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Whole team won’t finish glorious chances tonight

Burn bad statisticians burn. Botterill light that fire. xG is not predictive of anything.

Montour is not good on his off side

Yes

That’s what I believe. But I also think Chad has sources and he tweeted on the subject.

If they fire him I just hope it’s earlier not later. Botterill has no chance to do anything before his first draft.

Well Chads got connections. Whoever steps in will have a much better situation than Botterill did when he started. Team is only a couple players, assistant coaches, and a healthy season away

How is the PP for the amerks

Kids great. Best, most entertaining vision I’ve ever seen in a player. Our forwards are still in shock when they get passes from him and fail to finish by no fault of Dahlin. Kid gets some muscle and the defensive grind will improve. Right partner as well (Not Colin Miller, but a defensive type)

He doesn’t live rent free. He gets slammed down our throats anytime he gets criticized.

Uh oh I’m back to passing out mid game. Can’t lie to myself anymore. If the person responsible for special teams is not replaced or canned, I will riot. I don’t think they played particularly bad, but their lack of finishers on offense was apparent. Also, screw Reinhart kid is so overhyped.

Does Rob Ray have a ginger beard?

This stuff happens in soccer where regular players play goalie. And they suck. In football if a WR is playing QB, even if he played it in high school, it’s a total mockery.

Any publicity is good publicity. Yeah, these goalies have won the two games they’ve played, but only teams with hot goalies have ever won a cup: see every damn season.

Or the newfound defensive depth. In fact they’ve turned that against him. Rarely you hear about the goalie prospects in the system, but usually only when they had a bad game.

Oh, you’re already claiming Pekar and Davidsson as busts? Guess Thompson was a first rounder so we can ignore him too Such a shame spending 2nd and 3rd round picks on defenseman and a goalie. Botterill building from the back end forward first, with the types of prospects who take longer to develop, before picking all the forwards. Such awful GMing

Because their depth wasn’t gutted like Murray did. Everyone knew it at the time. Go back and look at eve trade thread. “We overpaid, but if the player pans out it’s ok”. Well guess what? Kane, Bogosian, Lehner, Fasching, all the draft picks beyond 2OA and a 7th... Nothing panned out.

Weaker team they’ll win

The polls are clear that half the readers understand the path and are patient. Just because the Botteril whiners are the loudest doesn’t mean they’re aligned with reality.

It doesn’t have to be a current top-5 in the entire league to be ‘solid’. Though without currently being there, it needs the potential to grow into that and our players are absolutely trending that way. Dahlin is special. Jokiharju is going to be a treat for years to come too.

When did I say dump Sam? I’m just pointing out that your precious is held to a higher standard because the e tire fan base and org suffered for a year just for him. yet it’s the next years draft pick that sells jerseys

Reinhart gets the clack because we tanked an entire decade to pick 2OA and select him. Big shoes, and we had to tank yet another season just to help us forget how much of a let down Reinhart was.

Two youths in a second pairing being sheltered from top minutes but both projecting to top pairing or generational. Two good third pairing guys. Montour and Risto at the top in the mean time. Plus tons of top talent depth. Yes that’s solid. Meaning, it doesn’t need work and it’s problems are set to resolve themselves. Risto has transformed under Krueger. Gone are his lazy days. Miller has been the dunce lately if anyone. Did you even watch the tank years? I can understand them being blocked from memory

Murray’s goalies, defense, and minor league tho Botterill has gotten more with less. Paying a fortune to get a UFA to be early and signing him to a contract you could have just gotten a month later without spending assets was his peak...

Rofl, ask this board five years ago what’s important and top pairing defenseman were the answer. You’re grasping at straws. Ullmark is fine, he literally got injured. Not many teams survive losing starting goaltenders. Hutton stole us games last year, hindsight is pretty hilarious when used like in the quote. His collapse has been epic, but it’s not like we don’t have 6K in the ranks. We have the elusive franchise 1C. Blame Murray for missing on Reinhart being number two. We have no problem with bottom six centers. Again, blowing the situation out of proportion. Mittelstadt and Cozens are in the ranks for center and just like 99% of NHL prospects, need a few years before you can even expect them to contribute.