it’s because they’re the greatest team ever and no other reason.

also please crop out the last few columns

Guy who is demonstrably good at one side of the ball and can throw money at the other side of the ball does seem to work decently often.

Also where are you getting historical SP+ data from? I always find this to be super annoying to track down. Not sure if I’m missing a trick.

you’re never gonna believe this but

They’re gonna hire Derek Lalonde somehow I can feel it. Dump and chase football baby

Would you rather have Wommack or Wink at this stage because, uh, nonzero chance that is a decision made here shortly

Yeah. My main concern is the high school recruiting never actually got much better under Lea, and I still think that’s really important for program consistency.

I think he’d be an upgrade, but it would be hard not to be I think

It's not just low quality shots either. Here's his xG/60 for the last 5 years:

2021: 1.1
2022: 1.1
2023: 1.1
2024: 1.3
2025: 1.7

He's genuinely having the best season of his career by basically every metric.

(Also yeah I concede the baseline wasn't nearly as bad when Franklin stepped in versus when Lea got there, and that's a good sign for what Lea eventually got done.)

Don't disagree, but I still hesitate on the fact that it took until year 4 for them to be appreciably better than normal and until year 5 to exceed what James Franklin did there in all 3 of his years there.

I think he's a reasonable idea, but there's a couple minor warning lights

Think in the modern nhl it’s just way easier to find good depth pieces than find a star. The latter can *only* be found in the draft or trade.

Yeah I have no idea. If they simply traded him to NJ, yeah I was expecting the Hamilton cap dump might make a lot of sense. Wouldn’t hate Parayko. If Morgan Reilly wants out I might be interested. He’d look good next to Seider I think.

Yeah I just think reading the tea leaves and how his family works, I think he probably would have extended here. And that would be enough for me to roll the dice. Then yeah if it works you take a run at Jack in a couple years.

Well, he’s clear cut above him the same way Rossi is clear cut above Danielson.

Will the younger players surpass the older players in the next 5 years? That I don’t know. Maybe