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40 minutes ago, Randall Flagg said:
According to NHL.com, Mark Stone is the 14th best...winger in the NHL.
YikessssssssssssAllow me to refer you to my "great players on bad teams don't get proper recognition" post in the top-10 thread. If Vegas keeps winning, I imagine Stone will be much higher on next year's list.
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On 8/7/2019 at 5:34 AM, Weave said:
3 years ago who expected that Jack Eichel wouldn’t be on most of these lists?
Even if he was one of the 10 best players in the league (he's not), he'd be left off most lists as long as the team is bad. Players like McDavid who are so unquestionably amazing that they get included on these lists irrespective of team success are the exception.
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18 hours ago, GASabresIUFAN said:
But other teams are worse.
Other than Columbus, who?
23 hours ago, MakeSabresGrr8Again said:What matters the most is that we should compete better than last year and that should get us more wins. Also, does it really matter what other teams got better? Those teams have to play each other too and with 1 winner emerging. We just have to learn to win the games we're "supposed" to win (an issue for several years).
The Rags, Devils and "Canes will be fighting for divisional spots and that could help us within the conference. Florida was already ahead of us good bit. The problem I can see is that in the league standings there were 9 Western Conference teams between us and 15th overall. That means that most of the Eastern teams are a ways ahead of us and not many to jump over along the way up.
When you're a perennial bottom feeder, there are no games you're supposed to win.
Okay, fine, we should beat Ottawa.
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48 minutes ago, Neo said:
Jeff Skinner and the evolution of my view ...
Early on, he was a talent, a diver, and, no disrespect to him, a concussion susceptible risk. I was firmly in the @TrueBlueGED camp.
Since, I’ve enjoyed either watching him grow, or simply learning more about that which was always there.
I dig this kid. Leadership by example. It’d be easy to collect $72 million and go to the islands for a few weeks ...
10 minutes ago, dudacek said:This is me. Was not a fan from a distance.
Seeing him up close changed my perspective.
5 minutes ago, darksabre said:Same. I was totally wrong about not wanting him here. He's got that Danny Briere attitude.
I dunno, he's the same guy he was in Carolina. The only difference is he's scoring goals for us instead of against us. I'll continue to cheer every goal he scores, but I don't think he's a fundamentally different player.
32 minutes ago, Radar said:Skinner's contract like it or not is the going rate. Salaries are what they are. We used to complain we had cheap owners and couldn't compete with teams. Now we complain that we're spending too much.
Well, I'd amend this slightly to say his contract is the going rate for what he gave us last season. It's an overpay if he reverts to his Carolina days and only delivers two 30-goal seasons.
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I'm in and I'm gonna...probably not win, but almost certainly finish higher than @WildCard
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Wedding planning is basically finished. Just need the invitations and we're done. And just in time, because if one more person who wasn't giving us a dime had offered their opinion I may be in jail for murder.
Casually mentioned this in the Bills thread, but just ordered a new TV for sports season. When we relocated to Columbus we gained about 450 square feet, most of which was in the living room. Needless to say, the cheap 43" wasn't cutting it anymore. Got a killer deal on a 65" LG OLED from Dell and I'm super excited for it to arrive.
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1 hour ago, pi2000 said:
That's great, but what is a reasonable goal total for him to live up to his contract?
A consistent 30-goal scorer.
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1 hour ago, Randall Flagg said:
What a goofball
He's a crazy person, but when I watch a highlight of Zay Jones dropping an easy pass, I still wish we'd have gotten him.
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18 hours ago, GASabresIUFAN said:
I've been trying to quantify or otherwise express why this coming seasons's team is better then last year's.
I looked at both our opening day roster last season and the most common roster for last season to see where we are improved. The answer is there are likely to be at least 5 new skaters in the lineup over last season.
They are Olofsson, Johansson, and Vesey at forward and at least Miller and Montour on defense. As of right now they are replacing Sobotka, Pominville and Thompson upfront and Scandella or Bogo and Nelson on D.
This is a clear upgrade of talent, especially on defense. Then add improvements from Dahlin and Mittelstadt and you should have a 5-7 win improvement over last year.
Here's the thing: other teams also got better. Maybe we have 5-7 more wins in a vacuum, but that's far from a given. Did we get 5-7 wins better relative to the improvements other teams made? I'm highly skeptical. It's not impossible or anything, but with a gaping hole at center and huge questions in goal, I have a hard time being confident.
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8 hours ago, dudacek said:
LOL, well Thomas and Patrick’s numbers were only slightly better, and Lias Anderson and Michael Rasmussen put up bigger turds, so maybe you can prove it. ?
