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1specter said:
This really sucks man. Was genuinely fun to watch him turn back the clock and now there's a good chance he doesn't even get the record this season. These types of injuries are also harder to heal from at his age, who knows how he will look when he is back.
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I hope he doesnt break the record cya ovecknin
 
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Ovechkin is close enough to the record that Washington would put him out there on one leg until he's 50 to get him it. It's done.
Until Matthews. :thumbu:
 
If Winnipeg beats Florida tonight on the second leg of their home and home, the Leafs can pass them for one day until Florida plays, and presumably beats, Chicago on Thursday.
 
Evilhomer said:
If Winnipeg beats Florida tonight on the second leg of their home and home, the Leafs can pass them for one day until Florida plays, and presumably beats, Chicago on Thursday.
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Not that standing in November mater much anyway, but PTS% is the only sensible way to look at the standings. Sems like you're really anxious about this, isn't it a bit early to be looking ahead at who Florida is playing?
 
SprDaVE said:
Montgomery had a .715% winning percentage as their coach in less than 200 games. Crazy fire to me.

If you're going to do that move, the GM and other execs need to get it too.
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We don’t know what’s going in their dressing room. If he lost the room and the players don’t play hard for him anymore, you have to let him go. His record becomes irrelevant.
 
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Suntouchable13 said:
We don’t know what’s going in their dressing room. If he lost the room and the players don’t play hard for him anymore, you have to let him go. His record becomes irrelevant.
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That's fair and it wasn't that they shouldn't do it, more that he was pretty successful, especially when you consider their lineup since he's been there. You ask yourself what kind of roster they put together that they shut off the coach so quickly at that point and who put that together?
 
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SprDaVE said:
That's fair and it wasn't that they shouldn't do it, more that he was pretty successful, especially when you consider their lineup since he's been there. You ask yourself what kind of roster they put together that they shut off the coach so quickly at that point and who put that together?
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Yea, that's fair. I guess the coach always goes first. Perhaps a larger shakeup will come in the summer for them. They may as well stick with Sacco, the roster is very average, don't let Sweeney hire anyone else. Then fire him in the summer? Let the new GM hire his own coach then.
 
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Swayman has an 0.884 SV% after missing camp and holding out… a slow start isnt surprising

5 ROW’s hurt but they’re right on the playoff bubble in the mix.

Better goaltending which should come will get them over the hump.
 
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Suntouchable13 said:
Yea, that's fair. I guess the coach always goes first. Perhaps a larger shakeup will come in the summer for them. They may as well stick with Sacco, the roster is very average, don't let Sweeney hire anyone else. Then fire him in the summer? Let the new GM hire his own coach then.
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It's definitely a last ditch effort from their management to get the team to wake up and maybe go on an Edmonton run. A change of coach can do some big things in the short-term. So it's not a bad strategy I guess. And then re-assess in the off-season.

They might be able to hire someone like Sullivan at that point too.

For me and my money, they should have taken this opportunity to retool. Keep the coach a bit longer, sell off a bunch of players if it doesn't improve, change it up in the off-season if needed and take this down season to hit a reset button like NJD did. But the problem is that they committed to a lot of players and so they probably don't want to do that.
 
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BertCorbeau said:
Swayman has an 0.884 SV% after missing camp and holding out… a slow start isnt surprising

5 ROW’s hurt but they’re right on the playoff bubble in the mix.

Better goaltending which should come will get them over the hump.
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Nylander struggled a lot in the season he held out. People underestimate how tough it is to catch up. He'll probably improve and Boston will improve as a result... or at least they should hope he does.
 
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Gary Nylund said:
Not that standing in November mater much anyway, but PTS% is the only sensible way to look at the standings. Sems like you're really anxious about this, isn't it a bit early to be looking ahead at who Florida is playing?
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I'm not anxious about it at all. I'm pretty confident about where the Leafs are going to finish.

As for Boston, I called this firing weeks ago. It will be hilarious if they keep Sacco as their head coach.
 
SprDaVE said:
It's definitely a last ditch effort from their management to get the team to wake up and maybe go on an Edmonton run. A change of coach can do some big things in the short-term. So it's not a bad strategy I guess. And then re-assess in the off-season.

They might be able to hire someone like Sullivan at that point too.

For me and my money, they should have taken this opportunity to retool. Sell off a bunch of players, change it up in the off-season if needed and take this down season to put picks/prospects into the organisation.
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Or a St. Louis Blues Cup run season where they found a goaltender to turn them around with Berube.
 
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Evilhomer said:
I'm not anxious about it at all. I'm pretty confident about where the Leafs are going to finish.

As for Boston, I called this firing weeks ago. It will be hilarious if they keep Sacco as their head coach.
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I probably shouldn't be asking this but ... where do you see the Leafs finishing?
 
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