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  1. lets cross our fingers and hope theyre cooking up a trade deal with a distressed/cap strapped team
  2. I think if they're doing this they need to go balls to the wall and move a winger too and open up giga cap space to completely re-shape the D If youre doing this, attach a sweetener to Garland and move him too Go get a quality 3C and top-4 D
  3. Oh man ive been singing the praises of GMPA and the hairless compadres but this move.. i really didnt want it i dont see why they couldnt do this next year if OEL didnt bounce back Id say theres a 50/50 chance OEL goes on to have a big bounce back year for another team, and we're left holding this stupid bag i agree though, the only way to salvage this would be weaponizing this cap space to get a high value asset or two from a really strapped team Wtf is our D going to look like next year, now with OEL gone and Bear injured Hughes - ??? ??? - Hronek ??? - Myers I mean now im pretty confident they're gonna qualify Bear and shove him on LTIR to start the year But clearly theyre not keen on being patient so they're not gonna ride into next year with Juulsen on Hughes right side.
  4. if benson is available at 11 you sprint up to the stage, and get stan smyl to scream as loud as he can into bettmans ear "ZAKRICE BENTON" and enjoy the absolute steal of a pick
  5. I honestly don’t think rebuild would have been the right move. Canucks couldn’t walk into next season minus Bo Horvat without improvement in other areas of the roster. with Petey, Demko, and Hughes on the roster, along with Miller in his prime years, exchanging Bo and a 2nd for Hronek, Beau, Raty, and a 4th was a very good move. Sure they gave up a 1st but they also got a great two way Center prospect in Raty. I’d say Raty alone is at least worth that 2nd round pick that we traded. Chances are we’re not getting a prospect that good, and he’s further in his development curve than anyone we’d draft this year. He’s already going into his 2nd pro season. I genuinely feel that this trade was some lopsided highway robbery, in our favour. Maybe I’m an optimist but I suspect they’ll recoup a 2nd rounder before the draft.
  6. yeah this is what i was thinking too if hes out til mid december that changes the calculus a lot. We realistically cant go into December with AHL players filling in, considering he was projecting to be in our top-4. Myers proved pretty definitively that we cant rely on him in our top-4. i dont think GMPA has much of a choice - hes got to let Bear go, and assuming Poolman/Pearson are going to be riding LTIR for the year, hes gotta spend some of that money on another RD.
  7. 100000% agree this year is best spent as a trial year, let’s see who adjusts well to tocchets system then once Myers money is gone, along with Beauvillier, Pearson etc. we deal from a position of strength
  8. My favorite things about hoglanders game: 1. forcing turnovers and speeding down the wing to create odd man rushes 2. forecheck on a dump & chase love to see that on a 2nd line with a couple guys who are good finishers Maybe a: Mikheyev-Miller-Hoglander line. I hope they try it in training camp
  9. i felt more confident in Hoglander honestly i think hoglander makes the leap back up to the big club and never looks back Hoglander gets knocked for his size (incidentally the same size as Benson) but hes built like a tungsten cube. At speed he runs through anything and anyone of any size and his forecheck is relentless. He's got great hands too, im of the mind that last season was more puck luck than anything else.
  10. yea i forgot the Boeser thing too this management group took heat for the boudreau stuff but honestly thats just the racket. it wasnt handled perfectly but coaching is a revolving door. sticking by boeser was not only a classy move but also the smart one. Bailing on a 24 year old who was coming off a monster goal scoring season would have been silly. I think Boeser is a very high probability bounce back candidate.
  11. i hope podz proves me wrong i really really do if he becomes a 2nd line winger that brings physicality, forechecking, and can play on our PK while putting in 20-25 goals, id say thats very valuable to us but for now.. idk. i was pretty disappointed in his last season.
  12. All fair, id be more keen on wood over danielson still though Wood went out there and dominated against guys up to 7 years older than him. He seems more skilled. And I like that his wart is his skating b/c he can fix that. I watched some Danielson (not a lot, but enough i think) to see what Samantha was talking about - hes very north south. He got a lot of his assists also from passes through the crease, plays that arent likely to translate well when up against NHL caliber defenders and grown men. He'll probably be an nhl player but idk - i dont get excited about him. Wood has some potential star power if he can get his skating up a level.
  13. ive been saying this for a while but you can always trust a bald person theres no way you can keep your head that shiny and smooth without incredible attention to detail and discipline im happy to see the culture spreading among the management and coaching staff. GMPA out there with a $400 home barber kit, meticulously curating his appearance while GMJB slathering black shoe polish on his sideburns once a month, theres literally no comparison.
  14. ive been very happy with how GMPA has been managing the roster Sold the absolute pico top on Horvat and got us a top pair RD and a great prospect in Raty. We'll probably even be able to turn Beauvillier into a 3rd round pick at the deadline. Bought low on Bear - got him for next to nothing. A serviceable top-4 RD for us. Got Filip Johansson for free. Got Kuzmenko (40 goal scorer) for free. Got a top-6 forward in Mikheyev in UFA instead of giving up assets for wingers like JB did. Got us picks in exchange for Schenn and Lazar. Picked up our 4c (nils aman) for free. Even turned one of their busts (stillman) into a decent B prospect (Bloom). These guys are very stingy and clearly adept at buying low/selling high. Not to mention - they had the foresight to re-sign the right player (Miller instead of Horvat) despite all of us howling at them for being morons. A+ for GMPA and the hairless compadres.
