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Do yourself a favor today and watch the Kuzmenko media presser from today. The guy is truly beautiful.
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I hated the Hronek trade at first, then I flipped to looking for a silver lining.. For mental health reasons, we should all at least try to do this. Thanks.
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Hughes and Petey might've wanted out if the team was torn down to just kids up front and the awful group on the back end (Demko helps with the defense but alone he's not enough when Tank Commanders Myers and OEL are here). Hronek fits the timeline of making this rock bottom before starting to be good again (with him and Hughes hopefully stabilizing the blueline, plus the influx of kids and hopefully a new C in place of Miller) to revamp the group behind 40 and 43.
There is the possibility he's the new Nate Schmidt but I'll choose to be a bit more positive and see him as a contributor to future success... until proven otherwise. -
Pick value aside, at the time of the trade the expectation was for him to move to the right side and possibly become Hughes' partner. He was an all-rounder when he was in WSH and VGK (topped off at around 35 points, which is slightly higher at this point than Hronek) and Filip was also that with DET this season (he took over as the #1 RHD ahead of Seider). My point is hopefully he doesn't relapse statistically, as I do agree that it cost a lot more to get him than Schmidt, whereas we've paid through the nose to get Hronek after a possible anomaly of a season.