Drag0nDan

So are you boycotting... buying tickets to the games or watching the games? If you do this... are you also boycotting the board?

Admittedly i couldn't get in to my normal stats spot so... don't trust cbs sports or whatever i guess 🙂 In any case... he didn't finish particularly strong. Might be beneficial to not overwork him, especially with a young player behind him who has looked the part of NHL goalie.

At this point i'm fairly certain nobody of quality will want to come here as a GM. I don't love the job he's doing but it seems like he's a GM with a hand tied behind his back, and managing an organization with one of the worst reputations in the league. Eichel and Lehner did the team no favors on their exits, and we are probably on like every limited no trade list in the league. So unfortunately they seem bound by the slow rebuild and actually using all the extra picks and prospects they've acquired. At this point all that's done is create a logjam for limited spots. They weren't far off 2 years ago, and coaching can make a big difference in the NHL. I don't see how the team on paper is better than a year ago, but not on-paper you get... quinn to start the season with camp, benson quinn JJP power all a year further along in development where you start to see more significant production jumps, Tage/Cozens coming off pretty poor seasons with a new coach hopefully infusing some life into them again, some really solid defensemen, and young goalies who have begun to come into their own. 3C and another scoring winger would have really helped though, they have been needing someone for tough draws since Lazar, and they didn't really do much to replace Skinner's production. It wouldn't shock me if that 3C spot is open for business too if they can't find someone. Krebs hasn't made a jump, and Kulich/Savoie at the very least deserve a shot to replace him. It wouldn't shock me if the team made the playoffs, and it wouldn't shock me if they were terrible.

0 goalies started 60 games last season fwiw. UPL was one of 5 to start 50. I like reimer as a backup plan, but the plan should still be to get levi a good chunk of starts.

Helpful if players get hurt too.

I guess we have to hope the "young talent" eye is there. The eichel trade has been... fine. You can do a lot worse than Alex Tuch, but i wish krebs were better, Östlund who knows if he ever suits up here. I think the Levi trade though has to be the big one to getting this team over the hump into contender status.

In this same vein, i think future's and younger prospects could also be in play as add's. The NHL roster has holes for sure, but the list of guys "a year away" (or two, or three, or never etc.) is getting long. Savoie, Kulich, Rosen, Östlund, Wahlberg being the main 5 forwards - when do they potentially slot in? But also, where do they potentially slot in? You also have a few defensemen that are either ready for more prime time - Johnson, or there's potential there to help fill out the group in the future like Novikov, Komarov, and Strbak. I don't want to fully gut that group - but if you picture rosen as a winger in the middle 6, and the plan is to have those spots occupied by some combo of Benson, Savoie, Kulich, and vets - you should move him now before he sits in the AHL too long and loses his value.

Honestly i really like Quinn as well. He gave me the vibes of a PPG player and he's only 22.

Levi seems to have a solid IT factor, that i think will make him a really good playoff goalie.

I liked him, at times it felt like he was the only one carrying pucks out of the zone and doing... normal hockey stuff. My only gripe was that it felt like he wasn't the strongest skater - and doesn't score many goals.

Is Elias Lindholm an option?

There is also the potential that Lindy kept Ellis, not that he was bound to him.

I think people probably look into this too much. He has a lot of coaching experience, working with younger players at the NCAA and USNTDP level. I think a coaching assistant is a role he's had before coaching with the amerks, but he also brings a fresher perspective to Lindy. I also think Lindy is the type of coach who demands you check any ego at the door.

They were already a really young team (Hughesx2, Nemec, Mercer). Then you factor in Dougie Hamilton playing in only 20 games, that creates a rather huge hole in the lineup. I don't really want to think about Buffalo's record if Dahlin missed 62 games.

Messy and slow as molasses. Winger gets the puck on the wall and is waiting to pass every time. Everything is later than it should be, pace is slower than it should be, and often times the pass is still terrible.

Now if he can just figure out how to stay out of the box 😄

prioritized fixing our broken PK and in turn broke the PP.

Assuming no roster moves - how i think they could look. Dahlin Tage - Greenway- Byram Tuch Power JJP - Benson- Quinn Cozens

Agreed. If you're in the playoffs? Sure - get your best PK guys out there and leave it on the ice. But he took a puck off his wrist in like what the 10th game? Missed a bunch of time and probably came back too early, shot suffered all season.

See thats my issue. The "dudes" out there are terrible when they play here for whatever reason. 3 dudes played 60 or more games this past year - UPL was tied for 11th at 54 starts. I'm fine bringing someone in I guess, but I don't think its fair to levi to basically say "you're going to the AHL out of camp because 56 (plus another 34 in college) starts over two seasons isn't enough and we want you to see more pucks". As a team that is at best "on the bubble", can we really afford to continue to trot out goalies who are worse than the one in the AHL because "development"? Or should we be looking at something closer to an even split ideally? Comrie was 11-16-1 here Hutton was 31-49-10 Dell was 1-8-1 Tokarski was 12-20-7

The crowd during the micah hyde interception was the loudest i've ever heard in that stadium.

Eh - that kind of crap tends to lead to problems with the younger kids and just a clique type atmosphere within your team.

It reflected in the first period of literally every game they played. The youngest team in the league should be among the fastest, and i didn't find our team to be faster than many teams. When you're chasing points at the end of the season, you need to shorten the bench and play top guys for more minutes. When you get caught on a long shift, you need to not have anchors in your skates.

The man was put on earth to do 2 things score goals, and eat hot dogs... looks like were almost out of hot dogs... He's not wrong... I'm not sure how one counts extra passes, but we pass up a LOT of pretty good shots to pass. Sometimes they're even passing from somewhere like the high slot, to the dot for a worse shot.

I just don't see a captain with Tuch unfortunately - and i also don't think he wants it. It almost has to be dahlin.