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MJF said:
How can Shanahan come out of this unscathed? He has to be swept out with Dubas.
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There always seems to be an exec, or three, like Shanahan who can avoid taking the fall for their shortcomings.

I don't know if it is an innate ability or something learned over time, but those guys are like Teflon.

Kind of mind-boggling and maybe they play on ownerships laziness and lack of desire to conduct a new, all-out search for a better candidate?

They convince ownership to make smaller moves, and live to cause more problems down the line.
 
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Who are we pulling for tonight, capitals or Carolina?
 
Throttle said:
CAR is more than likely a playoff team. The Caps, probably playing more for Ovy stats, so better to push them down and out of the way.
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Or root for the caps to keep Carolina from getting too far ahead
 
Throttle said:
One would think so, however, he’s enriched the franchise during his tenure. The ‘owners’ might not want to touch that. He can counter with a plan for a new GM and coach ‘the team is so close, just needs some adjustments, yada’ and the money will keep flowing.
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A pet rock and a frozen pizza could run MLSE and it would still make piles of money…
 
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MJF said:
You’re also describing Brian Cashman.

The Yankees and Maple Leafs seem to operate the same way. Win just enough to sell season tickets and keep the tourists coming to games all year long. Who gives a shit if we don’t win a championship. The tv ratings are high and the sponsors are paying the ad rates.
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Except the Yankees have actually won a few times since color TV became a thing (unlike the Leafs…)
 
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Big L said:
Or root for the caps to keep Carolina from getting too far ahead
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I have Carolina in a small parlay, so I am pulling for the Hurricanes. Of course I think the Caps are vulnerable given their age and injuries, so I think it makes sense to push them down as far as possible.
 
danteipp said:
There always seems to be an exec, or three, like Shanahan who can avoid taking the fall for their shortcomings.

I don't know if it is an innate ability or something learned over time, but those guys are like Teflon.

Kind of mind-boggling and maybe they play on ownerships laziness and lack of desire to conduct a new, all-out search for a better candidate?

They convince ownership to make smaller moves, and live to cause more problems down the line.
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I think the real answer is there is no owner. It’s two telcos who have 75% and an agreement to always vote the same and one dude with 25% who seems to not rock the boat.

The last guy there who had a brain was Tim Leiweke. He was only there a year, but put Shanny, Masai (Raptors) and Bezbatchenko (Toronto FC) in place. Two of the theee won a championship in Toronto. The other guy hired a rookie GM and hasn’t left the first round…

And Masai did it by firing a reigning coach of the year and trading their homegrown franchise player away to get 1 year of Kawhi. Ballsy.
 
JKP said:
Except the Yankees have actually won a few times since color TV became a thing (unlike the Leafs…)
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Cashman’s last WS title was in 2009. The staute of limitations on booing him has expired.
 
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The Real JT said:
I’ll admit it. I’m a lurker when it comes to our ex, PJB.

10 games in he’s doing better than I expected. Dig a little deeper and it’s far less impressive.

10 games and 10 points. Looks good but seven of those points are on the PP. At even strength, he has zero goals and 3 assists. Oh, and he’s -5 on the always popular +/- scale.
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He’s always had passable stats as a 5.5m cap hit, but for a 11M cap hit he barely is passible. Not much of a 5 on 5 asset. Always just under a PPG. But more than that Tavares just screams mediocrity as a Captain and leader. This shows in his lack of success in the playoffs and in general his entire career.
 
MJF said:
How can Shanahan come out of this unscathed? He has to be swept out with Dubas.
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He’s a politician Shanahan probably has a fire a GM card before the headlights are turned on him. But he is the one responsible for hiring Dumbass. Which was a colossal mistake hiring. Never has a GM been handed a young 105 pt team with 28m in capspace and done so little with it.
 
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JKP said:
A pet rock and a frozen pizza could run MLSE and it would still make piles of money…
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Yeah, but the revenue flowing under Shanny vs Burke/Nonis is night and day. He reset the floor of what to expect. That’s a hard thing for MLSE to risk impacting.

He has plenty of excuses that will keep him there. Lou was GM to Advisor, didn’t want to stay as Advisor even though that was his deal. Babcock was removed bc of (insert your opinion here) as coach. So, it’s really positioning that message.

Absent chaos that gets ugly, I’ll go with Shanny stays, Dubas/Keefe get fired at some point. In that situation, I doubt they get a very experienced GM to take the job. It’s pretty obvious Shanny used Lou to set the table for Dubas to be the victor w/Shanny. There was ZERO reason to move on from Lou.
 
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Genuine own goal by Silverberg in San Jose game. Went to sweep puck away from a long way out and produced a great snipe.
 
Now that 15% (approx) of the season done we've learned: The Devils have upset the order of recent years in the Metro (I think the Flyers are going to drop quickly), and the Sabres have become a factor in the Atlantic. Imo at least one of those teams is playoffs-bound, and I could see both making it. Both teams have players (Cozens, to pick one) at the right age to make a jump. Parity is increasing.

It may be early, but it is possible that only one of NYI, WAS, and PIT makes the playoffs.
 
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saintunspecified said:
Now that 15% (approx) of the season done we've learned: The Devils have upset the order of recent years in the Metro (I think the Flyers are going to drop quickly), and the Sabres have become a factor in the Atlantic. Imo at least one of those teams is playoffs-bound, and I could see both making it. Both teams have players (Cozens, to pick one) at the right age to make a jump. Parity is increasing.

It may be early, but it is possible that only one of NYI, WAS, and PIT makes the playoffs.
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It usually happens this way. Most "experts" and fans pick petty much the same playoff teams from the previous year to make the playoffs. And that rarely occurs.
 
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saintunspecified said:
Now that 15% (approx) of the season done we've learned: The Devils have upset the order of recent years in the Metro (I think the Flyers are going to drop quickly), and the Sabres have become a factor in the Atlantic. Imo at least one of those teams is playoffs-bound, and I could see both making it. Both teams have players (Cozens, to pick one) at the right age to make a jump. Parity is increasing.

It may be early, but it is possible that only one of NYI, WAS, and PIT makes the playoffs.
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Boston also hot early, don’t expect that to continue.
 
Nizami Ganjavi said:
It usually happens this way. Most "experts" and fans pick petty much the same playoff teams from the previous year to make the playoffs. And that rarely occurs.
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I guess, I don't really read that stuff. But there's good reason to think that both the Devils & Sabres are both for real.
 
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