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Lol my point is that it’s not something you look to to make the difference on the micro scale that is the turn over from one year to the next. Teams aren’t going to age out over the course of a couple months and we need to make the playoffs NEXT YEAR. Simply getting a bit older won’t bridge the gap from 25th to good. The only teams in the East among the top 10 oldest anyways are teams at the top of the league like Carolina and Florida

You don’t really “age out”. Edmonton is the 2nd oldest team in the league. Are they are the verge of “aging out”? They are getting better and more well rounded “Youngest team in the league” is, in fact, a sales job

If Savoie is the best option we have we are in huge trouble. We aren’t going to get THAT much from a rookie

I think they’d need to prioritize some budget for that area if the roster dictates it’s a need

Who’s been playing at a 67 game pace, UPL?

What do you do in goal? Levi backup?

Levi has played at the level of AHLer, literally

We have top end / potential top end guys on the D unit. That can be the strength of a playoff team if combined with a deep F group, even sans elite F IMO

The disappointment comes from finishing 31st, 24th, 20th, and currently 25th during Adams tenure. Expectations could not be lower. They are unjustly low, to the fans. There is absolutely no rule you need to roster the youngest teams in hockey in year 4 of your plan. That’s a crazy plan. How do we know? Because it hasn’t delivered league relative results in a reasonable league-relative time frame

What they do with the goaltending may yet again be fairly prevalent in deciding the outcome. We did much better with UPL carrying the mail but down the stretch we had to pull up an AHLer to play, because we have no confidence in our backup, and UPL is showing signs of perhaps getting worn down from usage. Does Levi to play 30-35 next season seem a good bet at this stage of the regime’s drought? Awfully risky its possible he pulls it off. Or we could be adamant about making the playoffs and look to add a competent back up. Or we could address the roster in other areas in such a notable way so as to make up the difference. My answer is that playoffs remain imminently achievable. Whether or not we seize that opportunity, I have no idea. The precedent is definitive but the goal is so attainable there’s always a puncher’s chance at least

As for the question in the OP: I think it’s possible it’s a sign of that, yes. We’ll have to see.

Terry Pegula experienced the thrill of playoff hockey 13 years ago and said “No thanks. I’ll have a Minotaur.”

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I’m still willing to give him a chance for next year, but I’d admittedly be pretty hopeless if we were to enter into the season with Krebs as the 3C. We’d already know right away they are doing the “hope for best case scenario” thing again.

That’s why I hope we don’t win the lottery. Because if that possibility arrises, they’d take it, and they’d indeed then wait that long Absolutely not

Almost

In the system? If we are counting down the line also, I do think Quinn and Benson will be top line quality wingers

No I meant like be tricked as fans into thinking running it back makes sense

It wasn’t so much perspective on this season as perspective on last, imo. We weren’t that good, and the 8 in 11 stretch to end clouded judgment, fans and GM. This year we are even worse than not good and it’s double as bad because it’s year 4, but we absolutely absolutely can’t fall for a run it back trick this time

Brian Duff: resistance is futile

On the plus side, we won’t miss the playoffs with a positive goal differential

13th in the East 🫡