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So the offense is finally humming, the powerplay is still good, the PK is league average under McClellan, and the goaltending is holding up. We dominated a bad team last night, just like we should have. But we still gave up 3 goals. The defense needs bolstered. We do that and I think we’ve got a real good chance at winning our divisional games and making the playoffs.
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What skill or trait do you think is most overrated in today’s game? Fighting? Faceoffs? Hits? For me it’s stick handling. Remember how we were all supposed to be impressed when Jurco spun all around with the puck on YouTube? Or the popularity of “The Michigan”? People love when you can dink around with the puck but it doesn’t mean diddly.
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Yep, reminds me of this play from Seider's rookie season. Edvinsson is basically at that level now too. If you don't dump and chase or play give and go with a teammate you basically have no chance of getting past either of them. Certainly not by stickhandling.
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2024-25 In Season Trades/Waivers/Promotions Thread
kipwinger replied to LeftWinger's topic in General
I agree that the value is in the correct ballpark, but these kinds of trades rarely have more than two prospects thrown in. I'd imagine it would be Kiiskinen OR Buium/Tuomisto/Wallinder. Not both. -
Sure, but he's the exception and not the rule. Way too many players spend a significant portion of their development learning how to dipsy doodle instead of check, or PK, or work on faceoffs, or whatever. I'd imagine because it's more fun, and it looks cooler. But unless you're a Pavel, or Kane, or someone like that, the chances of you stick handling around NHL defenders is basically zilch.
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I don't agree that he doesn't "play to his size", or rather I don't see it that way. I mean, he definitely doesn't fight, and until McClellan took over he didn't hit much on the forecheck. I suspect that was a team thing, neither did anyone else, and they're all doing it more now that Todd is in charge. But he protects the puck down low extremely well on the cycle, wins his board battles, uses his reach on defense, screens goalies reasonably well, and gets a fair number of rebound goals. I think sometimes we tend to think too much in binary (either score or fight if you're big) and I agree he's neither of those things. Reminds me a ton of Martin Hanzal; tons of defensive value (especially at even strength) and a moderate amount of "hard" offense. Love the guy.
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2024-25 In Season Trades/Waivers/Promotions Thread
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I agree, but there's a financial element to every trade as well. Sometimes you have to make the dollars work and you select players based on who is available in a given salary range. I'm sure Ras is a desirable player to them, he's a desirable player to us for the same reasons. I'd do Ras and a protected 1st though, unless you needed more salary going the other way to make the deal work, then it would have to be Compher or Copp (assuming they want a center in return to replace Cozens in the lineup). -
2024-25 In Season Trades/Waivers/Promotions Thread
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Buffalo might like Compher too as a veteran, and Cup winner, on a team that clearly lacks leadership. -
2024-25 In Season Trades/Waivers/Promotions Thread
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That makes our center group WORSE, not better. I'm okay with moving Kasper to the wing in the short term (like how Larkin broke in on Zetterberg's wing) but what you have above doesn't blow my hair back. Ideally we'd be able to move on from one of Compher or Tarasenko in any trade scenario. But I'd like to see something like this: Kasper-Larkin-Raymond Debrincat-Cozens-Kane Sprong-Copp-Berggren/Tarasenko Ras-Veleno-Motte/Fischer Edit: Were he not injured, I'd like Mazur as the other wing on the 4th line and not Motte/Fischer, but alas. -
2024-25 In Season Trades/Waivers/Promotions Thread
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Daniel Sprong hit waivers today. I actually think this would be a good claim. He clearly didn't like Lalonde, but which player did? Snag him from waivers and then you can play him in Berggren's spot on the third line once you trade Berggren as part of a package for Cozens or whomever. I didn't hate Sprong's game last year, he's strong, fast, and can score. He's a poor man's Tarasenko but he's cheaper and better at this point. -
I'm screwing with some Canucks fans on Reddit and I thought I'd bring the debate to you guys (minus all the trolling). We all know how hard it is to win the Cup right? Like, excruciatingly hard! Like, you have to win over and over and over...sixteen times. And usually you have to play through insane injuries that take literal years off your career sometimes? And it usually requires some desperate, otherworldly, effort on a random penalty kill or checking line matchup to win? And the other guys you're playing are just as desperate to win, so there's almost nothing they won't do to you to lift the Cup? It's insaaaaaaaane how hard it is to win the Cup. That's what we all love about the NHL right? Now tell me that a team who's best players are Quinn Hughes and Elias Petterrson is going to win the Cup?
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2024-25 In Season Trades/Waivers/Promotions Thread
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Friedman says the Wings were looking at Cozens. They’d need to take money back. Maybe something built around Compher and a 1st? -
I know Winnipeg has done a lot of winning lately, but maybe they should…they should…cool their Jets? LGRW!!!
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I guess thinking of last season when they had Lomberg and Cousins.
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Them and Florida.
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2024-25 In Season Trades/Waivers/Promotions Thread
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That’s a spicy take. -
Unreal backcheck by Compher there.
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2024-25 In Season Trades/Waivers/Promotions Thread
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Yep, but you’d also have whatever you traded Talbot for as well. -
2024-25 In Season Trades/Waivers/Promotions Thread
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Real Question: If we fall out of playoff contention would you rather trade Talbot for the solid return he would surely get, or keep him around and let him mentor Cossa next year? -
Very winnable, but big game. With the standings this close all these divisional games become important as all get out. If "parity" means tuesday games in January carry a lot of weight then I guess it's "mission accomplished". In any event I'm happy that we're about to witness a bloodbath tonight because either we're getting the monkey off our backs right here, right now, or Ottawa bullies the Wings once again. I think our boys rise to the occasion. 4-1 Wings. Ras with a goal and an assist. LGRW!!!
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I can’t remember a trade comparable to something like that. It would blow my mind. You’d give a fortune to get them both and may not even end up with anything better than STL got for free when they offer sheeted Broberg and Holloway.
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I'm not really interested in anymore pantywaists. We've got Debrincat, Raymond, Berggren, and Kane on the team already. I appreciate that some of them are kinda feisty, but that's not a substitute for big AND feisty. We need guys who can play a power game and score some goals. I like a few of the Buffalo guys, plus Lawson Crouse for that reason. Separately we need another top four stud on defense. Given that Chiarot can play either side and ASP is a righty I prefer a LHD here. Probably Byram to pair with Seider and Edvinsson can go with Chiarot on the 2nd pair. Figure out the 3rd pair with the best of the rest.
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Three points out of the Wild Card, and six points out of the 3rd divisional seed, with TONS of divisional games left to play. We are still very much in the thick of things. If SY really does want to make the playoffs he needs to make a trade or two to shore up the obvious holes in the top six and on the 2nd defensive pair. Otherwise every McClellan win is just moving us further away from a draft pick and closer to mediocrity. You've got to ante up to play the game.
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I saw that too, but the knock on him has always been that despite his obvious offensive instincts he's still pretty slow and soft. He's a poor man's Thomas Vanek. I'm good on that guy.
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That was never his game in juniors so I think it was an unreasonable expectation. He wasn’t some dominant junior player picking corners against Junior goalies. He wasn’t a Mantha. You could argue he profiled as a Brady Tkachuk/ Val Nichushkin type, and he hasn’t been that offensive, or that physical. But Lalonde asked them to carry quite a defensive workload. Let’s see where his offense is at the end of this year.
