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  1. Juice was one of the few assets the team could move - for futures - at the outset of a transition. I don't see Edler the same way, at all - and further, Edler aside, the entire left side are youth/green - Hughes, Juolevi and Rathbone I like - a lot - but I wouldn't want to fire that group into Edler's minutes. I also think that people might want to slow down on the assumptions that Edler is done. The guy was a rented mule in an insane schedule and a covid outbreak season...The last month+ must have been literally exhausting/taxing - even moreso than his 'normal' workload. I think the Edler that would be returning next season - hopefully under more 'normal' circumstances - would be an Edler that could still help this team - a team that is going to still need a hard minutes workhorse - if it's not Edler - it'll need to be some other LHD that can handle his role (and even then, the health of the blueline can't be assumed, so...) I think Edler returning is borderline no-brainer.
  2. Have been thinking the same. I don't share the idea that a dysfunctional aura around the team necessarily emanates from Benning/Green or even Aquilini - I think a large part of that is the one-liner championships that this market 'wins' all the time. But regarding Clark - I'm not sure how he was supposed to make a decision - not knowing if / who his GM, head coach, etc were going to be. It's possible that the team decided to wait until season's end to make these kinds of announcements - for decent enough reasons - that's when team's 'normally' reassess, etc. It's also possible that Benning, Green, Clark et al all knew beforehand what we now know - so perhaps the timeline / appearance of waiting - is just appearance. I agree with you in the sense that I don't think there's anything particularly pivotal in post outbreak hockey that 'should have' effected the decision significantly - I think any decisions 'should have' been based on what the team looked like, did, before the outbreak set in.... The whole Courtnall, Sedins newslines - I'm not sure the timing of those helped - because while I'd welcome the Sedins with open arms, for example - the overlap of those types of news - do create opportunities for sideshows that have little to do with the more primary decisions. It's also possible that FA et al have a sense of humour - and are getting the knack of reverse-trolling the drama-addicted elements of the media. If that were the case - hats off to them. It may not be as effective as a proactive media officer - but there's definite entertainment value there - and this is an entertainment business lol.
  3. Woosh. The post you responded to regarded Benning and Green getting "cooked" by the media in a press conference. You've failed to read context - and believe it has something to do with "children" that I've lost touch with. Maybe you are wrong, here, ironically.
  4. The one question I'd like to ask Green would regard Juolevi. I thought he played quite well in the games he got this year - looked poised, played bigger than his frame imo - handled some hard minutes, and pk minutes - solid outcomes imo - on a team that wasn't particularly healthy. I would have guessed that he'd see more ice time / more games than 23. Was there something in his game that was cause for concern? Is Green less impressed / see reason to get OJ more development time before increasing his role? Would he temper my optimism over OJ's future? Were they just wanting to ease him in - to meter his exposure? Was there anything about his health or fitness that might have effected this? Or were they looking for a more veteran blueline due to the extremely high amounts of replacements and youth in the forward group? (perhaps not enough support for a young D in his role, without veteran shutdown centers in the lineup, etc.) That's the one question I'd love to hear his take on. I have mad respect and appreciation for Green - would like to hear a thoughtful question asked on the matter so I can gain some insight into Green's perspective on Juolevi's development/trajectory.
  5. I wish I had their sense of humour. Unfortunately, I'm more of a "get off my lawn" type most of the time...
  6. the halfwits in the Van media couldn't 'cook' microwave popcorn. but they can wind up the kids toys in this market for sure = that's easier than microwave popcorn.
  7. absolutely horrible analogy = as weak/bad as they come. A drywaller - is a one to one relation - same with a painter. they install drywall - or paint drywall - and the results are a simple one to one correlation - one dimensional. The only real variables there are paint quality, or perhaps ingredients (for a cook)... A coach has 20 moving parts - human beings to manage/organize/develop systems for - a number of assistants, 20 opponents, an opposing coach and assistants, 2 referees, 2 linesmen, travel, injuries, outbreaks, AHL callups, General Managers making moves/changes...etc, etc. If you think you can recognize a 'good' or 'bad' coach that simply/easily - you've never played a team sport - and if you have, you seriously lacked perception/awareness - the complexity of a team. The analogy is just a fail wadr.
  8. I don't care about what the rest of the country does. My teams are Montreal and Winnipeg, and if they don't advance, Edmonton and Toronto will join my shortlist - as difficult as it will be to transition to accepting 'intentional' lottery champions lol. Below the border, the only teams I care for are the Isles and Colorado. I like Brind'Amour a lot - and the Canes that Francis assembled - but can't stand that owner or the side-show of a circus that market makes of the game. If it came down to one of them vs the Fleas, it might be a tough call. It might depend on how obnoxious the Fleas are if they advance.... Wasn't impressed with Foligno's knee-jerk last night - I don't think it's appropriate to respond to a tragic, serious accident like that, with a staged/instigated tilt. Most people were already sick to their stomach seeing a class act like Tavares suffer such a brutal injury. The last thing I think the NHL needed - was the illusion that anything about that could be punched better - right after that. Whoever described it as "not a good look for the NHL" - nailed that. That was not 'code' - had nothing to do with any perceived 'code'.
