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Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 26 at 5:07 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 26 at 6:02 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 17 at 1:21 p.m.
Thread: Watch people go crazy
You typed all of that about something that you know has a 0% chance of happening?

A.) Let’s show some class and level headed patience to Dubas who has been employed for one season, and was tasked with the hell that was cleaning up Hextall’s complete mess. He’s done fine when taking into account said Hextall mess, and the new ownerships’ desire to remain competitive with Crosby, Malkin, and Letang.

B.) If im not mistaken, Torts is still under term at $4 million per year, and has certainly not coached his way to a Philly firing. They would not let him go. Also, I find it amusing that your sighting Torts’ willingness to play young players by referencing his willingness to give minutes to perennial top picks Dubois, and Werenski. Very bold of him to play those high picks. Injury riddled Poulin is surely on par with those two!

C.) This week Carle stated that he has every desire to remain Denver’s head coach, sighting that he and his young family love it there and that he does not want to uproot them for an NHL job, where the turnover rate is very high.

This isn’t NHL 24 GM mode. We hired Dubas and thrusted a daunting task upon him, as well as a desired path by ownership to attempt to remain competitive while also restocking young assets. Not easy to do. Here’s a rational idea, at least give him 1 summer without the Hextall shackles before we come out and say that we’d rather hire Torts, with no experience in that role, as GM!
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 17 at 4:09 p.m.
Thread: Watch people go crazy
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>JuanDamienNebraska</b></div><div>You typed all of that about something that you know has a 0% chance of happening?

A.) Let’s show some class and level headed patience to Dubas who has been employed for one season, and was tasked with the hell that was cleaning up Hextall’s complete mess. He’s done fine when taking into account said Hextall mess, and the new ownerships’ desire to remain competitive with Crosby, Malkin, and Letang.

B.) If im not mistaken, Torts is still under term at $4 million per year, and has certainly not coached his way to a Philly firing. They would not let him go. Also, I find it amusing that your sighting Torts’ willingness to play young players by referencing his willingness to give minutes to perennial top picks Dubois, and Werenski. Very bold of him to play those high picks. Injury riddled Poulin is surely on par with those two!

C.) This week Carle stated that he has every desire to remain Denver’s head coach, sighting that he and his young family love it there and that he does not want to uproot them for an NHL job, where the turnover rate is very high.

This isn’t NHL 24 GM mode. We hired Dubas and thrusted a daunting task upon him, as well as a desired path by ownership to attempt to remain competitive while also restocking young assets. Not easy to do. Here’s a rational idea, at least give him 1 summer without the Hextall shackles before we come out and say that we’d rather hire Torts, with no experience in that role, as GM!</div></div>

Amen.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 20 at 9:53 a.m.
Thread: Jakey come back U can blame it all on Sully
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>LuckyMoneyPuck</b></div><div>I'm gonna fix this for you.

3rd line
Yager, Broz, DOC.

4th line
Poulin, Eller, Bemström

DEF
bye POJ
Insert Pickering.
bye Ivany
Insert FA 3RD.

Best this team could do....

But here is the thing. I don't want to pay Jake 9.5...... because he's not worth 9.5
To be stuck in that contract, is a decision I'd rather let some other team get roped into.</div></div>

Full stop, this is far from the best this team could do.
I don't think Yager, Broz, or Pickering are NHL ready. I'd love to be proven wrong, but I imagine they'll all get a quick look at most.
Jack St. Ivany has been solid, much to my surprise. He plays a better physical shutdown game than the rest of our 3rd pairing options. Why replace young talent with a more expensive player that is only marginally better?
"Guentzel isn''t worth 9.5M" have you been living under a rock? He was worth that before scoring 25 in 17 with CAR. He's a superstar. That doesn't necessarily mean that bringing him back is the best move for the team: I want to pick up a shutdown LHD on a short term deal until Pickering is ready. But someone is going to pay Jake a lot of money this summer and they are going to be very happy that they did.

Ideal bottom 6 IMO looks something like:
DOC - Eller - Puustinen
Gruden - Poulin/Ponomarev - Puljujarvi
with Eller moving down to 4C later in the season if Poulin/Ponomarev look good.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 20 at 1:12 p.m.
Thread: Jakey come back U can blame it all on Sully
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>LuckyMoneyPuck</b></div><div>Yager is already a better player than Puustinen.
You to worried about age. There are plenty of guys who come in at 20.
While I can see your concern for Pickering, by the end of the year he'll be a better LD than POJ and he sure as hell can do no worse than Ludvig did.

