Thorny

Bettman always looks so content Like it or lump it

THAT was a BS miss. Tbay should be on the PP

Point’s shoulder may have parted company

They may be homophones, and I admittedly love the last jedi, but I have to admit I’m much less a fan of the potential subverting of expectations in *this* particular case. Still hope he ends up signing.

Yes I’m sure the booing starting immediately after he scored two goals and an assist was a coincidence. And yes, it’s 100% assuredly a thing that they boo the player they anoint the best on the other team. They used to construct “clever” chants as well. Remember “SILVER MEDAL!” Ya, I’m sure they were taunting Ryan Miller because they think he’s an ***** His immediate reaction after a loss was to seek out an argument with me on a Sabres message board. He’s venting

Some guys don’t elevate their games come playoff time. Other guys are Jack Eichel

The Jets crowd boo’s the best player on the other team whenever they touch the puck, they’ve been doing it since they came back in 2011

The 4th reason is hilarious but reason 3 hit the mark, in this case. Was joshing with you da whole time

dude

I’m missing something, I trust - Fundamentally

Him and Jack are really good friends I’m not really sure what this board’s leanings are re: jack, and his affect on culture, it’s not something I see being talked about very much, so the above may not be a relevant conversion piece for anyone but, thought I might throw that out in case anyone wanted to sink their teeth into it

You are probably right, then. There’s no way I was watching with the eye for detail you would have been, through the final stretch of the season

My parents did okay but never to the level of hooking me up with that kind of set-up/cash flow

Yes. Rent free, in fact

Being in accord is OK but I prefer the image and evoked emotion of “two ships passing in the night”

Adams wanted Ullmark. He wanted Chychrun. He may have even known we “needed” them. But I haven’t seen him use “ends justify the means” logic yet

I think that might be, in their minds, the 6th/7th d-man I was referring to. Via the “this guy is a 6 but, from what we’ve seen w/his metrics, he can be a 4 for us” mindset. I think even plenty of posters had Lyubushkin listed as D4 at times this year, though I’m not sure if that was more along the lines of “it needed to be someone”. Basicallly, Adams was in on Chychrun, right? But what we brought in, was Stillman. I’m not sure how surprised I’d be if something like that unfolds, again. We’ve already seen the precedent. And I’m not sure how much of that process I can wish away to “well, that was just his parameters at the deadline” when the working assumption is the only reason we were “in” on deadline moves was under the scenario of them not being merely deadline deals, at all

What a horrible goal from Lyon

That’s why I said KA was a huge part of the reason

Scheifele is terrible defensively. And a locker room issue. We don’t want him trust me He’s got one year left on a contract that at one time was a steal but he’s now headed for a significant increase in $ to make up for being underpaid relative to his pointz totals for years: so he’s set to be drastically overpaid especially considering he’s never succeeded in rounding out his putrid two way game He’s actually had his 2 *worst* defensive years the last 2 seasons, and this year he fell (well) below point a game for the first time since 2016. And he turned 30. Run

“COMRIE WILL BE THE OTHER GOALIE!“ ^that guy? ya, I ‘sppose he’s just worn me down.

My current guess for how it unfolds, notably sans Olofsson: Skinner - Thompson - Tuch Peterka - Cozens - Quinn Mittelstadt - Krebs - Greenway Girgensons - Jost/FA/Trade - FA/Trade New Rookie/Rousek Samuelsson - Dahlin Power - Jokiharju Stillman - Lyubushkin/FA/Trade FA/Trade Levi UPL - - - I likely see 1, maybe 2 depth, role-player adds to the bottom of the F unit. Probably a RW replacement for KO. I don’t see the Rookie I listed as the actual 13th man: if that listed rookie option makes the team after a 9-ish game tryout, we probably see at most 1 new outside depth F addition and possibly as few as 0. As to the D, I think we see one, 6/7 type add, for sure, and certainly not zero, but very likely not more than 1. Goaltending, the more I’ve thought about it probably gets run back (from the end of the season). It’ll be a quiet offseason. We likely make all of our picks, and add a couple with VO (look for KA to add a 3rd for this year to further replace our own (though we do have the Kings 3rd, currently) and perhaps a 5th to replace next season’s), and the addition of another Jost and another Lyubushkin level player to their respective positions. I think KA would be open to additions slightly better than the mentioned 4th liner and 6th/7th d-man, but that no betrayal of his valuation will take place: he won’t overpay slightly to get a solidly 3rd line, middle pair D player. If we can get that instead, great, but he’ll sooner add the 2 depth pieces with metrics to the tune of them presumably thinking they can unlock that “one line UP” level, with those players, internally/through system fit.

The organization wasn’t “completely dismantled and rebuilt.” Much of the rostered players were inherited. Even Granato was inherited. We can say a lot was changed without the hyperbole A huge part of the reason we are improving is because of Adams and his team. Another huge part of the reason is because we’ve been adding high first round picks for a decade and it’s reaching a tipping point

Once the calendar turned to March, Tage also “only” put up 6 goals and 14 points in 19 games, while skating to a -10. Yes playing hurt but so was Dahlin. It’s only my opinion but I did not see Tage living up to his expectations to a greater degree than Dahlin this season. Didn’t “expect” 90 from Tage but I didn’t expect 70 from Dahlin, either. Skinner, to me I have no problem with grading him out as #1 relative to expectations coming in. Should be noted all 3 of those forwards on that line aided eachother, whereas Dahlin was *invariably* partnering with a player significantly below his overall aptitude In addition, I can’t remember the last time we had a d-man finish top 5 in d-man scoring. We had a forward finish higher than Tage in forward/league scoring as recently as 3 years ago