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TML? More like FML, amirite? Yet Another Off Season Thread

CH1 said:
“The bottom line is there were eight teams with over 100 points in the Eastern Conference,” said Cooper. “Three of them went to Game 7s and one was the Presidents’ Trophy (winner), who went to overtime and had to battle back to win their series. And that’s how even it was. So there was going to be four teams with 100-plus points that were going to be out in the first round and fortunately for us we weren’t one of them, but it took everything to knock these guys out.”
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This. Keep tweaking away. Don't go trading Nylander for leaderbeans
 
I personally dont mine Keefe. Thought he had good results this year despite bottom feeder goaltending.

As long as the replacement is inline with Dubas Im open to the idea.
 
zeke said:
No, you see, we must punish someone because we feel bad, even if it makes the team worse.
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Exactly. The answer, the only answer, is to work around the general fringes of the roster, and try again. As tempting as it is to make a big change to get a different result finally, the big change has a huge chance of backfiring, while sticking with the core could simply result in our finally winning the coin flip next time. The big change, which wouldn’t even really be one imo, and is a necessity imo, is trading Muzz. You can open a lot of money, get a lot in return, and create room for young, mobile, and surely great players in Lilly and Sandin. That’s the biggest move this season, and it only involves deleting an older oft-injured guy for two young studs.

And all this goalie talk of the last few pages is again part of the same scapegoating mistake. Jack went blow for blow with the best goalie in the league until the final buzzer of game 7. I recall him saving our bacon in some of the wins and being strong while we came back from deficits like in the game 6 we should’ve won. He had as many “great” saves as Vasy in the series, and Vasy didn’t scare me or make me think we badly need an upgrade. He made me, and all of you think over and over, “shoot the puck!”, especially on the PP. I think Price last year was much better than Vasy this year, and under more difficult circumstances coming back from 3-1. We don’t need some other supposed wizard to work magic in the net that we will never see. Upgrade on the backup to have a proper second option. That’s it.

Small changes to get the small improvement to take us over the top. And if there’s any big change (again, I don’t think a Muzz trade qualifies, and would be an immensely smart cap and hockey move), that big change would be to replace Keefe. And I don’t even think I’d do that yet.
 
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MyNameIsJonas said:
Your misuse of the word basically is the most egregious.

Basically goals
Basically game 6 wins
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He scored two goals to complete a comeback and give us a lead with one period to go for a series win. That is a stepped up, fucking leader performance.

He scored what would’ve been the tying goal in game 7 yesterday if not for Holl away from the play getting called for a dumb penalty.

These things happened. You want to dispute facts that he was the main guy who came up big in two elimination games, go ahead. Join your voice in the choir of idiocy that keeps blaming him for things, when he’s doing the things we need the 1C to do when it matters most.
 
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Dude, get out of here honestly.

You’re living in your own fantasy world where you blame one guy for the shortcomings of another. If you have a problem with Tavares, I don’t know why you’re not blaming Kampf.

Tavares actually stepped up with the holy grail of production in the two elimination games - goals. Actual fucking goals off his stick. Matthews didn’t. End of story.

We don’t have to trade or release Matthews, or say he’s bad. Those are just the facts.
 
He did. I don’t even know when the whistle went on that call. The play continued and he fully faced and beat a reaching Vasy for a goal. If they called it back because of some bonehead, it’s not his fault. Did Matty score one that counted or didn’t count in the biggest game of his life?
 
LeafOfFaith said:
He did. I don’t even know when the whistle went on that call. The play continued and he fully faced and beat a reaching Vasy for a goal. If they called it back because of some bonehead, it’s not his fault. Did Matty score one that counted or didn’t count in the biggest game of his life?
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The space only opened up for him because Holl threw a pick on the guy checking him.

Primary assist > imaginary goal
 
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