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Right. We were spoiled by Eichel, who is regularly referred to as "an athletic freak of nature"

I don't know what Housley was like in the locker room or at practice, but from interviews, "cerebral" is not the term I'd use to describe him personally. He never struck me as that bright. Now, he may have stolen someone's playbook and stuck by it, and that playbook may be considered a "cerebral" system, but... Rigid seems appropriate, though.

I understand your perspective, but it also slightly comes across as a solution in search of a problem. All the decisions made led to a win. I don't care who was on the ice- the decisions made by RK led to us dominate the game.

I mean, look at this, we have a team that gets KO breakaways!

I'm still convinced this team could have looked like this the 1st half of 2019 with a real coach. I'm excited about this team.

this is where we all lose our minds

Mitts got the puck to him, right?

I'm slow. How do you reach that conclusion with this information, and what are the implications- cap and otherwise?

Probably when he centered Skinner and Reinhart in January for two games and was kept completely off the score sheet. Look, I blame a lot of last season on Housley. I'm optimistic about this year. If Sobotka's awfulness last year was largely due to usage, I wouldn't be surprised. Part of me is worried, as well. But I play devils advocate for now on this topic, out of optimism. I hope you know it's not personal.

It's actually better than the best season of forum darling Evan Rodrigues. Can Sobotka do it again? Hope so...

I'm not panicking yet. Just hoping JBotts does have a Risto trade in the chamber, or Krueger is a genius...

I think RK is just trolling all of you guys. And you deserve it!

The nicknames keep coming up, so I'll ask: Mojo? Are you guys saying it "MO - yo" ? Joker? Are you guys saying it "YO - ker" ? I don't like the nicknames. These don't work with Scandinavian names!

I think I finally get it now. But why do they make the process that way? To keep it from being wildly abused by forcing the "overage" to clear waivers?

I understand the sentiment, but I think ERod and (current) Mitts are both two sides of the same borderline-NHL'er coin. Mitts has more upside, so they're throwing him (keeping him, rather) in the fire.

sign & trade?

I hope with all my heart you're right. It makes sense, though. I don't think we should read much into this. You don't sh** on your own players before the season even starts- and it gives RK an out, too.

I can't wait to watch Eichel score more one-timers. Teams won't be able to cover both him and VO, so I'm guessing we'll see them from both wings on our new PP!

This has come up in many threads, and I think you and several others are mistaken. I think the coach has the final say on the lineup, but they work closely together on it and try to come to a consensus. A GM overruling a coach on lineup issues would be a sign that the GM and coach are not on the same page, and the coach should start worrying about his job security.

I think this could be true, and for that reason, I hope they give this a shot: Skinner - Eichel - ______ VO - Johansson - Reinhart Remember, Skinner was on pace early in the year for 50+. I don't think that magic happens again without him and Eichel together. But I'm curious to see both combinations in actual games.

I just wanted to point out, for all of the doom-and-gloom'ers: The only people who try hard during the preseason are those on the bubble Read that again slowly and take a deep breath.

I think this is another factor in why critique of JBott's "roster" is misplaced. GM's usually defer to the coaches for that. If they strongly disagree, they fire the coach. He needed Housely to give him irrefutable evidence (for Pegula perhaps?) that PH needed to be fired. And he got it. And we got Cozens!

It worked out fine with Reinhart! Cozens seems stronger than Reinhart at that stage, fwiw.

It's the butterfly thing. The best way to stop pucks just happens to go against the physiology of the body. Kinda like ballet. The most beautiful motions are actually destroying your joints...

depth scoring!