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Pretty much. @kipwinger Jonas takes are usually strange, but I agree with most of this here. "he's a between the blue lines guy". Which I assume Scott means he likes to defend in the neutral zone. Which he does. From what I've seen he's aggressive at the red line and defensive blue line, and likes to shutdown the opponents transition before they can enter the zone. In general he likes to close gaps instead of sitting back on his haunches. Many consider his skating to be elite. But his edgework, agility, and lateral movement are really impressive. He's a guy that can walk a blue line with the puck for days. And he's patient with the puck waiting for lanes to open... or pump faking, or head/shoulder faking, to create lanes. Cant really comment on his endurance. I'll add that I can't really comment on things like gap control or inzone offense during an opponents cycle, as I really just haven't seen enough to say. He's just so over-powered offensively that it's easy to consider him a pure offensive Dman I think. He's also undersized as a defender, which makes one think he won't be a defensive stalwart in the NHL. But so was Rafalski and guys like Crosby would tell you Rafalski was a nightmare to have to get around. So who knows, I guess we have to wait till gets to GR. But I'm also pretty sure I heard Draper or Horcoff say that they don't expect ASP in NA soon. That they expect him to play in the SHL for a few years and level up. And that's my biggest question on him. He can terrorize U20's, but can he do it against men? He hasn't really proven that yet. But I do think he can create offense at the NHL level. His instincts, shot, passing is all way ahead of the game.

Career years for all! Larkin 100+ DeBrincat 50 goals, 40 assists Rasmussen 40 points Raymond 80 points (37 goals) Compher 60 points Copp 70 points Seider 67 points Ghost 80 points! Husso 42 wins Lalonde Jack Adams Yzerman GM of the Year Chairot bounces back, 40+ points, +30! He and Maatta are coined the best defensive defenseman duo in the Eastern conference! Holl proves everyone wrong, has 30+ points and is a +50 playing alongside Ghost! Wings make it all the way to the Eastern Conference Finals, eliminating Toronto in the 1st, Tampa in the 2nd. Hard fought 7 game series against The Rangers. Ottawa and Pittsburgh fail to make the playoffs, but not bad enough to get a top 12 pick.

But what about +/-?

Nate full of Hate

he's a between the blue lines guy right now. But he's reaaly really good between them. Outsdanding edge work and agility. top speed needs work, endurance needs work. Needs a lot of gym work to get to be trusted along the boards, behind the net, and in front of the net. in short, he has a lot of what's hard to teach and not a lot of what's easy to teach but takes a lot of dedication.

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If Boston only gets 11, then you know they are going in to a rebuild (tank) the next season to try to get a lottery pick, then we'd miss out on a top 10 pick in 25. I am sure we'd get a great player at 11, but I think I'd rather Boston get a top 10 pick now, and send us the 25 pick which might be another top 10 when they sell the farm in the off season. Either way, we'd get a top 10 pick from them, if they gave us 24 or 25. I agree though, Detroit pick should be higher than 20 so Ottawa can have the 2024 pick! Boston gets top 10, sends us 2025 1st. Detroit gets 26th, sends that to Ottawa, then in 2025 Boston's pick is top 3 and we trade our 1st (25-30) in another deal like the Debrincat deal. edit: Sorry, I had to delete the first scenario, because it had Boston giving us the 25, which I then gave Ottawa, but then I also had Detroit still having the two 2025 picks. Duh! My bad!

NATE THE Gr8

The thing he has that lets me KNOW he's going to be good, just like I knew Zadina was going to be bad, is instincts. He's clearly reading plays faster than all 9 other players on the ice. That's what made Zberg, Dats, and Lids great, and that's ASP's best bet to becoming great. If he can keep his head up and scan the ice and read plays the same way at defense he'll turn into a monster Dman.

The Red Wings make the playoffs Chiarot-Holl are a really solid 3rd defensive pair Rasmussen, Berggren, Kostin, and Veleno all have break out seasons

I think ASP is probably our blue chip that is more of a project. He needs to add weight and learn defense and will take more time bc of this. But i think SY is probably also going to send Kronwall to sleep on his bottom bunk at his home in sweden with him for the next two years. His birth family will be locked in their garage, and he will learn to call Kronner papa. This should speed the process up a bit.

If ASP can be a Rafalski .. count me in.

Bernier? Is that you?