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Eli

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Forum: Armchair-GM6 hours ago
Thread: Baby Circles
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Ryminister_27</b></div><div>Lol. Ever heard of stick checks and takeaways? ... Leafs are 1st in the standings and 2 in goal differential. I think they're doing just fine without Wilson. But sure, keep blabbing on about whatever you what thinking you're justifying it. But you're still not.</div></div>

I'm fine if it doesn't happen. No worries. The Leafs have a good team. Highlights include Matthews and Marner tearing up the scoresheet, Tavares always being a threat to score, and Thornton and Spezza playing really well for free. Rielly and Muzzin aren't too bad, either. Andersen isn't perfect but he's got some great endurance. The Leafs are having another strong regular season, but that doesn't mean their 2R is better than the 1R off a recent champ.

Nobody in Caps land is actively shopping Tom Wison. You're arguing against that like it is a thing. It is not a thing. You are dreaming.
Forum: Armchair-GM6 hours ago
Thread: Baby Circles
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Ryminister_27</b></div><div>Cool. Fans that likely know nothing about analytics and are likely 50+ years old so all the know is old school hockey. Sorry, it's new school and old school is out. You can't assault your way to a cup now, the league has changed and is constantly changing to avoid hockey like that. Wilson is nothing more than a suspension risk. With his history, those are only going to get longer. No need for that in Toronto. At least if the cost is Nylander who can be such a game changer and X factor</div></div>

Yes. William Nylander is a game changing x factor. Got it. Thanks. Because "analytics" and "New School." Wilson just gets more ponits, sometimes, and gets more hits on the score sheet in half a season than Nylander has in his career. And hits aren't important, because who needs to get the puck back. Not Toronto. They'll just win the opening faceoff and keep the puck forever, as soon as they find 19 more Nylanders.
Forum: Armchair-GMThu at 8:33 pm
Thread: Baby Circles
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>pharrow</b></div><div>I think you'd probably have to go prospect or pick.
Hållander is a fairly decent prospect.
Leafs fans love Roberson, but he's like Braco 2.0.
Abramov might fit the bill as well. He's russian, decent skilled guy. Personally I think he's their best forward prospect.</div></div>

I'm not sure an undrafted 19 year old who has yet to play makes much of a difference, yet. If the Caps need a Russian forward prospect for next year, they'll bring up Protas.

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Ryminister_27</b></div><div>Leafs likely pass. Mikheyev is too important to the bottom 6 and PK. Wilson doesn't fill that need and Hagelin just isn't as good as Mikheyev on the PK. Leafs are also giving up more offence between Nylander and Wilson, not to mention the suspension worry with Wilson. &amp; If you're balancing the cap out there's really no incentive for Toronto at all.</div></div>

Just re-read this (bored) and really, since Wilson started playing on a top line, his offense is pretty darn close to Nylander's. Over the last two seasons, Nylander has two more points than Wilson, but Wilson has five more even strength points. http://www.nhl.com/stats/skaters?reportType=season&amp;seasonFrom=20182019&amp;seasonTo=20192020&amp;gameType=2&amp;position=R&amp;filter=gamesPlayed,gte,1&amp;sort=points,goals,assists&amp;page=0&amp;pageSize=50

So I was posting this as if Mikheyev was still on the up-swing. Pittsburgh fans chimed in that with Mikheyev's hand injury he might be done, so there's absolutely no incentive for the Caps to downgrade 1RW on offense, defense, PK, and toughness. With all due respect to Nylander's takeaways and passing, Wilson is better and cheaper.
Forum: Armchair-GMThu at 8:11 pm
Thread: Baby Circles
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>pharrow</b></div><div>kind of sad but I think if it's his hands he's done. It's so hard to repair a tendon. It's either too tight and then there is nothing you can do about that, or too lose and the risk of trying to shorten it isn't worth the risk. It's almost impossible to get the length back to "normal" which means biomechanically it's never the same, on top of it, possible scarring issues.
You end up like Bellerive for the penguins. He jacked his hands, now can't hold the stick normal and his game is whack.
Just a **** injury all the way around. Horrible luck for the guy.</div></div>

