Hedman

Yeah i think there's a lot to like about Fabbri. Great skater, great hands, very good shot.. He will play defence as well. He's working his f'ing ass off to create his chances. He's no floater. He plays bigger than his actual size. He will throw hits. He plays the PK. He's very unpredictable and he's entertaining to watch, you can tell that he has some high hockey IQ. I definitely think that he fits the bill for what the management defines as a "canuck". As you said, he's got great mentality for big games. He's a difference maker. Overall he seems very professional. The only negative thing about him really, again, is that he's a little bit below average size. Would love to get that 10th overall, pick a "big" player like Dal Colle/Ritchie at 6th, and then pick some pure skill with the 10th overall, like Fabbri/Nylander/Ehlers. Would be a perfect mix.

I wouldn't consider Fabbri at 6th, but if we acquire that 10th overall from Anaheim i would definitely consider him. Not saying i'd pick him, but he definitely deserves some consideration at that spot. I'd say he's the dark horse of this draft. Wouldn't be surprised if he went top10, just because of that strong playoff performance. He's not THAT small, 5'10 and still growing. His skating is not a weakness. Yes Guelph had a great team, but he was still their 3rd best scorer, and their 2nd best goalscorer in the regular season. He scored the 2nd most goals of all players in the playoffs, even though he played 4 games less than most Guelph players. Barclay Goodrow had 1 goal more than Fabbri, and he played 22 games compared to Fabbri's 16 games. On top of that, he was named the OHL's playoff MVP. He went on and had a great Memorial Cup run with Guelph, 6 points in 4 games. Rychel was the only player on Guelph that had more points than him.

Don't agree with you completely. I guess it's too soon to discuss best possible pick in the 2015 draft right now, because we have no idea what's going to happen in this years draft, and we have no idea where we'll end up next year. Will anyone from the projected top5 this year (Dal Colle/Draisaitl) drop? If not, will we pick a winger with the 6th overall or will we pick a center (Nylander)? Will Kesler stay or will we trade him? Going into this draft, we don't really have ANY center prospect with "true 1st line potential". That's probably your organization's most important position. Looking at the 2015 draft, there are plenty of centers with realistic franchise/1st line potential. Sure, there's also a few franchise defensemen like Hanifin, Kylington. But personally, i would rather pick a center with realistic 1st line potential, at least in our position. Especially since the 2015 draft is such a good draft for centers.

I can't even imagine how CDC would react if our coach benched our best offensive guy in the playoffs, twice. I've seen that before, and that's Salavat Yulaev's goalie coach, not just his coach. I highly doubt it's intentional, he apologizes right after hitting him.

Lol. The guy came back to Nashville after playing in Russia for some time. He played 17 games in the NHL before he went back to the KHL and CSKA Moscow. Under this short period of time in Nashville, Trotz had him out of the line-up 2 times. Why do you think he went back to the NHL if he didn't want to play there? Maybe he didn't have dedication for the team, but even a freaking idiot would realize that Radulov went back to Russia because of Trotz. Trotz sitting him out twice obviously had major influence on his decision to go back to the KHL. Radulov being spoiled or not is a completely different story.

Regardless of injury, .902 2.77 are pretty damn bad numbers. Last year he had .910 which is also very average. Suter or not. Especially on such a defensive minded team. Does it matter if it's lock-out season or not? How? He could be a goalie that's declining. Who knows? One thing i think is worth mentioning, is that new additions such as Santorelli, Stanton and Richardson had pretty much career years under Torts. Coincidence? Meanwhile, other players were stuck with AV's "slacker mentality". We went from a "slacker coach" to a coach of the complete opposite. That's a big change. Torts had 1 year to prove himself on this team. Trotz had plenty of more time in Nashville. It would be stupid to blame everything on Torts this season. Things takes time. I think Torts deserved at least 1 more year here. When you draft a player, you will sometimes see them as draft steals right away. Improving a lot each season. Hornqvist is one of those cases. As i said, he had a very good year in the SHL at the age of 19. But in that case, why doesn't you give any credit to Torts? Because according to you, he's a horrible coach, even though he developed far more good players under his short time in NY than, say, AV did in Vancouver. Torts is a reason why the Rangers are were they are right now, for sure.

Yeah, let's call me out. That's really fair, i wasn't the one who began with this sh*t. Stick with the "more respected" guy on the board even though he hasn't posted anything relevant at all in this thread, except after i called him out. Good job J.R. I couldn't care less what people here think. J.R were acting like a child so why shouldn't i call him out? Stalberg? Jarnkrok? Sissons is still playing in the AHL. Jones might have been the 2nd best player in last years draft. I never said Trotz wasn't a good coach. But to be fair, Nashville didn't do anything extraordinary over the course of 15 years. You could state different things why Nashville didn't do better over this amount of time. But 15 years is a long time. He was and is a good coach, but people shouldn't overrate him.

