Bill Berzeench

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  1. Posted · Report reply

    Toews is better than Datsyuk in his prime? Prove it.

    By age 27, here are the hardware counts:

    Stanleys = 3 to 1 Toews

    Selkes = 1 to 0 Toews

    Conn Smythes = 1 to 0 Toews

    And point counts:

    548 to 241 Toews

    And +/- counts:

    190 to 50 Toews

    More everything for Toews at equal stages of their lives/careers.

    Datsyuk has a higher points per game average, so if you only use ppg for your "better" argument, then you are right.

    Otherwise, total fail.

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    To even use the two in the same sentence of comparison is crazy. Datsyuk in his prime was at a level Toews never has been at and never will be. Better at defense, better at pick pocketing, better at scoring, better at shootouts, better shot, better stick handling and likely one of the best visions on ice next to Crosby, Thornton (in his prime).

    Larkin will likely be as good as Toews maybe even better. By the way it's not THAT big of a deal to be better than Toews. He's not that AMAZING of a player. Toews is probably a good first comparison to make. First comes Toews, then comes the league of Crosby, Datsyuk, Malkin and the rest of the world's best in their primes.

    I don't see Larkin ever being as good as Datsyuk. But who knows.

    You are DEAD WRONG on Toews, kickazz. He's awesome. 548 pts in 625 games and a +190. 3 stanley cups and a few selkes. He's so much better than you think. I can't stand him, but he's awesome.

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    DeKeyser is absolutely a top pairing defenseman, a very solid number two. I like Fowler a lot, and he would be an upgrade for sure, but I'm not sure if he's what we should be trading for. I see him as another very solid number two, in the same mold as DeKeyser, slightly better. In a perfect world, we trade for a more offensive minded, clear cut number one that shoots right handed. I'm just not sure if that player will be made available though. In saying that, if he could be had relatively cheap (he can't) I'd do it...

    I would have loved Bieksa a few years ago, but he has gone down hill quite a bit since then, and is not at all the type of player we need right now.

    I have no interest whatsoever in Vatanen. He's a good puck moving defenseman, but he's very undersized. I don't see him as anything close to a number one.

    Ok, so if the asking price for Subban is Smith, Mantha, Ouellet and a 1st rounder in 2016, do you pull the trigger?

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    The problem is that the Wings have solid 2nd and 3rd pairings that cant play top pair. DeKeyser is a great 3 and Quincey is a good 4. Smith is a good 5 and Green is a good 6. But Kronwall and Ericsson are not good 1 and 2. They are another set of 3 and 4. And Ouellet and Marchenko are another set of 5 and 6. We need to get a true #1. At any cost.

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    You have to have a pretty good hockey IQ to understand when to go out and level somebody with a nice clean hit, it's harder than just going out and deciding to cream people

    Our Defensive strategy seems to be safe and conservative. Watch Winnepeg play, their probably the conplete opposite of our style and that's why their offense is good but their defense is bad

    They whooped our asses