JoeSchmoe

He has been average to below average all season.

I'm rooting for Cozens... Gotta be better than that though.

I watched a lot of 💩'y unentertaining football this weekend. Thought this game would be the good one. I was wrong. Thank God for 🍺.

I'm busy here today with Canadian Thanksgiving activities and didn't get to post until now. I guess I can't make the "There goes the country club joke" I came here to make after you already posted this.😀

I didn't like him as a player, but I like his on air personality. I don't need someone to explain the details of the game to me... I've been watching and playing since I was a little kid. Just entertain me. I get him and Dunleavy do too much talking while the game is going on, but I put that more on Dan. When he was with RJ, he let RJ do the talking during the play and then provided the fun once the whistle went.

Thompson has pretty sick hands too when he's on his game.

I have a sneaky suspicion Levi will pull ahead of UPL sooner than we think.

Agree with almost all of this especially the bolded. Going into the season, there was so much hype on the speed of the new guys. So far, I've only noticed it from Aube-Kubel, and he's hurt.

2022-23 Thompson was just on the ice.

Does anyone remember when he almost got in a fight with someone at 716 while on air with WGR. If I recall correctly, he told a Rangers fan his team sucks mid-broadcast and the guy was P!$$ed. I also recall Bulldog (or maybe it was Schopp) panicking because they thought a fight was actually going to break out. The whole time Ray was cool as a cucumber. That's my favourite Rob Ray moment.

My personal narrative is that Adams put together a team where almost everything has to come into place just right for us to make the playoffs. Given that almost never happens, the streak will continue. That said, I know what I saw last night and Lindy had the team was moving north / south like we did 2 years ago when we were 3rd in the league in scoring. As I said in the original post, there's hope.

I'm one of Thompson's biggest critics but he worked his a$$ off last night. Hopefully we see more of that.

Last night's game was NOT this... Not even close. https://moneypuck.com/g.htm?id=2024020012

Moneypuck says our expected goals should be 9.75. That metric doesn't factor in shooter skill, but it still we should have a lot more goals than we do.

I'm saying our shooting percentage sucks.

I'm pessimistic on the makeup of this team, but we've got a small sample size here, and the team has actually played ok... They just haven't buried pucks. If our shooting percentages were at their norms, we're likely sitting 1-1-1 or 2-1-0. Game 1 Moneypuck gives us a >70% win chance based on the scoring chances... Even though NJ sat back with the lead, teams can and do come back when the scoring chances are that lopsided. Game 2 was a NJ win through and through and is likely the source of our frustration. Game 3 Moneypuck has us at over 80% win chance based on scoring chances. We dominated the game... 3rd period maybe not as much, but their chances were pretty limited IMO. Eye test wise, I can't recall a stretch over the last two years where we've missed on so many Grade A scoring opportunities. Hate to be behind the 8-ball already, but there's still hope!

They didn't look flat to me. Just couldn't finish..Just couldn't finish with a vengeance!

That's on him. Lack of hustle.

This is the Blue and Gold of Tuch goal memes.

In the first two games, Thompson looked like the Thompson of last year and not 2 years ago. People want to say he was injured last year but I'm not convinced.

I always thought the hate for olofsson was overblown. Maybe he's not the 2nd coming of Bob Gainey, but he can put pucks in nets... Something this team sorely lacks.

Mittelstadt developed. Once he did, we traded him for another youngun who may or may not turn out. As I've started before, Byran was a net negative expected goal player on the Avalanche, which is really hard to do on a team that good. Not writing him off as a player, but his game needs further development to justify the trade.

I've done this twice before.

We bought out Skinner and Mittelstadt was an RFA. In a world where no one wants to come to our team, we got rid of two of the best guys we had. No wonder nobody wants to come here.

Yeah... that's what they're selling us. The plan is flawed though. We'll be lucky to get back to where we were if the young talent holds their own and improves.