Thorny

We are past the point where moving prospects stings.

I stand corrected, he won this one

McLeod made them better than they would have been with Savoie

It’s because trades aren’t a zero sum game. Trades are also a means to an end, not a valuable metric in and of themselves. if winning trades is a thing, yes the blues won the trade because the trade facilitated their goal. Two teams can win a trade, 2 teams can lose. A good example of a trade both teams lost is Byram Mittelstadt To your point, the sabres have already lost the ROR deal: that’s another thing people don’t tabulate properly - time isn’t a negligible competent in trades lol. Our goal when trading ROR wasn’t to get a guy who was better in 5 years. The trade torpedoed an entire regime and set the team back years If you can analyze that swap as a “win”, it’s a pyrrhic victory at best but in reality with an awareness for context, it can only be construed as a colossal error

I also haven’t read a strong argument that he’s won any trades, ftr

Dealing who?

Great likeness, both mouthguard and head size

I mean, ya

This feels more like an oilers win but I could be wrong

Forsling made a pretty big save

Why would tonight be any different? You are so right:

But not 3-2?!

It’s ok we have the next Hasek maybe better

Ya I’ll go ahead and say I called this too the nhl is so damn predictable in 2025 lol

Most obvious comeback ever I’m sorry lol Then review it. It shouldn’t have more value than every other call. But the nhl is a broken league so I’m not sure there’s a starting point

But if the puck goes over the glass..

My thoughts at this point are honestly to get McDonkey his cup and be done with this never ending nightmare season already lol. The days start getting shorter in 9 days for jeepers sakes

It’s the nhl in 2025

This is rather anecdotal but leads don’t really mean very much in today’s game relative to days gone by. I remember a decade or so ago a 3 goal lead was lights out in the playoffs 99/100 times, nowadays it’s just a field goal way more often than one would think

Likely a looming dynasty already if not for Vegas in the final. Maybe 3 straight

I wasn’t disagreeing But really the more terrifying and accurate explanation is that “winning trades” isn’t very predictive

And, really, does any other calculation matter at this time? Had there been a trade Adams *hasn’t* won? Given circumstances? I’m not sure we can complain very much that there doesn’t appear to be a correlation between “winning trades” and “winning”. Nay, it’s probably better just to change our goal