triumph_communes

glad Buffalo broke the curse before the standards dropped The new season/playoff format I feel is just better. Odd-number of games helps break tie breaker BS that's always un-fun. Less pre-season I think will benefit teams who have less turnover, in a league where turnover is rampant lately. Only one team getting a bye just jives better too.

Missing all 1st rounders and trading away all second rounders in the 2000s is what necessitated the tank. Trading away all of our 1st, 2nds, and 3rds, and the very few actually picked in the 2nd being total busts is why we lack youthful forward depth today. Defense was fixed with trades and lottery balls, and goalies take time, but you have to look at Murray for the current state of forward depth. Teams don't just give you quality depth players in trades unless they're idiots like in Chicago, and even then, we needed a former top-10 pick to get that. Keep in mind that our one 3rd rounder who is showing may be NHL caliber bottom-6 is being targeted by other teams in rumored trades. It's a competitive league. Other than Nylander, which got salvaged, I think it is far too early to call 'miss' on the latest 1sts-- Mittelstadt is recovering from bad development and Tage is in this awkward does really well in AHL and is prone to silly errors in NHL act, but was poised to get over that up until a season-long injury arrives. My only disappointment is Reinhart, one because he won't play center (it has to be on him, the team wouldn't be struggling so long if he wanted to play center in the NHL), and two because the expectation for 2OA is an all around, puck digging player and we got the 6' guy who can't check.

He's struggling in the AHL. He needs time, just like EVERY other goalie prospect

McCabe - Kase Ristolainen - Trochek + Pysyk Rodrigues + Hammond - Khudobin Waive Hutton

I've always said he's an elite complimentary piece, but he is wasted 'space' if considered the core of anything I like when he has his tantrums once every 20 games or so and goes out and gets a stupid penalty because he's not used to playing with his heart on his sleeve at all and is so awkward at it

The big improvement is the lack of missed break-out passes from Risto and needless icings. The whole idea that the player may not have been awful, he was just so dog tired and had no confidence in his defensive partners all the time he developed a lot of bad habits has tons of merit. But don't forget, fancy stats had Scandella as the worst player in the league by far who then turned around to be top-10 in the league in one off-season. The predictive capability of these stats has a cpk of 0.00

Only have to avoid the forums because its full of whiners trying to out outrage each other. People just want to be mad I try to show the positives of the current situation and its straight to personal attacks. Does that reflect on me or you?

The worst posters are the incessant whiners like yourself. Like whining is going to change anything? If you need a place to go complain about the world and cry relentlessly go find a cult Even with your unquoted fancy stats, middle of the pack is a huge improvement.

We have a team with good defense and offense that just struggles to finish. Oh, and an an absolutely terrible backup goaltender. Last year we would spend 3/4 of the game hemmed in our own zone. so many whiny ungrateful fans Jesus Christ

Hockey trade D for forward is a good trade don’t know why y’all are so pessimistic. Season was imperiled when Ullmark hurt himself. Go take any other team in the league and injur their top goalie and see how they deal. Hutton was actually good in stretches last yesr, his collapse has been epic

We lost our starting goalie to a freak accident and our back up goalie is a tire fire this season. Goalie problems are hazard to fix. Our prospects with promise are still young.

This board was going crazy because he was waiting too long for a trade. Now he’s an idiot for not waiting longer? Can’t win with you lot

Seriously send Hutton to the AHL he is AWFUL

What the hell Reinhart

Who was offsides ***** these refs

What a trash penalty call

Carter Hutton

You were adding Miller and another

And just like that we’re 6 ptns out with 20 games to play

What? Yes Team needed bodies and PK help. Frolik was both. Look at anything Toronto has been doing. That’s cap penalty

If Frolik didn’t exceed your expectations I am concerned about your assessment of players. Our PK has been better and we aren’t fielding Wilson and Dea every game still

no, you just want to hate on Botterill The price of cap space, especially at deadline time when teams are desperate, is a premium in a hard cap league that's had enough years for all the teams to build-up on their contracts but go ahead and change the title of the thread and still exclude the 50% retained tidbit...

you're thinking about your math wrong. all that matters for cap hit is dependent upon where you are at a given-point in the season. They're retaining the equivalent of a start-of-season $2MM cap hit but let's take your other bold statement: "JB just mis-timed the market and mis-evaluated how much Scandy would yield in trade." So, what you're saying is that it wasn't important to find players to help fix the PK as early in the season as you could get another team to take on the cap hit? Wooo-- well if I remove all contexts surrounding my comparables it's no wonder you are confused on player's real values

that's literally the difference in the closest comparable (literal previous trade) when cross-checked with what other teams paid just for cap, it also fits