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Paying him early, but even if he underwhelms offensively he’s a solid player a team is going to be happy to have. Adam’s needs the assurance going forward navigating all the new contracts. Way to go getting all the kids to buy in cheap. Toronto probably thought they’d get that treatment for being Toronto and look how all their contract negotiations went.

Puts the Hamlin situation into an even grimmer outlook. What a year

Their own social media lol

show up 4 hours before the game and follow a routine to prepare as a team instead of playing video games and crap up until on ice warm ups

Hall was abysmal here and serviceable in Boston immediately…

Let him play forward!

The coach can fix it by mandating certain routines to overcome any youthful immaturity. But he isn’t.

ESPN cutting the local pre and post game out of the coverage really takes a huge part of watching hockey away for me. You lose the sense of community when you do that. plus these national broadcasts are awful.

Absolute embarrassment. Slow start at home. Useless power play. Both things coaching has a lot of control over and we can’t get it right. What a joke

What a disaster. Looks like two teams in different leagues

Oh thank god

Usually no. There’s teams who have overpaid goalies who have regressed on the market and there’s teams that have a couple of blue chips they hold onto dearly. Starting goalies is usually all handled in off season. Some back ups might make a move.

Nathan Mackinnon tailors his workouts to peak in the spring. Tweeners have to peak out in training camp. Yes 100% this is true, players plan all around it.

That’s not what’s been said.

Interpretation: 1. Any deadline acquisition needs to fit the age of the group and can’t take opportunities away from the kids developing. A vet 3C rental isn’t in the cards. 2. Levi is a superfreak. He’s hesitant to commit to any goalie that would get in his way, though they aren’t rushing him either. 3. Portillo is gone Its clear they value playing kids in the NHL over wins. Mid-season you could say it’s paid off based on the improvement by many players. At the end of the season if we’re 3 points short of the playoffs there’s going to be games you can point back to. Either way, that’s part of the plan. There’s no debate whether this is what they were doing - sacrificing this season for growth. Not a bad thing unless they can’t keep all these players they sacrificed standings for under contract. Maybe it’s their ace in the hole to keep contract dollars low? This is why players hire agents tho. Interpretation: 1. Any deadline acquisition needs to fit the age of the group and can’t take opportunities away from the kids developing. A vet 3C rental isn’t in the cards. 2. Levi is a superfreak. He’s hesitant to commit to any goalie that would get in his way, though they aren’t rushing him either. 3. Portillo is gone Its clear they value playing kids in the NHL over wins. Mid-season you could say it’s paid off based on the improvement by many players. At the end of the season if we’re 3 points short of the playoffs there’s going to be games you can point back to. Either way, that’s part of the plan. There’s no debate whether this is what they were doing - sacrificing this season for growth. Not a bad thing unless they can’t keep all these players they sacrificed standings for under contract. Maybe it’s their ace in the hole to keep contract dollars low? This is why players hire agents tho.

Interpretation: 1. Any deadline acquisition needs to fit the age of the group and can’t take opportunities away from the kids developing. A vet 3C rental isn’t in the cards. 2. Levi is a superfreak. He’s hesitant to commit to any goalie that would get in his way, though they aren’t rushing him either. 3. Portillo is gone

People are identifying weak spots to upgrade. It may not be a gaping hole but is one if the weak spots that could be fortified.

I do not want to spend on WR. It might be a weakness but I believe Josh can make any jag receiver look good. Need to fix the o line. And d line. And coaching.

Bengals got jobbed. Some of the holds KCs oline had were egregious. Of course Mahomes looks like a hero when they aren’t penalized like any other team would.

We just came off losing 5/6 to a bunch of bad teams. When there’s signs you gotta address them. Unless you like eternal disappointment. Toronto has had eternal playoff disappointment for a reason and we are turning into them.

They nearly blew a 3 goal lead in last few minutes. Jesus. They dominated for so long yet the same old bs again

It’s the end of the world as we know it

Krebs, Östlund, 2nd. Let’s gooo

There has to be a negative value for the contract he has. There’s so few teams in the league that can even fit it, even if it’s a long term 8AAV deal. Two younger players, but only one of them blue chip and a 2nd. Sabres have to be careful giving up too much cause those are the support players needed to fill out the roster given the core. This just accelerates that process.

Do not want McCabe. He hated it here