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bigdog16 said:
Yes he should've gotten a standing O for being an absolutely abysmal coach for this organization. All sunny and rainbows. I swear some people live in a fantasy land
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Did I say any of that? I said he was a shit coach and I was happy he was fired. I just don’t think he needed to be booed. No standing O, no raucous applause. Just don’t boo the guy. Seemed unnecessary to me.
 
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I don't think our locker room is splintered and disjointed, but there are very clear friend groups within the team that hold each other accountable. Problem is that Panarin's group never seems to think that anything they do in the game is part of the problem. They never make any bad decisions, they see it as a failure to execute.

At this point I've given up expecting Panarin and Fox to simplify their games in tight checking hockey. The only way they're gonna learn is through repeated failures until they figure out that they aren't quite as smart as they think they are.

I say all this- Panarin is still the best NYR major free agent signing in the post lockout era. He's a top 5 winger in the league.
 
duhmetreE said:
We'll see how good a leader Trouba is.... hopefully those books he's reading pay off



If they aren't ending practice with suicides, calling them out in the press is 'meh'.
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Totally agree. And benching a 21 year old #2 in the ECF was a fiery, balls (kind of dumb) move. Looks to be paying off now.

He can be fiery when he chooses, I trust him. I am 50/50 on what @Fitzy said, where we may need a better, tougher coach next summer. Time will tell.
 
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SnowblindNYR said:
They at no point last year lost to the worst team in the league. The closest they came was the Coyotes game in Arizona but they were tired and played on the road and won it.
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I meant they were constantly caved for many of the first 30 games last year and who is to say that San Jose is the worst team in the league exactly? It's 5 games into the season. I think the Blackhawks, Ducks, and Arizona are worse. Anyway, it doesn't matter. It's one game and they still managed a point. You have this notion that bad teams can't beat good teams for some reason. It happens all the time.
 
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GENESISPuck94 said:
Read again.

If you take out the outlier (Ducks game) the PP is 3-16. Which is roughly 18%.

The Ducks game can't be taken seriously, that team is tanking for Bedard. The fact the Rangers allowed as many goals as they did in that game is alarming.
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No, I read it correctly the first time. You said it was 3/11 going into the Ducks game, and a 27.3% powerplay would've been the tied with TOR for best in the league last year, and tied at 4th with TOR for the best percentage over the last 5 years.

Conveniently throwing out data you don't like doesn't make your point - which made no sense anyways considering the Sharks are also rebuilding and had no wins going into last nights game - it just means you have horrible confirmation bias.

You have complained after every single game about the roles Laf and Kakko are being used in, yet they're 1st and 4th, respectively, in 5v5 ice time per game for forwards among the team. They're key contributors on a successful team in a winning environment. That seems to be a pretty good indicator that they're developing just fine.
 
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Fitzy said:
I don't think our locker room is splintered and disjointed, but there are very clear friend groups within the team that hold each other accountable. Problem is that Panarin's group never seems to think that anything they do in the game is part of the problem. They never make any bad decisions, they see it as a failure to execute.

At this point I've given up expecting Panarin and Fox to simplify their games in tight checking hockey. The only way they're gonna learn is through repeated failures until they figure out that they aren't quite as smart as they think they are.

I say all this- Panarin is still the best NYR major free agent signing in the post lockout era. He's a top 5 winger in the league.
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Are you working on a novel about NHL fiction?
 
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Fitzy said:
I don't think our locker room is splintered and disjointed, but there are very clear friend groups within the team that hold each other accountable. Problem is that Panarin's group never seems to think that anything they do in the game is part of the problem. They never make any bad decisions, they see it as a failure to execute.

At this point I've given up expecting Panarin and Fox to simplify their games in tight checking hockey. The only way they're gonna learn is through repeated failures until they figure out that they aren't quite as smart as they think they are.

I say all this- Panarin is still the best NYR major free agent signing in the post lockout era. He's a top 5 winger in the league.
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Who would you say the friend groups are?
 
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some of you are truly, epically exhausting people.

that 3rd was legendarily bad, no doubt, but this wouldn't have even cracked the top 20 worst performances by this team last year. Or the year before. Or the year before for that matter.

we were unbeatable 5 calendar days ago and now everyone sucks. smoke a blunt and move on for f***s sake
 
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TominNC said:
Over the course of a seaosn ALL teams blow some points. It's a given fans need to accept yet still overreact to annually.
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Yeah, but not all teams blow points to the worst team in the league. That's the point I'm making. Last year at least we beat the Coyotes and Montreal every time we played them.
 
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SnowblindNYR said:
Yeah, but not all teams blow points to the worst team in the league. That's the point I'm making. Last year at least we beat the Coyotes and Montreal every time we played them.
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If you get your 100+ points and finish near the top of your division it doesn’t really matter how you got thee over 82 games. They’ll bear some good teams too and Igor will steal some too. It’s a long season, we went through all this last year to finish with 110
 
It still bothers me how a Quinn team played aggressive and pressured us to death. Losing to him sucks.
 
Arizona beat Toronto. The 2022-23 Stanley Cup Champion Maple Leafs. Stuff happens. However, it is fun to think about how badly hour faces would have been caved if that was say, Boston or Colorado.
 
This was the first game where Panarin didn't look phenomenal. And I would hardly describe the Sharks as the type of hockey you're going to see in the playoffs.

I would like to see a larger sample with his new linemates.
 
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DialUp said:
Arizona beat Toronto. The 2022-23 Stanley Cup Champion Maple Leafs. Stuff happens. However, it is fun to think about how badly hour faces would have been caved if that was say, Boston or Colorado.
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We probably would have played better if it was them. I think we fell asleep because the Sharks are bad and we had a good 40 minutes.

You can't take it for granted against anybody in this over-coached, hard-cap, equity league.

The Sharks have some great players.
 
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