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Is it done yet? Can we finally move on?

Didn't realize San Diego was considered deep south...

1st PP: Horvat Boeser - Baertschi - Pettersson  Hughes Go with a 4 forward set. Horvat centers, plays the net front presence, end boards puck retrieval, Petey and Boeser from the half walls, Baer in the high slot, Hughes QB. 2nd PP: Ferland Leivo/Virtanen - Miller - Goldobin/Edler Myers/Edler  Miller as center, setting up in the high slot, Ferland as net front pain in the ass, rebound pouncer on-er, Leivo has a good shot from the half wall (Virtanen, if he shows more offensively early season), Goldobin, if we want to go with a 4 forward set on both (Edler if we want a 2-D set up), Myers hammering from the point (unless 4 forward set, then Edler).

I've already put this scenario out on another thread yesterday (this is barring other trades) Switch some players around, whoever's playing well stays up while Roussel's injured, etc... Edit: And to answer your proposition, no, I wouldn't buyout Baertschi.

I think that everyone was nervous last year with the Sedins retiring, seeing as they were responsible for most of our offense for years. Seeing what this team can do without them last season got us excited about our emerging young core, then Hughes rolled around, drafted Podkolzin, aquiring Miller, + higher end UFA signings has us as one of the more improved teams this off season. It hasn't looked this good since the 2011 playoff run, 2012 regular season. Lots to talk about this year, for sure.

Yeah, sure didn't help us to have bottom 6 wingers playing on our top 2 lines when Baertschi was injured too. The Virtanen rush job ended when TG took over from "real good". I've liked his defensive development the last couple years, only gonna get better at 22 years old. Just needs to drive the net a bit more to start putting up some points.

We aren't really in any cap trouble, if you do the math... this is from the CBA. Teams do not receive full cap relief when a player on a one-way NHL contract is reassigned to the American Hockey League, or is loaned to a team in another professional league. The players salary cap hit, minus the sum of the minimum NHL salary for the respective season and $375,000, still counts towards the team’s salary cap total. The cap hit relief is therefore equal to the minimum salary of the respective season + $375,000: 2014-15: $550,000 + $375,000 = $925,000 2015-16: $575,000 + $375,000 = $950,000 2016-17: $575,000 + $375,000 = $950,000 2017-18: $650,000 + $375,000 = $1,025,000 2018-19: $650,000 + $375,000 = $1,025,000 2019-20: $700,000 + $375,000 = $1,075,000 2020-21: $700,000 + $375,000 = $1,075,000 2021-22: $750,000 + $375,000 = $1,125,000 So our roster says 24 players under contract on our main roster (remaining cap space ~$5.05m), and we still have to sign Boeser and Goldy, which would bring us up to 26 players. If we sign Boeser at $7m, and Goldy on a 2 way contract at, say, $1.1m (hasn't really shown he's worth much more than that), that's a total of $8.1m, leaving us at $3.05m over the cap. Roster limits are between 21(lower) and 23(upper). Players we can afford to send down + cap savings: Louie ($1.075m) Schaller ($1.075m) Biega ($825k) Goldy ($1.1m) =$4.075m - $3.05m = $1.025m in cap space with a 22 man roster. With Roussel's cap hit starting the year on LTIR, that's $3m that doesn't count against our cap until he returns,(rumored Decemberish) back up to $4.025m in space, 21 man roster. Seems pretty managable IMO.

Yeah, it was EPic

Only a few, as I live on the island, and usually too broke. November 3rd 1991 Van 7 - Edm 2 W February 6th 2016 Van 1 - Cgy 4 L November 2nd 2018 Van 7 - Col 6 W 2-1-0

1st PP: Horvat Boeser - Baertschi - Pettersson Hughes Go with a 4 forward set. Horvat centers, plays the net front presence, end boards puck retrieval, Petey and Boeser from the half walls, Baer in the high slot, Hughes QB. 2nd PP: Ferland Leivo/Virtanen - Miller - Goldobin/Edler Myers/Edler Miller as center, setting up in the high slot, Ferland as net front pain in the ass, rebound pouncer on-er, Leivo has a good shot from the half wall (Virtanen, if he shows more offensively early season), Goldobin, if we want to go with a 4 forward set on both (Edler if we want a 2-D set up), Myers hammering from the point (unless 4 forward set, then Edler). PK is a bit tricky, because there's a lot of 2 man forward combos we could use. Off of a faceoff, I would do this: 1st PK: Sutter/Bo - Roussel/Pearson Myers - Edler Bo in for Sutter when injured (and he probably will be), Pearson for Roussel until he returns. 2nd PK: Beagle - Pearson/Motte Tanev - Benn Motte in for Pearson until Roussel returns.

Try clicking on it, then zoom in on it. It's a lot clearer in it's original size, bit pixelated just looking at the post.

Cool story bro. I don't care that you don't want to know, so I'm gonna tell you anyways. The pretty colours you refer to are representations of starting line-up combinations. Each player has his own colour (some are difficult to differentiate from a similar colour). Each small bar represents 1 game. Left side shows which line it was (L,C,R mean left wing, center, right wing), bottom shows games played in increments of 10.

Was curious to look at different starting lineups through the course of the season, and came upon this chart, for anyone interested. https://hockeyviz.com/fixedImg/fLines/1819/VAN/wrap

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Got results from the other 4 handy? I'm really curious as to how many idiots are out there...

It's not just his salary>effort I'm not happy with, I'm just saying that if you're getting paid aav of $6m, there's some expectation that you're going to give a good effort. Even if he were getting paid Schaller $ his lack of effort would be an issue. He's a veteran player, he should know this. He was a healthy scratch for a game this season (seems like a message from TG), after getting the benefit of the doubt for the last 3 seasons, and he made a stink out of it.

I'm saying that he's a floater. He's got no intensity to any aspect of his game. If you ever played hockey, you would understand that this type of player is the bane of his teammates. Every player is expected to give it all they got every game. Loui hasn't done that once in 3 years.

He's lazy as all hell. You would think someone who gets paid aav of $6m should have a little jump in their step. Pretty sure Pearson and Horvat could have put the same numbers up with anyone on their line. Bo's a play driver, Pearson battles in the hard places. Loui... glides around... Cherry picking? You're saying take away Petterson's best games (which he played and produced said points), while adding a guess as to what Eriksson might get on that line. If anyone's cherry picking it's you. I'm sorry you have a bone for Loui that won't let you stand back with some objectivity, and actually watch how he plays.

No one. Petey is anything but average. He's got the passing skills and hockey IQ of both Sedins in one, the hands of Bure, and the shot of Naslund. Eriksson has none of this. Eriksson got his chances in the top 6, and produced nothing, sure as hell wouldn't add 30 pts to his totals if he was there all season, he'd probably drag Petey and Boeser's point totals down, as he would add nothing to that line. No battle, no heart, just an overpaid, butt-hurt, has-been. FIFY.

hmm... should be something metal... (kinda tired of all this moderate rock/pop stuff) "13 steps to nowhere" by Pantera?

I'll have to check Utica

Here's the thread where this conversation belongs

@J-23 @bishopshodan Thanks for indulging my stoner rants, cheers!

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