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Management UPDATE: Steve Staios GM and POHO, Dave Poulin Senior VP of Hockey Operations

Loach said:
DJ wouldn't have used this roster right and the younger players wouldn't have learned to play a better kind of hockey under him. The new additions would have flamed out. I know you like to keep the conversation going, but DJ wouldn't have got the same results.
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So... you're right because you say so, great talk.
 
Micklebot said:
Buffalo is where they are because of special teams, they have the 7th worst combined special teams in the league. They have the 13th best GF% in the league 5v5. Fix the PP and PK and they'd likely make the playoffs.
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Which is why I say a system is most important. Special teams are more system dependant than pure skill, for example.
 
Bjornar Moxnes said:
Which is why I say a system is most important. Special teams are more system dependant than pure skill, for example.
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Disagree

Pk is probably 70% goaltending, 30% system. There aren't a lot of differences one team once the zone is gained, you see most of the difference in how they try to deny entry.

Pp is more about execution that the system itself imo. A few set plays where if the passes are crisp you'll make things happen, if they aren't you'll be stuck moving the puck around the outside.

They've got the 4th best record in the league since the trade deadline, their pp has been a big part of that, system didn't change, they are just executing.
 
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Micklebot said:
Disagree

Pk is probably 70% goaltending, 30% system. There aren't a lot of differences one team once the zone is gained, you see most of the difference in how they try to deny entry.

Pp is more about execution that the system itself imo. A few set plays where if the passes are crisp you'll make things happen, if they aren't you'll be stuck moving the puck around the outside.

They've got the 4th best record in the league since the trade deadline, their pp has been a big part of that, system didn't change, they are just executing.
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Keep up the Great Talks. Doing a great job of disputing everything everybody says...but you call it a talk.
 
Staois has been awesome so far as GM. His best move was bringing in Ullmark, who finally added in some much needed stability to the net. His .911SV% ranks him T-7th in goalies with 40+ GP and he’s “stolen” us the second most games in the league with 8.

Remember last season, we probably would have made the playoffs with .900SV% goaltending. Our goalies allowed goals on the first shots of the game at an insanely high rate meaning we were always chasing the game.

And what did we give up in return? Kastelic, who started hot, but only had 7 points after October. A late 1st round pick, who turned into a C with only 3 points (all assists) in 36 games for Boston College. And they took on a brutal contract, although we had to retain $1M. Korpisalo had a .891SV% this season in Boston.
 
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Rhaegar Targaryen said:
Staois has been awesome so far as GM. His best move was bringing in Ullmark, who finally added in some much needed stability to the net. His .911SV% ranks him T-7th in goalies with 40+ GP and he’s “stolen” us the second most games in the league with 8.

Remember last season, we probably would have made the playoffs with .900SV% goaltending. Our goalies allowed goals on the first shots of the game at an insanely high rate meaning we were always chasing the game.

And what did we give up in return? Kastelic, who started hot, but only had 7 points after October. A late 1st round pick, who turned into a C with only 3 points (all assists) in 36 games for Boston College. And they took on a brutal contract, although we had to retain $1M. Korpisalo had a .891SV% this season in Boston.
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Truly an incredible move.

Ullmark has absolutely abysmal playoff numbers, though, our playoff success will depend on him.
 
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ReginKarlssonLehner said:
Truly an incredible move.

Ullmark has absolutely abysmal playoff numbers, though, our playoff success will depend on him.
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You’re right, but

1) It’s only 10 games.. extremely small sample size

2) Those 10 games are over 3 playoff seasons, and 2 of them were 1 and 2 starts each. Very hard to get any sort of rhythm in 1-2 games, except in 2022-23…

3) … where he was apart of a pretty big collapse. But according to Icydata, Ullmark finished the series with a 0.35 GSAA, which implies that while he wasn’t going out there winning games, he also wasn’t going out there losing them. The Panthers turned into a team possessed after going down 3-1, winning 12 of their next 13 games.

Maybe he’ll falter in the playoffs. But he’s only had one real series, where he was pretty average.
 
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Nac Mac Feegle said:
Chychrun and Washington is really some kind of alternate universe thing clashing with our own. On paper, there no way the Caps should be a top 3 team in the league. No way. Especially with ooooold Ovie leading the way. (As much as I like the guy, it's true...dude can barely move out there half the time this year.) Chych....I don't see him keeping up, either. I have a feeling next season that team is going to crash, and crash hard.
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They added Roy and Chychrun, Protas and McMichael broke out, they got a goalie in Logan Thompson, Dubois found his game again. Maybe not #1 in the East but that’s veerry good roster right now.
 
Micklebot said:
Disagree

Pk is probably 70% goaltending, 30% system. There aren't a lot of differences one team once the zone is gained, you see most of the difference in how they try to deny entry.

Pp is more about execution that the system itself imo. A few set plays where if the passes are crisp you'll make things happen, if they aren't you'll be stuck moving the puck around the outside.

They've got the 4th best record in the league since the trade deadline, their pp has been a big part of that, system didn't change, they are just executing.
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There could be a way to settle this:

- compare a team's special teams that changed coaches (and system) but kept the same personnel before and after the coaching change.
- compare a team that kept the same coach but change its personnel, before and after the personnel change.

Hard to do that in our recent case, since we changed our goalie AND our coach between last year and this year.

Either way, there's so much variability year-to-year. A goalie can be good one year and turn to crap the next, etc. Norris can have the best one-timer one year and have a noodle arm the next, etc.
 
Ottawa hasn’t accomplished anything.

But, I think they have shown teams like Buffalo and Detroit , similar young, expensive core teams, possibly a blueprint.

Goalie is obvious.

But , surrounding pieces around your core, pieces that get the core’s attention, are key.

Amadio, Perron, Jensen.

Those two franchises have to find similar pieces. Or keep them.
 
CallSaul said:
Logan Thompson is closer to Anton Forsberg than he is to Linus Ullmark.
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Icelevel said:
Not true. playoff performance is important.
Overall Thompson might be the better goalie next year and beyond.
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Erik Alfredsson said:
Korpisalo played 55 last year.

Ullmark is a significantly better goalie than Thompson.
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bert said:
Thompson isn't Ullmark. All I'm saying
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No, he definitely is not.
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