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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.

botterills focus has always been depth first, NHL roster second. And he chose to bolster defense first, which again is a strategy most everybody agrees is the right order. And with at least strength in one area (defense) the team can build an identity. Fans are just impatient and blaming the wrong guy. Our lack of draft picks filling in holes is Murray’s problem still. Only beginning next year can you begin to blame Botterill if they’re not working out.

I think it’s a great example of what cap hell is and why you can’t just instantly fix your team in the next draft and UFA like you can in football. Go back the last three years and find me one UFA signing that makes a big difference in the results the last two years. And don’t say Donskoi he was offered more money and turned it down

NFL draft picks are immediate players and roster turnover year to year is easy Good NHL teams barely turn over 4 players per season. Botterill has been turning over >12 players per season, and even then, that wasn’t enough to keep rookies out of the roster.

‘But counting stats say he plays just as good when the team is in the hunt vs once they’re out’ Cant wait for his end of season goal rally

No superstar is ever trapped. Who did Lindros play for again?

Beane shed all bad contracts in one year and only had to pay for it one year. Botterill has none of those options and still managed to clear a ton of cap for the fourth season. The cap puts rebuilds from bad contract situations and cancerous locker rooms (yes we had one, remember Reinhart sitting on the bench for an entire game lololol? Party boys left and right). Both GMs inherited absolute messes. Both have done a great job shedding ‘top talent with attitude’ that may or may have not succeeded elsewhere, but have transformed their own locker room into believers in the process. Oh, we also have a billionaire owner who isn’t shrewd. Remember when we had an internal cap, back when the cap was half of what it is now? The contract structuring that made UFA for Buffalo even a consideration? Before you digress, the ROR bonus was a personal thing.

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