Thorny

4 team race here 20 Caps - 70gp, 73 points 21 Sabres - 68gp, 72 points - - - 22 Senators - 68gp, 70 points 23 Red Wings - 67gp, 69 points Top 2 avoid the Sweepstakes, bottom 2 gain entry to the sweepstakes

FIRST impression? JAG

Shackling Bryson to him doesn’t help. Will help with his contract though

-12 in last 8 games with 0 points -8 since the all star break with 8 points in 16 games stick a fork in it

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I could be wrong

He’s being sarcastic

Those damn refs! Conspiring against us for the 34th game in a row! One part injury another part Bryson another part poor relative play from Dahlin = no Norris nomination = lower contract?

Being luckier than a team you are also significantly better than also helps

Isn’t the tie breaker regulation wins? In which case Florida still has it

He’s probably the mvp ya. Honestly I don’t really care who gets the C, ultimately. Like I said to PA I don’t think it matters as long as it doesn’t go to the wrong guy. Like the delinquent detriment Eichel

Technically Florida would be but ya. They own the breaker currently

So late this year. Milk it more every year. Even with the season going later it’ll already be at least round 2 by then, no?

Then KA is an objective idiot because he negotiated with the guy for literal months thinking there was a chance. Ullmark was clearly at least open to the idea

Exactly lol

If Adams can’t find a goalie more likely to be a 40 game starter next season than a guy who’s never played an NHL game, he’s not trying hard enough Undoubtedly

Even the worst GM of all time wouldn’t clear the deck at the position of all relevant talent for 3 years and accept the accompanying poor aptitude for that long, by choice, without being absolutely sure Levi was coming Adams’ plan literally *is* the Levi timeline. He’s signing. With a 5 part accompanying Sabres embedded series not a joke

I actually had to look up that winning out would only leave us with 103. Kinds crazy

Technically, no. Florida has the tie breaker on us and is 2 points up and we have 1 in hand, so we don’t technically control our own destiny. Edit - nm, we play Florida so in effect we DO We did have a very unlikely and lucky out of town scoreboard to your point which helps - like I was saying before even a couple games can shift the math quick

His poor (relative) play? I’d agree

It’s not even an experiment with isolated variables. What if Tuch had come back but Dahlin wasn’t playing? Wasn’t the board convinced Mattias freaking Samuelsson was our MVP because we lost when he was out? The truth is that ANY important player being removed from / returning to lineup will make a difference when we are still building depth

No They probably don’t Yes the team quit on Dahlin he’s not that guy it’s all about Tuch. We can absolutely boil it down to the results of 2 solitary games

This is an easy W. playing a bad team on a back to back and we are at home on the road. Tuch Thompson Skinner all with 3+ Power adds a G

Think Makar or Fox prob snags last nom

As much as I’d like to take the other side, objectively this one seems to be slipping away. That’s what a stretch of 1 point in 7 games with an accompanying -6 rating will do. Down to 4th in scoring for D league wide, 4th in team scoring, with Cozens closing in