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48MPHSlapShot

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  1. True dat. From a coaching perspective, it's also Tocchet's job to determine what the team's strengths and weaknesses are going into next season. If your top players are being nerfed, there's no way you're going to be able to accurately judge your team.
  2. Someone will absolutely take 1 year of Myers with a 3 million dollar cap hit.
  3. What part of "They weren't anywhere near the players they are now" isn't computing? Mac, Rantanen and Landeskog didn't have a handshake agreement to suck that year. For Mac and Rantanen, that's just what they were. If Mackinnon, Rantanen and Landeskog from 2017 were as good as Pettersson, Kuzmenko and Miller from 2023 they wouldn't have been bad enough to draft Makar.
  4. Mackinnon and Rantanen were 21 and 20 respectively, and weren't anywhere near the players they are now (Mackinnon finished with 53 points, Rantanen with 38), and Landeskog had an awful season that year (33 points, -25) when they bottomed out and landed Makar. By contrast, Pettersson is on pace for 100 points, Hughes a PPG pace, and Miller and Kuzmeko nearly a PPG pace as well, and Demko is far better than Pickard or Varlomov. It's not a compatible situation. Our group is too good to allow the bottom to fall out. Hell, if we had a healthy Demko all year things would be even worse from a tanking perspective.
  5. I find that the definition of "core" can fluctuate quite rapidly from person to person, depending of what point they're trying to make.
  6. Being totally serious for a minute, most of the top teams in the west this year aren't teams that bottomed out completely, which just goes to show that there's more than one way to skin a cat. Our core isn't Tampa or Colorado quality, but I would put it up against most other teams in the league and feel pretty comfortable with it. Problem is that we still need to rinse the stink of Benning's crappy team building out of our mouths before we can move forward. We should have let the bottom fall out between 2013-2018, before Petey, Hughes and Demko joined the team. It's too late now, unless you're okay with moving those core players out now, which honestly, Im not. The option to dump everyone and tank will always exist. I'd rather give these guys a shot first.
  7. Let the haters be miserable. It's fun to laugh at their misery while we savor the delectable taste of victory.
  8. Good enough to keep the Canucks from being bad enough to land a top 5 pick
  9. I'm really curious what the heck was wrong with Demko at the start of the season. Did he start the season hurt?
  10. Guys guys guys guys guys..... We're only 17 points out of a wildcard spot!
  11. You're just mad that we're going to make the playoffs baby!
  12. Who said anything about "real fans" vs "tankers"? I'm just having fun after a win Nothing I say or do has any bearing on what the team does one way or another.
  13. Being happy about a win because we get to troll tanknation > Being happy about a win because it means we're improving as a team > Being mad about a win because it hurts our draft position
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