Volcanologist
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might be some time before they get there again. I'm not seeing how the team gets better right now and they already weren't good enough by a mile.
2025-2026 Off Season Thread - The Rehappening
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might be some time before they get there again. I'm not seeing how the team gets better right now and they already weren't good enough by a mile.
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou
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The rebuild either happens on purpose or it happens organically but sooner or later it happens whether you like it or not. Good GM's and owners see objective reality, accept it, and work to navigate through it. Clueless GM's and/or owners who have a mandate to ignore reality and keep band-aiding their way along in an effort to protect playoff profits have to rebuild the hard way and it takes longer.
Just because you remain a playoff team doesn't mean you're progressing or that you aren't in decline and in need of a complete tear-down and rebuild. It just means you're in the dreaded "middle"; not so bad that you get high draft picks but never good enough to last more than a round in the postseason.
trujaysfan
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Now this is a team of assholes.
Habsy
Not playing around anymore.
“Random”
Volcanologist
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how dare you trade Todd Spamworth for washed up Kadri
JackBurton
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I don't either. I've always thought this was a Marner-side negotiation plan from day 1. The most $ is without a doubt in Toronto.
blkngldbabe
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Stolarz was
More than capable. And Will could have held the fort if our team managed to score as well.
Slinger 48
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WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou
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I watch a lot of old hockey vids so the algorithm feeds me more of them. Like how your feed randomly sends you videos on midget porn.
Kritter
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Didn’t have confidence with Stolarz. I like him don’t get me wrong but it was obvious we were going to need both he and Woll to overplay to their abilities, imo.
Goaltending has been a question mark each playoff run under this group. We never once went into the playoffs with a goalie that could steal games for us. Round 1 was the rare time we went into a series with equal or better goaltending .
SundinsTooth
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The vid has been posted here in the last week...
MindzEye
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We should have been platooning them from the onset. That was the root of the advantage all year and we abandoned it immediately in the playoffs.
GeneralT001
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Nope. I've watched them play. Easily beatable if the effort is made. Seem most teams become a bunch of soft slouches when its crunch time. Too much money and too little compete.
Kritter
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I think you are right… my first instinct before the series was to run Stolarz if he was started hot.
MindzEye
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Stolarz 1A, Woll 1B
As soon as we started 2-0 and Stolarz looked to be running hot, we should have strongly, strongly considered sitting him and giving Woll a go behind a team that looked to be going well. If you decide against that and run Stolarz out for game 3, and we won again...now you're just crazy if you don't give him a rest and get Woll in there.
The organization can't have it both ways. You can't go cheap on tandem guys to get through the regular season (entirely viable strategy...every team should have two goalies who are good for their role) and then pretend that one of the two is a money goalie in the playoffs. If you commit to a tandem in October, commit to a tandem in April.
leafman101
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View: https://x.com/sdpnsports/status/1926368943893106752?s=46
Walsh says Shanny nixed the Knies trade. Dubas wanted to do it.
Slinger 48
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MindzEye
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Depends on what you think of Hagel tbh. Scored 90 points this year. Signed an extension until 2032 for 6.5 millie....even with the uplift because no state tax, that's still about 7 million flat. At the time I was definitely ripping on Tampa for making their deal, but all Hagel has done since is establish himself as a legit top line winger.