Wings +/- players in the positive Kasper even Watson +1 Soderblom +2 Copp +4 Edvinsson +15 Not bad for a 22 year old rookie
I can only laugh that guys like Berggren and Compher have seemingly stepped up now that the season is over.
Gotta love McClellan pretty much calling the team dog shit after the game and saying it was horrible season.
Are you asking what our record is next season? Nobody can predict that right now. If we had him over entire season this year, we still miss the playoffs. The team still sucked ass.
26-18-4 under McLellan which is a 95.6 point pace which has us in the playoffs I think that's what you were asking
That is what I was asking, thank you. Vine seems overly negative about the McClellan experiment, which seemed substantially positive.
we lost 11 of 14 back in March knocking us out of playoffs. There are no positives to come out of this season. And I haven’t said anything negative about him either. Team is a dumpster fire and will miss playoffs again next year.
Lucas Raymond pre 4 Nations vs post 4 Nations 59 points in 55 games (1.07 PPG) 21 points in 27 games (.78 PPG)
ASP with a primary PP assist on a Lombardi snipe 10-game suspensions for AnJo and Buium for leaving the bench during a line brawl?
2023 6th round pick Rudy Guimond continues his perfect season. Up to 21-0-0 with Moncton. 1.81 GAA and a .936 SV%. Moncton has been rotating their goalies until tonight where Guimond got his second start in a row after the other guy lost game 3. Just won the second round of the QMJHL playoffs.
he will never make it to the show. Cossa having worst year than last too. Augustine regressed too. Not a good year for the goalie prospects.
Cossa’s been remarkably consistent the past two seasons, each playing 40+ games. .913 and 2.41 and .911 and 2.45
Just a reminder that Tarasenko, Chiarot, Holl, Gustafsson, and Mrazek are still under contract for next season, 19.65 mil of worthless players.
I thought of including them and Ras, but I didn't want to be too negative. Ras is a surprise addition because he was low key ass this year after having a strong 23-24.
Copp was fine this year as a 3C and his injury was one of the main reasons we had such a poor March. Just can’t have Copp and Compher as your middle 6 centers because that means one of them has to be 2C and neither are 2Cs at this point.
Which therein lies the point, you can't have 11 mil tied up in 2/3 of a theoretical fine 3rd line if the you're setting another 20 mil on fire with shitty players.
Thankfully Kasper showed that it appears he can be the 2C we hoped he’d become, unfortunately we lost out on a lot of points with Lalonde putting him on the 4th line and management leaving Soderblom in GR for half the season.
Larkin’s comments about not getting help at the TDL are blowing up today. Yzerman definitely will have to respond whenever he does his season ending availability. And for the record, Larkin was wrong for those comments. Can’t expect help when your team nosedives yet again before the deadline.
Larkin frustration is clearly boiling over this year and honestly I can't blame him. He clearly thought they should have switched coaches way earlier, clearly wasn't happy they didn't add any help. He has got to be sick of it at this point, the lack of any urgency to improve at anything other than a snails pace
I think he’s a fine 1C but certainly he isn’t to the level that could carry this roster to contention. I am starting to wonder about his leadership, though. I think he’s justified if he’s frustrated with the direction of the team. Similarly I think Yzerman is justified if he’s frustrated with his Captain. We are getting to a point where an amicable divorce actually feels possible, though unlikely. I do think what Larkin said was egregious enough that Yzerman should consider stripping him of the C. I just don’t know why he would say what he said, when neither he nor the team were producing leading up the the TDL.
I can’t imagine that pulling the C off his sweater would improve things. He’d 100% need to be traded.
I’ve long worried about his leadership. He’s a whiner a la the first decade of Crosby. Terrible to the rest of the team having that as your leader. Either get mad or get even, don’t complain. Soft and weak. He’s still a middle tier 1C
Larkin is a fucking cry baby bitch. Strip the C from him or trade his ass. Certified loser that hasn’t won shit year in 9 years. At least Stafford made the playoffs. He’s worst than him.
Idk, I'm kind of happy someone in this organization is willing to show frustration with what we are getting on the ice right now. I can't take another offseason of every one acting like it's OK to keep staying in neutral. Maybe he went too far, but he's played with some absolute shit his entire nhl career, I'd be frustrated too
I’m down for it Just don’t think it’s likely Think it’s so fucked up to have a hard cap allegedly then pay some guy almost twice as much as the captaincy