Thorny

Right I was talking his eventual LT deal

I know. That’s my point. It’s UPL or I don’t care and I’d rather go with the guy with the better stats

The rumour that we got Matt Irwin was proven true. The rumour was leaked by Adams himself by way of video

Ya I mean Comrie’s last W was in November lol Sucks for me

Honestly I can’t remember any goalie winning much lately other than UPL. So I went to the stats and EC’s are a fair bit worse than CA’s.

Sabres are the only fully healthy team in the league

6 for Power that’s interesting. Coming off his ELC I guess? (Sort of rights the Dahlin bridge wrong). Do you really think it’ll come in that low?

My man, sometimes when all a goalie can establish, consistently, over the 10 year period since being drafted, *is* a pattern of an insufficient body of work, (with poor numbers this season, to boot), that data needed to form a likely conclusion *is* sufficient. It just starts to become very unlikely all of these failures to launch are really just circumstantial the more they occur and are committed to record. It becomes a compelling pattern. Comrie can force his way in if he’s good enough. I’m not prioritizing giving him a look over winning days gone by

If Power only gets 7 on his eventual LT deal, sure

I circled the relevant stats where Comrie is the worst of 3 options. Starting the guy who does his job better. Makes sense

I will be *highly* disappointed if the messaging pre-season isn’t clearly pointed towards making the playoffs being the focus. The messaging this past offseason clearly pointed towards evaluation/development year for this current season, so I’d like to see that specific change. It’s definitely time. Ya the “he’s here if he wants to be” thinking only makes sense to me because of the above. It wouldn’t be very feasible if he wasn’t pretty good at what he does

I think they’ll look to add a defender. I doubt he does nothing. What would the total cap space be under your formulation?

Oh I thought we were going to pay Cozens Dahlin and Power 21 million combined per on LT deals

I can’t really make heads or tails of your post. Aren’t making the playoffs? We certainly have a reasonable shot. Regardless, failing that, give me 90 points. Give me 91. Give me as many as we can get cause the time to care about real results is now and it’s way more fun We can certainly agree on the vocabulary

Someone with as few nhl starts as he he did coming in..I think the hope was he’d improve if given a shot to play a lot. Maybe development is the wrong word: let’s use evaluation. I’m glad they aren’t using the games to evaluate Eric Comrie

Big Ben and him same height no?

Playing for the W not Comrie’s development. I like it.

Pretty sure the year he got nominated for Rookie of the Year he wasn’t the worst defenceman in the nhl He wasn’t just “not the worst”, either, he was actively good. He went through a development slump later on that it was obvious he’d get through

Gap has closed of late in the poll, interestingly enough At least we know we wouldn’t be removing Rasmus Dahlin for a single playoff game sooner than Samuelsson haha edit: we have a new leader

Here’s one I know of

I was a bit surprised by it too from Granato when all last year in the ahl the other coach did it the opposite

Type, more so, sure, you are probably right. but for arguments’ sake I might still argue potential “upgrade” because goal-differential wise that takes into account both, I think we MAY have room for improvement. the main thing is the “floor” we are potentially improving from looks to be settling in as hopefully a perennial playoff team soon as next season. I’ve said this before but I think the roster will come most of the way and that some of the last few steps, will ironically be the hardest to traverse for the GM: lots of good teams get in (half), and then the difference between them is often razor thin and the microscope on a few moves even greater. X factors if you will. Same thing i was getting at in the Bills thread, that losing at this stage isn’t indicative of personal failure nearly as much as it’s a product of teams that are even better. Holes almost non existent.

Great td run by Non-denominational McCaffrey

Win what? lol