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Sure, but that's because of 25 years of skill orientation being placed on improving hockey skills instead of toughness. The goalies are still tremendous, but the players have radically improved and are getting better than the goalies are. I want shittier goalies and rule enforcement.

I'm not sure he brings that much more at this point in his career, honestly. He's been consistently missing chunks of seasons for multiple years in a row, so it's hard to project what he'd look like in an 82 game season, but he's a hair below being a PPG player. Caufield had a bad season last...

Yeah, but my whole point with that is, it's super easy to call a first round pick, a late one at that, a bust because... he's not a top-6 forward? Poehling got drafted where he should have and he's turned into an NHLer. We've kept Pezzetta around for years, for reasons that are still unknown to...

I wish the NHL could have 1970s and 1980s goaltending regularly.

By the way, Poehling's establishing himself as a depth center and is probably going to have a 500+ game career in the league because of it. If you were to do a re-draft of 2017, he'd probably go around 25th again. Not terrible, not great.

Assuming Laine never got injured, I don't think this team's record would have changed more than one or two points. If that. Laine's like Caufield, just a foot taller. He floats and doesn't bring much beyond offense. Laine being on the roster - remember, Columbus had to compensate us to take him...

Pittsburgh's doing their best to keep up with us for worst GA / game in the league. This seems like it's a bit much, though.

https://x.com/NHLFlames/status/1856049254277460004

Laraque says that St. Louis and Hughes had a meeting with Gerard Gallant in Toronto. Again, for what it's worth.

Stop looking at his draft rank and take things into context.

Slow to develop? He's 20 years old from one of the weakest drafts in the last twenty years. Most people following the draft thought that Slaf would have been drafted in the 6-7 range if he was eligible for the 2023 draft, and by default Nemec would have been taken further. Only Slaf & Cooley...

I want Beck / Roy / Mailloux to play and, more importantly, be placed in key roles while playing a lot of minutes. They won't be getting that in the NHL, at least not in the immediate. If you're going to callup players from Laval, get Gignac, Barré-Boulet, Condotta, etc. to fill in the spots.

Since we're spitballing, any interest in trading Montembeault? If so, Colorado's looking for a goalie in the worse possible way...

Yeah, not sure why Columbus/NJ would do that. I totally get why we would do that, though.

The coaching is probably bad. But he was also given shit to work with. There isn't a million things that can be done with this lot of players. Two things can be true.

For what it's worth... https://x.com/GeorgesLaraque/status/1855727051921043620

It's not a fallacy at all, unless you think diminishing their minutes means those minutes aren't going to be given to someone else. Do you want Savard playing 22-23 minutes instead of 20 then? Do you want Guhle playing 24 instead of 21? Do you want Struble/Xhakaj/Barron/Mailloux playing 18...

Yeah but the point is, there's nobody on this team that should be playing 24+ minutes. Hutson & Matheson are because they have no other option. If there was a minute eating monster (à la Shea Weber) on this team playing 25-27+ minutes every game, the defense would be significantly better by...

To play devil's advocate, he hasn't been given much. There isn't a single d-man in this team that's properly slotted, except maybe Xhekaj/Struble as d-man 6-7. In an ideal world, Matheson & Hutson shouldn't be playing 24+ minutes / game and Guhle should be playing 18 instead of 22. The...

It also further tells me Sal still doesn't understand what trading for futures means.