toomuchsauce
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Thompson is 20 will be a beast..
At what?
I admire your optimism, I guess.
Thompson is 20 will be a beast..
The reinforcements are slow cooking in Rochester. We may have to wait until next year when the youngsters start to arrive. Pommers will be gone, and Housley will hopefully have the balls the bench Sobotka.Botts needs to be working the phones. The middle six needs help now
Agreed. The kid may not even become a regular in the NHL, though I do like his potential at becoming a good top-9 forward. A beast? Doubtful, honestly.At what?
I admire your optimism, I guess.
I actually don’t have a problem with Sobotka centering that line. Other than Larsson we don’t really have another defensive center too put in that role. Let Vlad take his lumps. It might help to give him better suited linemates than the ones he plays with now. Wilson might be able to help when he returns.The reinforcements are slow cooking in Rochester. We may have to wait until next year when the youngsters start to arrive. Pommers will be gone, and Housley will hopefully have the balls the bench Sobotka.
Why waste assets?Botts needs to be working the phones. The middle six needs help now
Why waste assets?
We are certainly not a contender by any stretch. Let things grow in house for now.
Botts needs to be working the phones. The middle six needs help now
This is the biggest catch 22 on this site. Arm chair GM's calamor for the future, retaining assets and draft picks etc because we aren't competing for real.
Meanwhile on the ice we have a team of guys who lay their personal and physical well being on the line every shift...I'm sure that narrative of...wait another year and see how we draft...resonates the same with the actual product?
Not saying you're wrong as I'd do the same thing as you but it trickles down. ROR quits because we fail to do what is necessary to be competitive. I'm sure if you asked Eichel whether he'd rather add a brassard, tarasenko, Duchene, whatever pick a name on the market or lose another year and hold out for next year his response would be different than ours. At some point this decade this franchise needs to stop looking at the horizon and start looking at now.
again the piece would have to fit the criteria but I'm getting tired of the wait and see approach. Yes this smells of Murray and I'm aware but my caveat is that Botts is smarter than Murray and I trust him, and this time we actually have AHL level replacements to accommodate some trades...
Scandella got destroyed 5v5. Buffalo needs Pilut and McCabe back ASAP.
Also, has Tennyson gotten sent to the sun yet?
Why waste assets?
We are certainly not a contender by any stretch. Let things grow in house for now.
I’m changing my mind about keeping the super line together. I’ve clamored for Sam to help the Sobotka line and move Pommer up to get more from him. But I’d rather see the top line do its thing and build lines 2 and 3 over time.
We didn’t expect to be where we are right now. I’m not going to sweat the lack of depth to match up with Tampa or the Leafs in a season none of us expected to play out this well so far.