JoeSchmoe

I was looking forward to no Lafferty's or Lafferty+'s this year. I'd much rather play Tyson Kozak.

I'm not sure why. I'll give Adams credit on bringing in some good advanced stats guys in. Then there's this guy who I have no idea on what he was thinking. He does get a lot of defensive zone starts, but so did Malenstyn prior to us bringing him in and he didn't do jack last year.

This is funny but true.

Rightly or wrongly, I think he's figured out that pretty much anything he says comes back to be used against him. Better to keep his mouth shut. In the meantime, any little insight we get into the hockey ops workings of the team all show Terry's fully in command of the ship. Unlike with Adams, I'm quite certain Brandon Beane does not talk with him daily... Or if he did, Terry would not be providing any real input.

The problem is, he's not actually silent. His hands are all over this team given hockey is his main passion. Football on the other hand was never his main sport. For that reason, he's happy to let the experts run the team.

I would have said the same thing except on the 10 minutes of play I watched, it looked like Rosen and Östlund went on the Quinn/Cozens workout plan this summer. Normally, I wouldn't have even said anything given the extremely small sample size, but their poor play was that notable, especially given the competition level. And from what little I saw of Mrtka, I agree that he could push his development timeline. He seemed a step quicker and stronger than the Rochester D. But small sample size I know.

Just watching now. I haven't seen any other games but this is terrible. They can't even make a pass.

So many names I've never heard of!

Tough to say. Given the evidence, the judge sided with the players testimony. Here's the official transcript. https://www.canlii.org/en/on/onsc/doc/2025/2025onsc4319/2025onsc4319.html

Please tell me UPL is going to be dealt.

Good point.

That does boost ticket prices though. For that very reason, I couldn't care less about the NHL "growing the league". I'm good with the way the league was 20 years ago. Players and owners made less, but the price of tickets or a beer at the game were a non-factor.

If fa-la's count, then it's sometime late 2024.

Hate MLSE and everything about it.

Looking forward to it! Just curious... Are there other STH's here that would meet up with us for dinner and/or between periods?