We are the 2nd youngest team in the league, and we are likely to be even younger next year, so the difference is being patient is a genuine evaluation of what should be done in our rebuild and therefore is hockey talk.
Age doesn't play hockey, hockey players play hockey. Potential doesn’t play hockey, hockey players play hockey.
Kinda my thing. It’s irrational fandom and I love it.
NYI are 2 points of a wild card spot, and would've been tied if they beat us, so they aren't exactly a bottom feeder. But anyways I kind of assumed all the posts about the tank is over because we won were jokes.
Half the fun of having a tank thread is yelling at the Mods to Shut it down whenever we show signs of life.
Which would not put them in the mix. They've been playing for .420 so if they want to get up to 550, a minimum for any bubble team, they're gonna have to post north of 600 for many games in a row.
The tank is going perfectly, what's the problem? Those players have time to improve, there's no rush. MSL is the perfect tank commander right now, what's the issue? We can get a different coach in a few years. Wouldn't it be great to pick top 5 again next draft?
This year draft is going to be very hard to predict. I wonder if one player is going to separate himself from the rest or is going to stay a 4 players race until the end.
The fact is we didn't plan to tank this season, but we saw the team and its players eat shit this year and quickly some have adjusted to say that the tank is going perfectly.
It's true we had some hope to make the playoffs this season, even though so many things had to go right for us. We thought we were further along. But we aren't and we were served a reality check. Sure things have gone wrong, but we're actually better off this way for this season, we need another top 5 pick. We were naive with our expectations for this season. Vegas knew, wasn't the over under for us 76 points?
I think youre right. These next few games - at home - with Laine will likely firm up our trajectory for this season.
They may not have planned to tank but they were certainly more then comfortable with it happening. Yeah the hope was to take another step forward but it was always just a hope that they knew might not come to pass and if it didn't we would have another tank year.
From December 28th to the end of January:
I wouldn’t say Gorton and Hughes were comfortable tanking this season. I think they were expecting a lot more of an impact out of Slafkovsky and Dach. I don’t they expected Suzuki to be inconsistent or Matheson to fall back to earth. They acquired Laine and he was hurt almost immediately and gone for 2 months. Nobody on the blueline had really taken any big steps from the youth. The coaching wasn’t good either. I think it’s safe to say the first 25 or so games didn’t go as planned at all for them.
