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Eric the Mauve posted:I think it's more along the lines of they don't care about the team enough/don't have pretensions to expertise enough to meddle with it, they're content to just let the GM do what he wants. regarding Ottawa: I don't think just letting the GM do what he wants was what got Alfredsson back to do the puck drop at the home opener, for example.
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Yeah but I'm talking about the improvement in the actual hockey team particularly. Dorion turning out to actually maybe kinda know what he's doing the instant Melnyk is dead is one of the things that's made me rethink whether Jim Benning is actually as spectacularly incompetent as it seemed, or if a good many of the decisions were really made by Aquilini. I wouldn't want my team going anywhere near even interviewing Benning, mind, but incompetent control freak owners are just the loving worst.
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https://twitter.com/JFreshHockey/status/1587516204972908546 hoooooly fuckin poo poo
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Nov 1, 2022 19:49
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DJExile posted:https://twitter.com/JFreshHockey/status/1587516204972908546 This is reminding me of Ultimate Canucks fan. And then I just looked up some of that guy's videos and holy gently caress that was 14 years ago
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jfresh I think deleted his tweet but here ya go https://twitter.com/davwain1/status/1587268112256221185
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Nov 1, 2022 20:02
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He believed (The Duba-plan)
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All Leafs fans are mentally ill, of course, but that guy probably needs some sort of interventioneXXon posted:... why? They actually allowed the GM to improve the team for the first time in 15 years. Granted, seems like the only reason they did is because they figured the financial commitments would become someone else's problem, but no good comes from teams run by misers in the league.
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Not Important posted:Hey Buffalo, I'm Tage, your latest skater. I can't wait to Buffalo definitely going to have to load up Salary Man for Tage next season
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https://twitter.com/IneffectiveMath/status/1587524998457135110 Flyers leading in something!
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aejix posted:Buffalo definitely going to have to load up Salary Man for Tage next season please back up the money zamboni
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DJExile posted:https://twitter.com/IneffectiveMath/status/1587524998457135110 Why are the Caps leading the Metro in point projections? They'll be lucky to be a wild card...
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Nov 1, 2022 21:35
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He likes their goaltending a lot.
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Those projections are real bad. I highly doubt the top team in the WESTERN CONFERENCE will have 96points.
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The projections are just based on current rates. The west has absolutely sucked all the rear end that there is to suck.
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the blues are loving terrible and i hope they continue to be so they can finally replenish their prospect pool! but i know doug armstrong and ownership won't allow that so looking forward to trading more first rounders for a lovely defenseman!
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T-Bone posted:I have been on board since last year purely on eye test, he just has crazy hands and skating for a dude his size. I'm sure he's not gonna shoot 15% forever but man you always notice him if you're a sick sick hockey fan who watches Buffalo Sabres games I may have been on board sooner, but you also explained at the end why I am so late.
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Mike_V posted:the blues are loving terrible and i hope they continue to be so they can finally replenish their prospect pool! but i know doug armstrong and ownership won't allow that so looking forward to trading more first rounders for a lovely defenseman! what's their story this season? On paper they should have plenty of firepower Defense/goalie that bad?
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Their defense is really bad, they've been slowly aging/bleeding talent for years, Berube's system is stale, Tarasenko is aging/broken (still pours in the points but can't/doesn't play defense at all now), Perron was a way better and more important player than anyone has ever given him credit for. A fringe playoff team is what they are now. e: Tarasenko is 31, ROR is 31, Faulk is 30, Pareyko is 29, Leddy and Krug are 31, Bortuzzo is 33, etc. etc. If 30 year old Justin Faulk is your #1 defenseman, well, that means 30 year old Justin Faulk is your #1 defenseman. Eric the Mauve fucked around with this message at 22:53 on Nov 1, 2022 |
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The main problem is their core are locked up long term and there's maybe one or two prospects who might crack the 2nd line if they pan out. They need to go all in on a rebuild, but it's going to be impossible so the next 4-5 years are gonna be pretty dark until ownership is willing to swallow the tough rebuild pill. I hate to say this, but moving Thomas and Kyrou for a haul of picks is probably the best way forward, since nobody is taking on those 30+ contracts without the Blues paying them to do so (maybe someone desperate enough at the deadline would bite on Tarasenko or Faulk/Krug, but I doubt it).
