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Thorny

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  1. That’s a great secondary assist for career point 1
  2. Last I checked the expectations weren’t “at least manage the position as equally badly as a team that did it badly”
  3. Stop carrying water for Adams failure to address the position in 4 years its ridiculous he could literally never fix it and you wouldn’t care. As long as there’s no big contract. It just can’t be done
  4. Doubt they are shown the door tbh. Do not think Adams *should* be shown the door, either. But making the playoffs is so clearly and obviously and by any reasonable rights the necessary “expectation” for a GM going into his 4th year on the clock, in that it cannot be “job well done” without it. But I don’t believe a failure to meet reasonable expectations justly and rightfully means firing, either. But I don’t see a convincing argument for why a team should bring back a GM if they go 5 years without making the playoffs, so that’s where my line falls. Maybe that’s an arbitrary number, but you have to draw the line somewhere and half a decade seems fair in that I can’t be convinced any sort of strategy was necessary that would take LONGER THAN THAT in a league half the teams make the playoffs. Why the heck should a slowest of slow builds take 6 years to field a playoff team? That’s absurd it’s an entertainment *product*. Make the gaddamn playoffs lol He has an additional 2 years to do it now after 3 years of free pass If that’s unfair, well, shoot me
  5. With that a shameless plug from my twitter If you haven’t seen this film: watch it
  6. Nikita Zadorov I think he makes The Third Man
  7. Rasmus Ristolainen You know who was really close too: Alex Nylander
  8. Maybe it takes the bigger guys longer to get up to speed, like Bowser in Mariocart…most of our core guys are more less giants.. regardless, and either way, it’s only one game
  9. No, there’s no middle ground The expectation in year 4 of a GM term is playoffs Going young, I cannot stress this enough: by choice, doesn’t change that. By that logic you could ice a team of rookies every year indefinitely and supposedly never have any expectations.
  10. Reinhart played his 9 games at 18, at least started them at 18, his birthday is in November
  11. Levi has had a few quite nice saves and no stinkers getting beat by Panarin is expected degree of difficulty upgrade and he’ll have to find a different rhythm for those shots
  12. It’s the same reason the “we’re icing 2 rooks” thing doesn’t carry much weight- we are icing them, of course, by choice
  13. “delayed penalty actually a goalie pull” our commentary team will presumably ramp up shortly as well
  14. Dan jinxes Tage in real time you cannot teach this stuff
  15. Kinda wished we started on the road, the splits from last year seemed to favourite it. it’s one hockey game, not taking too much from it personally
  16. It’ll take time to adjust to the new PP coach
  17. Shawn Michaels level sell by Peterka. That’s a real skill. Impressive Sh*t
  18. I think Randall mentioned (re: the very early returns) that the start looked similar to last season. Similar roster yielding similar start isn’t exactly surprising That’s a nice save by DL
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