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  1. They’re being greedy in their asking price and don’t want any potential of surgical complications impeding that ask. It can be viewed as both smart AND shortsighted depending on how you view their stance.
  2. The right chemistry in pairings can turn normally #3/#4 defensemen into adequate top pairing defensemen. The 2011 Canucks were a prime example of this. No legit Norris candidates but two high end pairings in Hamhuis-Bieksa and Edler-Ehrhoff as well as a very solid bottom pairing. There wasn’t a major drop off between any of the three pairings. Sure, the top-4 were the top two pairings but the bottom pairing was legitimately a middle pairing tandem for more than half the league.
  3. This is such a crock of $&!#. Just let Eichel do the surgery he prefers. Fusing vertebrae impacts range of motion and thereby impacts Eichel’s peripheral vision/playmaking. Either way the surgery will impact his trade value. Kevyn, take the loss already and move on. The team is gonna suck for another five years at least anyway!
  4. Congratulations! You managed to gripe about something that should be impossible to lob a complaint against.
  5. I think people need to rethink what our team’s philosophy of “shutdown defence” looks like in the modern NHL. It’s not entirely changed from the classical sense of the term (rigid defensive structure, tight man on man checking and immediate pressure on the puck) but there is more priority placed on keeping the other team’s best players hemmed in their own end and tiring them out by forcing them to expend most of their energy defending (which is not a new concept). This concept requires just as much emphasis on the “shutdown” forward line’s ability to forecheck effectively and maintain extended cycling of the puck. So as much as defensive zone acumen is a critical component of any type of shutdown hockey, traditional or otherwise, today’s era requires a slightly different approach and OEL should be good at transitioning the puck quickly up to the “shutdown” forwards and then getting involved in the cycle. Hughes is even better at this aspect but he lacks the size and physicality to disrupt the cycle on bigger top lines. In that regard OEL is a better fit for a head to head role. I’m of the opinion that Poolman is likely a better fit with Hughes, and Hamonic with OEL, especially when you consider that OEL & Hamonic will likely be out there with Dickinson’s line. That will allow the mobility of Hughes & Poolman to wreak havoc in a more purely offensive way on their cycling than the more “kill the shift clock” conservative approach of the five man shutdown unit.
  6. “He doesn’t have any vision or playmaking skill!! Pass the frickin’ puck better you scrub!! You’re where offensive chances go to die!” How much you wanna bet this same type of mantra starts up again?
  7. Cheers. I’ll be watching to see how many people start $&!#ting on the player before his first year here even wraps up!
  8. Imagine a bored Poolman venturing on in here to this $#!t show…. “Uhhh, where’s my speed dial? How’s Buffalo this time of year?” Thankfully there’s not many NHLers playing in Canadian cities that would be unaware enough to make a mistake like that. Whatever happened to cheering for a player for half a season before turning on mistakes? I mean really, it was what, four seasons before I began unjustifiably ripping on Bieksa? (Everyone gets $&!# wrong from time to time, no?) This guy hasn’t even landed at YVR and he’s getting absolutely BURIED. I remember why I left this forum (and all forums for that matter lol).
  9. It’s almost as if there’s a direct correlation between losing the bulk of defensive zone faceoffs, as well as a dramatic plunge in PK efficacy, and prolonged losing streaks. The things we learn these days!
  10. Or I was completely wrong about bidding war inflation
  11. It’s not really $1m less though. The income tax situation in Texas makes it something like $500k - $750k less just based on that but there’s also the confirmed (by Poolman himself on Halford & Brought this morning) twelve teams that threw offers at Poolman. I doubt there were twelve teams in on a guy known to be a puck-off-the-glass outlet “passer”. Remember all the hage Gudbransson got being immobile and handling the puck like a live grenade? Perhaps the vitriol would’ve been less if the cost to acquire (Jared McAnn and a 2nd) and sign ($4.5m) Guddy hadn’t been so high it would’ve been different but somehow I doubt it. It’s likely that Tucker’s camp had multiple 3-year/$9m contract offers (look at Forbert etc). That’s why Benning went with the 4th year. It kept the AAV from being $3.33m in order to secure the signing.
  12. Wait, why would there be twelve teams bidding for this over the hill 7th defenceman scrub of an NHLer? /sarcasm
  13. So far it’s been Tanev at $18m x 4 years and Hamonic at $7.1m x 3 years. That’s a pretty huge cap saving decision right there.
  14. One aspect of this signing that I really like is that Schenn has significant insight into what it’s like to be a top-5ish draft pick that failed to live up to the hype but managed to turn things around after getting out of Toronto. Perhaps he can help Juolevi avoid the psychological mistakes he made and help Juolevi rise back up to reach the heights that made us pick him in the first place. Beyond that he’s a great fit locker room wise because it’s not an easy role to be a press box teammate without being sour and there’s just no way this guy is sour after winning as many Cups (and earned as much money)as he has. Signing for basically minimum wage just shows what kind of character this guy has.
  15. Why does this make me think of Phillip Danault’s $33m contract?
  16. Maybe next year. Let’s see if Parayko makes it to UFA…
  17. Oof that’s rough. That’s gonna kill their cap structure, and soon!
  18. You’re absolutely correct. Juolevi has paid his dues and we all know all those inevitable injuries on defence require capable call ups to fill in
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