As for Broz, he could step onto this team today and be the best 3C option they have. Guys don't play as good as he does at the NCAA level and not make the jump fairly quickly. He's better than Kerfoot was at the NCAA level and Kerfoot played right away. He's got kerfoot year 4 numbers in year 3. He's got a complete game. He could easily make the jump.
It's the constant shooting itself in the foot that this team makes not wanting to play youth and this fan base who thinks no one is capable other than some over priced old as hell declining vet.

Broz would be a massive upgrade on the ice.</div></div>

It isn't age I'm worried about with any of those guys I was skeptical of, it was performance.

Yager is probably the closest, had a phenomenal WHL season, but was 3rd in points/game on his own team. How much is he going to score without Jagger Firkus and Matthew Savoie? I don't think Yager's already better than Puusty. He's still only played in juniors, we don't know how well Yager will do against professionals. Look at Poulin, he played well in his last 2 years of juniors, and then struggled in the AHL before he was moved to C. Puustinen had 20 points in 52 games while averaging under 12 minutes a night. His 1.96 points/60 was one of the better rates on the Pens, and with a strong G% and xG% as well. Puusty and DOC are easily the best wingers for our 3rd line, assuming we replace Smith with someone to play with Sid and Rust.

Broz is in a similar boat: he was a major contributor on a great team, but he wasn't the guy. I dislike the Kerfoot comparison. Kerfoot scored 45 in 35 in year 4, and was 18th in points/game and tied for Harvard's leading scorer. Broz was good, but wasn't *the guy*. He scored 40 in 43, good for 63rd in points/game, and was 4th in Denver scoring. The only examples I saw over the past few years of someone making the jump to the NHL and sticking around were top picks and talents like Beniers and Caulfield, and Matthew Knies. Maybe we get a Knies situation out of him, but that's the exception rather than the rule.

Pickering was projected to have 3 or 4 years before making the NHL when drafted, and his development has been slower than the other two over the past couple years. His scoring barely went up between this and last season. With Swift Current being eliminated from the WHL playoffs last night, I assume he'll join the WBS Pens for their run. I think his performance there will tell us a lot about his readiness. If he's going to be better than POJ at the end of the year, he can prove it in the AHL before the end of the year. And better than Ludvig isn't great praise.

And it isn't like I want to play a bunch of old guys in those spaces. Eller was the only guy over 26 that I wanted in my projected bottom 6. Puusty and Pulji were the oldest guys after that. The former provides a scoring touch the bottom 6 lacked for the past few years, and the ladder has the speed and physicality for a great energy/grind line. I'm worried that if we play Yager, Broz, and Pickering before they're ready, it'll negatively affect both the Penguins season and those guys' seasons. Ultimately, I want what's best for their development. If that's an NHL gig, phenomenal. But if not, that's ok.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 19 at 12:39 p.m.
Thread: Based on what DUBAS said today in his press conference
in my opinion, reading through the line of what he said today, we need graves to go back to last years form because we are kind of stuck with him with his contract which will be tough to trade. I do believe he will trade smith, last year of his contract and easy to trade for a late pick to a rebuilding team that will flip him retained at the deadline. honestly he wasn't awful but at the same time we needed more from him in particular down the stretch. Blomqvist I agree will be the backup (I do believe dubas might try to trade jarry if Ned can resign for less, very difficult tho we'll see).
personally, I would stay away from debrusk. he is good don't get me wrong but I think we need more consistency and not having a similar player to smith, even if a bit better.
if you trade smith and not sign debrusk you have 12mil left on the cap which I would give to puusty and guentzel. I know not easy but I do believe bringing back Jake is a huge boost not only for the present trying to make the playoffs but also for the future rebuild in a couple of years.
imo 7x10m is a tough offer to decline.
have like:

Jake sid rust
bunting geno raks
o'connor eller puusty/yager
and your fourth line.


what about Koivunen : is he actually close to make the team or not really?
Forum: Armchair-GMMar. 23 at 8:17 a.m.
Thread: CANES FANS--Do you honestly think you re-sign Jake Read description
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>batman</b></div><div>Waddell said they hope to get him signed</div></div>

While I don’t doubt it will be thier intention to try to re-sigh him, I don’t think Waddell has said thus publicly.

If they re-sign, Guentzel at the likely $8M+ it would take, then I think they will have to jettison Kotkaniemi. They also have half their blueline to rebuild this summer, not to mention the RFA statuses of Necas and Jarvis to deal with.

Signing 30yr old Guentzel for 8yrs for $8M+ goes against everything they’ve done so far, but this is also te first rental they’ve paid up for and he’s proven to be an excellent fit. My gut tells me he walks, but I also won’t be too surprised if they somehow keep him. Keeping him tho, means tough decisions elsewhere in the roster.