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I'm glad the GM didn't tear it down. Appears the guys in the room are, as well!
Sometimes not making a move and telling the team you have confidence they can make a run as is, makes and impact also.
I find it comical that Dallas was the team who went all on acquiring Rantanan, Grundland, and Ceci for three firsts, one second, and one third plus two players, and have gone 3-2-2 since.
Tear down. Idiots.
Nobody not Monty Army or anyone on here saw this coming. That said it’s great to see the transformation- it’s like a switch was flipped
That isn’t true. Monty was the quantum shift. A GM with no clue would not make the trade for Fowler or waive Saad. These were clear signs that this season was not “over”for DA. With Monty’s obvious locker room mojo and the moves mentioned above, by late February you could see we had a very, very good team.
If you didn’t see that… you were too scared to believe, or you are dyed in the wool tanker, or you were not paying steady attention to the changes in their play. It was a tiny bit fitful, but before the Four Nations Tournament, and certainly by the week of the trade deadline, this team was, obviously, deserving of a fair shot.
They went 3-5-1 before the break and were playing some of their worst hockey of the year before the break. Try again
i am NOT talking about the scores. i any talking about the magic of watching a team that had been through the wringer begin to put it together.
You were not really paying attention as they were cleaning up their act, How could you miss the absolute five man juggernaut that began to blossom with the addition of Fowler and the return to speed of Broburg?
it was like a fairy tale and it was thrilling to see it being born.
After checking a bit, it is plain that you were not paying very much attention....
They waived Saad at the very end of January.
That was when they began to blossom.
If you were actually watching, you would have seen that in those four key games after waiving Saad, they were a very different team.
They beat Utah in Utah.
They overcame a 1-0 third-period deficit to the Oilers, storming back to take and then lose the lead- gaining a point in OT before the Conference Champs put them away in OT.
They held the SC Champs to a 2-2 tie... until Tkachuck, Reinhart, and Barkov snuck a winner in with 12 goddanged seconds left in the game.
The final game before the break was the EPIC 20-round shootout that Faksa made the sweet move to take us into the Tournament break with a 2-1-1 record Post-Saad. The OT and Regulation losses were to the two best teams in the National Hockey League last season and they were both by a single goal.
Why don't you try again?
Waiving Saad was the last domino to fall.
I don’t think that waiving Saad is the “magic bullet” you think it is. The team was floundering pre-break and during the break the team rested, Monty had a chance to implement more of his system and the team took off.
He thinks waiving Saad was surrender.
Can't fix stupid.
And for the record every one, the Blues played 4 great games BERFORE the 4 Nations break.
Those were the "Four key games after moving Saad".
They were, also, the last Four Games before the break.
I cannot imagine these posters spent many seasons playing hockey. Watching a top-notch talent like Saad ...half-(donkey) it through 9 games out of 10...is not a look a winning team tolerates, How do they imagine Walker, or Toropchenko, or any of the role-players feel after patching themselves up post-game only to watch Saad shower off an unbruised body... on his way to a blow-drier?
EVERYONE needs to buy- in if you want a glimpse at a Cup- or even a short playoff run.
These were those Four games sandwiched between ejecting Saad and the Four Nations and they were critical.
They beat Utah in Utah.
They overcame a 1-0 third-period deficit to the Oilers, storming back to take and then lose the lead- gaining a point in OT before the Conference Champs put them away in OT.
They held the SC Champs to a 2-2 tie... until Tkachuck, Reinhart, and Barkov snuck a winner in with 12 goddanged seconds left in the game.
The final game before the break was the EPIC 20-round shootout that Faksa made the sweet move to take us into the Tournament break with a 2-1-1 record Post-Saad. The OT and Regulation losses were to the two best teams in the National Hockey League last season and they were both by a single goal.