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The Mother-fucking goddamn Off-season Thread

Preston said:
Identical to dubas in every way. Montana got his perfect replacement but he's ugly as fuck so he hates him. Too bad.
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it has all the makings of the first ever hockey rom-com...we'll see how the emotions unfold
 
Preston said:
When asked which player looks better when measured with this overall impact number, Treliving said Derek Ryan was an example of someone who stood out. Though he’s having a pretty good season with 25 points in 50 games, Ryan has never hit 40 points in a season and his on-ice style doesn’t always demand your attention.
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Funny that his one example here, is someone Dubas loved and tried signing that offseason.
 
Montana said:
Funny that his one example here, is someone Dubas loved and tried signing that offseason.
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This is exactly why I included that. They're the same people. Embrace it. I preferred a different direction but this isn't the worst case scenario by a longshot.
 
LeafGm said:
But the failson trust fund baby of Tanenbaum’s golfing buddy put together a team that had good “nerdies”, you see. And that generally finished with decent regular season records.

Never you mind that it was in a shit-pile of a conference, that his lack of playoff success rivals Dubas’s, that he made a slew of horrific trades & UFA signings and totally botched the re-signing of their young stars.

It’s all good! Just give the guy a chance. It’s not like he has a lengthy shitty track record with which to judge him.
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also can't hire a good coach or get a goalie. He'll fit right in, clearly.

It's not so much that Treliving is a downgrade on Dubas, it's that he isn't an appreciable improvement in any tangible way, and we needed an improvement, not the non-winning status quo.

then again if Shanahan is calling the core players and telling them they're staying before hiring the general manager, I really don't know what the fuck we're doing here anyway so it probably didn't matter who it was in the end.
 
Preston said:
“The simplistic way (assistant GM Chris Snow) broke it down, he says what’s available in the public sphere, it’d be like going to a game and turning the lights out for 50 seconds of every minute,” Treliving explained of the depth of information Calgary has. “So you’ve got basically an 8-to-10 second look at what happens in a game. A lot of the public information is anywhere between 300-500 events that take place in a game. We’re over 4,000. There’s just a whole lot more happening and you’re studying a whole lot more.

“Not to poo-poo what’s out there, but we invest significant money, time, personnel, people to come up with the data we come up with and that’s just not what’s out there publicly.”

Treliving said his team tracks all sorts of information every game to measure a player’s impact. There are people whose jobs it is in the Flames organization to look into the most minute details and extract what it means on the whole, so Treliving isn’t necessarily pouring over spreadsheets to get to his own conclusion.

Treliving said he usually will re-watch a Flames game the morning after and that when he is able to do that armed with this “overall contribution number,” it helps remove some of the subjectivity you get watching live.

“You think Joe Smith had a great game or vice-versa, a lot of times you watch it the next day and he wasn’t quite as poor or wasn’t quite as good as you thought,” Treliving told Friedman. “When you know what the score was and the emotion’s removed from it you look at things in a completely different manner. As long as you’ve been in the game you try to be objective when you watch, but it’s hard.”

When asked which player looks better when measured with this overall impact number, Treliving said Derek Ryan was an example of someone who stood out. Though he’s having a pretty good season with 25 points in 50 games, Ryan has never hit 40 points in a season and his on-ice style doesn’t always demand your attention.
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if he listens to our nerds that might even be a step up from Dubey....because i sure as hell think dubey was ignoring his nerds in the end.
 
Just hypothetically…..if Shannahan was in fact a power hungry son of a bitch protecting his turf by axing Dubas when he encroached on his territory.

Isnt Treliving the exact kind of dweeb you could see someone like Shanny pushing around, and bullying?

He just hired his own Tom Wambsgans to be his pain sponge.
 
Montana said:
Just hypothetically…..if Shannahan was in fact a power hungry son of a bitch protecting his turf by axing Dubas when he encroached on his territory.

Isnt Treliving the exact kind of dweeb you could see someone like Shanny pushing around, and bullying?

He just hired his own Tom Wambsgans to be his pain sponge.
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The good news is that if Shanny dictated all of Dubas’ trades and is gonna do the same with Treliving, you loved all those!

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At the same time, there’s nothing more Leafs than the only time Dregs is right, being when it’s horrifically bad news for the Leafs.

Like when he said Marner would get north of $10m and we all laughed in his face.
 
I mean i have to say - if Dreger had the actual breaking news he'd break it.

the only reason to word it this way, I guess, would be to protect a source. but i'm not sure it actually would protect any source.
 
The fuck is just taking an educated guess, trying to get the drop on everyone else and claim he broke the story. If someone else gets it, he'll claim "something changed Shanny's mind last minute" or whatever.
 
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