Not an unfair rebuttal, but I think my point still holds up. Being in the NHL sooner but bad at it shouldn't be construed as a positive.
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I'm not watching tonight (because lol preseason football), but I did just order a new TV for the season.
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10 minutes ago, dudacek said:
Casey's personality just seems to be like that annoying little brother who shouldn’t be playing with the big kids but just keeps coming.
@Randall Flagg makes a good case, as do you. We all hope you are proven correct.
The rest of your post was excellent. This reads like the echo of a stats-watcher on HF.
The Athletic piece was a Wheeler piece, not Pronman (pretty sure Pronman was just as high on him too) and is full of references to his play at Minnesota and at various camps and tourneys outside the WJC. It is the informed opinion of a guy who watched him a lot and breaks down in detail what he does well. Very Flagg-esque, actually. You are correct that he did not show overwhelming statistical dominance in the USHL or the NCAA; it was more like a point a game as a rookie. But in scouting, the types of plays a player can make matters more than production and he did show skill dominance on a regular basis, making plays others could not.
Compared to his peers, Casey is tracking alongside Thomas and Chytil as the fifth most productive NHL player from his draft class. Considering he was far and away the furthest from the NHL in that group when he was drafted, saying he was simply the creation of WJC hype rings hollow.
This isn’t saying he will become a very good NHLer.
To be fair, I don't think Botterill making an (incorrect) judgment about Casey's NHL readiness is really a feather in his cap. There's no way to prove this, of course, but I'd bet more than 0 players for Mitts' draft class could have put up the turd of a season he did if their respective GMs had placed them in the NHL.
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The number of GMs who decided their crappy defenseman was more valuable than Taylor Hall is hilarious and a perfect example of why we should never assume GMs are competent simply because they've made it to that level.
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I need somebody to make a "find someone who looks at you the way @nfreeman looks at goals" meme. If player X scores more goals than player Y, Freeman will find a way to like player X more. ?
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12 minutes ago, Randall Flagg said:
They're closer than you think they are IMO, but they've got to find the right top six forward trade.
And hope last year's goaltending was a product of coaching and team system.
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11 minutes ago, Randall Flagg said:
He looks like skinny Ron Jeremy.
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1 hour ago, dudacek said:
For me it was because of previously rumoured discussions and because he seemed to be a good fit for their needs.
Like @WildCard said, everything Shat can bring, Risto can and more.
Shatt was, at least, a considerably better puck mover than Risto.
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On 8/3/2019 at 6:39 PM, darksabre said:
Anaheim
On 8/3/2019 at 7:00 PM, jsb said:It wouldn't shock me but who would be coming back?? I just don't see anyone we'd want
I see plenty I'd want, I just don't think there's any chance Anaheim parts with somebody like Rakell.
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3 hours ago, Thorny said:
I'm sure Botterill won't have screwed the pooch as bad as Dubas did with Nylander, and stupidly saving Marner for last. He put himself in this position through his chosen order of negotiations.
It could get a little tricky with Reinhart up next off-season, but you'd think getting Dahlin locked up next summer is the best strategy.
If we have to pay him an exorbitant amount next summer because already contending for a Norris this year, well, good.
Wait, what did Dubas screw up with Nylander? That contract is fantastic unless you think he went from being Marner’s statistical twin for two season to a 40-point player in one season.
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2 minutes ago, Randall Flagg said:
I read some article showing that analytics indicate playing guys on their off hand is a horrible thing to ever do
Link me. Liiiiinnnnkkkkkk mmmmmeeeeeeee
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27 minutes ago, Tondas said:
I'm at $3 mil. Again, Zadorov is getting $3.2 and played 11 more games than McCabe and had the same amount of points. It's the going rate.
Fair enough, but for what I think McCabe is, I'm looking to beat the market. I'd rather have Nelson play his off hand than pay McCabe $3M+ to skate on the third pair.
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What's everybody's red line here? Mine is probably $2.5M. I'm simply not paying a 3rd pairing Dman who doesn't bring much of anything offensively more than that.
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3 minutes ago, ... said:
OMG, totally. That's a way high ask for Jake and I don't mind him on the team.
So, that leaves us with Jake and Risto potentially on the trade market. I think a clever GM could turn just those two guys into a solid 2C.
I think it's likely the arbitrator is closer to the team number, but if it turns out to be close to $3M, then I'm looking to move on.
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Fare thee well, Jake. May you bring us a quality forward in return.
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The Official Beer Appreciation Thread
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Yes! The NE style craze has gone too far. Everywhere I go it's all I find. I like the style, don't get me wrong, but sometimes I just want to be punched in the face by some bitter hops.