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Forum: Armchair-GMSep. 18 at 3:55 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMSep. 15 at 3:50 a.m.
Thread: Standings Predictions
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Boltsradynasty</b></div><div>Stammer regressing? 106&amp;84 points over the last 2 seasons playing better defensive hockey than in his earlier career. Hedman had a bunch of nagging injuries and had played almost an additional season over the prior 3 playoffs. Schenn was a press box warrior for TB Bogosian in 20 played in more playoff games than Schenn in 20&amp;21 combined. Shattenkirk really?give me Nick Perbix all day.</div></div>


Okay cool you replaced schenn and Shattenkirk.

Who is your replacement for palat/ Killorn/ mcdonagh/ Coleman/ gourde/ goodrow? Hagel/ Jeannot/ sheary are nowhere close to enough.

Tampa doesn’t have the depth no more.

Toronto as much as I hate to say it, is the most dangerous threat in the Atlantic and it’s not really even a competition.

2-4 can literally be almost any team except for Montreal.

Bruins still have the wing depth/ top tier defence/ top of the league tandem

Tampa has top end talent at each position but lacks depth badly

Florida is actually pretty solid all around but can’t stay healthy. Bobrovsky’s inconsistent play could be a problem but assuming knight comes back they should be fine

Buffalo/ Detroit gained a lot of depth this off-season. Only really goaltending and experience could be an issue

Ottawa has a very good top 6 but weaker bottom 6, probably a top 5 top 4 in the league and they have a pretty solid goalie tandem. But inconsistency could be there problem


Either way all of those team could make PO’s I really don’t think Tampa is lock. I don’t think my statement that stamkos and Hedman regressing is far fetched, both are on the wrong side of 30 with injury history.

I expect Tampa not to be just a 1 line offence and split the stammer-point-kuch line to even out scoring which will hinder stammers stats most likely as I see point and kuch being more likely to stick together.
Sergachev also looked much better then Hedman last season, injuries tend to be things that slow players production down and again serg is the future so I expect him to get the better opportunities.
Forum: Armchair-GMSep. 14 at 5:52 p.m.
Thread: Standings Predictions
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Boltsradynasty</b></div><div>Yeah Buffalo doesn't have the goaltending. Especially not to beat TB.
The last 2 times TB lost in the first round the following year they made and won the Stanley Cup respectively.</div></div>



I do agree the Tampa most likely beats buffalo, but Tampa isn’t quite the team they once were. You can see stammer and Hedman are regressing, even vasi took a step back. They are still top players in their respective positions but just not who they once were throughout their cup wins.
Not to mention tampas depth was crazy but that they no longer have.
Killorn/ Palat/ Mcdonagh/ Colton/ gourde/ Coleman/ goodrow/ Rutta/ T Johnson/ Shattenkirk/ maroon
Even some rentals like schenn/ Savard/ perry

And you replace them with
Hagel/ Jeannot/ Sheary/ De haan/ eyissmont/ Paul/ perbix.

Yes they still acquired some solid guys but they just like my bruins are shadow of their former self, and with having no cap and no picks or really prospects they can afford to give up I don’t see them competing for a cup.

So though I still think Tampa wins I do believe Buffalo beating them isn’t unreasonable, I’d say buffalos offence and defence beats out tampas because of the depth and potential for a lot of breakouts. it’s just whether vasi and tampas experience prove to be more valuable
Forum: Armchair-GMSep. 10 at 5:08 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMSep. 7 at 5:02 a.m.
Thread: Would you pay Guhle 8M
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Mike7856</b></div><div>Agreed! Healthy Norris, Chabot and Chychrun will be huge if they can remain that way! Hopefully things start to turn in our favour now but who knows haha Chabot should in theory be much better with less mins wearing him down with the arrival of Chychrun and Sanderson eating more mins</div></div>


I feel for chabot he really gets critiqued for his defence. Now I don’t think he’s great by any means, but when you play for a bottom team and have to play 25 minutes a night it’s not gonna be pretty, especially since the whole previous system was more offensive based so everyone’s defensive numbers took a hit.

I do believe him playing 20 minutes a night with easier match-ups will improve his defensive game. Especially if he has a shutdown guy like Zub on his line.
I think Sanderson/ Chych should be together both good 2 ways guys that can rotate on who drives the play and who covers the blue line
Forum: Armchair-GMSep. 7 at 4:52 a.m.
Thread: Would you pay Guhle 8M
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Mike7856</b></div><div>For me the comparable player for Sanderson is Heiskanen, so he’s getting paid a little less than what Heiskanen got so to me it’s a solid deal and bet. Think they still get Pinto signed, think they’ll move Kubalik in camp and sign Pinto to a short bridge deal at 2/2.5m for 2/3 years. Ottawa has lots of cap space for next year, it’s really all their dead cap keeping them from signing Pinto.</div></div>

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>jonh514</b></div><div>Yeah I did not think about fair value... That's about what he's worth today...</div></div>


Can’t blame a team for being confident in their guy. The potential is there and he played a solid 2 way game for a below average Ottawa team.

Now add on that ottawas goalie situation looks more stable, they have a strong top 9, and they have an active top 4. Chabot/ Chych/ Zub/ Sanderson is a top 5 top 4 if they can play to their full potential.

They have done this with stutzle/ Tkachuck/ chabot and Norris and so far it has worked out to an extent, If Norris and chabot can just stay healthy those contracts will be well worth it.
Forum: Armchair-GMSep. 6 at 2:17 p.m.