PerreaultForever

Not my experience. Far from it. But what does any of this have to do with the NHL or hockey?

and signing Sheahan helps with that? okay.

Just can't help yourself can you?

Indeed. That McTavish - Bedard combo was dynamite. There's no question whoever tanks best this year is getting one heck of a hockey player and Anaheim already got a good one.

Kulich, player of the game for Chechia. His goal above reminded me of a typical Pasternak goal. Just a perfect snipe. Goalie has no chance. He's a shooter. Missed the net in the shootout trying too hard for just inside the post I guess, but he was very good all game. Goalie couldn't handle his shot on the tying goal either, which resulted in the tap in from in front. From what I've seen in the 2 games so far this pick is looking very very good. Raty was very good for Finland which will irritate a few people. 🙂 Rat-y style knee on knee with Jirichek as well. Overall even game.

That's great, as long as they combine all that with a look at the player's character, his attitude, his compete level. Do they have stats that differentiate how they play in an easy game or regular game vs. say when they are losing and need extra effort? You know what I mean, the kind of thing actual scouts see. You need to combine that with the metrics for the true measure of the man to be.

Well they have to though don't they? They traded away the big names on the roster so there has to be a return. The team is all in on the draft, so it simply HAS to work. If the plan was draft AND adding some free agents they could afford a few draft misses, but with this plan, the draft simply has to be very good or it'll be another decade before we see the playoffs.

It just feels like a step backward. Or at best status quo. As I've stated elsewhere, Adams timeline and mine are not in sync. He has a year 3 perspective, mine is year 11.

Seattle didn't want him back, but we did. Sure. Why not. Another wasted season.

Sweden didn't impress me. You could argue that the goalie should have stopped Rosen on his goal but you could also argue that that was a true goal scorer's goal. Speed to the net, quick shot, made it look easy.

Kulich likes to drive to the net and isn't afraid of getting right in there. I saw some power forward potential in him today. Czechia was the better team by far but their goalie was pretty horrible Jirichek was really good. Has a nasty edge too. By far the best player on the ice for both teams.

Kind of predictable they'd name a woman as chair for the optics. Hopefully she does a good job. The NDA thing is the big issue now. It's certainly been the case in the past to hush everything up so that the player(s) in question for any incident don't get publicly outed but maybe that will change now and people will be held accountable. Maybe.

Definitely, and that failure by the organization is a real thing imo. It kind of takes the fanbase for granted. Hence the reason I won't jump on the bandwagon again without actual results. It's been way way way too long.

I hear ya, but I still think it was a little inconsistent with what they'd set up earlier in terms of her personality and character. Jimmy certainly brought out that side of her earlier on, and there was some reluctance at first, but then later she was almost like a Lady Macbeth driving him on and exuberantly getting into things, enjoying it. It's not a huge thing for me in terms of the show as a whole, but I'd have preferred a different ending for her. Something more anti-hero.

and she cried her eyes out on the bus so there you go, fitting title. I am mixed on the Kim feeling guilt/remorse angle. She started with a conscience but over time she really started to love it and was a female Jimmy so idk, I guess the idea is she lost her way under his influence. Kind of a trite female victim storyline that is overly common these days. I think it could have been more complex and interesting.

I've thought for a while that Adams is trying to be like Carolina in many ways. Carolina added some veteran players though and gambled on some others. It's not just youngsters growing together. The second sentence is definitely how he is thinking. That's the problem I have with it all though. Maybe KA sees this as year 3 and is willing to take his time. I see this as year 11 and want to win now.

Bergeron AND Krejci. Looks like the Bruins will have one more run in them after all. Taylor Hall probably really happy. So unless things go terribly wrong there forget about knocking them from the playoffs this year.

Not what I said at all. I have been consistent in saying we need to build with the draft, BUT also plug holes with key veterans so that we can win now while other youngsters have time to develop. We simply didn't do enough in free agency imo.

Why would it? You stay at the bottom long enough eventually you have to get it right don't you? I mean we will have 2 first overall picks anchoring our D. Not many teams get that sort of luxury do they? If Pegula knew anything he'd know he doesn't know and he'd have let somebody like Rick Dudley run the thing years ago.

I don't really think so. We are sailing in the same direction, I'm just moving along slowly, watching everything carefully, and you are racing ahead blindly. Watch out for the rocks. I'm simply not a blind faith guy who believes in hope and maybes any more. After all the failure, I'm a cautious show me kind of guy, but it's still in the same direction.

Marginally better than Tokarski. That's what I expect. Goaltending will be an issue and a frequent point of complaint for people this season.

So are we hoping for a Sweden Chechia final?

That would be a question wouldn't it? There's been debates here for years arguing about whether or not players would come here or want to come here. Some of this 10 team no trade stuff has I imagine shifted that argument to the "nobody wants to come here" side. Nobody worth anything anyway. So if that's true, and it might be, we definitely have to start winning and the sooner the better. I said this in the Kane thread but I really do believe getting Kane to come here to finish his career would go a long way to solving that problem. Sign him, start winning more and have him publicly talking about how he loves it here and welcome to the new era of greatness. I think it would be just that simple.

I will, but maybe not so quick to the "all in". Remember when we started 10-0 and everybody was proclaiming we had arrived? I got fooled badly there. Maybe you did too. It's going to take seeing some damn good hockey to get me on the bandwagon again. I think if we start strong, I will be cautiously optimistic, and that's about it.

With all due respect, wtf does this mean?