Rinne hasn't showed up for 2 years. That's a fact. We will never know if they would've made the playoffs with him because it didn't happen. As i said, both Hutton and Mazanec were pretty hot, before they both cooled off. It wouldn't surprise me if you were a Torts fan when he was around here, especially after the 1st half of the season. You seems like that type of guy. But now that he's gone, and not a part of the organisation, there's no reason for you to not bash him. Trotz might be our next coach, so you gotta stick up for him, saying he's an absolutely amazing coach. Ofc the Rangers had a freaking amazing team. Anything to make Torts sound bad, right? Torts is the only reason why they didn't win the Stanley Cup. It was all Torts. Torts wasn't around when players like Stepan, McDonagh, Hagelin, Staal, Girardi, Del Zotto made major impacts to the Rangers. Oh wait. Hornqvist was a draft steal. Draft position is irrelevant. He was seen as a good player before he even played for Nashville. Please don't give all credit to Trotz. Hornqvist had a great year in Sweden as a 19 year old.

The amount of irony in this post is too damn high. You're the only reason why this thread has gone completely off-topic. You can't actually make any sort of arguments. Your only response will be "it's not worth trying to explain" or something along those lines. Wow that's so weak. Are you an adult-baby?

Lol you're the only troll in this thread. All your posts in this thread should be deleted because they don't contain any sort of substance. But i guess that's why you're the one talking about "troll-cookies", probably your favorite type of cookies... Suits ya right Was he coming off a hip surgery the season before as well when he was about just as average? Anything to make Trotz sound like a better choice, right? He also made the Conference finals once, but that's not worth mentioning right? Losing to Boston is such a choke... Not like they might be the most complete team in the league. Get out.

I thought you needed one since you was smart enough to come up with that dumb answer. So you only make your cookies by yourself... are you a female?

As i said, my intention was not to give you any cookies. I just asked if you wanted 1. Maybe you should go buy your cookies by yourself?

Dallas was average yes. Phoenix? No way. I wouldn't say 3-4-3 is average, or a good way of finishing of the season. That's the reason why they didn't make the playoffs. You can't say that for sure. Rinne wasn't even good when he played. He was just as good as Hutton and Mazanec. I also recall both of those having hot-streaks, before cooling off. Then why did you even bring that up? Do you think that Nashville would beat Chicago in a playoff series? I couldn't care less how many goals they scored. They didn't score a lot of goals this season anyways. The only thing that matters is winning games. You won't score 7 goals against the Hawks in the playoffs. Or are we looking for a coach that can win us another presidents trophy, before being eliminated in the 1st round? I never said that Trotz is a bad coach. Seems like people are overrating him though. So, you're saying that Tortorella is a bad coach? He did a pretty good job with the Rangers.

Never said that i would give you a cookie. Or that i had any cookies. I just asked if you wanted 1.

Doubt that. It was all about Phoenix,Dallas, with Vancouver being the outsider. I believe that's what most teams do, even if they're out of the playoffs. Then why didn't they do that for the rest of the season? Why didn't they make the playoffs if they're such a good team? Playoffs and regular season are 2 different things. You know that. Yet, you brought up Trotz going 4-1 against the Hawks in....wait for it... the regular season.

Not mathematically no, but seriously, there's no way they would have made the playoffs. With 10 games remaining, they were sitting at the 4th overall pick or something like that, while there were PLENTY of teams above them, including the Canucks. They were pretty much as lucky as they could've been. They were never really close. Doesn't say too much to me. Torts won against St. Louis 3 out of 3 times. They were better than the Hawks in the regular season.

They won "crucial games" when they were out of the playoff-race. They had no pressure on them so they won a few games when it didn't matter. Phoenix lost 6 out of their 7 last games. They finished off their season by defeating Dallas in a game that didn't matter since they were already out.

They were close if you look at the standings yes. But they went 7-1-2 when they were pretty much out of the race. No way that they would pass both Phoenix and Dallas.

Don't look at standings too much. Only a miracle would have been enough for them to go by both Phoenix and Dallas.

What a strong response. Do you want a cookie?

They were never close of making the playoffs to be fair. They made a very late, strong push that made them advance a little bit up the standings.

Or the fact they haven't been good neither defensively or offensively this year.

That's because Nashville got his rights. He had/has the potential to be a star in the NHL. Seems they aren't winning without him either.

Yeah I'm sure Radulov came back to the NHL, just to play some hockey. Trotz decision of sitting him out 2 games didn't have any major influence in his decision of going back to the KHL after just 17 games. The way you respond, it just tells me that you're weak at making arguments. He benched him 2 games. 1 for going out, but he didn't have to do it the 2nd time. If you actually want to win, you shouldn't sit your best offensive player out, especially not because you don't want to "change a winning formula". You're wrong. Arnott and Kariya were great players in Nashville. Forsberg was also good, but he wasn't there for long.

The 2nd time he sat him out was because he "didn't want to change a winning formula". Great way of losing out on your most talented offensive player.