Thorner

I’ve said it Hell I tweeted it

Smythe belong to McDavid sorry Nill

Paul Maurice teams dive, told ya

He’s going to win the conn Smythe, win or lose

It’s a better series this way. Pretty up in the air outcome now I think, edge to Florida still tho of course I feel sorry for Eric Foreman. Nothing he ever did was enough. Clearly

You get that his post wasn’t so much reflective of enjoyment as the fact he’s saying he got full value only because he paid nothing, right? I think that went over your head based on your response

I’m not biased Sabres guy lol I never bitch about Marchand. He’s what he is I don’t care. Just pointing out how I think his general perception has changed disregard at will he takes, and gives cheap shots - my point is about the perception changing not so much his play which wasn’t even what my original point about Dahlin was about now I think about this. I don’t care about your bruins stuff lol I can get behind that

Only 2 humans have ever scored more in a playoffs than McDavid this year: Gretzky and Lemieux

Buyout capfriendly and delete Skinner’s data

Crosby is a Selke level defensive player and McDavid stinks on D i am the guy defending McDavid in the thread, too. He doesn’t / didn’t fold and he may be the most talented player to ever play the game he’s got a ways to go to catch Sid in terms of greatness though, and Sid’s dominance 200 foot is a big part of what led to his accomplishments Nah, Crosby is assuredly “that guy” if he doesn’t make a difference no one does

All leagues have fans that do that. Greatness breads envy etc etc LeBron is loved, and hated Crosby.

It’s interesting cause we absolutely have a differing analysis of how he’s perceived. To me, and I’ve heard others mention this, since perhaps the time of his excellent world championships performance for Canada ~ a decade ago he’s seen much more in the all-around sense and pigeonholed less so as a dirty agitator with ability. I don’t seem him getting targeted by the refs at all(his penalty count certainly doesn’t reflect that) and he still takes his cheap shots Here’s an uncalled slew-foot dangerously close to the boards from 2 years ago

He absolutely gets away with FAR FAR more than he used to, the narrative absolutely changed on Marchand over the years a) aptitude B) his vet leadership / perceived vet leadership

I know there’s a huge disconnect with Dahlin B/c hardly anyone wants him to be captain. Have you seen how many penalties the dude takes? A letter on his chest..anything thst aids his relationship with the officials is what we want Dahlin needs the C. I’m sorry for tooting my own horn here but I made this point before and it didn’t gain any traction and forgive me but I think it’s the most salient factor re: picking a captain so I’m making it again he needs to be able to get away with more dirty stuff: because he will seize the opportunity if available I guarantee you that “the officials hate the sabres” - you need to actively curry said favour.

I’m ok if you remove your “thanks” On that @dudacek as I added a somewhat egregious shot at Krebs just as you reacted. I know you value his defensive output My points stands tho

Why Krebs and not Dahlin? Because Krebs is a small little agitator who we expect nothing of? Dahlin’s actual “grit” output far exceeds most players on the team. It’s like, if you have skill, and display it, that actively counts against the physicality you show. Krebs provides no aptitude of note, offensively, defensively or otherwise, other than a piece of paper that states who he was traded for, but he smiles in scrums after the whistle so he’s cool Dahlin has been a dickish, borderline dirty at times MFER on that ice for several years now. Even I’ve noticed that and I watch half as much

Sounds just like that. It sounds like they tried to narrow down the issues to as specific a target as hypothetically possible, the sort of “fix this one solitary issue and the tide of that change will raise all boats” line of thought we see proposed a lot around here. It seems like pretty much everything dudacek mentioned can be covered by turning over the one stone of finding a tough, depth centre. Essentially swapping the Mittelstadt fit, and running it back.

Thank you lol

I think that’s certainly valid, my opinion on it has changed significantly since I was a kid, it’s just difficult to parse how much of that is me changing and how much is, to your point, the league. That it made way more sense before seems plausible to me

It should be banned cause it’s asinine. It’s the only (non combat) sport where it’s essentially legal/tolerated/encouraged to..not play the game in question but rather to remove some of your equipment and assault eachother. Safety issue is whatever as it’s their choice..it’s just stupid. Feels like overcompensation. Small man syndrome It’s sort of embarrassing

So the priority is toughness? Old school coach brought back, old school philosophy? I admitted at the time the hire was in large part an attempt to invigorate the fan base (a very successful one at that, I found it exciting), but…is..is that all there is to it?

This is what we need to hope for. If we move on from him we should be getting a player who has value in return Simply creating space for a rookie would set the team back on ice

Kevyn Adams, after dealing his 3rd leading goal scorer and top penalty drawer for a cleaner cap sheet

“Winning” trades is the province of those who don’t win on the ice - the idea that “winning” a trade even matters relative to other markers where said trade is concerned is a fallacy borne from years of rebuilding On the ice you compete against an opponent, zero sum game. In a trade, it’s not about a value competition between a solitary one of your competitors, in a vacuum - that’ll get you nowhere - it’s about improving your team from the trade overall as your competition is with not your trade partner but *the body of league teams as a whole* As you said, Florida won’t care because they’ve already “won” by any principle they’d actually care to measure by