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Forum: Armchair-GM7 hours ago
Thread: Imagine if Hextall Didnt Ruin The Team
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Haymaker26</b></div><div>And I think that's where my criticisms mostly lie. We can make these ACGMs of "oh, what if Hextall didn't make mistakes" and they undo his bad moves instead of replacing them with good ones. In hindsight, we have the cap space to add to this team, and we'd still have our '24 1st to use for an upgrade if we didn't make the Karlsson deal. The team wouldn't necessarily be better if Hextall didn't screw everything up, but it would have the assets and cap to make additions and be decisively better.</div></div>

I didn’t use that space to add to the team because that’s not the point of what I’m doing. The point t of why I made this was to show how he made horrendous decisions that are unforgivable. The Marino trade was unforgivable. Letting McCann go was unforgivable. I know the Matheson trade had its defenders but I wasn’t among them. I’d rather have the Matheson Marino pairing right now than have EK. This team didn’t need EK. That’s obviously the work of the current regime but if Marino was still here we wouldn’t have had much of a reason to add EK. Likewise, if Hextall was never our GM the team is obviously very different right now. I can’t use the cap space to make this fiction come to life. The point was to demonstrate the awful hand Dubas received.
Forum: NHLSun. at 7:21 p.m.
Thread: 2023-2024 NHL Discussion Thread #6: The Quest for Lord Stanley's Cup
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>HockeyScotty</b></div><div>Latvia, Denmark, Norway, France, and Austria are getting more competitive they just need those couple of elite players or quality depth like Germany and Switzerland to have a cinderella type run in a tournament.

England, Poland, and Japan would be awesome countries for ice hockey too</div></div>

The Brits and Poland are definitely on the rise to varying degrees. Norway is another one that I really want to see take the next step. France and Italy are probably the most frustrating because if they cared more they could put together teams comparable to the Germans and Swiss. I don’t know why Estonia and Lithuania can’t follow Latvia’s example? Most of Europe could be at least competitive if the interest grows. As far as Asia goes, Japan would be great but if that was going to happen I think it would have followed the Nagano Olympics when the country went into love move with Hasek and Jagr.
Forum: Armchair-GMSun. at 2:51 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMSun. at 2:42 p.m.
Thread: new coach and redvolution
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>BigVuVu</b></div><div>not to mention that Canes are like 0/20 on PP. this is unacceptable vs any nhl goalie. RBA and Jeff Daniels are responsible for that.

Also why is Jarvis playing on 3rd line? Why is KK playing? RBA is questionable</div></div>

I’m a pens fan who watched the most depressing PP all season. You can only blame coaching to an extent for that when the players who have a track record of executing the PP aren’t doing it anymore. Your PP was top of the league and then it went to crap. The same players are out there. That has to be on them. If the PP is crap all season and no adjustments are made then get ticked at the coaching. And why wouldn’t KK play? It’s not like he’s some stiff out there like Reaves.