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Lol they don’t even look bad, they’re just beating themselves up. Gotta make it to half time and get a bitching

Disagree. He’s the player that will make it, just a matter of when. He’s always played up to better competition when he’s faced it.

If you can get Laine and Skinner on alternating hot and cold streaks, the team is in good shape!

How far off is Pekar from the NHL? Great glue guy to have

Gardiner said he had multiple offers with shorter term and he wasn’t interested in short term.

He likes to have only one hand on his stuck. Worst pick ever

anyone got details, buffalo stream?

To start the season yes.

Dahlin sliding over in a pinch. Prospects are a couple years out yes.

All this does is make McCabe no longer expendable. I wouldn’t have done 4 years for him. I dint think it disrupts Risto trade except for with the Ducks

Laine for Risto+small add is his value right now. It’s end of offseason and a big cap hit-“, coming off a year with off ice and attitude problems. Value is lower than RORs was day before the deadline. I wouldnt be surprised if its McCabe or Rodrigues going the other way. But with everything Botterill has done this off season, both of them are expendable.

Krueger has a very unique power play system

Roster is meh. Tage Thompson was the best player in this last year. Wooo boy

Being 1-dimensional doesn't really matter if he's on a line with Eichel, where teams are spending all their attention on the center instead of the winger. And Eichel loves to pass. And Skinner on the other side? That would be fun to watch.

He is the reason I thought Rodrigues was going to become a piece in a trade to put a Ristolainen deal into our favor. I wouldn't be surprised if he turned into a decent 3C. His size isn't a big problem if our defense is not small, and other than Pilut and Nelson we don't have defenders who are struggling with the physical game.

I think Yakupov flourished as much as that flawed player ever could because Krueger heavily utilized him on the PP in a way that played to his strengths, and otherwise hid his weaknesses in ways that no other coach could, even after Krueger already paved the way for him. And have you looked at the D-corp that team had?! Krueger was my #1 choice for a coach before Housley was even fired. He was my #1 before Housley too. He is a player's coach, and that is what this team struggled with the most over the last few seasons, both with Bylsma and with Housley. Disconnect between coaching staff and players and their buy-in/motivation. This is the BEST coach out there to bridge that gap. He literally wrote the book on it. And he is a guy who Team Canada thought was world-class to use for his Xs and Os and video breakdown analysis, so it's not like he's some Ted Nolan either. I understand your devil's advocate position, but I countered it with what I considered objective facts of the situation that could readily explain the drop regardless of the coach. A sophomore player who struggled post-injury, and had a lock-out summer before he's really understood how to off-season as a pro, struggled to put up numbers under a new coach/system is not just the coach's fault. Especially when the player loved the coach and was shooting below his career averages that one shortened year.

You mean the player who barely scored after his 20 game absence for a shoulder injury the season prior? He needed to find his groove post-injury. Plus, RNH LOVED Krueger. Couple this with his below typical shooting % and I wouldn't look too far into it.

Krueger made Yakupov look like a budding star. That Edmonton roster was atrocious. I would take their finish to the seasons with a grain of salt.

Toronto has the 7th best with top-pairing Cody Ceci; You sure this isn't a satire piece?

This is going to be an exciting training camp. I also still think Risto is moved for more forwards, making camp even crazier.

And I hate paying taxes. They just don’t understand that math. Alternatives to escrow are even worse

He is if Gardiner signs medium term

Risto+spare parts for Mantha, yes easily Would they take McCabe+Smith?

McCabe+Risto+Rodrigues for Rakell+Kase Sign Gardiner with remaining space

There is literally no offensive production with him on a line. It always dies on his stick. *all anecdotal, no fancy stats