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  1. My guess is that if they keep doing what they are doing, the wins will come. Sticks will get hot. Price will make that early key save and they will start winning. This team is not as inept at scoring as the scoreboard has shown. I have seen them playing a lot of great hockey. Making adjustments in game and dominating large chunks of play. Just with no results. And the other team seems to score in every scoring chance.
    2 points
  2. I've noticed over the last week or so that certain posters are getting downvoted simply for who they are and not for the content of their post. This stops now. I've finally figured out how to make it so that the moderators can see who is up/downvoting posts so we can start to keep tabs on who the culprits are. I won't name names publicly (you know who you are) but to those who are doing so, be advised that if it continues, there will be suspensions forthcoming. This will be the only warning.
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  3. Advanced Stats track very well over long sample sizes. Over 10 games, you can get wacky results Anyone who has taken the most basic of college or university level stats courses would understand the problems with making conclusions based on a 10-game sample.
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  4. How does this have anything to do with MB? I'm more than willing to criticize MB, but Martin Reway had an infection that led to an enlarged heart. He took a year off hockey. Now he is not capable of playing at the same level as before. What was Bergevin supposed to do here?
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  5. I definitely like what I've seen from him. I'll be seeing him in person next weekend and am planning on hitting up another game in South Bend this winter.
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  6. That sounds like it's attributing way too much causal force to the "C." Much more important is that the team was at a crossroads at the end of 2015. The question was clearly how to build on the strong foundation and put that group over the top. Instead, Bergevin made exactly the WRONG moves - fixing non-problems (Subban), depleting the prospect pool for lateral moves (Drouin replacing Radu), bringing in mediocrities to play key roles (e.g., Shaw and Alzner), letting crucial components age (Pleks) or leave (Markov) without replacements, and retaining garbage managerial talent (Lefebvre, MT) long after they should have been turfed out on their asses. It's possible that IF Price had stayed healthy in 2016, MB would not have had as easy a time deluding himself about chimeras like "leadership" and therefore would have made fewer mistakes by this point. But his kind of thoroughgoing mediocrity, incompetence, and ossified thinking was bound to make its impact felt sooner or later.
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  7. I hope Molson fires Bergevin before he attempts a job saving trade like Mete, Galchenyuk and a 2nd Rounder for Vermette, Beauchemin and a 6th, stating, "we need more character and veteran presence in the dressing room."
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  8. I thought (and still think) CJ is an upgrade on Therrien. But the wider point about this organization suffering from an ossified "old school" mentality is absolutely well-taken. It's a retrograde organization run by old boys, with their old boy egos being prioritized over excellence (exactly like the Toronto Maple Leafs until the Babcock era; there, they have old boys, but adaptable old boys prepared to build a team properly). MB is the fundamental problem and can't be shown the door fast enough to suit me. My only qualm is whether Molson can be trusted to make an actual progressive hire. This organization needs a huge dose of new, innovative thinking tailored to the way the league is heading, not the way it used to be.
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  9. That's the story over and over, isn't it? 'Good effort, lots of shots, no results.' In a a sense this goes back all the way to the 2015 playoffs against TB, when a better team than this one still managed to make Ben Bishop look like Tretiak. At some point this stops being an aberration and becomes better understood as a symptom: a symptom of a team with no finish and, these days, dubious defence. Price has been bad, but no team ever won a game by scoring zero goals.
    1 point
  10. I don't believe in tanking anyway. With the lottery system, you can just as easily move down as up. Ask the Canucks. Nashville shows that you don't need to tank in order to contend. What you need is excellent drafting and development and a GM who makes some shrewd moves. In other words, you need the opposite of Bergevin.
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  11. And this is why MB has no clue what's really going on here in this organization. He has 8.5mil in cap space and can't make a trade why he wonders???? Because we have a bunch of 3rd and 4th line prospects in our system , because we don't know how to develop players the Wright way. We have zero blue chip prospects and zero NHL ready players. That cap space will only be good on July 1st. Max, gally and Alex are all under achieving which makes them hard to even think about trading. If he doesn't wake up and fix the development issue, His only option will be to do the unthinkable and look at trading Price.
    -2 points
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