Post-Game Talk: Hey We Suck! vs Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes 7:00 PM 3-27-25

[Porter Stoutheart]

I wonder if Edmonton realizes how freaking stupid it was to lose Holloway and Broberg

I hope Edmonton isn't the only team feeling stupid. The way they looked at Holloway and Broberg is basically the same way we handle our prospects. We probably got offered Holloway but preferred Schaeffer. Edmonton has been in a position to be a TDL buyer for a while, and those guys were the paltry rehabilitation prospects every seller probably got offered. Lots of teams besides Edmonton messed up.

I like that offersheet approach to snagging young players in that spot in their development. We should offersheet Evangelista from ourselves for like $4M. We'd only have to give up a 2nd round pick to ourselves. And then with that big a commitment, we'd feel obligated to play him more. And he'd probably respond with a Holloway-like season.

 

[Scoresberg]

Yall enjoy losing way more than I do. That game was super disappointing for me. Felt like the guys played pretty well up until that brief moment and then it just all fell apart. Even ended on a sour note and its St. Louis as well.

None of us like losing. But last night was possibly a franchise-altering game for this organization - especially with the way the other lottery teams ended up winning.

If last night is the difference between us picking 3rd or 5-6th, I'll take the loss anytime.

 

[Kat Predator]

None of us like losing. But last night was possibly a franchise-altering game for this organization - especially with the way the other lottery teams ended up winning.

If last night is the difference between us picking 3rd or 5-6th, I'll take the loss anytime.

I'd say we really do not like losing, but our GM seems 100% totally inured to it. In his own words, he's committed to the pen of losing and the pencil of culture.

 

[herzausstein]

Yall enjoy losing way more than I do. That game was super disappointing for me. Felt like the guys played pretty well up until that brief moment and then it just all fell apart. Even ended on a sour note and its St. Louis as well.

Can't say i enjoy losing... especially to the Blues. BUT with us losing, Buffalo and Philly winning... it brings us closer to a top 3 pick which we haven't had in a long time.

At this point, each win just screws up our draft position. I'll gladly suck up the loss as long as the team doesn't play like a flaming pile of garbage. Next season better not look like this

 

[Porter Stoutheart]

Winning right now is a coach/player mindset given where we are in the standings. Losing is the proper GM mindset atm.

Now as fans... one can go either direction. I'm more inclined to the "GM mindset" myself. I wish I could believe that Barry Trotz was also...

 

[Soundgarden]

Yall enjoy losing way more than I do. That game was super disappointing for me. Felt like the guys played pretty well up until that brief moment and then it just all fell apart. Even ended on a sour note and its St. Louis as well.

We're eliminated from the playoffs. We do not need to win meaningless games for moral victory for our overpaid vets. We need a Tkachuk, Keller or Hughes not Fabbro or Tomasino. Glad to see Evangelista and Svechkov turn it up, but losing is what's best for our team.

 

[Armourboy]

We're eliminated from the playoffs. We do not need to win meaningless games for moral victory for our overpaid vets. We need a Tkachuk, Keller or Hughes not Fabbro or Tomasino. Glad to see Evangelista and Svechkov turn it up, but losing is what's best for our team.

Don't care, I will never be happy about losing games, meaningless or not, nor will I cheer for them.

 

[Predsanddead24]

A lot of discussion about Broberg/Holloway but Armstrong making the bold move to fire his new coach partway into the season and bring in Montgomery when he had the chance was a great move. Really wish we had made the move and it was clear he would've been a huge upgrade over Bruno even without the benefit of hindsight.

 

[Bringer of Jollity]

Don't care, I will never be happy about losing games, meaningless or not, nor will I cheer for them.

I know it's unpopular at this point, but am with you on it. I never played that way(and probably no player does), and I can't cheer for it.

To each their own on how they fan, but I did like that another board on here...was Devils I think, basically had a no tanking/cheering losing in the GDT stance a few years back because of how it tends to fracture the posters. For our board, it would probably just lead to dead threads though, I suppose.

Just wait til we start cheering losses in November/December. Sad days.

 

[Porter Stoutheart]

It will take 2 or 3 or 5 years of being in the basement before anybody starts cheering losses earlier in the season.

Today is a "surgical strike". We are 10 meaningless games out from the end of a season where we're already mathematically eliminated. Winning games now only hurts us in the draft order, which only hurts our team for the future.

