Similar.It's been third round + or bust for about 3-4 years for me now, as I imagine it has been for many.
And you?
So we're agreed. No break in expectation.
Similar.It's been third round + or bust for about 3-4 years for me now, as I imagine it has been for many.
And you?
Nope, I’ve been blaming them for years. The cap hit plus the lack of results. Realistically it’s only been like 12 games, things can change, but right now they look like fails for sureYes, and it's been shown that you people are dumb and incorrect when everyone celebrated this off seasons signings.
Now you're somehow blaming the top 4 players for the failures of the newly acquired 4 players.
What would we even trade for McDavid that would be remotely fair?
We had it, and decided to use 5.5 million on a defenseman who can't play defense and a 35 year old goonToronto doesn't need McDavid. Toronto needs cap space for bottom six, D and G.
If only we could have chosen to bring back high character hardworking depth players from last years team and supplemented them with similar players to build and identity with continuity in the bottom 6.You simply can't toss a bunch of random players together and expect a cohesive tight team unit and consistent play and winning results.
What alliance or allegiance do Bertuzzi, Domi and Klingberg have to Toronto other than working for their next contracts and what do current players have to these rental players that are lilkely here only for this season
If the key to everything is continuity of players, then why did our current GM choose to only re-sign (and overpay) one player from our top tier team from last year?You simply can't toss a bunch of random players together and expect a cohesive tight team unit and consistent play and winning results.
What alliance or allegiance do Bertuzzi, Domi and Klingberg have to Toronto other than working for their next contracts and what do current players have to these rental players that are lilkely here only for this season and than squezzed out looking for cheaper replacements the following year with the pending raises of Nylander and Marner and Matthews contracts kicking in?.
Obviously things aren't working out too well currently but who should have been kept from last year that they allowed to let walk?If only we could have chosen to bring back high character hardworking depth players from last years team and supplemented them with similar players to build and identity with continuity in the bottom 6.
Oh wait. We could have chosen to do that
Would have been better to commit 3 years each to Schenn (old slow injured dman) and scrub Acciari. That would age wellWe had it, and decided to use 5.5 million on a defenseman who can't play defense and a 35 year old goon
None of them. This team has just been throwing away picks for band aid solutions with this core. It’s time they broke up the band and added some other core pieces instead.Obviously things aren't working out too well currently but who should have been kept from last year that they allowed to let walk?
Acurri 3 x 2 mil 1 ptsIf only we could have chosen to bring back high character hardworking depth players from last years team and supplemented them with similar players to build and identity with continuity in the bottom 6.
Oh wait. We could have chosen to do that
Intangibles are irrelevant when the player can't play.
Hire him as a cheerleader if you want, but make sure you aren't signing him as a player.
After this season we will have 3 players on ELC contractsHigh roster turnover year after year is not the key to building a successful TEAM. Roster consistency and players learning and playing together grow together as a team.
Being in CAP HELL and the contract status of the core 4 drives turnover.
This season and next season (which will be even worse) will be transition period for our new GM to get out from under this Cap Hell situation and hopefully towards longer-term planning.,
You simply can't toss a bunch of random players together and expect a cohesive tight team unit and consistent play and winning results.
What alliance or allegiance do Bertuzzi, Domi and Klingberg have to Toronto other than working for their next contracts and what do current players have to these rental players that are lilkely here only for this season and than squezzed out looking for cheaper replacements the following year with the pending raises of Nylander and Marner and Matthews contracts kicking in?.
Its the part pretty hard to evaluate...
Did aston-reese really had a higher impact last season with no intangible... im not sure
Look like kind of simmonds signing but during habs serie... Simmonds still had a pretty good impact ...
as hockey fan, we can only see hockey part and clearly they are better player than Reaves... Any kind of doubt and we have no idea whats really looking like outside of the ice.
High roster turnover year after year is not the key to building a successful TEAM. Roster consistency and players learning and playing together grow together as a team.
Being in CAP HELL and the contract status of the core 4 drives turnover.
This season and next season (which will be even worse) will be transition period for our new GM to get out from under this Cap Hell situation and hopefully towards longer-term planning.,
You simply can't toss a bunch of random players together and expect a cohesive tight team unit and consistent play and winning results.
What alliance or allegiance do Bertuzzi, Domi and Klingberg have to Toronto other than working for their next contracts and what do current players have to these rental players that are lilkely here only for this season and than squezzed out looking for cheaper replacements the following year with the pending raises of Nylander and Marner and Matthews contracts kicking in?.
I would have like to see Lafferty and Acciari back.Obviously things aren't working out too well currently but who should have been kept from last year that they allowed to let walk?
No they certainly had some money to spend. Seemed (to me anyway) that they were using this as an evaluation year and didn't want to be tied down to anything more than 1 year deals, that limits the market of available players. Reaves is obviously the biggest head scratcher, I'm assuming there is more to that than we know.I would have like to see Lafferty and Acciari back.
But beyond that, there were several useful bottom 6'ers that were signed for more than 1 year for reasonable money. We could have returned Kampf/Acciari/Jarncrok/Lafferty and then added 1-2 of Donato, Eller, Wood, Geekie to build a playoff type bottom 6 with an identity and continuity, instead we chose more offense and snot.
Hopefully it works out. But make no mistake- it wasn't a course of action we were forced into by cap constraints
you're now missing a guy who couldn't get a NHL spot this year ?ZAR plays 0 event hockey, which makes him a good 4th liner... that is not an intangible, that is a measurable thing.
These people want a future Hall of Fame player to be on their third and fourth lines. Go read what they want out of bottom sixers:Cap hell is not being able to spend 20 million on trash... you type things in bold or all caps and expect them to become true...
We could have run a team of Marlies or under 1 million dollar signings filling in for our signings and likely had the same results or better, and we'd still have like 15 million in cap left...
Knies - Matthews - Marner
McMann - Tavares - Nylander
Robertson - Holmberg - Jarnkrok
Clifford - Gambrell - Gregor
Rielly - Brodie
McCabe - Liljegren
Gio - Timmins
Woll
Jones
The only player I miss is Domi right now, and potentially Bertuzzi, the D actually looks better to me.
This roster has 15.8 million in space... such cap hell
We had it, and decided to use 5.5 million on a defenseman who can't play defense and a 35 year old goon
That’s quite the lineup. Solid AHL calibre defence. He had cap space and added what he thought would be secondary scoring, which is one of the teams biggest deficiencies.Cap hell is not being able to spend 20 million on trash... you type things in bold or all caps and expect them to become true...
We could have run a team of Marlies or under 1 million dollar signings filling in for our signings and likely had the same results or better, and we'd still have like 15 million in cap left...
Knies - Matthews - Marner
McMann - Tavares - Nylander
Robertson - Holmberg - Jarnkrok
Clifford - Gambrell - Gregor
Rielly - Brodie
McCabe - Liljegren
Gio - Timmins
Woll
Jones
The only player I miss is Domi right now, and potentially Bertuzzi, the D actually looks better to me.
This roster has 15.8 million in space... such cap hell