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A 22 yr old 6'4, 220+lb mobile 20 goal scorer would be nice though - I'd certainly be happy to have Tuch - but at the same time, Tuch had 15 goals last year (with 55% ozone starts, and a fair amount of powerplay ice time)...which was Virtanen's total this season.....(with less opportune minutes). Virtanen has gone 10/15 in shutdown minutes, Tuch has gone 15, 20 this year playing with Pacioretty (40 pts in 66 games) and Stastny (42 pts in 50 games). Goal scoring-wise, in context, there might not be relatively much difference at this stage - and perhaps we tend to sell Virtanen a bit short - and prematurely (hopefully he hits 20 next year). Tuch himself was dealt by the Wild for a 3rd round pick as incentive for Vegas to take Haula in the ED...maybe they undersold as well?
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It's not necessarily a disadvantage though - this is where the logic doesn't hold. If you have the line on the ice that you want, and they had just changed there is literally no disadvantage - you are presuming things that are situational - which is why there needs to be a possession 'penalty' - not simply a faceoff.
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I don't think you're understanding the point. I'm talking about reducing the severity of the delay of game penalty by making it a single possession 'penalty' as opposed to 2 minute minor. What you propose gives the advantage/license to the team that delays the game. It's not necessarily about 'being tired' - it's about being in a compromising situation - but 2 minutes is too much, and nothing is too little - therefore the moderated 'penalty' would be one possession - which would probably still act as a deterrent to dumping the puck in the stands and still not require any unwanted 'discretion' from officials. It's the basketball context - you touch the ball last, you lose possession - but only in the case of own zone clearances out of play.
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You're assuming they are gassed - that's merely an assumption - and not necessarily the case - and if they are gassed, they get the additional advantage of a stoppage - not only delay of game, but relief of pressure. You slant the advantage to the team dumping the puck in the stands = worse than the present situation.
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No - if it's only a faceoff, there's literally no disincentive to actual delay of game - just dumping it out of play whenever in trouble. There needs to be an advantage to the attacking team - ie direct possession - like in basketball - where the attacking team is the only one in on the faceoff - and until the puck is dropped, has to stay 'on-side'.
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I think they should change the penalty for delay of game to a possession penalty - defending team can't make a change, can't participate in the faceoff - offensive team gets to move the puck freely and set up a scoring chance. Don't like the minor penalty for every one of those instances - virtually not a single player in the NHL intends to delay the game with that penalty being an automatic 2 minutes - and yet it happens regularly, because of puck handling mistakes. I think that indicates that the minor is too severe a penalty - I'd like to see the impact on the game tempered - but the result would still be a highly dangerous scoring opportunity for the opposition.
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I'd agree with that - but it somewhat further underlines the point. I think they might have undervalued O'Reilly. O'Reilly imo is exactly what that team could use - a big minutes, hard minutes, two-way, elite faceoff and possession player....That kind of one-two punch would just make McKinnon that much more dominant - and likely more opportunity for Jost as well. I can understand dealing one of O'Reilly or Duchene, but dealing both of them....
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I like Burke too - and he loves to defend Bennet - don't blame him, Bennet can still be an effective player as he points out - but I'm not going to get carried away with Bennet's 3 playoff games - he has some outliers that will return to the mean - not very good possession numbers, inflated pdo, while the Lames top players are relatively vacant. Virtanen has everything going for him that Bennet does, and is doing more, in more difficult circumstances, on a team that didn't lead the Western conference this year. If Bennet were as consistent as people here are implying, his production would be better, as would his underlying numbers which are simply not the case.
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Disagree entirely. Virtanen outperformed Bennett this year, by most measures. More goals More hits Harder minutes / lower ozone starts / better goals against metrics nevertheless More takeaways, team best +24 turnover differential (Bennet -13) A few assists, in more offensive minutes, don't really close the gap for Bennett.