Thorny

Structuring your team around “development spacing” is like structuring your Star Wars movie around the taxation of trade routes

Developmental spacing lol

No, my point is well made if you were keeping up with the discussion my exact point is that either way CAN work and either way CAN fail. It’s down to the skill of the person implementing the strategy

We finished with 76 points after Jack missed the first quarter of the season - you know, the same point total KA has averaged for 4 years You are splitting hairs, dude they’ve all been bad

The sticking point re: the imagination of the fans not coming to fruition is that the part that remains imaginary is making the playoffs No one would actually care about the format used to build the team if it *ever actually worked* Fans don’t need to get used to seeing anything if it’s not success

No, with a rookie Eichel we finished with 81 points coming off a 50 point finish, as opposed to the near identical 84 from Adams this year, but coming off a 91 point finish

Stop the count! absolutely

The Buffalo Sabres will be fine

Advanced stats unfortunately have him as a downgrade on Girgs, but we shall see

Basically there will be unrest until the trade acquisition summaries don’t end with the bolded sentence Basically there will be unrest until the trade acquisition summaries don’t end with the bolded sentence been a theme starting with Byram Remember, we HAD Mittelstadt. That trade looks more dicey over time not less

He’s got this year. But he’s on the hot seat. - - - At this point we might just need to get lucky to make the playoffs. Keep our heads down and wait for the cookie to crumble our way. We seem unwilling or perhaps incapable of manually configuring a winning club

Jeannot traded

Again, it’s not a bad trade but making a lot of not bad trades isn’t working for Kevyn Adams to build a good team

Ok? I don’t care about the rumour mill lol i care about reality - there have been numerous trades. Utah just added Marino another one

Utah had made more trades now than Adams has in his career

Every deal we’ve seen is reasonable value. The point of the matter is that making reasonable value deals and selections has never been the issue with Adams: but, his focus on these types of moves being the priority, has

75% of the league doesn’t have one. I don’t think Beck is the best of the 75% unfortunately

Seems like a reasonable selection for need, RHD

Ya we could have signed the same guy for 750k so that theory doesn’t check out here

“Want to be here” upgrade?

8 trades including roster players in last week

Girgs replacement?

Called it