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I would not be surprised if they came out totally loose, guns blazing so to speak and they score tons of goals and win big but I wouldn't be surprised if they come out with zero effort as well. It really doesn't matter but hopefully it will entertain in some way.

I have to admit I did laugh at Harrington's line that it had become a teenager. That was pretty funny. Sad, but funny.

Or sign Pesce as a free agent (and yes I know there was talk he has Buffalo on a NTC list but offer enough money etc. and people can change their minds)

Yes, this isn't shocking. This is the thing the whole plan is based on. The quick outlet. You make the quick outlet you don't have to play D in your own end. That's the theory, that's the plan. Now watch how that falls apart for teams in the playoffs when they get aggressively forechecked. But yes, Power is good at that. He sees the ice well and makes that decision quickly and relatively accurately. Where he falls apart is in his own end when he doesn't have the puck. Dealing with that (and building muscle) is supposed to be what you do to develop D men. I see no evidence we do it though at all.

I'm in basic agreement with you but everything else he did was not a big nothing. He lost players and made subtractions. Huge ones. Mitts took a longer development path but he was our best center now. Ullmark walked and won a Vezina. Eichel was moved and won a cup. Reinhart has over 50 goals. The current roster is younger but not more talented than the roster he inherited. Remember UPL was not Adams plan. Adams plan was (and maybe still is) Levi. Imagine what we'd have had if UPL hadn't stepped up or worse, they waived him early on and he was claimed. Adams just got lucky or this team would have been substantially worse than it was.

The only reason I mentioned it is because we've had this recent fire Granato and look at how Torts got so much more from less so we need a hard ass coach discussions. I was on that ship but it too is sinking. idk if Torts lost the room there but it made me think that maybe in this day and age these kids would just quit on a hard ass and we'd be no better off. Flyers have other issues so maybe Torts isn't the problem there. idk enough about them really. Looking at how bad Fedotov is though it also did make me wonder just how bad would we have been this year if UPL hadn't filled that void and played the way he did? We might be bottom 5.

Do we take any solace watching the Flyers meltdown? That big Russian goalie is horrible. Talk about a free fall.

Freudian slip there. But just about right.

Depends for me. If they do not fire Adams or at least Granato I will be discouraged. Then if they do not make significant deals or sign free agents, well then there won't be much point in caring and I will be discouraged as well. My discouragement will start the minute they use the word "patience" .

Oh look on the bright side. Now Comrie can play.

I don't have them as "prospects". They are kids but with our team they are already full time roster players. Peterka can clearly play at the NHL level and be effective. Quinn I'm not going to judge this year due to the long injury. He's not where Peterka is and I'm not as enamored by his play as some are but I'm going to wait to see what he brings next year (assuming he's healthy). I was talking about Rosen, and Rousek, Kulich, pretty much everybody we called up over the year.

Fast game. Somewhat entertaining. Really comes down to the same problem we've had for ages. Not enough net front on the attack and the inability to deal with the opponent's net front on defense. We have a lot of physically weak hockey players (by NHL comparative standards).

This is essentially correct except not "everybody" thought that and some "people" might think it's solved but definitely not all people. The team is definitely inconsistent. The consistency that is there however is the coaching. Granato needs to go along with all the assistants. I also think what they do in Rochester is wrong but that's another discussion. Okay that's it. Time to swap that out for some pickle jiuce.

lol, I like the cake analogy. Problem is I think they mixed up the salt and the sugar and they haven't realized it yet.

Now you only have to figure out if you're going to use an "i" or a "j"

idk I haven't followed them closely this year. I think he was called up by the Kraken recently for a late season look now that they are out of it but not sure. I looked him up 43 pts. in 56 games for the Firebirds. Is that good for AHL? I guess it's okay. I don't really follow AHL hockey so not sure. They have 4 other guys with higher point totals and their leading scorer is Kole Lind with 62.

lol, don't blame me for the predicament this team has placed itself in. Season isn't hanging by a thread. It was over weeks ago. Not mathematically, but realistically.

Definitely, a situation where guys in Rochester are fighting for NHL spots would be great. Likewise it would be great if guys on the roster were fighting to stay on the roster from that same sort of pressure. None of the prospects that have come up so far have overly impressed though. RJ has potential but he's just a greener version of what we already have. None of the other brief visits impressed. (I'm not counting Levi since the goaltending thing is a messed up separate discussion) If we become a cap ceiling team rookie contracts will be important as they are for anybody as will cheap 4th line deals and veteran depth players on cheap deals but we are far from that point. All GMs have to balance incoming contracts against expiring ones and the circle of life continues but that worry is not today's worry for me.

and I hope you realize Detroit plays Washington and Pittsburgh in their next two games so there is virtually no math through that.

A little late for an April Fool's Day thread.

I have no idea where Dallas is at philosophically right now but unless their coach is an idiot they are likely in playoff prep mode so they will be playing defense first shutdown hockey. We will not do well against that, but I guess it's also possible they come in napping and not taking us seriously and we play loose and beat them. Meaningless really, and I probably watch this one late on replay.

That's the reverse logic so I assume you're trying to be funny or take a shot but the point holds. There are lots of first round picks who never become what they were projected to be. Wright might still become a decent player but he's a disappointment at this stage. The thing is if you are going to trade prospects you have to move them at a point where the other team still thinks they have high end value. You have to make that decision when you think they might not be that guy or not as good as you hoped but also not seen as a bust yet by the other guy. It's tricky and as a fan I get you never want to lose a potentially good player. But I don't want another season of "look at all these guys we have coming in the future". I want a team on the ice that can make the playoffs and win in the playoffs. To get there we need to let a few prospects go and take our chances on that. The roster does not have a good veteran mix. It lacks leadership. It's a ship with no captain and it has leaks. I don't even want a draft pick this year. Trade it. I'm really tired of "next year".

No, I just can't agree with this. I am not following football really but I think I would say yes, he is Diggs. Antonio Brown maybe to go back a bit to when I followed it more. I firmly believe his locker room presence is a problem and he has a negative influence on the youngsters coming in. You could maybe limit that if half your locker room was Foligno type work ethic veterans and pros but in a room filled with kids it's a huge problem. This has always been the problem with the Sabres imo. They tanked but they did not build the culture first. They went for the star power and the talent but without the culture and thus the (lack of) results. The idea now of building a culture collectively together is just dumbass imo. On the Skinner Carolina thing that's all chicken egg and doesn't really matter. Thing is they changed the culture and brought in a coach who knows how things need to be to win and part of that culture change involved getting rid of Skinner. If Adams is in fact trying to follow the Carolina model (as has been suggested in the past) he's getting it quite wrong.

Best plan for no name change. Utah 'yotes has a ring to it.

No, this is different. Again, go ask Brind'Amour. Consider how Carolina got a lot better after ditching him. He "produced" for them too. It was the one thing Kreuger was right about.