ChristopherReevesLegs

So it's not really the player you're concerned about? More the sequence of events? Why? I'm confused as to why a prior trade to a waiver claim makes any difference to you. We could have claimed Ritchie, then waived him to the AHL ourselves.

Hey he got the Flames 50 WINS in his first and only season there. That's pretty impressive. Then after doing all that for them, they immediately canned him for some gamer talk he said in a different organization in a different league like 10 years ago. There could be a lot of untapped potential there.

What's your opinion on Tyler Johnson?

Coulda had Ritchie or Blandisi. Is Yzerman not even watching the waiver wire? Why wouldn't he claim these players?

MFW when someone says Prince is good music

This is why I don't want Yzerman bringing Cooper. What is he even thinking playing this kid at C?

He's been divorced 3 times already ******* stud

Soooo we probably should have claimed a young player on waivers instead of having the Griffs sign Tangradi... no?

I'm glad you didn't bold my favorite

Brayden Point literally doesn't exist

Look at those genetics I'd day he'll be a great 2nd pair like Kronwall-Stuart was

Pretty sure he's under 6ft with the skates off Centers should ideally be like Chris Ehn height these days

bank on it

If that's considered arbitrary, then it would be almost impossible to ever compare most players. At least under my parameters neither player is having any of their points scored excluded from the discussion. You should be posting this in the draft thread for all the Fabbri haters. "If you see something. Say something." Maybe we can flip Zadina for a top10 pick and draft Askarov

McIsaac will make Dekeyser and co look like AHLers in a few short years

He's too small to play center in the NHL. Byfield is the only draftable C in the range we are picking.

Poulin is actually a very good AHL goalie, and one of the better goalies on the Griffins. So why are you ok with Tangradi and not Poulin? You didn't wanna claim Ho-Sang? How come? Why would we put in a claim on Comrie? He's not an upgrade over anything we have in GR already.

Right, and the argument I'd make about the parameters of the stats is that "since zadina joined the team" is a completely arbitrary frame of reference, especially from Fabbri's POV. We can easily turn it on it's head and say "since Fabbri joined the team, he's been the better 5v5 player as compared to Zadina". While, it's sort of the inverse argument, at least that time frame encapsulates both players entire body of work for the team this season. "I don't hate Italians. I have lots friends who are Italian" Surrrrrre guy There are folks over in the draft thread discussing flipping Fabbri for picks at the deadline. Can you imagine the uproar if I suggested flipping Zadina for picks at the TDL? It seems there's one set of rules for Zadina haters and another for you Fabbri haters. It's unjust. It's unfair. And flatout wrong.

Gallant, Babcock, Laviolette, Peters, Montgomery One of them will be desperate enough to get back into the NHL. I doubt all 5 will get jobs this summer.

I know Stutzle is the popular pick these days if we don't win the lottery, but I honestly don't see this player projecting out as an NHL center

Johansson and Pearson both sound pretty good. Seider is of course amazing. Didn't realize Lindstrom will be getting a callup soon, which is cool, I just don't see that guy ever being more than a bottom pair Dman.

Pshhh we have terrible skaters too. Why don't you wanna claim any young waived skaters? Surely they could help out in GR and have more potential than Tangradi, no?

Premise: Since joining the team Zadina has scored more at 5v5 than Fabbri Conclusion: Zadina is the better offensive player (since joining the team) Strawman: An intentionally misrepresented proposition that is set up because it is easier to defeat than an opponent's real argument. I haven't misrepresented or twisted your argument in the slightest. I simply rejected your premise. "Since Zadina joined the team" is an arbitrary time period I don't care to measure. So you're free to come to that conclusion based on the parameters you set, but it's a conclusion that lacks any sort of merit in the spirit of the discussion because of the parameters you set in the premise IMHO. And me stating that isn't a strawman. It approaches your argument head on. A true example of a strawman to your argument would be me saying: "Since Zadina joined the team Fabbri has had to pick up his slack on defense, and that's why Fabbri hasn't scored as much as him" - I've twisted the conversation towards Zadina's defense and successfully committed a strawman fallacy. Seriously the Fabbri hate needs to stop This kid literally just turned 24, and only has 34 games with the team so far. It's way too early to call him a bust. He's still getting acclimated to the systems in Detroit and learning his teammates names for pete sake. He's also a 1st round pick and still in his Stanley cup hangover period. So the potential is there, and when the hangover is over this kid is going to explode. Give him time before you draw any rash conclusions. Did I mention he won a Stanley cup? The future is Fab

Hicketts/Seider/McIlrath/Lashoff should all be callups before him.

If it's not Blashill's fault why would we get rid of him? There could be a good young coach under all that mess. Watch him let us go and he runs off to Winnipeg and wins a cup