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Twin Cinema posted:They are also dead last in goals scored currently. They were top-5 in goals for last season, and had 9 20-goal scorers, how the hell did their offence dry up this fast? Same team/coaches minus Perron
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The Dirty Burger posted:They were top-5 in goals for last season, and had 9 20-goal scorers, how the hell did their offence dry up this fast? Same team/coaches minus Perron Did they play the leafs yet maybe it’s contagious
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Palat out a while https://twitter.com/Harjas_Grewal/status/1587527499147546624 Should be more doomer about it and I'm sure I'll get there if the Devils look like poo poo on the Pacific trip like they always do but Zetterlund has been incredibly good so far e: I guess they have the space for the Meier trade now 
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Aphrodite posted:The projections are just based on current rates. The west has absolutely sucked all the rear end that there is to suck. Nah, he started the season like that. https://twitter.com/IneffectiveMath/status/1578787717600579584
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Boldly predicting a 20 point differential between the worst and best team in the league, where 4 of those 20 points are from Arizona sucking. I guess it's honest to tacitly admit that your model is unable to make up its mind about anything.
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:Nah, he started the season like that. After the start they had I'd have imagined the models would hate Minnesota more. But they turned it around in the games since. 96pts isn't so bad, but I will laugh if that's all it takes to win the western conference. E: I just realized that this has the Capitals winning the division too, so maybe I won't believe it too much yet.
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Advanced shmats - Devils ain't boring son.
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I thought the Bowness Jets were supposed to be boring now. Turns out they're just as bad as they were before, but now all the players are saying the locker room is in a much better spot. Edit: Also, Scheifele still doesn't give a poo poo about playing D. https://twitter.com/PeteBlackburn/status/1586912689380638721?t=9ZX4jMkAMeJRd1da7FWRbQ&s=19
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Mike_V posted:
So few things Yeah blues are having a bad start Yeah they played a bit above what they’re punching weight is for sure last year. I had them as either a wild card or missing the playoffs barely last year That said, they’re still at the least still at wildcard level. They’re defense is a tire fire and Greiss is not a great backup are they’re main two weaknesses. Also, I know you’re more saying “should” versus “what will happen,” but there’s no way they move on from Thomas and Kyrou. They just signed the contracts. Kyrou is still a bit in the air, but Thomas is worth the contract IMO. Blues aren’t gonna tank. And the big miss is they already signed all the bad contracts. So they’re kind of stuck with going for it. IMO they’re gonna keep either making or barely missing the playoffs , and when they make it their ceiling is 2nd round tops. Sucks, but could be worse I guess.
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St. Louis is tied for 30th in shooting % with the Leafs at 6.01% while they were best in the NHL last year posting 10.42% shooting. Their goaltending finished last year with .920 5v5 sv% and this year it has been .900 so far. Relative to last year they are (so far) creating the same xGF per 60 with only a tiny uptick in xGA but pretty much 2.7 xGA per 60.
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I don’t watch much of the blues but Kyrou looked solid against the Habs even not considering the goals.
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Who the heck suggested they should deal Thomas and rebuild? Thomas is what 22? And one of the best playmakers on the planet on a team-friendly long-term contract? Some of you really should not be NHL GM's
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Duckman2008 posted:IMO they’re gonna keep either making or barely missing the playoffs , and when they make it their ceiling is 2nd round tops. Sucks, but could be worse I guess. I'm not counting out the Blues in the Central either. They're not winning the division this year, but they seem to be playing worse than expected which means it's probably going to level out and they're going to be a pain in the rear end for divisional games. I could see them finishing in 3rd perhaps, the central is feeling a bit soft at the moment and I don't really expect it to last.
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Jhet posted:I'm not counting out the Blues in the Central either. They're not winning the division this year, but they seem to be playing worse than expected which means it's probably going to level out and they're going to be a pain in the rear end for divisional games. I could see them finishing in 3rd perhaps, the central is feeling a bit soft at the moment and I don't really expect it to last. 100% agreed.
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eXXon posted:Boldly predicting a 20 point differential between the worst and best team in the league, where 4 of those 20 points are from Arizona sucking. I guess it's honest to tacitly admit that your model is unable to make up its mind about anything. It's definitely the most cowardly model
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The Blues are going to perpetually around the 7th or 8th seed for the future as a ceiling. Their defense is incredibly bad and poorly constructed and they need a high powered offense to overcome that. Right now, guys are regressing to the mean over a two year period which is going to result in a lot of ugly losses. They'll go on a tear later and be fighting for a playoff spot until the end of the season (this would be more pronounced if they played in the East where they'd be facing a much steeper hill to climb), but that's only going to get harder as the years go on with no reliable replacements coming. If the contracts could be moved or didn't exist, this wouldn't be as concerning since they could sign some aging-out-of-prime player to keep the ship afloat. But they do exist and they're not going to be easy to move (requiring further depletion of draft picks), so right now it's like watching a ship sinking slowly with nothing being done to try and fix it. It's a bummer and I try to enjoy the games where they look like they're playing well, but I'm realistic about what's going down with them over the next five years
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