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I could see how everything is on hold until we know what Ehlers does. If he accepts, cap moves go one way. If he doesn’t, we go another. So unless it’s for Robertson or Peterson, Byram won’t move til the initial fallout from Jan1

It’ll take Byram to get Robertson I think We paid dearly to get rid of one year of Clifton, I have no idea how Samuelson is removed. I think he’s a penalty we pay until we’re ready to buyout. Or increase his value by sheltering his minutes. im not opposed to any of the philosophy here, just the realism of the moves. And that isn’t Adam’s fault (going forward), but you can blame him for being here in the first place. But I give him the benefit of the doubt of not having us with long term forward contracts with Cozens, Mittelstadt, Skinner, Peterka, etc. was a whole lot of money tied into the perimeter

Really like the idea of 18yo can only be drafted with 1st round picks. 19yo with 2nds. 20+ for 3+ Itd really add layers to drafting strategy. With your 2nd are you drafting that young 19yo who will grow into something big, or that 20yo who is a year away from the jump that blossomed in college? Not really sure on the negatives here? Would it be related to kids being incentivized to sign deals in Europe at a younger age that’d keep talent out of NA? It’d undermine the value of a scouting staff? Let’s be fair, it’s a lot of gambling. Give the 19yo late bloomers more of a chance

3rd pairing Byram. Lesgo

Removing most of the softies goes a long way towards that though. Adding one thug who plays 9mins a night doesn’t help things as much as removing thirty minutes of peel away

With the current roster Samuelsson has to reason to have to be played. You’ll be disappointed about the 1C situation, but Byram for a top6 forward or a UFA splash may change things

Won’t be surprised if we see a real competition for that top4 spot. But they’re all injury prone so we will probably need them all..

To be fair, there’s no competition to be had on the left side, nor will there be for a decade to come. Maybe this all comes back to Dahlin saying if we ask him to play on the right side one more time he’s going to demand a trade out. This is insurance

He doesn’t watch Clifton play then He doesn’t watch Clifton play then

But we can now pretend it’s Keko pulling the strings but the overabundance of RHD in the system suddenly turns it into a position of competition, which I’m sure Lindy will like to manage. Rather than us identifying someone and hope he plugs

Using draft capital to improve the one ice team today. Exactly what we want. Good analytics and size you can’t teach. Again, hard to understand what’s not to like about this. Time will show whatever the hell has him going team to team, but sometimes that’s just circumstance.

Cause he isn’t a bruiser and that’s what they want

Not sure how you can watch the cup finals and want to add Rossi. Team needs beef

Don’t understand the bitching when you look at that terrible terrible contract Peterka signed we just offloaded Mittelstadt, cozens; and now Peterka either a year in or just before the stupid contracts set in

Our teams problem has been defense and in every way this made our defense better. And bigger. And tougher. Sucks that Muel didn’t live up to his hype, but this is addressing exactly that. Peterka was just another finisher at the end of the day, a good finisher, but he ain’t a star and we have finishers on our team and pipeline.

He only gets promoted because he has no spine and lets Terry secretly run the show. We all know that’s what Terry wants. It ain’t changing til Terry truly steps away. he can still own the team, but that requires the billionaire to swallow his pride. The bills works because his wife ran that show, by only micromanaging the business side

Professional brown noser

It’d be a step down for Biron wouldn’t it? He does a lot of media for national Canada and he’d not have time for that anymore

Yes, goaltending has been way below bar. Even beyond defense Thing is there’s such a mental game back there- defender isn’t going to take that extra lunge if he doesn’t trust his goalie to stop a beach ball. He’s going to block every shot and get out of position if he follows the Ruff way and thinks he has to do it himself. The goalie is also going to be distracted and unable to track anything if defenders aren’t covering the sides because they’re concerned about what’s in front. It all falls apart quick I think the easy solution here is to look at what happens when the goalie gets replaced with an aging vet- Anderson last season. Reimer this season. Suddenly everything fell into place So yes, I blame goalies first by far. That’s why Levi is so damn important. The conundrum is whether a goalie can ever build his confidence while having defense who don’t trust them in front of him or not? Most goalie take a long time to season and I thinks it’s all mental here, so no I think they truly do need to season for longer to get their confidence in the right place. we need some defense but it isn’t the key. It’s Levi

Tyler Ennis, concessions manager

He doesn’t have “it” opposing teams didn’t even bother trying to cover him

It is an issue because you can only have so many egos like that on a roster, just like you point out. Not all players have an ego and an ego isn’t mandatory to be an elite competitor. But it often goes hand in hand Mittelstadt is a bust. He was cast off from a good team after failing to slot into the role. He championed the Bruins tank. Imagine if he was still here, scary.

The Byram trade was great. Mittelstadt is a bust. If we picked a guy with too much of an ego to skill ratio then trade him. Things to be mad about but this isn’t one

The long argument on the bills side is the conservative coaching is what’s holding them back from ever winning the big game. They got lucky with some draft picks. The culture got them out of the basement. But the prize will forever elude them now, you could’ve said the same thing for KC’s coaching, who had the championship dog their whole career until they finally had the players to do it. But then they win and they are the right thing. I do believe coaching consistency and winning culture matters. A lot of significantly so. But it’s not enough on its own. McDermott took that same gamble on Peterman and look how hilariously bad that experiment worked out. You do need to swing to win. And you do need to drop something that’s not working immediately. What Boston is doing now is dropping and mixing fast. They aren’t stopping if they see issues they keep mixing. They will rebound fast because of this relying on kids to just grow up is the opposite of that. You’ll just ruin them and set them back individually in the process. And that’s what we’ve seen