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Everything posted by ilduce39
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I don’t understand this at all. We scraped the bottom of the barrel, traded away a ton of vets and landed 5 top 10 picks during that stretch. We also ended up moving Burr for a pretty nice piece in Dahlen. I understand JB didn’t publicly call for scorched earth and we didn’t set out to “tank” an entire season away... but we certainly rebuilt over that time. What we missed out on slightly higher draft picks I think we’ve made back in a young, high character, no-drama core we’ve seen come into its own. Having that old guard Canuck leadership undoubtedly helped. Players rave about the Sedins and it’s no coincidence Bo turned the corner playing that season with Burrows. To tie it all into this thread, it’s the reason I’d like Edler and Tanev to be with the club when Juolevi and Hughes make the jump. Having quality vets on the team doesn’t stall a rebuild.. it helps facilitate it.
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I find Guddy’s biggest weakness is getting the puck out of his own zone... wheeling it up in the transition game is Hughes’ biggest strength. Alf might be on to something.
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There’s literally a rule in the AHL that says you can only dress 5 vets per game so that isn’t true. Also, I sure hope they want to win. That’s a skill like any other that needs to be learned. Coachability, selflessness, consistency, discipline, commitment to improving.. that’s how you learn to win. If our prospects are rubbing elbows with older guys who can teach them those things then I’m all for it. Having a tantrum at the coach because a few kids aren’t getting playing time is silly. If they were playing well, I would be a little concerned but they obviously have a ton of growing to do before they can pull their weight at the AHL level. They’re still being developed in practice and limited game time. If this were a non-club controlled affiliate they’d probably have been cut or shipped to the echl awhile ago. Want to destroy a kids career? Give them playing time they didn’t earn. Don’t push them to get better. Isolate them in the locker room by providing preferential treatment.
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Players develop by giving them expectations / goals to achieve. There’s consequences when they don’t meet them and rewards when they do. if the goal were to simply “develop petrus palmu” then sure maybe you give the kid a ton of rope and let him work through the kinks on the ice. But if you want a an effective developmental system for everyone, there needs to be a fairly even set of expectations that need to be adhered to and consequences (less ice time) if you don’t meet them. That applies to vets and rookies, perhaps not “equally” but certainly fairly. we hear the helicopter parent whinging every time a prospect gets their ice time cut but thus far have any of them (save “take my stick and go home” Tryamkin) been the worse for it? Eventually they need to meet expectations - be it through practice and earning it back or being given the rope to be able to play through it - I’d wager the guys with the top 6 talent rise to the top regardless of some tough love. The difference is they’re hard working and earning it under one system, with the respect of coaches and teammates.... and you risk entitlement and some hard feelings in the room under the other where you gift them time. In my opinion anyways.
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I think he proposed that in another thread. I’d love it if EK signed for a reasonable amount, which for me is around the 9 mil range. EK - Tanev - Guddy on the right with Edler - Hutton(Juolevi) - Hughes on the left would be night and day to what we’re icing right now. Try and nab a nasty, scoring LW this draft.... could be soooooo good.
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Why not just bump Gudbranson down the 3rd pair and put Stech in the press box? Also: how do you explain Guddy at a 1.5 / 2.0 last season? That's a 50 game sample and probably a lot more indicative to his play. The 2.0 GA/60 was one of the best on the team, too and the only D guys on the positive that year were Biega and Tanev. Gudbranson has obviously had a rough season in the GA department but like I pointed out, he's been hammered in 4 games against elite teams.. and while I'm sure he made some mistakes I don't remember him in particular being the issue. I'm all for improving our D but picking a guy out of the middle of the depth chart and labeling him "the problem" is something I can't buy into.
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Easy to spout off stats but it's a lot harder to interpret them. Gudbranson has missed a lot of time the past few years and this hasn't happened.. so bumping Stecher up the lineup obviously doesn't fix the problem unless you're saying Biega is an absolute black hole of a number 3.
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That would be huge (literally) if he's back... especially since he can play both sides. Would be fine going Edler-Hutton-Try on the left for the kids to break in. There's always injuries and Tryamkin can always flip to the right.
