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Kraken vs. Leafs - Jan. 29th, 10:00pm - SN

Stolarz swagger is gone. I don’t know WTF can be done. We were close just last year. Tanev is clearly our MVP, we suck without him.
 
ZBBM said:
What's his cell number? It's time he heard from me.
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You could try
1-800-Tres-Bad
or
1-800-DNR-Leaf

Too late for 911

If he looks at the standings, they're 2nd last in the East needing .784 hockey to pass Boston for the final wild card spot.
Treliving is probably delaying the inevitable by feeding him magic numbers ...

Meanwhile, some players are probably evaluating augmenting trade destinations ...
 
cabber24 said:
That's kind of a crazy comment. League's best save percentage last season.
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He's never played more than 34 games in a season and has a very clear injury history and still had a year left on his contract. There's no justification or rush to give him 4 years.

Do we think that from ages 33-37 he's going to have less injuries? And somehow play 40-50 games a season?

So there's nothing crazy about what I'm saying.
 
Bender said:
And it's even more annoying considering we want to root for losses but we're reliving the Kessel trade nightmare, just instead of the 2nd OA pick, it'll be 6th.
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I'm fully expecting us to finish bottom-5 but get bounced out of that pick with someone winning the lottery.
 
I don't agree with people who say you can't change GMs mid-season. I can't believe you can't find a guy to placehold as interim GM with the shortest of leashes to make deadline deals. If Pelley is running the show, let's get on with the re-build.

I don't think the team can be re-tooled. Too many flaws.
 
ZBBM said:
I don't agree with people who say you can't change GMs mid-season. I can't believe you can't find a guy to placehold as interim GM with the shortest of leashes to make deadline deals. If Pelley is running the show, let's get on with the re-build.

I don't think the team can be re-tooled. Too many flaws.
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So who is it? It has to be internal and quite frankly I think the whole GM leadership should be cleaned out except for maybe Hayley Wickenheiser.
 
Joe S. said:
He's never played more than 34 games in a season and has a very clear injury history and still had a year left on his contract. There's no justification or rush to give him 4 years.

Do we think that from ages 33-37 he's going to have less injuries? And somehow play 40-50 games a season?

So there's nothing crazy about what I'm saying.
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It wasn't even really a cost saving contract. It was perfectly fine in terms of value but if Stolarz reproduced his 2024-2025 season where he was one of the best on ice goaltenders but still a guy who only plays 30 games...what he makes 4.5 million instead of 3.75? It wouldn't have been that significant enough of a cost savings.
 
bustaheims said:
He's more of a capologist than a guy who can run a team. I'm not sure we want his first kick at the can to be as important a deadline as this one could very well be.
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I suppose, but OTOH he's by all accounts a smart cookie and I trust him more than Treliving, who has made some pretty dreadful deadline moves already. Anyway, Pelley could set strict boundaries on minimum returns.
 
ZBBM said:
I suppose, but OTOH he's by all accounts a smart cookie and I trust him more than Treliving, who has made some pretty dreadful deadline moves already. Anyway, Pelley could set strict boundaries on minimum returns.
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I think less Pelley involvement is better than more of it, considering his track record. The team would be well served bringing in someone to takeover some of Shanahan's duties and to act as a buffer between the board/Pelley and the GM.
 
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