  9. they're overcompensating. they lost most of the toughness in their lineup in recent years. this year Dubas went overboard imo. I like the Foligno addition in particular, but he always seems / they always seem to get one idea in their head, and then they replicate it over and over. #stockpile the pickz! #Robidas archipelago! acquire all the bad contracts! #sign all the 40 year olds! (and then spend picks dumping Marleaus...) #add depth forwards/centers, but forget the blueline! #add all the secondary scorers, but no shutdown guys! #add all the 40 year olds, again! I woulnd't necessarily argue that any of their recent moves are 'bad' moves - I'm just not sure they ever achieve a balanced lineup/balanced depth. When they most needed to fortify their blueline - they rented (costly) depth centers (Boyle, Plekanec). Now - imo they needed a legitimate bottom 6 center - so they could avoid the terribly 'planned' situation they've found themselves in the past few postseasons - where they were using Tavares like a rented mule. Now they don't even have him. Foligno is/was an absolutely vital addition given that reality - but is he really a bottom six shutdown center? He's a solid defensive winger, and secondary center option, who's not a particularly good faceoff guy...I like a few of their defensive wingers (Mikheyev, Hyman.... Engvall) - but I think they 'should' have gone out and got themselves a Brad Richardson, Nate Thompson, (Jay Beagle IR), Sutter type - who could have enabled them to come at teams with their one-two punch down the middle. Instead - Tavares has played silly amounts of hard minutes the past few playoffs - to losing results. Score-all-the-goals might work when you're beating up on weaker regular season opponents, but rarely takes you very far in the playoffs, against tighter defensive teams. I'm not going to write them off quite yet - but I think they are in serious trouble without Tavares. And I'm not going to give them the 'allowance' of that excuse - this team never gets circumstance recognized when people fly off about the shortcomings of the lineup. One injury has never been an 'excuse' around these parts - although imo losses of guys like Hamhuis in the SCF, or Sedin - were turning points for this team. Tavares is absolutely vital to the Leafs, particularly with their (confusing/inconsistent) philosophy of team-building....I'm not a 'fan' of throwing Marner out all the time to kill penalties - one of these days he's going to eat a Weber one timer and they're going to regret that... Anyhow - their new found 'toughness' is ironic imo - in a number of ways - and it makes me puke to listen to their posturing - and the league enabling them - throwing out the absurdly inconsistently applied 'instigator'.....But I don't think that's going to be enough for them. Montreal, imo, will outskate them. And if not Montreal....their subsequent opponents. I really don't like their chances if they ever make it to a matchup against a Colorado - imo that will not end pretty.
  10. DU SERIOUSLY think you are the voice of "Canucks nation"? LOL.
  11. I agree in general - but in response to the last line, I'd point out that most of the high-danger/quality chances against this year - particularly most of the costly odd man rush goals against, at least early in the seaon - were primarily poor puck moving decisions imo - giveaways - that there is next to no way to 'defend' The last 17 post outbreak games or whatever it was - were with half a replacement lineup, extremely young, inexperienced lineup, with no time to practice, many of them borderline parachuted into an exhausted M.A.S.H. lineup....there were some sloppy performances/nights - however on the other hand there were also the two vitcories over Toronot, two over Edmonton - really, at least half a dozen excellent peformances in there (where I expected very little) - and another handful of games they were in / or held up reasonably well. I'm not sure how fair it is to judge coaching staffs in circumstances where they have very limited ability to coach/practice, etc. When this team is healthy, and reasonably rested - I think his coaching quality is evident.
  12. Love Green. Excellent communicator. Love the way his team approaches the game, and how much the players buy in. No criticisms of Green at all. The one thing that really hindered the team's performance early this season - were the puck moving decisions - the giveaways, the amount of forced stretch passes that were predictable and failing - the attempts in general to force/cheat the game. They gave up a whole lot of bad goals - every time they gave the puck away it seemed to be in dangerous areas, with odd man rushes, and end up in the back of the net. They weren't supporting the puck - they were blowing the zone all the time looking for two liners from Hughes...and most of that is rust, lack of practice time, correctible braincramps with some exhaustion mixed in. Once that tightened that up they started to get on a solid run - pulled back to .500 - were in striking range....and impressively, the bulk of that turnaround came without some key players, particularly EP (the powerplay is not the same without his one timer - and early in the season, he was not taking enough / was squeezing the stick...) In any event...and then covid hit - and it was OVER. However, I'm impressed with how that group performed post outbreak - they literally had half a replacement lineup every night - and had some solid victories, were in most games, with the exception of a few bad nights....But - we got to see more than a handful of young guys we otherwise would not have - and there is some real promise imo with at least 3 or 4 of them. Glad Green is back to continue what he started - he deserves the extension imo - and has been great with our young players - they generally play the game the right way imo. Don't really care to get into the assistants - imo if Green wants them back, it's his call.
  13. Foligno's "our captain is laying on the ice" - let's get this out of the way thing - is contrived.
  14. Montreal was in your face, Nick. They're outskating you. that's why there's no "flow".
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