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Forum: Armchair-GMFri. at 12:06 p.m.
Thread: Line by Line Comparison of the Finals
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>PurpleHippo</b></div><div>Yea I spent some time looking through their lines and they aren't that physical, aside from Kulikov and Mikkola; Tkachuk, Bennett and Stenlund for Dmen and Forward respectively.

They play a really suffocating style of 1-1-3 forecheck/transition defense which gives the impression of physicality but they dont really throw hits in any of it.
They mostly just quick gap and stick check, which works well for them but they haven't played a very fast team all playoffs aside from TB who did well vs them (despite what the results looked like).</div></div>

Yeah, and Tampa is slow by comparison.

<a href="https://edge.nhl.com/en/compare/teams/20232024-playoffs-EDM-20232024-playoffs-TBL" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://edge.nhl.com/en/compare/teams/20232024-playoffs-EDM-20232024-playoffs-TBL</a>
Forum: Armchair-GMThu. at 7:26 p.m.
Thread: Grier Shocks as SJ Sign Guentzel Walker Get Kakko Sign Montour Henrique to 1yr
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>CheechYou</b></div><div>Yes, this makes sense at first glance. But one point that I think often gets overlooked is that 1 or 2 of these investments on very good 29/30 year olds players should be looked as partial investments into the development of your younger players themselves.

Celebrini, Smith, and Musty's development will absolutely be progressed with a guy like Marner/Guentzel/Reinhart on the team in their early years. There's a good chance that their development is stagnated either in small part or in great deal if you don't have those guys on the roster to help them and the team out.</div></div>

A few counterpoints:

By adding those guys, you'll reduce the value of your draft picks for the near future, thus lowering the team's potential.

Who needs 30 year old superstar linemates to help their development? That's a silly suggestion. None of Orr, Gretzky, Lemieux, McDavid had that. Even lesser players like MacKinnon, Matthew's, Kucherov and Marner didn't have (or need) that.

The best teams in history have a core group of similar aged players.

By the time Celebrini is in his prime (25-30), all those older players will be well past theirs or will have aged out of the league.

You can always sign a bunch of UFA's in 2 years.

Don't rush the rebuild, do it right. Accumulate a bunch more talent before pushing all your chips in.
Forum: Armchair-GMThu. at 4:35 p.m.
Thread: Line by Line Comparison of the Finals
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>PurpleHippo</b></div><div>Can't do this years roster so for EDM line 3 and Florida line 4 there are no players (unless I create them and lose the logo).

Would imagine that Mcdavid's line would be an issue for the Tkachuk line, I think they'd need to put Barkov against him.
There'll be a lot of adjusting though, Florida will have an issue with our speed and need to respond, likewise with us dealing with their physicality.</div></div>
I didn't realize that 23-24 rosters weren't an option anymore, that makes more sense.

Florida is less physical than LA / VCR though, and a smaller team than the Oilers, so I don't see the physicality thing being a big deal. I recall reading that Florida has been outhit in every series so far. I think the physicality thing is overrated.

So much skill on both teams though, it's shaping up to be the best finals we've seen in a while.