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  1. Also, keep in mind some of those guys brought a lot of offence too and you lived with some defensive flaws. EG is a shutdown guy and didn’t get the tough matchups. He played sheltered minutes.
  2. I regularly had to defend him. At worst he is a lateral move from Gudbranson, at best he is a solid 3rd pairing guy who happens to be cheap and tough. If we had more depth next season he is also a guy that can sit in the press box when you are healthy unlike young guys who you have to worry about development. I am sure he will have some get up and go for the rest of the season to keep us career alive.
  3. Where is Oldnews? He must be salty that his favourite player got traded and admitted that he played like crap for his tenure in Vancouver. Maybe suspended? Not like him to miss out on telling everyone how wrong they are.
  4. Just went to HF Penguins board... they know what they are getting. There is a hilarious video of a single game showing Gudbranson on the ice for several goals and just wandering aimlessly around in the highlights. I honestly hope he does better there, because he seems like a solid guy, but can’t be anything but happy that he isn’t on our team. Maybe Schenn will surprise and be an incremental improvement. I would like to have him succeed as a depth 7/8 guy who you don’t mind having in the press box as his development won’t get affected. You throw him in for injuries and if we are facing a team where we need some toughness. This trade “should” be a signal that we are planning on retooling our D in a big way in the off-season.
  5. Good thing Pittsburgh didn’t see this! He is handsome, so must be a great player!
  6. We can’t judge this kid too hard. He has skill and had to watch Schaller and every other mutt play in our top 6.
  7. Ya that is what i posted, if anyone here thinks they know better than Gradin... they have been huffing too much glue lately.
  8. Let’s revisit this after a while I actually think it is a good move, he just wasn’t working out here and it was a big sample size. In Pittsburgh, maybe he helps them if they make the playoffs as he “should” be better in the post season. 3rd pairing D are the spots you want available for your kids to come up and compete for. Having Gudbranson there in their way wasn’t doing anyone any good.
  9. I think we can give the benefit of the doubt on this one. Our Swedish Amateir scouting has been our best area for years.
  10. It “could” say that, but the actual context is that isn’t the case. H replays protected minutes against poorer competition. His minutes have actually gone down since Edler and Tanev got hurt. He has mostly been playing behind Pouliot and Biega.
  11. All players are paid in US dollars. Our low dollar actually makes it more attractive as they get he benefit of the exchange rate. Paid in US, spending in Canadian.
  12. For those saying it is Benning’s drafting or EP40 effect..I read it more along the lines of what the CITY offers and not the team itself. After Columbus, he may want a more big world city kind of vibe. Diffeeent lifestyle.
  13. Ya, I did recognize Boqvist from the draft as a possibility in the range where we were drafting. No idea how his year has been since then.
  14. I don’t pretend to know anything about any of these prospects, but it will be worth reading up on them!
  15. We need someone with an actual shot though. Stecher is pretty solid distributing the puck, but other teams will cover Petterson and Boeser and let Stecher shoot all day long.
  16. If there was an unsung hero award for the team up to this point in the season it should be Stecher. He has just been quietly solid all year. Highest +/- of all D. 19 points, even though he didn’t get much PP time until the last couple games. Edler’s and Hutton are only a point or two above him and half their points are Frk the man advantage. Not too many guys can play 30+ minutes a game, even for a short time. He is certainly making Tanev more expendable (If you could find a RD who had a point shot and offence instead to replace Tanev with).
  17. Can they have him play as an emergency and send him back to juniors? Not sure of the rules on that?
  18. Note on the TSN game story that Dipietro is on his way to a Washington to join the Canucks?
  19. I was against him turning pro and needing to be protected in the upcoming expansion draft, but I am changing my tune. There has been word floating around that he might leave school early. It would probably help him more to be here during a playoff chase. He doesn’t have to perform too well to be able to beat Pouliot out for that 3rd pairing roster spot. Maybe he could even be mostly a PP specialist to begin with and let Edler drop down a couple of minutes a game
  20. I think that return is without us retaining salary. Add in a very good prospect if we retain $1-2 million.
  21. Benning just on 1040 left the door open for a Sutter trade. He sees Gaudette as a centre, he has never played wing and they don’t intend to slide him over. When asked if it is safe to speculate about Sutter being moved, he said it is fair to speculate since that is their job. It was a very different answer than when asked about Edler and he shut the door pretty firmly talking about what Edler brought to the team going forward. I suspect that Sutter is not on this team by next season. It makes little sense for him to slide to the wing either since we have a surplus of bottom six wingers. More likely in the off season due to his NTC changing to a limited one. But I wouldn’t rule out a deadline move. If Sutter is told he is not in the long term plans, then why wouldn’t he want an extra playoff run with a new team largely of his chooosing. Two years past past this one make a cap retention a tough pill to swallow... but it sure would give him serious trade value to a contender that doesn’t have a lot of cap space to play with.
  22. Yep, no particular harm in him finishing this year in the AHL... but beyond that he should be up here. Next year as 3rd line centre seems reasonable. He would probably get fewer minutes than Beagle who would take most PK time, but still get solid playing time. If we know it is happening, then the only decision is when you can get the most value for Sutter. Moving Sutter to the wing also seems like a waste and we have enough bottom six wingers.
  23. It seems like it is really the time to trade Sutter. Beagle makes him much more expendable, you really can’t afford to have two centres that don’t being much offence. The best you can hope for when they are on the ice is to break even. The Sutter name probably gives him more trade value. A contender wanting a dependable 3rd line centre to stabilize their bottom 6 would find Sutter useful, especially with cap retained We need a space for Gaudette next season, he won’t get much better in the AHL beyond this year. We get more for Sutter at the deadline than we do in the offseason.
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