triumph_communes

the caps

I could see us trading Levi. Not that I agree with it, but I can see it. Tho Levi + 11 for tkachuk is as high as I’d want to see that go.

New OC, new looks. All our offense has to do is be serviceable

Lindy has spent his career just dealing with the cards he was dealt. I can imagine he joined with the idea of telling Adam’s how to construct the roster. a ‘splash’ is absolutely in play. we need to figure out what to do with Joki and the excess forward depth and our hole is bottom 6 so ‘splash’ is definitely going to be to overpay for character. And I’m okay with that i used to think I understood the market, but teams are all cap strapped that the market is so weird now. I think this actually an advantage since we’re just looking to overpay the type of players whose salary is depressing in this market I hope at the end of the day we keep Quinn. Power is a nice to keep, but I won’t be super pissed if he’s gone at least. Savoie and 11OA should be on the table.

Quinn would be more productive but Tkachuk a better teammate. I’m not sure I’d trade them 1:1, but I can understand the appeal. I wouldn’t add a kings ransom ontop of Quinn to make it happen tho

Was Keefe even on the market for six days?!?!?

Granato had half a season of that and they regressed. He peaked

This is the Adams who got Terry to believe us signing Taylor Hall meant we were competing for a cup, not just making the playoffs. All the talent we’ve had who has left and had immediate impact has shown it’s not our assessment as much as it is our country club culture leading to underperforming. And you can’t really assess players performance when they are under that shroud. Long way of saying that Adam’s can’t really be judged on his pro talent in the past because everything had been different - the budget, the coaching, the culture, the expectations. I agree when Adam’s says we have the talent in the top6 and top4 defense and goaltending. We just need role players and have cap flexibility to find them. This is a whole different scenario to picking prospects who will grow. Don’t need to, just need to find who still has the wheels to repeat what they did on a good team. Success has more on Lindy’s ability to change the culture despite what’s going on over his head. And he’s used to playing euchre with a crap hand.

Wasn’t a talent problem. Coaching and culture

Yes. Good leadership is contagious

To be benched the next year?

Ullmark isn’t even playing in the playoffs. He just had a good defense in front of him, he’s nothing to moan about.

Dad energy leader and development to a fault coach. No surprise. Spilled milk, we got Ruff and he has bark

I’ll choose to only focus on there being a new PP guy and the one who must be the direct line to the owner being at least kicked off of the bench. I’ll take that. Funny how when companies actually promote from within they get grief for it. The correct answer is usually a mix of both based on what I’ve ever seen.

UFA fails when you try to turn a tweener into a top 6 or you take a passenger paired with an all star and expect him to drive the play on his own. For the bottom 6 and role players it works out great as those guys are common cap casualties. And that’s all we’re looking for.

Rags are diving all over while doing the be so dirty the refs won’t call it all technique. Disgusting favoritism. Make examples

Diggs wasn’t being doubled. He wasn’t doing what he needed to be doing with his salary regardless of whether he caught it or not

I agree completely with Adam’s current narrative. The problem has been coaching and leadership. The talent is now there. Yes we need some vet depth but we don’t need no key talent piece. I thought this was obvious two years ago and am mad he took this long to fire Granato, but I believe he has the right assessment on things. I see I’m a minority here

I was fine until the end. I don’t think this is fair to a guy who traded away Eichel and Reinhart. Sure they weren’t his draft picks, but I’m sure they would have been at the time. It’s in Lindy to dictate playtime to play hardball and then the GM moves a player who doesn’t buy in. That’s not on the GM to do in the absence of a coach unless it’s a toxic situation. on that note I don’t think it’s fair to say Kevyn is the fiercely loyal one- it was the coach who only knew how to develop players to want to do what he was comfortable with.

Cozens is a solid 2C everyone had suppressed numbers this year They will look to UFA for a 3C. Ruff wants his veteran Gaustad. We have the cap to overpay for whoever this ends up being

watching Coleman’s all targets he definitely dropped more than 2, a lot of bad passes his way but that was a bit generous. he didn’t really come successfully away with the jump balls like scouts sold. He did get held quite a bit though and was wide open with separation plenty. His successful hurdle was pretty. His unsuccessful one still was funny. I still think he has a chance to be a better Gabe, but he isn’t as sure hands as I’d hope. Still some pretty catches we haven’t really seen from our receivers the last handful of years though.

They’re constrained by the cap. The way they’re doing it it’s just one bad year on the cap instead of continuing pushing the can down the road. It just is what it is. At least they plugged nearly all the holes in a draft.

KC just won during a “reset”, it’s Abbott getting hot when it counts.

I still think it’s coaching and execution that will make the difference. The coaching is evolving on offense and we can’t really do worse on injuries. The new guys have a reputation of being smart players that are clutch, not athletic tools you have to teach the game to and hope they pick up the instinct (ignoring the international guy) a receiver might break free come trade deadline from some team that isn’t hacking it

Beyond a bonafide stud receiver what is the team missing? This draft plugged a bunch of holes everywhere that would’ve added up in cap if we tried to do it with aging vets and I still don’t think a stud receiver is absolutely necessary with Josh. He’s always spread out the touches and we’ve replaced a bunch of guys over the last few years who didn’t have a reputation for actually catching the ball with guys who do