Thorner

More than buffalo prob

That what looked like a for sure high stick but the ice level view it actually looked about even with the bar if not slightly lower. Crazy

Eichel forecheck, assist, HUGE goal. Undefeated when scoring 3 What a terrible time to take a penalty lol

The Duclair line is at times causing problems for the Eichel line, to my eye Vegas bottom 6 is DOMINANT, man

Friedman in the intermission says the Jets will NOT be rebuilding haha

Theodore with an absolute clinic

How did that not go? How? That’s the best save ever

Good play by Lundell Eric Staal scores first. Wow, didn’t think he’d be the guy Bob dialed in early

Eichel buzzing

A former Sabre in the starting line up for the knights in the Stanley cup final. Never thought I’d see it. congrats, will carrier

I wasn’t even hyped for this series and now im doing lines That’s a joke *

Eichel tells Friedman his dad ripped him a new one after Winnipeg game 1 LOL love it

Wayne Gretzky famously said: The NHL season is really 3 seasons: the regular season, the first three rounds, and the Stanley cup final

Tempted to say 6 and play it easy but I’ll go with my gut: Knights in 5

The strike zone in my Jays game today 😭😭😭

There absolutely was a path to success afterwords. The degree of difficulty was just made extreme through the scorched earth process, and viewing the decision to tank at all, as symptom, illustrates the idea that the minds that came up with that horrible strategy were unlikely to be very adept at using those same minds to rebuild it afterwords

Well you’re a better fan than me

Mike Babdick

I feel literally zero guilt where the team is concerned for routing for losses during the tank. They sold the strategy, they sold the product, they are the professionals getting paid to make the decisions. They literally said the plan was suffering, that the plan was losing. Fans who bought in then are acting with no different ultimate intent than those buying in now: we wanted the team to be right. But, truth laid bare....I regret rooting for losses. I regret the affect it had on my mindset. I feel it was harmful and disrespectful to my own psyche as a fan of the team I love. It wasn’t a betrayal of the team, it was a self betrayal and I take personal ownership for buying into a course of action that was a mistake. I feel bad for the fans. In many ways, it led to a path that still presents strains to my fandom, still tests its durability. Never again can that happen

I’m just not sure a Saros is available. If we don’t go out and get Hellebuyck, we probably sign a FA to a 2 year deal or swap a lower pick out the door. In my calculation I’d prefer the 1st for one year of Helle and simply signing a G the following year or paying that outlier pick at that point. Getting Helle doesn’t leave us up sh*tt’s creek (good show) for next season: we can simply go bargain bin hunting for a back up at THAT point rather than now It’s probably not Helle or Saros, it’s probably Helle or another kick at a Comrie-ish can As soon as we start listing real names we’ll see that the risk in those guys even being good is greater than the risk of giving up a pick. Having mediocre goaltending next season is a risk much more alive and well than whatever the risks of losing one more pick in a very deep pool are

If you’ve seen the movie K-Pax, you’d know the universe and everything in it is going to constantly re-run itself for eternity: so the discussion will stop...for a time.

Fair enough. Good discussion.

I’m actually asking why 1 full season term is bad but 2 seasons is goldilocks. Why? Why does 2 years fit just right when 1 is *completely unacceptable*. Because that’s what you are saying, 1 is a non-starter, but 2 (when, btw, you enter into the “rental” scenario when you get to the final year of that deal) is completely acceptable. What is the actual explanation for why the second year makes the time frame acceptable when a one year time frame is insufficient?

That’s all arbitrary. Those aren’t actually official definitions, though. So any one year contract signed is a “rental” contract? as far as I’m concerned “rental” has always referred to players acquired at the deadline