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  1. Not that I don't think Hughes being able to bring elite skating and puck possession the likes we have never seen... Having an offensive center with a 200 foot game as dogged in his own end as he is ok offense , winning the hardest shot as a forward, is about as unheard of as it gets to be honest. Hard not the pick Pete first over Hughes imho
  2. All comes down to drafting... you draft poorly and your rebuild/retool will stall forcing you to either wallow in misery or sign UFA players chasing big dollars. Or you trade for players you feel can develop into the players you want/need IE Miller. Doesn't always work obviously but better odds than drafting imho. What amazes me the most when I read these threads is how blindly people believe trading good players for draft picks is guaranteed to produce an NHL player. MY personal take is that you always focus on drafting quality players and surround them with NHL players to develop/mentor/insulate your draftees. But ultimately whether you draft, sign or trade for a quality NHL player, all hard to do, once you find those players... You don't trade them away for hopes, dreams and unicorns... Miller seems to be the target of this traditits... A skilled center who can skate, hit, shoot, score and has a chip on his shoulder and had done nothing but produce for us. I shake my head... he is already developed... trading for a younger version who "might" develop or draft picks that are a crap shoot... I shake my head...
  3. Just making a lame joke based on your user name...
  4. Meh sorry was a long time ago... just remeber that mean back end with diduck and dirk etc.
  5. Who knows the actual back story, media quotes aside, I doubt anyone here really knows what went on. A lot of people, never mind hockey players, do not figure their stuff out mentally until their late twenties... From a pure hockey standpoint, adding a defense man of his size, speed and wingspan on an nhl rink, if your scouts green light him defensively it would be a no brainer to add a piece like try.
  6. Only one way to look at it, if you keep OEL and you feel he plays like a 2Mill player you are already carrying a 5mill dead cap hit... So move on? What is the difference.
  7. No... Just no... Even at league minimum the guy has the rep of being a douche and a poor sport... not the leadership a young team needs
  8. Stay away. Any player has a right to his UFA years, to demand the ability to choose your preferred team before your UFA rights come up, simply flies in the face of the CBA agreed to between the league and the players union. And imho agent should be ashamed for leaking this, sure it applies pressure for Winnipeg to move him now, but ties their hands if every team knows PLD only wants Montreal. And Montreal can just sit there knowing in the end Winnipeg has to accept whatever they get for assets back....
  9. Puts up decent point totals but is a - player in his NHL career, last year was the first time he was + for an NHL season. Jersey was/is a young team and it is a team sport in regards to +/- totals, But is it a red flag. I've never watched the NJD play much so I have no idea what is behind those minus seasons.
  10. As I said at the end of my post I believe in drafting and developing as well. There is no salary cap on scouting and development budgets. But that being said, trading picks for an NHL caliber player already developed is still a win. The picks used have no guaranteed success like some people seem to bemoan the loss of. A lot of picks never pan out... All I'm saying is getting that NHL player on your roster via draft picks or via trading draft picks is still the end goal and a win for the organization.
  11. Think it's a mistake to assume draft capital simply translates into nhl players in the future. It's way to easy to say if we had those picks we would have this many NHL players. This only works if you have great scouting staff and a solid development system, then you can and should horde your draft picks and gain trade capital as your prospects push their way into your NHL roster. In my opinion if you trade picks for an NHL player it's really no different than one of your picks developing into an NHL player. Both are gambles but if either scenario nets you a NHL player that's a win. Personally I lean towards a draft, develop and trade system but JR is looking to shore up the supporting cast quickly and that means trading what capital he has...
  12. Not like I really care one way or the other... But can't help but point out that you're asking for "evidence" to why she was fired, while accepting someone's word with no real evidence either... Can't really have it both ways can you? Nobody knows what went on behind closed doors period. Def not some reporter speculating... Demanding evidence from someone, when you have zero evidence of your side of the argument, is not a good starting point for a constructive debate. And if your talking "evidence", the only actual evidence is she was fired from two teams... Usually when you get fired from an organization something didn't fit. And twice?
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