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Don’t care either way - but yes they should be fired. Then, per 2024 NHL rules, when we start 2-8, does new guy get fired? What’s the rules? People getting fired left and right the Rangers are winning the Cup anyway - btw I said after opening night loss to the Rags we just lost to the best team in the NHL. That team looks different. We have bigger problems. 1. Terry Pegula as de facto Team President 2. The city of Buffalo is not a place the players we need want to relocate their families to. We can overcome one of those two. Not both. Too many heads in the sand over number 2. “We want guys that want to be here” is a mantra that’s born out of necessity. Thus the build from within that’s beyond to the extreme right now. But like I said. You can overcome one of those not both.

Not even when Toronto gets eliminated in round 1? Can I laugh then or keep it in bc they’re relevant thanks to being “lucky” to win the Matthews lotto due to their stealth tank the last 25 games of that season. Yes. I think I can. And I will. My team has had more playoff success the last 20 years than the Leafs.

Nonsense!! It’s always coaching lol. 😎

I’m just laughing at the Flyers. 7-1 Montreal. Flyers need an Xs and Os coach apparently. In fact by 2024 NHL logic Torts should have been fired last week.

How are the Flyers falling apart …. they supposedly have the greatest motivating coach of all times.

Flyers losing 4-1 at Columbus. Late in 2nd

Are you not entertained! I mean outside of October thru December this season these last 2 years have been an overall net positive as it looks to actually turn the corner.

Power…..I’m seeing signs the breakout is coming. He looks more confident to me. Felt like literally everything he was doing throughout this season you could almost see him second guessing for that split second that split second makes a massive difference. This is just his second season and he’s a plus 15 in that time logging the ice time - I know it’s no longer a preferred stat - it’s not the whole story but a good part of it. No coincidence this team has been competent and good since he got here. If he begins to reach his potential this team is a perennial contender.

Rags win!

If Quinn played this whole season we’re a playoff team I’ll never be convinced otherwise.

I have absolutely nothing against the players. This season is mostly on DG and KA - the 3 goalie tryout told us we weren’t really serious about playoffs or we just overestimated how ready Levi was. Skinner can’t be a top 6 forward on this team bc he brings nothing defensively and he’s going to see top 6 forwards across from him. His soft style and lack of defense are an overall net negative. He needs to be on a physical team that needs some offense and can surround him with guys harder on the puck. That or on a line with like McDavid. Which will never happen. But if it did he’d score 50. Tags isn’t a facilitator and that’s why that line (which isn’t good on faceoffs) was figured out quickly by the league. And when we’ve moved him to a 3rd line role he’s made no one better around him. His game is what this team needs less of.

2 way stud - 60 points a year and extremely reliable defensively. Top 6 forward no question. I think Selke is his ceiling. He’s already killing penalties.

Great night. Great win. Only game in the league tonight. NHL network highlighting Levi and Tage and showed Marty and the Bald for Bucks initiative. Good showcase for the perceived (rightly) dysfunctional franchise tonight. I’m trying to get to a place where it’s not 13 years - but has to be seen as 3 since KA and DG started the rebuild.

What a great shift by Cozens.

Maybe Tage NEEDS to be Captain.

My take is there is absolutely something wrong with the locker room. I’m no longer buying the “oh they all love each other and hang out all the time.” No longer buying it. And fwiw, with how they’ve played overall - if guys are good with each other, again that’s a problem. If your buddy ain’t getting in your face that’s a massive problem. They can’t possibly be holding each other seriously accountable.

Sure why not…

MacKinnon and Rantanen playing over 28 minutes. They’re the first and second line. I’m not sure I’m buying Colorado as a top 3 favorite for the Cup. Great team. But way too reliant on 3 guys.

Byram 1 point in his last 6 games. He’s already infected. Leadership either behind the bench or on ice needs to change. Won’t happen before June but it’s got to happen.

Maybe maybe not but they absolutely will give him something to build on going in to 2024 most importantly the confidence and that it won’t have been 9 months since his last game when we start in October.

They're reporting he is playing tonight.

Over Skinner absolutely. And I meant 30-40 point winger on a Cup team. I don’t think he plays like he’s 6-6 230 no. Not consistently enough. I guess if our top 2 lines were producing we can live with his lack of offense. But he shouldn’t be getting 17 plus minutes a night. Those are top 6 minutes.

Every time I write his name on a line I think “this isn’t good enough WTH does this guy give me other than 8 goals?” And I may be biased bc currently that “pass” against Detroit is etched into my brain as literally the moment the season ended. It was so bad on a team that makes plenty of mistakes him doing that as a supposed responsible player is just inexcusable to me. He’s going to get 3 million next year. To be reliable defensively. We need a 40-50 point winger that is responsible defensively the only guy right now close to that is Tuch. And my God. If you’re 6-6 and 230 lbs - you need to play like it. I’m sorry. He’s just not remotely nasty and it ticks me off. We don’t need a guy that plays 17 minutes a night currently to suck the offense out of a line. He has 14 points since December 23. 3 million dollars.

Greenway is borderline useless to me. He does some good things as a 3rd line defensive forward. That’s all I got. I’d go: Benson - TT - Tuch JPP - Cozens - Quinn Skinner - Krebs - Greenway Robinson - Jost - Girgenson

Skinner - 12 minutes TOI LOL