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Future

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  1. He was awful that first game with Zib and Panarin. His issues are independent of linemates. If the issue was that he was making plays but nobody could finish, that's one thing, but that's not really the problem.
  2. Pretty much how I feel. I think it will take longer than that, but I think the switch will flip pretty quickly. Depending on his linemates, there might not be a ton of points, but I think he'll flip the switch at some point here. Nothing has really gone right for him, and sometimes it just takes a good bounce or something to get it going.
  3. Lol. By and large, I think the defensemen are fine, including Miller and Lundkvist. But I don't think it matters if they don't add a bunch more forwards.
  4. The problem is that Bell wasn't worth his contract at any point, regardless of usage. He's been one of the least efficient players in football, on a per touch base, for years. Yards After Contact and Broken Tackles were both lower than Connor. Bell is only excellent when he has a good OL or is force-fed the ball in space. 5 years ago, he was unique like that. Now, there are probably 15 players in the league who can be as productive and more explosive with the same type of touches (look at SF). Bell is a good chain mover, but that's it, and he needs specific usage to do that.
  5. I'd be surprised if they actually can trade him. Maybe CLE or something gives you a late-rounder, but he's got a high price tag AND two more years.
  6. My opinion is an unequivocal no and I find this thread to be toxic. That's not Phil or the mod position as a whole lol, just to be clear.
  7. I'm still on the fence, because I don't think he does anything to get more out of the roster than the talent suggests. But I will say that it's easy to buy into him because of the way he handles pressers and answers questions.
  8. I know you're directing this at Phil, but he has been much kinder and more open about it than you're giving him credit for. This thread is open simply out of mods (not me) being willing to hear people out, so complaining about the answers is just more of the whining I mentioned earlier. I would have shut this thread down completely before it reached page 2, so have a little perspective probably.
  9. I agree with everything that people have said, more or less, about divisiveness and think this conversation is far, far worse than "silly." It's complaining about a self-inflicted problem...it's like chewing rocks and complaining that your teeth hurt.
  10. There was always a 50/50 shot this happened the second the clause was put in the contract. It doesn't mean much, long term.
  11. Neither one of these happens to the point that it should have any influence l lol. This discussion is wild to me. If you don't like the Politics section...don't go there. Simple.
  12. Agreed. This was true under AV as well. System is pretty irrelevant if you don't skate.
  13. The list of plays where he gives up the puck is a long one. It's why his minutes aren't there.
  14. That's the best question. What if they still suck? They've already hated on AM34 for whatever in the playoffs, that'll be worse without a coach there to blame as well. Babcock has his weird deployments and stuff - like most every coach - but I think he catches more heat than he should. The team he inherited was super young, and the d corps is and has been awful. They aren't built to be a good playoff team, and there isn't much the coach can do about that. If they flame out this year, then yea you probably have to move on, but it's still too early to can him I think.
  15. “Lias has to play faster, from play-to-play,” Quinn said. “He has a tendency to kind of stand up after he does something. He doesn’t have a lot of continuation within his play. He knows that. We’ve talked about it. Those are the things that he’s going to have to do if he’s going to get more minutes and more responsibility.”
  16. I don't care about the message to fans or Marketing lol, I'm talking about a player's perspective. I think Buffalo is a really good example of that. They've cycled through buying and selling every year and part of the problem is that they've just "bought" the wrong pieces, but they've finally been consistent for an entire year.
  17. 4. Even have it for live Letterkenny's hilarious, but only if you're actually paying attention to the dialogue - it's not funny if you just throw it on in the background. It's basically Trailer Park Boys in a different setting.
  18. ha - it's low hanging fruit. Been the same joke about this team for 3 years.
  19. This is asking for special treatment.
  20. Lol. It's amazing how much less mad sabres fans are that Mittelstadt plays less than Sobotka than Lias behind Howden and Strome. Lias would do a lot better playing with Sheary and Vesey than with the District V linemates he currently has, though.
  21. Yes it's too early, etc. etc. But I would also say that playing on a line without Zib is a much better measurement of where he's at. At that price tag, he should be able to carry a line. He's a lot more valuable if he makes Buch and Strome/Howden/Chytil whoever more productive.
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