Thorner

Ya

They know it’s over so there’s really nothing to be gleaned imo. Evaluation years are a luxury of like 3 years ago Can’t use the runway to teach accountability either as none of it will register until ownership and management run the team reflective of playoffs being the goal, unlike this season

If we all admit the season is over, can we get an influx of board members back evidently waiting around for the offseason?

Goalies are in fact the one position where you can say, on its face, “size matters”. Burden of proof is on any small goalie. It’s hard

You know how “ask the audience” on who wants to be a millionaire is almost always correct? Like there’s that thing that in large sample sizes you’ll generally get correct answers to common problems…I feel like it’s not stupid to suggest a sabrespace committee would have done a better job in the last 14 years than the management we had. Why not?

It’s not “he’s hiring unqualified candidates who actually turn out to be suggesting good ideas for some reason which he then refuses to enact because he wants it to be his genius that saves the say” like it’s such an unnecessary added layer purely for the obviously see-through purposes of pretending Adams might be ok You can’t have your loophole. Adams is not good lol

A wholly unqualified GM being left to his devices literally explains the poor results…never mind one upon which ridiculous handcuffs are imposed. You are trying way too hard. You’ve got him: it’s Terry. Him hiring awful candidates and handcuffing them explains our ineptitude. He’s not *also* vetoing the good ideas the unqualified people are coming up with for reasons best known to ourselves

Why do you lay these troubles on an already troubled fan base? Can you not see we grow weary of your malcontent….your warmongering

Ride out and MEET them

The reason he can’t “bumble into a good hire” is because it’s nearly impossible for any GM to field a playoff team under the parameters he’s setting: the only people willing to take the job are wholly unqualified candidates like Adams who have no business being an nhl GM at all: thus the putrid results even relative to restrictions imposed you are right: Pegula is the central issue. The pool of candidates would be much larger and likely to produce a playoff team if Pegula actually cared about making the playoffs. But he doesn’t

And the Blues won in 2019 because they traded for a 2nd round picked C in ROR - they didn’t win because they had 5th overall Brayden Schenn on the roster

The fact he doesn’t only serves to make the picture crystal clear, though. I mean, I wonder which category “non-responsive, barely present” owner more likely falls under? -Overbearing day to day meddler who loves the team so much he won’t shut up, who just won’t stop interfering till he gets it right? -Or does it fall in line more with someone who neglects the team and won’t give them the proper resources to find success? Hmm I wonder. And the team doesn’t spend money either…I suppose that’s what Terry determined in his endless hockey discussions was the way to make team good…it doesn’t line up at alllllll with not giving a sh*te. The world knows all of his GM hires are under-qualified…cheap hires who won’t complain about the constraints inflicted. Budgetary constraints in the name of winning, right? But, our bad performance can’t *possibly* be explained by these admittedly drastically under-qualified candidates being left to steer the ship, right? The ones being asked to operate on a shoe-string budget? Naaaaaaaah we just can’t know. The owner must be forcing them to make bad hockey decisions TOO! It’s gotta be. I can only assume the extremely incompetent Pegula hired very good, capable candidates, for some reason, who are entirely capable (….for some reason??????) of fielding playoff teams on budgets no one else can, if only he had let these guys have a clear run of things to implement the GM plan they came up with after learning about what a “an NHL manager” job is on the day they were first approached to take the job

How can we be better than the A’s? At least they have Brad Pitt

A .500 team out of the playoffs, not very surprising tbh