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  1. Looking at the depth chart if they can get a top 4d things could be pretty positive for Ottawa. Man the Atlantic is going to be tough. Could be some Teams like Boston or Washington that drop out of the playoff picture in the east.
  2. It’s like Dubas asked himself what’s the most sensible thing we can do and chose to do the exact opposite.
  3. Canucks fans whining about non tendering 4th liners and capitals didn’t qualify Samsonov after trading their 1A goalie last week lol
  4. Still a great player but I agree if you want to take him on you better have a deep team as he’s not likely going to play a full schedule
  5. Would rather see him play European pro league than WHL. Competition will be stronger and preparation of the PRO game will help the player progress more quickly.
  6. His offensive production isn’t all that different than it was in Dallas. The issue was everyone’s expectations that he would be better with more opportunity. Needs to be shutdown player to be contribute to team winning. 25 points in a 80 game run is probably peak of production.
  7. With better backup goaltending and full camp from everyone no reason to expect team isn’t playoff bound
  8. Exactly top4 d might be the hardest assets to acquire and take years to develop if drafted. OEL is going nowhere but canucks training camp later this summer
  9. Tough call for the Habs, I think Wright will be a good player but not sure he will be a star player. I kind of see him as more of a Horvat type Center maybe a little more play making.
  10. Maybe what I was getting at was lost. I think a few of those guys we would see as future depth were drafted in the last 3 years. Some of the backfill will be college free agents and European free agents. The drafted component for the depth players is probably only 1/3 lots of sources for those types of players.
  11. I’d say look no further than the Sedins they had a unreal peak for 2 years and were point per game guys for a couple 3 seasons afterwards. Probably not many examples of guys with late peaks that sustained top production for 5 additional seasons. Probably 1-2 more 85-100 point seasons then a reduction there after to a 65-85 point clip.
  12. I think that is a little overblown. Depth guys will be integrated as roster players as 22-24 year olds and you are realistically only adding 1 maybe 2 players of that Ilk to the active roster each season. At the level we are getting to it takes a pretty special prospect to supplant a top 6 forward or top 4 dman the one glaring need being RD which I expect will be addressed this off season. The depth players we need are the role players now. Alvin and Rutherford did a pretty good job finding those guys for Pitt and hopefully can do the same here. We also have a pretty decent volume of players drafted over the last 3 years and they can’t be written off yet.
  13. It’s a challenge to build a team when you have a player that isn’t invested in winning with the group the same way the other players are “all in” as opposed to “in it for me”. Has PLD ever declared where is prime destination is?
  14. Exactly, we went through enough years with weak defence who can’t move the puck. Let’s not go back.
  15. Josi probably should have won Norris and the hart. Take Josi off Nashville and they are a bottom 10 team.
  16. Close but drafting Pettersson and hughes without top 3 picks was better
  17. Actually the opposite Many teams look at goalies how the nfl looks at running backs. It’s way more important to have a great team in front of the goalie than the best goalie. You see it in how goalies are drafted it’s almost a rarity to even see one picked in round 1 of the draft.
  18. Up in the air if remains a cane. Looks like they can bearly afford him.
  19. Need a senior leader who comes from outside hockey. Sadly most of the leadership group if they played elite hockey would have seen similar behaviour although perhaps not to the same extreme and had too much empathy for the players involved.
  20. This type of procedure was become more common but not a great track record of hockey players coming back from it. Age is probably not in his favour either. Good luck to him. If he makes it back calling the new nickname hiplas backstrom
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