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We had 74 points last year after 71 games, this year we have 71. We also won 8 of our last 11 last year, so

Right around the last game or 2

McDavid dominated our whole team there

What an indescribable moron Perry is

That was pretty. and that’s probably our season

Bryam played 45 seconds of that shift on his butt

Larkin being back is big

We seem to relish playing this team

Red wings are going to win so this is, in actuality, a must win thankfully we have the oilers number

Your first paragraph is just erroneous I admittedly don’t really know what you are talking about. My point was my point: you don’t have to, objectively, be frustrated with the situation. Just because I am doesn’t mean I am automatically foisting that opinion on others, that’s my point I resent the bit about considering myself above others I don’t even understand the statement especially not in context. I just disagreed with your assertion that there’s *no other option but to be negative*. And I’m saying this AS someone who is negative about the team because the results, IMO, demand it.

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Well to be fair you mentioned the objectivity thing first.. I don’t think it’s fair to say you objectively have to be negative like you mentioned, but I do agree with you in your insistence it’s not a desire to be negative: in that it’s also very fair to say that, whether measuring by our failure of 13 years or the last 4, there’s clearly enough factual data to back up the disappointment, to the extent that a suggestion the negativity is necessarily there “just because” or by choice is sort of absurd

My cat’s name is Sonny so “SON mah bookie” just sounds so good ala “HAN mah bookie”

Melba toast clears

Isn’t it “my bookie” with a K? Anyways it’s what I’ve been calling my cat my boy

Dahlin is a point away from a new career second-best point total: though he won’t be threatening his 73 from last year But he is on pace for 20 goals as a D-man which is pretty cool, and 61 points

Suspension would help the Sabres

Of course the odds are already long but we probably cannot afford to lose tonight: one of NY Islanders or Detroit WILL win as they are playing each other, so combined with Caps having 3 in hand, it’s just not gonna happen. On the other hand, a win does keep things alive: best case scenario Detroit loses, and we are in essence 5 back, 4 back, and 4 back Caps 2 points up w/3 games in hand (~5 points) Detroit 3 points up w/1 game in hand (~4 points) Islanders 2 points up w/2 games in hand (~4 points)

A deliberate misreading of your last line

I may be a lot of things but I’m not a duplicitous dipsh*t

To your point below, this is something I’ve mentioned a lot, many had been acting like we could just wait around for our prospects to develop after our top line arrived last year: it was just never likely to be the case. People were pencilling forward career years without any sort of age drop off years into the future. You have to maximize those things WHILE you have them

It was always risky to bet on “Tage Thompson” to be a true 1C. Jury is out. (Same with Tuch. Skinner was always a ticking time bomb.) Best thing is a 2C is fine by contract. It doesn’t fix the issue, but it allows for it to be fixed with proactiveness Say what you want about Adams, but one thing is we know he’s very proactive and aggressive Right

Funny thing about Granato is ardent defences can be made in his favour to explain away the multitude of issues with the team from being his responsibility (which gets dicey because of the sheer quantity) but what can’t imo be convincingly done is a cohesive argument for how he’s done a GOOD job. The entire argument and defence rests on attempting to explain away the bad. Once we get past “good for development”, he really doesn’t have anything in his favour that we can say he’s adding to the team right now

Huge thing to look for