  15. Idk if i buy that argument though So what if Bensons team was better? Sure maybe he had some better linemates, but its very clear that he was the play driver. Im not blaming Danielson for his team losing games, or having a sucky +/-. Id be interested in comparing how many minutes each of them got - i suspect as top liners for each team, their minutes played was somewhat comparable. But if Danielson is that good he should be producing a lot more. His numbers are not reflective of a 1st round pick. Given his size especially.
  16. Idk why so many people are so worried about cap space We have a bit of a crunch this year but our roster is basically all filled out. As of next year, and continuing onwards, cap drops off our books very quickly. Beauviller, Myers, Pearson all drop off after this year - 14 million dollars. 3 to Petey and 3 to Hronek still leaves 8 million for a defenseman to replace Myers and a 3C. We don't have much inefficient money past 2024-2025. In fact, the inefficient money we do have is offset by nice discounts on Hughes & Demko Horvat was a good pick, no disagreement from me there. But boy would it have been nice to have got Caufield (ultimate boom/bust) instead of the safe Podkolzin. I made this comment earlier as well, but the top teams in the NHL are not made up of a majority of drafted talent. A byproduct of the cap era is that teams are forced to let serviceable players go, often for free (see us giving up Tanev, Toffoli, Markstrom, and more) in order to make the cap work. So the best strategy for the draft is to acquire players that you think are likely to be very hard to get down the road through trade and UFA. What kinds of players are those? 30-40 goal scorers, 1st line players, top pair defensemen, etc. Petey was a major boom/bust pick. I seem to recall a lot of people wanting Glass instead (right hand center, big, etc etc.) Thank god we went for Petey instead.
  17. thats what concerns me too. I watched some of his play and he doesnt seem to have a lot of tools beyond his speed and some decent stickhandling. A ton of his assists came from nice passes right through the crease, passes that absolutely would not connect most of the time in the NHL. Im very concerned that despite his size, his WHL numbers are just.. decent. For a top-10 pick in this draft, youd expect far more offensive dominance. Especially given the fact that hes 6'2 and hes playing against 5'8/4'9 guys like Benson. He should be physically overpowering them.
  18. Idk how it saves us 44 million+ because: He probably isn't going to be giving us true 3C caliber performance in his first year or two of his ELC. if he does, that would be an insane success, but not something that we should expect. If we want a good 3C that can run our penalty kill, win more than 50% of faceoffs, take hard matchups, thats probably a few years in. So that might be during his bridge deal. I think hometown discounts are largely a myth, from what ive seen, we've basically had to pay market rate for anyone we draft. Maybe a million dollars off on 5m+ deals? Its an opportunity cost thing. There are quality 3Cs in this years UFA pool - Kampf, Kerfoot, Compher. And some reclamation projects too if we want to take a bit of a risk for some extra value (Monohan). Sure we might pay a bit of a premium picking up a guy like that in UFA, but think of it this way - what would we have to give up if we ever wanted to acquire a Brayden Point? Probably equivalent of 4x 1st round assets. Theres decent 3Cs available every single year. If you take a guy that has 1st line star player ceiling, the upside there both in play AND in asset value is so much higher. If Benson pans out, and if hes too small for us, he would fetch us such an absurdly big haul that the 1mil + savings on our 3C from a Danielson pales by comparison. If there's a player thats a bigger risk but has true 1st line potential we'd be stupid to draft a guy with mediocre WHL production numbers because he's a "safe bet" to be a warm body in our lineup one day.
  19. Sutter was also very skilled- he was a monster in shootouts My big concern with Danielson is still his production in the WHL Its a HUGE jump from the WHL to NHL, so if your numbers in your draft year are "decent", I have my doubts. Danielson is 6'2 185lbs, and put up 1.14 points per game Benson is 5'9 and 165lbs and put up 1.63 points per game For context, Danielson's numbers are on par with Dragicevic who is a 6'2 defenseman the same age. I really really don't want our management to be the ones trying to play it safe, and ending up with a 3C from their 1st round pick in a historically deep draft, when there's so many potential gamebreakers available. Allvin needs to put on his big boy pants, do it the way Vegas did, step up to the roulette table, and start gambling. High risk, high return. Boom, bust. All or nothing. We either get a 1st line calibre player from our 1st round pick, or a guy who doesnt play at all.
  20. you dont feel like his production is kind of underwhelming considering his size & the size of his opponents in the WHL? also why is nobody taking kalan lind?
  21. i watched a bunch of abby games i didnt think raty was dreadful at all he was raw for sure but his deployment was very limited and his production far exceeded what youd expect from someone playing such a limited role next year will be big for raty if he can carve out a bigger role for himself
  22. i appreciate that you addressed him by his title others here lack that sense of respect and deference to royalty
  23. oooof sounds like montreal and the rest of the top 10 should pass for their own good we could of course do them a favor we'll pick him up at 11 as a favor to the top 10 teams who should definitely pass on reinbacher
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