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Yeah, its easy to spout off a stat or two, but the coaching staff obviously knows what they're doing. It certainly doesn't feel like Guddy is getting lit up 2 for 1 when he's on the ice - obviously there's some context needed to reading those stats. It's a tough spot for him - it's easy to say "he's not a second pairing defence man" but really do we have a number one? Edler has been pretty awesome when healthy... is Tanev a number two? He doesn't play the minutes of a traditional top pairing guy nor does he put up the points. Would that make Hutton our number three? Jebus. The fact is everyone on the back end is being asked to play over their heads and Guddy seems to take it on the chin when up against stiff competition. -5 against Toronto, -4 against Tampa, -4 against Winnipeg and another -3 against Pittsburgh. He's obviously had other up and down games (including apparently a -3 stinker vs carolina in game 3 where he only played 14:50) but a quick glance at those results supports what I've seen from him this year: He's generally holding his own out there.. he's just had some very bad games +/- wise against some very good teams. No idea how he actually played those games, but his stats took a hit for sure.
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I can only imagine what people would think if the roles were reversed. Habs 18 year old top 3 pick tweaks his knee jostling with another rookie. Habs fans call for Weber, Domi, whoever to kill Pettersson. Throw public tantrum across social media for a week. I’m sure we’d all understand.
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Maybe if they had some high character veteran to play the 6/7 hole on the left side. I’d be fine if we did the same thing with Hughes/Juolevi as we did with our forwards vis a vis Pettersson and Beaglw... shore up a defensive-d man as insurance to free up Hughes to do his thing offensively.
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There needs to be 3 experienced D on the roster though. If they let both MDZ and Pouliot go, now we’re spending UFA money and contract to compete with Juolevi and Hughes. I don’t like it - May as well keep Pouliot and hope one of the kids outplays him to the press box until injury.
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Keep Pouliot. Try to sell MDZ at the deadline for a late pick. Re-sign Edler. UFA’s or big trade aside, Let Hughes/Juolevi/Pouliot scrap for 3LD next season. Then you’re looking at travelling with Edler-Hutton-Hughes/Juolevi-Pouliot. I can live with that next season, especially with Edler finding his game and everyone else’s upside.
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It’s funny that the coaching staff obviously don’t share that opinion... they see all the same stats we do plus a crap ton of video analysis. They waived Gagner so the veteran or contract angle doesn’t work as a narrative as to why he’s with the club. I find the fancy stats tend to undersell players like Gudbranson. On a whim I googled a guy like Vlasic from San Jose. 2.6 GF 3.8 GA. Guddy is 2.0 GF 3.7 GA. Is Vlasic better? Sure. But he also makes 7 mil for the next 8 seasons. His GF/GA stats look like trash but any team in the league would take him. Point being, there’s more to breaking down Gudbranson’s game than the numbers.
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Stech has averaged about 17 minutes and Guddy 19 this year, Tanev 20 (and a half). (Edler 23, Hutton 21 and Pouliot 18 for reference) So matchups aside, they’re sharing the load pretty equally. Ben and Erik have the least impressive stats but you’d have to think they’re doing heavier lifting than Troy and Derrick. They are getting beat up a bit though. Will be be interesting to see who Hughes plays with but Guddy would be a nice fit if different strengths can complement each other.
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I like Guddy on the team. If we were built a little differently I could see him becoming redundant pretty quick but with Edler and Tanev as top dogs it’s nice to have a guy with a pulse and some grit playing second pairing. He stands guys up at the line and can toss guys around in the corners. It’s a missing element especially on the right side with Tanev and Stech, who are better with the puck but not especially physical. He’s been referenced as a leader and the past few stinkers notwithstanding I love how this team plays overall this year.
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Yeah it factors in down the line for sure, though you run up the score in the NHL (or most other leagues) at your own peril. In any case, too bad they couldn’t have saved some of those goals to help out DiPietro vs the fins. More on topic: is it a pretty done deal he goes to the AHL next year? That’d be fun to watch.
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True and to be fair it’s not like Canada’s roster is built to gear down with your bottom 6 in these tournaments. I didn’t know that... that’s silly if true. I thought GA or differential? Something else I thought. Ah well.
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This thread reminds me of all the hype surrounding him last year. And the big debate of whether he could play center... or talk about pumping the brakes on him and we should be happy if he helps replace 50 Sedin points. He’s completely surpassed all expectations. What a stud.
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Agree 100%. I didn’t like running up the score like that. During one of Grapes’ rambles I think he went on about how he didn’t like that either.
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ill never understand the perverse satisfaction some “fans” get from kicking a prospect when he’s down. the kid is injured. Last year he had a quality year in Finland and this year he was a point producing bright spot on a dismal Utica team. His elite decision making, always the hallmark of his game, isn’t going anywhere due to a knee injury. im still glad we have him AND Hughes in the pipeline.. bodes well for our future with those two feeding Pettersson, Bo and Brock.
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..and conversely, we had more than a few young (and older) forwards who could step into the Sedins’ cushy zone starts and PP time.