playoffs

I prefer just looking at last season’s pace vs this season's. It’s not a golf course, improving by 2 points over a poor start from last year doesn’t mean we are in better shape than last year, more reflective is how the pace has downturned since they finished last season You hope that carries over + improvement not that you more less revert back to a stage pre-several stages of development. What would be the point of having a development year last year if it didn’t carry over - that’s the entire point

He’s referring to: “If we only had Quinn, we’d be ok. Curses, we’ve been screwed again - there’s just nothing poor Kevyn Adams could have done.” It’s an incredibly compelling correlation right now

Hockey players don’t individually have a very high WAR and if a second year player somehow did, all the more reason KA should have replaced him when he had ample time and all the more reason this could have been avoided by a GM actually playing chess. Hell I’d settle for checkers. He just needs to actually play.

‘Zactly. We have plenty of flexibility (more than most teams), a .500 base and plenty of tools to make it happen: we simply need the GM to wield them

The biting sting of truth

The offseason was objectively bare bones from Adams

Best moments by far of following (the heart of the reason I watch) is watching the 06 and 07 runs when I was near that age W/my Dad