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Nope. Not even a little bit.

Matthews is still going to win the Calder regardless of how much better Laine is because Toronto. Just to see the world burn, if I had a vote it'd be for Matt Murray. Which is actually kind of defensible...

To be fair, there was no shootout in 2002 when Disco had his last thought on the game of hockey etched into a stone tablet. Why bother working on it? Not important. Now, let's turn those defense men around....

Yes.

Shootouts make me sadder than referees do.

OMFG Samson.

The standard of refereeing in the NHL makes me sad.

I hereby declare, based on no authority whatsoever, that we refer to "Disco" Dan as Rube Goldberg.

I've been up for about 28 hours, and am currently four beers into trying to remedy that, but hear me out: next season is year three of the rebuild. The McEichel tank squad represented year two (Electric Boogaloo) of the to-the-studs tear down. Year 0 A.E. (after Eichel) was a massive improvement. By any measure. Year 1 A.E. (this season) flatlined, because of reasons. Reasons I will not rehash here because none of us agree on them. Next Season: 2 A.E. I'd be willing to bet will be better. Playoffs better. Maybe winning a couple rounds in the playoffs better. How do we get there? Were it me I'd hire a coach who had an original thought more recently than 2004, play a faster game, maybe get at least one more competent defenseman, and go from there. The raw materials are there. The asshat trusted to hammer them into the finished product broke both of his thumbs, somehow. Thanks for reading; goodnight Sabrespace.

In before this thread gets killed with fire.... Waiting for it... :rolleyes:

My take on today's GMTM presser (putting what I believe to be his internal monologue in quotes): "I legit did not want to do the paperwork required for the return I'd get on the UFA d-men. Kane is getting traded so hard this offseason, just you wait. Who gave some of you press passes, no I'm not going to stand here and call guys worthless while you record it." In other words: meh. I have no doubt that this will be an interesting and quite possibly angst-filled summer.

Watched the game this morning. Was kind of impressed with he performance through 2 periods. Should have known better.

Looks like Ullmark in net tonight. Paging MODO...

Argh. I got Albany and Utica backwards.

It's a Utica thing.

Please please please please please let this be Disco Demolition Night.

Kane might actually win that fight.

This team.

I seem to remember having this conversation regarding a game against this very team a couple years ago... let's not do it again.

That goal was everything wrong with Disco's system in a nutshell. puck sitting in the slot for a minute and a half and not one guy in a white sweater having any idea what to do about it. They all needed to be in their predetermined spots. ugh.

If it's an experiment I'd have to believe that Grant was the control placebo.

Needs more Jekyl.

Oh, Kyle.

Missed it. Stoopid work...

I thought about it for about three minutes at one point last night before copping out and going with ERod.