lightsout

After reflection, Mikko's agent likely fuged everything he from the jump to put Mikko in a more favorable negotiating spot with us. He never liked it here and never wanted to be here, we were a means to an end. Rantanen has the slower play style that much of the league utilizes. Lull teams in, then a couple quick passes leads to an open man for a one timer. We decidedly are not that. Lol

I don't mean this rudely, and I'm sincere in saying that but text often comes off more blunt than I intend. Your criticism of the goal not being a "skill goal", which leads me to believe you use this subjective eye test of goals to differentiate dirty goals from skill goals as a barometer of actual skill or talent, shows that you have a very odd view of hockey. Hockey is a basic fuging sport. Put puck in net without interfering with goalie's body and without raising stick higher than crossbar. How it gets done absolutely does not matter. People see prime Sid and Ovie and McJesus and think "that's what a great player is". No, that's what absurd talent is. That is generational talent we may not see again for years after they're gone. The Canes have been very inconsistent of late since January (10-5 that month). A really bad February (2-5) and so far, a good March (4-1). We don't know what team we're taking into April. The Tampa game will tell us a bit more where we are right now. Rod's system falls apart when teams do a good job of FORCING us into crashing the net. We don't do well with creating shooting lanes and when we do get them, we miss more than any of us would like. I think it's a mentality thing at the end of the day where we have an issue with shrinking when we fail at the good chances too many times. Crashing the net is, was and forever will be a viable scoring method. It's arguably the way most goals are scored. Getting rebounds and firing at open nets is far easier than sniping goalies glove or five hole. But true enough that open shot lanes are needed to be had and capitalized on so we're not hoping for bounces to go our way.

To a hot Bruins team who lost in the SCF to an even better Blues team and then to the team that ran into the Vegas buzzsaw. Call it moral victories but poo, we weren't drummed out by bums. Reaching the playoffs is tough. Doing it 6 straight years is tougher. Winning once there, again, hard. At the end of the day, we're frustrated at having a real good team that isn't putting it together in the playoffs lol

Top 10 goalie 3-4 guys who are scoring on pace with the average teams best scorer, save for a few studs. Team positioned safely in the playoffs as long as they don't blow key games this month. Absolute meltdown by people for some reason. I get not enjoying getting to the dance and then failing to go to a cup every year for the last 6 years....but we've made the conference finals twice in the last 6 years. 33% of the time since 2019, we're a top 4 NHL team. Again, perspective. This team reminds me a lot of 2019. It's all about putting it together and scoring consistently. If they can do it, they're gonna be really dangerous. Especially given our goaltending being typically strong.

2nd in the metro, 5th in the East and within striking distance of 2nd isn't exactly a crap team. You're losing perspective man.

Could always flip the value of the picks for other players. It's value. And it is damn fine value given what we gave up in the initial trade that started this whole debacle. This is absolutely best case scenario

We got 2 firsts and 2 thirds. The fug are you on?

Seen enough. Snag him as early as you need to from round 2 on. Downhill LB who brings a strong hit, has the dawg look, has the athleticism, can read through the OL and know his responsibility. Exactly what we need.

I've never seen a team so clearly laden with talent struggle at scoring consistently to this extent

It's still real to me dammit! But seriously, how much can a producer really influence here? Seemed like any drama was related to direct interaction or reaction to task performance. For sure they are told to play to the cameras, make it interesting, but I push this closer to fear factor than survivor.

Yeah but I tend to think these kinds of shows are ran straight moreso than something like a Real Housewives or Jersey Shore deal where they are pitting people against each other. All the drama here I think was legitimate between the people involved. Obviously, when you have outsiders in a simulation of a training (which is notably different than an actual training), some of the tension they want to generate in the tasks is going to be lost because the participant has to actively engage mentally with it. I don't think Cam often did. I think the end kind of showed that because he wasn't putting himself mentally in the "I've been captured, I could die here" space. He was "I am cam Newton. This is a show. These people aren't gonna kill me and I'm not gonna take disrespect" (as he stated several times in the show). Brody got a WAY more intense final test and handled. Props to him lol

To be fair ...our gripe is timely goals when we need em. In terms of scoring overall...we are doing far better than most teams. Like top 6 in the league in goals for. This is a good problem to have. We're griping that we're less dominant than we should be. There's a reason record in the last 10 games is a stat tracked. Lol

I don't know what is going on in the system. The biggest argument for Rod's system was always tough forecheck and not giving up too many good chances to the opponent, rip enough shots and play dirty hockey in front and down low, win. I think of the 12 teams with most games played in the playoffs, we gave up the least amount of goals. But we just can't generate scoring against contenders and I refuse to believe it is because our guys are incapable of scoring. There's something funky with the way we're setting up. I think it's just that we have played this style so consistently that teams are adjusting and finding answers to it and Rod has not enough set plays and gameplans that deviate from dump and chase or carry and look for a crosser or netfront. Rod has to figure it out. We have insane talent on this team and if we don't start putting up goals, we're going to languish as perennial contenders who can't get it done.

The best part about these sort of things is that in explaining them, they sound truly awful lol.

This is a ballsy move. I like it.

A strong line can hide bad linebackers. A strong LB core can hide a bad line. I say we address our LB situation first. Sick and tired of seeing every fuging one all season catching and not getting their ass downhill. You don't run parallel to the line and wait for the ball carrier to come at you.

Bryce ripping a field throw on 1st and 25 and hitting an absolute dot for a first was cold as fug too. Also throwing the ball well before people are open, sheer anticipation. Bryce is really trying to be that guy and I'm here for it. Hope he continues working and comes out at this level next season. I need dawg Bryce for 18 weeks.

He's made us into a competitive football team in one season. Literally what you want a new coach to do. It's not about wins until 3-5 years in. That is when you don't accept "we were a handful of plays from the wildcard". Fix the d and improve and he succeeds next season too.

Because slander will not stand. We have 2 players who are playing at or above 1 PPG average: Necas and Aho. Necas, Aho and Svech have ripped more shots than anybody on the team and at a decent percentage (not great, but decent). Those 3 (39 goals total) + Roslovic (17, leading team) are our only double digit goal scorers. We need a line shake up. We have a lot of good guys in +/- but those guys aren't scoring. Playing great D is good but we need some offensive consistency. The lines aren't productive, yet we have productive guys on the roster. Spread that wealth, stop relying on 1.5 lines to get our scoring. We're not dangerous in our back 6 but we're tough defensively.

Not when we need it game in and game out, but we are a top 6 team in scoring currently for the year. Also one of the better defensive teams in the league. It's easy to think the world is on fire during a skid (5-4-1 in our last 10 is a skid for us) and that's fine. But let's not lose perspective. We just need to start finding our guaranteed two goals per game. That is what playoff teams do.

Whoa brother. Might wanna look around the league. Canes are sitting in a fuging good spot, even not playing optimally. It's a long season. We're in January. Holler at me in March if we're falling short to *checks stats* a top 3 Western Conference team. Lol

Thielen ain't getting younger. Gonna need a 3rd wr and there's good talent to be had this year.

Tough to play a team that isn't awful with your stud RB out, your hopeful future RB out, and your defense can't stop a child from getting a cookie jar. Bucs absolutely showing our weakness on D. Offense looks worse because of it. On to next week

Time to give some guys eval reps

At 1, you take whatever high grade wr is there. After that you're running straight defense. Secondary and linebackers need an overhaul. Pick up an edge guy if there's one there that you value much higher than any LB.