Thorny

So our 4th/5th best prospect is “untouchable”. From what @tom websterhas said, KA isn’t even close to this stance People throw around “untouchable” worse than “generational”. There is one untouchable asset in the league. Funnily enough, that player is the same answer to the “who is generational” question. I get you said “pretty much” but it’s still, imo, absurd verbiage for a prospect like Östlund. Östlund is “pretty much UNTOUCHABLE”? We can’t conceive of a team offering up something worthy of that piece in a trade? Teams don’t even attempt to submit fair offers for Östlund, he’s just too good, not worth the effort, common ground could never be found? Forgive me but it stretches the limits of believability.

Yep, exactly. - - - Sorry for the multiple posts, behind on thread and posts not joining together / guess I’m not being quick enough

To your point, the only thing that should matter where any potential trade comes along is the individual, specific evaluation of the value within. No thought need be given to quantity over quality: the scenario Murray was playing under coming out of a scorched-earth tank was wildly different to the situation we are in now. We had almost nothing. The roster ITSELF was barren - the key point. Now, we have a system filled with prospects and picks when the BIG CLUB looks pretty good - less spaces to fill, ground no longer scorched. Any comparison to Murray became obsolete a year ago. Some of our best advantage is the currency and flexibility that provides. Once a team gets good enough, not only does quantity no longer remain the most important factor, but teams will occasionally *actively lose trades by value* because trades are a means to an end and the trade is being made to alter one specific aspect of the team that takes the ice every night. We aren’t at THAT stage yet, but it’s closer than people think.

Good point, and not only is it necessary, but using his good evaluation skills, and inside information there will be some prospects best moved while the “world” still sees their utmost upside, where Adams is aware that’s not likely the case. Some prospects will not only present the most value to us through a trade, but by trading them fairly early on The better KA’s overall evaluation skills prove, the more available avenues for Adams to mine where his aptitude can be exploited.

So he had the ability to make the swap but chose not to due to his evaluation. I’m good with that. But it was due to his evaluation of the specific piece, not an outruling of the idea on principle, correct?

Part of that may come down to the fact we’d have maybe expected a guy like Quinn or Peterka to slide up, but they are part of the reason for the changes in the first place. If KA was using this as an “evaluation” year, there’s so much ground left to cover but IF the season ended today/things looked more less like this at season’s end, one of the big take away “evaluations” needs to be that the roster needs to be prepared for / have back-up options ready for the scenario next season where Quinn/Peterka/ or whoever other rookie can’t give us what we need in the role we have them penciled in for. No excuses next year because we’ve literally tossed this year onto the “evaluation year” pile from game 1. That’s what management intimated. Which is fine, and good, I’m on board - but the roster for next season needs to be built by way of the information gleaned from those evaluations or it was wasted and no, the answer certainly can’t be “we need another year to evaluate”. Love this

Casey has been decent though, no? I could see him being OK with Tage. Okposo has been disappointing. Maybe he’s such a good stylistic fit with Thompson and Casey the line gels, I can see it, but I kinda hoped (and actually thought) we were past the days of energy line grinders playing with my star C

He doesn’t read sabrespace during the games

Yellowstone says there’s a difference between the law and justice. You are touching on that here I believe Whether I agree with what happened, or not - I hate the turn of phrase but what that guy did mostly falls under “f*ck around and find out”. Agree that according to the law you can’t just throw out that punch. Don’t agree as was intimated elsewhere above that in cases where there is “no charge” there was no lawful infraction committed. Even with full faith in the Law itself whether or not it is always being accurately enforced is a whole other matter. Anyways, that’s all I got on this.

Consummate captain. Love that dude. Zegras wasn’t even mad. He was probably like, “Hey, that was Sidney Crosby!” Haha. Like a disappointed parent

I just want to head into the final week of the season with a mathematical chance. I don’t want a need-not-watch final month as we are so used to. Being ‘in it” on Feb 12 is still probably a place we haven’t been in a while, gotta take that into March and April.

Interestingly, our goals against is 22nd in the league, and our record is 21st. Our 4th in goals isn’t pulling as much weight as the poor D is. This is what I was getting at when I said this is the reason Adams appears, from what he says, to be open to additions across the board depending on fit, and not just at D and G. We need a more well-rounded F group as well, as part of taking that next step He’s probably trying to get a boost from a new configuration *before* we find ourselves out of playoff range. The odds have been dipping lately. Not that I agree w/ the configuration but we’ll have to see

Not a fan of Tage’s mates here

Well THAT one certainly isn’t on UPL

Not a bad period

I hate the guy taking Dahlin’s legs out like that

Good work from Samuelsson down low

Weak

The still only had 3 shots the first period.

Well, this is a kill we certainly need

Good thing is we have the firepower to tie it up quick Save percentage still not looking good

Getting worked. Come on, boys

What are they doing lol. Shinny 30-4 shots lmao

On the plus side only half the game gone

He’s equally responsible lol but yes