Quoting: dp6154
LMAO
So comparing Gusev to Panarin (which I didn't do I just said he's the best KHL prospect since Panarin) is absurd, but Mackenzie MacEachern can be compared to Panarin because he's two years younger than Gusev (and we're not talking 35 to 37, we're talking prime, late 20s years) and that makes him Panarin breakout age and thus Panarin like. LMAAAAOOOOOOOOO
Comparing Age is different from the actual play. a 25 Year Old has time to grow. Which he does, Middle 6 is the highest I have for him. He isn't gonna be a Top 6 Player, but you really don't watch Blues games.
Quoting: dp6154
wow, clearly the most live or die 2 years of hockey aging known to man. Good thing you are convinced Gusev sucks or you might have proposed a trade for him.
Also I watch tons of Blues games, Gunnarsson was great all year (really our only steady defensemen when even Pietrangelo, Dunn and Parayko were struggling at the start of last season) then got hurt. but you'd know that if you watched more Blues games and didn't just measure talent by contract (that's what we're doing now right? making up over the top strawman insults to sneer down our nose at someone whenever they don't agree with us? You've only don't that twice at least). Also Edmunson was back and (again if you actually watched the Blues games) they were careful and slow to bring him back. If we are discounting performance because of previous regular season injuries, why are we doing it for Eddy and not Gunnarsson and why does Eddy's pre-injury atrocious performance get a pass?
Oh and since you're still on this train, this just isn't what middle 6 player means at all and it's a ridiculous word game you are playing that nobody s falling for. Blais was a decent, physical player who played perfectly reasonable don't notice it defense, didn't really generate offense for others in a heavy forecheck, etc. way that doesn't show up in his numbers, and had 4 points in 32 games (about a 10 point pace being generous). That's a 4th liner/healthy scratch. When you talk in vague assertions of what a player ins as far as [X] line player, it implies from a talent/performance perspective(which can be seen in their defense, numbers, etc.) that they would start in the middle 6 (or whatever line you say) of an average team when everyone is healthy, not it's where they were placed because of how a coach arranged lines(God could you imagine takling like this during the Hitch lineup generator years? Everyone would be a first and fourth liner at the same time like Schrodinger's cat). That is leaps and bounds away from where Blais is as a player. He is a 10 or less point physical guy who plays meh defense and gives you nothing special in any hidden way offensively and it's not because he's some rookie waiting for some big performance jump in year 2 and year 3 a la Thomas(who scored over 30 himself while playing very good defense and having a great forecheck game due to his speed and tight turns/moves although most of that occured int eh second half). Blais is not a middle 6 guy. It is delusional homerism or at best absurd word games (which of course is accompanied by intentional disingenuousness if it's word games) that you are even saying that
And I was also never talking about Blais. Blais is a Checking Line Forward. I am talking about MacEachern, which MacEachern has shown signs of bring up his game even more, but the problem is he isn't getting a lot of playing time, and you are just talking about standard games. Sure he definitely looks like a Fourth Line at best when they play him 8 Minutes a Game. 10 goals in 32 Games a total of 256 Minutes with 10 Goals in that. Average of .039 Goals Per Game. It's kind of hard to make an impact on a checking line, when you don't get a lot of minutes.
Gusev to me could be decent third liner, he has no NHL Experience against NHL Players, played on a larger ice area, so makes him have less space to create his offense. Goalies are better here than in KHL, so has to be more precise. Has no chemistry with the teams he is playing with at all, especially since he only speaks Russian kind of hard to make good Chemistry, but Sure Edmundson, MacEachern, Blais, Kyrou, Bokk, Kostin, Tarasenko, Perron, Schwartz, Schenn, O'Reilly, Parayko, Pietrangelo, Bortuzzo, Dunn, Bouwmeester, Binnington, and every other Blues player is bad, and trash because that's your opinion about the Blues. That's really what it comes down to lmao.
Just keep downing us, I mean that's how this whole thing is for you, and you clearly don't watch games, if you would then you would know when MacEachern got into things as Normal with the team he actually did well, but you wouldn't know that because you only watch what Vegas games.
You have to give me more reason than Gusev did good in KHL to say he is worth Top Prospect, and a First. In a mind you deep ass Entry Draft. Y'all got him in the expansion draft that Tampa didn't try to keep him lmao, how would he be good at 27. He has been so used to KHL ice, he isn't gonna come over well if he was Younger he would probably have a chance, but he has spent so much of his career in KHL, he won't be as good as you suppose he is going to be. 60, 70, 80, 130 Point lol whatever you think he is gonna be. No team is gonna pay that much worth the risk, and if your best Chance is getting a Defenseman who has been really good pre-injury, (not good in playoffs based on rushing recovery) maybe you can get better that way, unless you wanna just keep him, and not be able to sign him, and let him leave next season as a Unrestricted Free Agent.