The Devils's disastrous season gives me a bit of hope, because that team is loaded with studs in their prime who have already shown they can win a playoff series together, but a combination of awful goaltending, unlucky injuries, and lack of coaching structure brought them almost as low as us. Statistics: Posted by Germz — Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:31 pm ..read more

MP wrote: I think Celebrini fixing our top 6 very nicely, in a year or so you can move Stu back to the wing. Otherwise I'm hoping they take another defenseman. I still hope we move on from Chabot and retool the team with Sanderson and Chychurn. My counter-argument to your points is as follows: 1. I think Stu looks a lot better at centre, where his nimbleness and unpredictability has more room and is more valuable. 2. I prefer Chabot to Chychrun. Chabot is less prone to making dumb decisions. Chychrun is better offensively but more than gives that advantage away with his defensive play. He ..read more

I think Celebrini fixing our top 6 very nicely, in a year or so you can move Stu back to the wing. Otherwise I'm hoping they take another defenseman. I still hope we move on from Chabot and retool the team with Sanderson and Chychurn. Statistics: Posted by MP — Sat Apr 20, 2024 12:13 pm ..read more

Oh yah, and a healthy Josh Norris on the wing. I want the C's to be Stutzle, Pinto, and Greig/veteran. Statistics: Posted by RTWAP — Thu Apr 18, 2024 10:35 pm ..read more

A reason for optimism is that the problems with the team seem kind of obvious and most are within the power of the GM to fix. Complementary RD with very good defensive ability Veteran depth for the bottom 9 forwards A coach who knows what he's doing Better goaltending* * That last one is hard because I doubt they'll buy out Korpi, but maybe they should. If not then the hope for goaltending improvement would be having the players play much better in front of them. We saw some glimpses of that in the last month or so. Actual games that were actually "stolen" by the Sens goalie. Whaaaat! I'm a ..read more

2024 Offseason has begun. It's another offseason for this sad-sack franchise and I really have no thoughts about what needs to be done. I almost think our best-case scenario is that Andlauer is able to bring in a proper coach for once, after years of Melnyk hiring unproven guys on the cheap, and for Norris to go on LTIR indefinitely to give Staios or a new GM the cap room to make some moves. But even those changes only address a handful of the problems with this team. I found reasons for optimism the past two off-seasons, but this year, morale is low. So maybe this is the year they finally t ..read more

It can be both bad scouting and a bad GM. Really, it comes down to ownership. And look at Melnyk now. Statistics: Posted by FH2002 — Wed Apr 17, 2024 12:10 am ..read more

senate wrote: Once Dorion decided he wanted someone, I don't think a scout's opinion mattered anymore. It was the same thing when we got Bobby Ryan. Statistics: Posted by MP — Tue Apr 16, 2024 5:16 pm ..read more

Once Dorion decided he wanted someone, I don't think a scout's opinion mattered anymore. Statistics: Posted by senate — Tue Apr 16, 2024 2:20 pm ..read more

Dodged a bullet on a long term deal, but shitty scouting cost Ottawa a 1st rd pick. Statistics: Posted by FH2002 — Tue Apr 16, 2024 12:25 am ..read more