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  8. GDT: Buffalo @ Pittsburgh, 10-3-2019, 7pm EDT

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    15 minutes ago, Randall Flagg said:

    The little universe you're building for yourself is interesting to watch unfold. 

    There aren't any Ralph detractors, and nobody is going to be miserable if we're good lmaoooo
     

    It's always fun to me when it's suggested people are going to be unhappy if the team is good. Are you kidding me? Were you living under a rock during the win streak last year? Even the most pessimistic amongst us want a bandwagon to jump on! 

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  17. Krueger on WGR 10/1/19

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    Scenario: Okposo spends most of this year on the 4th line and puts up 20 points the next two seasons. Everybody is fired. New coach comes in and puts him back in the top-6 because he thinks it was the last coach who made him a poor offensive player. Completely ignoring the consistent decline through 3 coaches (Bylsma to Housley to Krueger) and the tape showing a significant skill decline on top of production. Are you really okay with a coach thinking that way? I have a huge problem with it. 

    There is absolutely some wiggle room for coaches to say "I'm going to put this player in a position to succeed." But to use that reasoning to wave a hand to all decisions, to say nothing of the obviously egregious mistakes, is just way more leeway than is justifiable. 

    4 minutes ago, dudacek said:

    Sobotka. Again. ?

    Why does it always have to come back to Sobotka?

    ?

    Because there simply isn't a strong counterargument ?

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  18. Krueger on WGR 10/1/19

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    Just now, dudacek said:

     

    You and I can see what a player does, and pass judgement on that, but we don’t always know why. Krueger is just taking the next logical step and adding it to the equation, for a more informed opinion.

    It’s just like adding analytics to the eye test.

    And coaches frequently make players better, so I don’t know why they wouldn’t think that way.

    Coaches do not frequently make trianwrecks better. At the margins, again, I get it. Sobotka isn't a marginal case, and his poor play dates back to an entirely different organization and coach. 

  19. Krueger on WGR 10/1/19

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    5 hours ago, SDS said:

    Something of note that he said is that he doesn't think he is fair to judge a player when you don't know what he was asked to do. 

    I've been a big fan of this line of thinking for a long time.

    I understand the reasoning, but only to a degree. Taken to its logical conclusion, what you're really saying is we simply cannot know whether a player is bad. I just don't think that holds water. If it does, what are we all even doing here? 

    Moreover, "I can make this player better" is pretty much what all coaches think. It's as much ego as it is any kind of sound reasoning. 

    Edit: It may hold some water, but only at the margins. If a player looks average, maybe he can be a little better than that with a different coach. But at the extremes? It's an awfully tough sell to say a player who is horrible is actually okay and it was all the coach's fault. 

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  22. Lines October 1st

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    9 minutes ago, nfreeman said:

    You've agreed that after a certain number of additional crappy seasons, you will admit that it was a mistake, right?  Is this the last one?

    The season immediately after the tank was the best since the tank. That we have gotten worse since that season seems to suggest the rebuild was more of a problem than the tank itself.

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  24. Jeremy and Molly White's Announcement

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    6 minutes ago, WildCard said:

    That's a pretty rough listen. Essentially they knew all 4 were coming too early, and were very unlikely to make it. So each time she was going into labor to deliver another one, they had a pretty good idea that it was going to pass very shortly; they had hope each time but knew what the odds were. So they would deliver each one, hold them and name them, spend some time, and then it would pass. And then they would go to sleep, wait a few days and pray another labor didn't happen, and repeat that 3 more times; by the 3rd one all hope kind of left him he says

    I can't believe he was on the air. No judgment at all, I just imagine I'd be a quivering depressed mess unable to get out of bed. 

    6 minutes ago, IKnowPhysics said:

    Torture.

    In the very literal sense. I don't know if it's better or worse for it to happen that way, or whether it ultimately matters at all, but that's an excruciating sequence. 

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