Ryder71
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CBJ up 6-0 halfway through, if they hold on we can't be higher than 12th before lottery. Caps appear to be mailing it in. Still, time left so...
Not sure we'll be in a position to take him. If somehow we are sure.Take O’Brien w your 1st. If you get the rangers trade it and a 3rd for Howard!
has he committed 100% to another year at Michigan State? If Howard is available for that, that is a better use of that pick and would fit Dubas vision more.Take O’Brien w your 1st. If you get the rangers trade it and a 3rd for Howard!
Feel like they're taking Frondell or Desnoyers. Especially with the latter getting comparisons to Couturier. They need a C moving forward.I think Philly is going for a center no matter what, team needs to fill that need and Briere is stupid and will reach for whomever. So that's one team that might let a better player slide past them.
100% Correct! O'Brien we'll very likely be taken right before we pick.We likely will end up 9-11th and OBrien won’t be there…Boston and Caps don’t care about winning and for some reason we do lol, no matter how stupid…it’s not like ending the season well means anything for the start of the next season as we’ve seen… sad
At least we'll have a pointless late season win over the devils to hang our hats on!100% Correct! O'Brien we'll very likely be taken right before we pick.
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At least we'll have a pointless late season win over the devils to hang our hats on!
We really could have used The Isles to win that game actually. No chance Philly is catching us.Philly wins in a SO! 2 points! And they, lol, eliminate the Isles from the playoffs. First time in a LONG time I've cheered them on. But man both teams are pathetic.
Because the hope is that they would have played poorly enough to drop to number five in the lotto or better. Might not make any difference. But winning these games will make absolutely zero positive difference to this organization so that's why fans are complaining about it. Because there's at least some negative downside to winning these games and zero upside.Can people take literally 2 seconds to look at the NHL standings before they start wailing about how the Penguins draft position will be bad? The Penguins can get a maximum of 82 points with winning their last 2 games. The teams around them are:
-Philly: 75 points, 3 games left
-Buffalo: 76 points, 4 games left
-Anaheim: 78 points, 3 games left
-NYI: 80 points, 3 games left
-NYR: 81 points, 3 games left
-Detroit: 81 points, 3 games left
Since all of these teams have the tiebreaker on the Penguins in terms of RW, they’d all need to have less points than the Penguins to pick above them.
The Penguins are going to pick something in the #6-#9 range, with an overwhelmingly most likely case of #7 or #8. Their draft position has been very consistent and I have no clue why people have to make up stuff to whine about when it comes to it
Because the hope is that they would have played poorly in gotten to number five in the lotto or better. Might not make any difference. But do you know what makes zero difference? Winning these games will make absolutely zero difference to this organization so that's why fans are complaining about it. Because there's at least some negative downside to winning these games in zero upside.
If they win the next two in regulation they could jump all the way back to number 10. Not sure if number 11 is possible, but the point remains there's no positive whatsoever in winning these games. And if you look at the trends of the last 10 games, only Buffalo has been better out of the bottom 12 teams in the league. Not that that's saying much because these are all terrible teams, but it's not encouraging for draft position either.That has nothing to do with what I was talking about. Non-stop saying “the Penguins are most likely to pick #9-#11” is ridiculously easy to disprove by just looking at the standings for 10 seconds.
You can be disappointed that their pick won’t be #4 or #5 without just making stuff up to complain about.
Yep. Also we have the easiest schedule of any team. And we KNOW Sullivan will go balls to the wall. Isles are without their top two goalies and just got eliminated.Because the hope is that they would have played poorly enough to drop to number five in the lotto or better. Might not make any difference. But winning these games will make absolutely zero positive difference to this organization so that's why fans are complaining about it. Because there's at least some negative downside to winning these games and zero upside.
If they win the next two in regulation they could jump all the way back to number 10. Not sure if number 11 is possible, but the point remains there's no positive whatsoever in winning these games. And if you look at the trends of the last 10 games, only Buffalo has been better out of the bottom 12 teams in the league. Not that that's saying much because these are all terrible teams, but it's not encouraging for draft position either.
That bumps them to 77 points with two left. We have 78 with two left. The Isles have 81 points with two left. It's far better for Philly to get two points than the Isles.We really could have used The Isles to win that game actually. No chance Philly is catching us.
Why would you root for that? That's the exact opposite as to what we wanted.
No, the Isles have 80 points not 81 and have a 3rd string goalie who's getting torched. Philly is not catching us ok. You don't think it's likely we win out against BOS and WAS who are resting their players?That bumps them to 77 points with two left. We have 78 with two left. The Isles have 81 points with two left. It's far better for Philly to get two points than the Isles.
We want a lower seed. Philly passing us is the best way to do that vs hoping the Isles stay ahead of us. Buffalo has 4 more games, and I assume they leapfrog us. That's puts us and Philly in competition for 6/7. Them getting 2 points today makes it a legit "race" now.
It was absolutely more beneficial for a 3 pt with Philly winning vs the Isles. The best case scenario happened.
Isles have NJD and WASNo, the Isles have 80 points not 81 and have a 3rd string goalie who's getting torched. Philly is not catching us ok. You don't think it's likely we win out against BOS and WAS who are resting their players?
They were fifth in the lotto on trade deadline day. If they stayed at that points percentage right now they would be 4th in the lotto. That's why fans are upset because they've started to play better when all it might do is hurt the organization.Their draft pick is going to be #7 or #8 most likely. It’s the same it has been for weeks.