[Lara Emily]

BTW here is how you exploit the ELC thing:

You fill your bottom 6 with ELC, maybe even your bottom 2 D
then that gives you 56 milion to spend on 10 players and 2 goalies.

Allowing you to spend on average of 4.6 million per player, even more if you have like a few prospects that might be top line material.

Also back to coaches,coaches have systems they like to run, having the GM walk in and say no do this system doesn't mean all of a sudden that coach is going to know how to coach that style. Coaches also can lose the lockeroom and when that happens, there's really fuck all the coach can do

As for Therrien vs Bylsma yes there was a difference. Therrien was a very D first stay back don't take big chances passive sort of coach. It often resulted in the Pens spending a lot of time in their own zone. Bylsma was a much more be aggressive offensively sort of coach, this resulted in a lot more puck possession in the offensive zone, stronger forchecking much more more pressure in the defensive zone on opposing players, the downside is it lead to an increase in oddman rushes going the other way but the Pens had a great goalie in Fleury and solid D to break those up.


And fans do love it, they are often standing on their feet going nuts during shootouts, like I said I don't like them personally but they aren't going anywhere and my problem was with you boycotting hockey over it for 3 years which is just silly.