Confirmed with Link: Kotkaniemi signs 8 year extension

[Navin R Slavin]

I so look forward to seeing this thread bumped every other day for the next 8 f***ing years

 

[MadeUpName]

I so look forward to seeing this thread bumped every other day for the next 8 f***ing years

The buyout doubles the remaining length. So 14 years.

 

[LostInaLostWorld]

I so look forward to seeing this thread bumped every other day for the next 8 f***ing years

Maybe we can rename it the NRS KK Bang My Head Against the Wall Thread?

 

[Stickpucker]

What we need is a good old reverse jinx.

 

[Daeavorn]

right now he has 3 points in 17 games. That is awful and on other teams a failure of this magnitude would get the GM fired.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

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right now he has 3 points in 17 games. That is awful and on other teams a failure of this magnitude would get the GM fired.

I get what you are saying, but GMs get fired for continuous losing records, not for individual bad moves. Every GM that ever lived makes their fair share of bad moves.

 

[ndp]

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I get what you are saying, but GMs get fired for continuous losing records, not for individual bad moves. Every GM that ever lived makes their fair share of bad moves.

J.R. is still employed, so that tracks.

 

[bleedgreen]

Peters's strategy was pretty explicitly to take lots of shots in the hopes that high corsi would directly translate to high scoring. It didn't. In doing so, he proved the total fallacy of playing towards the metric.

Yes, lots of advanced stats boosters thought Peters was a great coach because he was doing what their numbers said teams should do. It resulted in a putrid offense from a group that did actually have a lot of talent in it.

Peters was a shitty coach who thought he had a moneyball cheat code to the NHL. It wasn't a matter of not having better shooters. The system was to have the shooters take lots of easy shots hoping that shooting percentages would revert to the mean. He, and the system, fundamentally ignored that shooting percentages are not fixed attributes of the shooter. Ovechkin will not have the same shooting percentage if you tell him to take low risk shots from the point instead of dumping pucks in when there's no play to be made. He has the shooting percentage he has in large part because he nearly always takes his shots from high danger areas. He does the hard work to get there. Peters tried for a shortcut that was never going to work, and some of us knew it at the time.

Huh, this takes one aspect of Peters strategy and runs pretty far with it. Peters pushed the forwards to hold onto the puck and make plays vs dumping and chasing. His game was possession. He wanted shots once we had the zone but wanted higher quality shots than we had the skill to take. It was only one aspect of his style. He had the defenseman pinching and gapping up immediately as the puck was leaving the offensive zone with the forwards expected to help out. It was his version of high pressure that counted on our relatively mobile defense to play a really active part. This was what he was getting league recognition for, as it was highly effective in killing the other teams attack before it started - which helped keep the play away from our awful goaltending. Slavin and Pesce were made for the style and it played a role in their quick NHL transition. They immediately became the second pair as rookies because they could skate the way the system required. Hainsey and Liles were smart enough and good enough skaters to pick it up. Faulk sucked at it. He had no lateral mobility and wasn’t a quick transition to backwards guy, so he’d get caught hesitating and the attacking forward would burn him in the transition.

Peters took over a crap team at the start of a rebuild that had few prospects, and few trade able assets to help the rebuild. It was going to be a slow play no matter what.

 

[HungryFrank]

I don't get why people are complaining. He leads the goalies in goals and he's tied in assists with Jarry and Gibson.

Vasilevsky is signed to basically the same term, but for twice as many dollars, and guess what: 0 points.

 

[WreckingCrew]

While he's been a massive disappointment so far, I don't get the hand wringing over "he stopped us from making bigger splashes." Who are we looking at? Malkin was never an option, Giroux was likely never a consideration due to age, and we knew Tro was going to want a big $ long contract that we likely weren't interested in. Copp has been a flop too. We still attempted a big splash with Tkachuk & Marchmant and ended up grabbing $7M patches. We also traded for $5M+ Burns, who has been more expensive, longer contract, older, worse on the PP, and dragging Slavin down worse than TDA. Maybe the expectation is he's a placeholder 2C until Necas takes over and he slides to 3C long term as Staal ages out? He's overslotted for sure and needs to get his shit together or he'll rightfully continue to receive our ire, but let's not act like he stopped us from pursuing some other better 2C option.

 

[Stickpucker]

This thing feels like your lady is a 9 and some weird dude tries to get with her and to get revenge you go bang his lady who is a 3.

 

[WreckingCrew]

This thing feels like your lady is a 9 and some weird dude tries to get with her and to get revenge you go bang his lady who is a 3.

Joke's still on him because I'm a 2 so both are punching above my weight-class!!

 

[HisIceness]

Hello yes it would be cool to see him score goals

 

[dogbazinho]

Joke's still on him because I'm a 2 so both are punching above my weight-class!!

If me banging the 3 means the other guy now bangs a 1 I consider that a win. This is a competitive endeavor after all.

 

[Negan4Coach]

I so look forward to seeing this thread bumped every other day for the next 8 f***ing years

I shall no doubt be the one to indulge you...