I could understand if you paid $200 to be in the building and have a fun time and wanted to see the team win. That's a different kind of entertainment experience. But if you're just sitting at home half-watching games while surfing the internet, then winning isn't bringing in any big dopamine hits. I can look at the standings and say the absolute best thing for the franchise is going to be that we go 2-8 down the stretch and pick #3 vs. going 5-5 and picking #6. It's easy math. Losing games will 100% give my team a better chance at being better in the future. Winning games will 100% give my team a worse chance of being better in the future. It's not difficult to pick which I'd prefer.

 

[Porter Stoutheart]

It will take 2 or 3 or 5 years of being in the basement before anybody starts cheering losses earlier in the season.

Today is a "surgical strike". We are 10 meaningless games out from the end of a season where we're already mathematically eliminated. Winning games now only hurts us in the draft order, which only hurts our team for the future.

I could understand if you paid $200 to be in the building and have a fun time and wanted to see the team win. That's a different kind of entertainment experience. But if you're just sitting at home half-watching games while surfing the internet, then winning isn't bringing in any big dopamine hits. I can look at the standings and say the absolute best thing for the franchise is going to be that we go 2-8 down the stretch and pick #3 vs. going 5-5 and picking #6. It's easy math. Losing games will 100% give my team a better chance at being better in the future. Winning games will 100% give my team a worse chance of being better in the future. It's not difficult to pick which I'd prefer.

I say, this but of course watch somebody argue "Karma". Watch the #6 team win the draft lottery if we are slotted #3. I mean, yeah, sure that could happen too, like the MacKinnon draft. So somebody could sit at home and point that out and say "let's just win games". I'm a little more into playing the actual odds and not being superstitious about them, is all.

 

[Adz]

I say, this but of course watch somebody argue "Karma". Watch the #6 team win the draft lottery if we are slotted #3. I mean, yeah, sure that could happen too, like the MacKinnon draft. So somebody could sit at home and point that out and say "let's just win games". I'm a little more into playing the actual odds and not being superstitious about them, is all.

I feel like that's just the Predators way.

When I'm at the arena watching, I want the guys to win. For meeeeeee. But if they don't it's FINE. I can see positives and negatives to both. I don't want the guys to just stop playing, I want them to want to win. But I'd be fine with some unknown ailments to sideline some of them and let them work toward being better NEXT year.

Fence sitting is kind of difficult when it's going on 2 months. Gets splintery.

 

[wmupreds]

It will take 2 or 3 or 5 years of being in the basement before anybody starts cheering losses earlier in the season.

Today is a "surgical strike". We are 10 meaningless games out from the end of a season where we're already mathematically eliminated. Winning games now only hurts us in the draft order, which only hurts our team for the future.

I could understand if you paid $200 to be in the building and have a fun time and wanted to see the team win. That's a different kind of entertainment experience. But if you're just sitting at home half-watching games while surfing the internet, then winning isn't bringing in any big dopamine hits. I can look at the standings and say the absolute best thing for the franchise is going to be that we go 2-8 down the stretch and pick #3 vs. going 5-5 and picking #6. It's easy math. Losing games will 100% give my team a better chance at being better in the future. Winning games will 100% give my team a worse chance of being better in the future. It's not difficult to pick which I'd prefer.

Yeah if I’m at a game I’d rather see a win, at least in my position where I rarely make it to Preds games. Seeing us actually play well and win in Boston a few weeks ago was fun. And nothing against anyone preferring wins all the time.

End of the day, this is a board with some of the more dedicated fans of the team in the world. I suspect the less diehard contingent that probably makes up the majority of Bridgestone on a given night would rather see wins, and don’t follow the draft and team building very closely to begin with.

No judgment on either position regardless

 

[Predation]

It was a good loss. I was encouraged watching Vange and Svechkov and Saros played well. We almost forced overtime, and we lost in regulation while the other teams we are trying to outsuck win. It’s good for the franchise at the end of the day.

 

[Armourboy]

It was a good loss. I was encouraged watching Vange and Svechkov and Saros played well. We almost forced overtime, and we lost in regulation while the other teams we are trying to outsuck win. It’s good for the franchise at the end of the day.

I'd question whether it really is good for the franchise. Every other post is about how we can't draft or develop, so if that's true, then it's just losing with no real benefit.