Keirik

Mika for trivia?

Probably lol

Until 2030 . Maybe you’ll have closed on your house by then

8.5m for Zibanejad starting next year

Where the fuck is Rooney going? Why would j3 peel off the guy driving to the net?

Gallant strikes me as the kind of guy that will make minimal moves rather than reconfigure all lines at once.

True. He usually shits all over the ice most games

There’s that center ice dangle from Alf lol

Yes, it is nice to see Howden back……in another teams jersey

Here. We. Go.

I hate that stupid unicorn commercial

Wreaking havoc on fantasy hockey teams everywhere

Agreed. But this goes to the point of an Alf reset. If he can’t even get in the top 6 when his exact position opens up in a top 6 spot then I think the Alf reset is even more necessary.

Yeah I don’t know about that. He is a garbage center but we lost a LW in our top 6 and have a 1OA LW sitting on the third line. The natural move is to just slot ALF up, unless the coach feels Alf really isn’t doing enough things right.

I have issue with the RVP being “forced out.” He just wanted to play for a winner

The fact that Chytil is bumped up to the 2nd line instead of Alf should be as telling as any of us need to see. Kid must not even be practicing well.

He sees pp2 time on the ice. It doesn’t get as much time, rightfully so, as pp1 but he still averages a minute and a half pp time per game. Alf hasn’t even registered a pp point yet in his entire NHL career. I’m not sure why we are cherry picking his stats with this idea of “only two guys on the team with more goals than he” as if this means too much. Sure, this is technically true but he’s 9th on the team in points. Hell, he has one more point than Rooney who also has 6 goals along with Alf. Should Rooney replace someone on pp1?

I think both sides made some horrible mistakes and in the end, we all pay for it. After some time with this club, I genuinely believe Gallant when he says he’s learning our makeup as we go. In other words, no handed spots for the most part unless you are seriously established. I think there could been some better realistic communication to our highly touted prospect. He deserved. He deserved than as much as ALF deserved to be automatically on the team despite doing nothing. But here we are.I don’t care what Krav camp says about never being here. When it’s him time and khl over you invite and expect him to show. Period.

If it allows me to lose weight while still having beer then sure

The thing is, they don’t. They are too old and too slow to go on some magical 10 game win streak. They were the best coached in the league before. Now they are steps older with a slightly weaker team. Sinking ship.

I think there is that worry of what happens if he goes 10 games with 1 goal 2 assists in Hartford. But that’s a risk I’m willing to take. If he’s legit, it shouldn’t be something we worry about. And if he doesn’t perform down there then we aren’t any worse than we are here.

I’m sure there are stats out there sure, but I’m not sure if that matters. No team out there is saving their top shutdown D pair for the Alf line either last year or this year. As @Pete said, ALF has at times been given opportunities with other lines and hasn’t really shown too much. Even if we tried to say his production is less than it could be if given better linemates, it still doesn’t change his own efforts or just lack of anything explosive at all. It’s not like he’s standing out on the third line where it’s blatantly obvious there is eliteness in him. If there is, it’s buried deep inside. I think the point is that I it seems like we are looking at every other reason as to why Alf isn’t being Alf. We are really doing a disservice to the kid. I really believe he needs a reset and I personally believe the best one is a stint away from the team at Hartford just so he can remember his own gifted talent. It’s just not happening right now.

We are complaining about his line mates when the guy drafted 1OA is supposed to be elevating other guys on his line, not the other way around. He gets the benefit of playing against easier matchups as well since our top 6 is a damn good top 6. It is what it is. If his reset isn’t going to happen then so be it but he’s certainly not on the cusp of breaking out with this current path and he’s done nothing to hint that he deserves more.

I’m not saying we are making a ton of excuses for Alf but we certainly are making a ton of excuses for him

Lol think I said that in the gdt. He’s got a good dangle when he’s at center ice about to dump it for sure