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In his defense, Makar has had screwups that bad...not often of course but they've happened.
I don't know what to make of Byram. I think he's proven now that he's healthy he can be a very good 2D, but I think he still believes he can be that #1 franchise blueliner and I'm just not sure he's capable of that.
The Sabres are just a baaaaaaaaaaaad team with a bad culture. Hope they figure it out someday, but whatever they're doing there, it ain't workin'.
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The only problem is that DeBoer absolutely owns Bednar.
DeBoer makes constant adjustments that Bednar has never been able to counter or deal with.
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I don’t think it’s adjustment issue. It’s more of a roster and match ups. Dallas doesn’t have the same top end as the Avs, but they have a deeper roster. When they shutdown or limit the Avs top line, we just don’t have the depth to match Dallas. The 22 Avs team would beat Dallas though. We would have beaten anyone that year
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Now I kind of want Dallas in the 1st round just to debunk this narrative that DeBoer owns Bednar. The Avs have done very well against him in the regular season.. During the playoffs it could easily be argued that his success against us was due to:
1. his teams being healthy
2. our teams having lots of injured players
3. bad goaltending/injured goaltenders
Where DeBoer is better than Bednar is to influence the refs.
Furthermore as somebody else said, Heiskanen might not be playing until the 2nd round.
1. his teams being healthy
2. our teams having lots of injured players
3. bad goaltending/injured goaltenders
Where DeBoer is better than Bednar is to influence the refs.
Furthermore as somebody else said, Heiskanen might not be playing until the 2nd round.
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Bill Peckerskull
Fargin' Icehole
What would you want him to do? Leap over the boards and go fight Benn or DeBoer? Scream at the refs? Cry in the postgame PC? Send the DoPS/NHL a sternly worded letter?
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Scorched earth. If we're not getting past Dallas, Dallas aren't getting past anyone else.
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He needs to land on a team where he'll be the top pair LD, ideally with PP1 time.
Buffalo was a bad fit, just like Mitts here.
LOFIN
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I thought it was just a stupid trade from the getgo for Buffalo, when they already had Dahlin and Power. Not to mention how bad I felt for Byram, for basically landing in the exact same spot as he was in Colorado opportunity wise, but on a much worse team. I thought the only way that trade made sense is if Buffalo flips him for something else.
I thought he was actually doing well there lately on the top pairing with Dahlin.
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Two lefties playing together is never optimal, one of them is automatically handicapped. There's a reason coaches hate it, especially in the top 4.
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AKA "I don't remember the Vegas and the Dallas series but this is what I think happened"
Nope. Wasn't injuries. Wasn't goaltending. It was coaching.
LOFIN
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Blaming injuries and goalies is the easy way. One might also look at how we scored on Winnipeg at will, and then Dallas stifled all our offence. MacKinnon, Rantanen, Makar... none of them could do F all.
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DeBoer 100% knows how to counter the Avs' run and gun style in a long playoff series...but since we can no longer play that style effectively maybe Bednar will come up with something new and we have an outside shot at winning this time. Who knows.
LOFIN
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Doesn't exactly inspire confidence, when Bednar has shown exactly zero deviation from his ways this season.
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Well he admitted a few days ago that the team changed and it's no longer working so there's that
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Yeah well, we'll see. And let's be clear, I'm not on the "fire Bednar" train. But it has looked stale at points during this season, and he really needs a big run this year (assuming the roster is healthy) to keep his job IMO. With MacKinnon and Makar, you can't keep running it back if it doesn't work. And CMac has so far shown that he's not exactly sitting on his hands.
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Actually against Vegas we lost Girard to injuries, didn't have Kadri due to suspension, and then Gru decided to suck.
Against Dallas we lost Nuke after game 3 and we all know how that affected the team mentally and how important Nuke is to this team especially without Landy in the lineup. Also although he was not the main reason for losing that series let's not forget we had 4Giev in net. He certainly didn't help that much.
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What's currently happening in the KHL with Demidov isn't good.
They don't play him anymore because he refuses to re-up in the KHL...and now the word out there is they want him to sign a new contract so they can do like they did with Michkov last year and force the NHL team to pay them to release the player from his contract.
The Flyers may have created a precedent here.
They don't play him anymore because he refuses to re-up in the KHL...and now the word out there is they want him to sign a new contract so they can do like they did with Michkov last year and force the NHL team to pay them to release the player from his contract.
The Flyers may have created a precedent here.