Ouch. Is there someone else the Leafs could offer that would balance Wilson for Nylander? I genuinely included Mikheyev thinking of him as a young, defensively sound middle six forward with some offensive upside who speaks Russian and could turn great with Kuznetsov and Ovechkin. If he is no longer that, then this post deserved to be laughed at.
Forum: Armchair-GMThu at 7:59 pm
Thread: For fun
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Bringer_Of_Snow</b></div><div>I believe Eichel would fetch an incredible haul, but this is ridiculous. Panarin is a top 10 player in the league. While Eichel is certainly more valuable given his age and position, I don't think there is a massive gap in value.

Take that into account, you're left with the single worst contract in the league and a top 5 worst contract in return for a 1C. Like that isn't even close.
Oh just realized you also added a top 6 winger and a middle 6 centre coming from NYR too. This got progressively worse as I read on.

Adding on an Okposo and Skinner would cripple your team for the next half decade. Kind of defeats the purpose of trading for an Eichel in the first place.

A deal of Eichel to NYR would probably go Lafrenierre, Zibanejad, + some smaller pieces and prospects.</div></div>

I posted that one two weeks ago, and outside observers agreed it was fair. Neither side was interested. NYR fans said it was an overpay, but Buffalo, funny thing, preferred just having a good #1C to having a pretty good prospect and a slumping former #1C. Plus if NYR is going to rebuild, they're going to want to keep hoping Lafreniere pans out. Buffalo wants to make the playoffs now. They're bored of rebuilding. So Lafreniere is valued differently by each side, and isn't the right piece to make this work. I know, it surprised me, too.
Forum: Armchair-GMThu at 7:57 pm
Thread: For fun
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Vermathex</b></div><div>panarin alone is not 15 million in dead cap for 2 years worse than eichel let alone 9 millions for 7 years</div></div>

Zibanejad has two more even strength points than Skinner, this year. Either could bounce back, but right now, they're almost a wash.

Eichel is a 24 year old superstar US born center who leads his team in points. Very marketable. Nice guy.

Panarin is a 29 year old on a leave of absence from professional sports, at almost the same cap hit. Panarin alone is currently 9 million in dead cap space. For how long? I don't know.

Okposo has more negative value than Deangelo, but Eichel has positive value. How much of that does Buchnevich and Georgiev really account for? My first draft had Shesterkin and a 1st, but I thought about it, and this seemed like enough for Buffalo. :)
Forum: Armchair-GMThu at 6:52 pm
Thread: Denis G
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>TheMooterus</b></div><div>Instead of just saying "no from Dallas", I'll elaborate a bit more. You're actually not too far off. This deal doesn't get it done, but Legare is a solid start. Given the fact that it's likely to be a bottom-10 pick, the Stars would also need Pittsburgh's 1st thrown in to the deal. A 1st + Legare may seem like a bit much, but given the fact that Legare is a prospect (some uncertainty around any prospect), Gurianov is a young, established sniper at the NHL level, and Dallas has no reason to trade him, any team is going to have to overpay for Dallas to consider a Gurianov trade.

Now let me tell you why this trade doesn't work even at the value Dallas would want; their team is built to win now &amp; in the very short term. With massive contracts like Benn &amp; Seguin on the books and one of the oldest rosters in the NHL, they aren't in a stage where they can really "wait" for Legare to contribute to their roster. Gurianov is already a top-6, contributing forward for the team that made it to the Cup last season. Dallas needs to win over the next 2 seasons, and Gurianov is already helping them do that, while Legare (while a solid prospect) wouldn't be able to help them compete for a Cup in the very-near future.</div></div>

That is way better than just saying no. There's not enough of this on here. Well done.

Good analysis of why the Stars' best young forward is not getting traded, while they have so many old forwards earning so much money.

I'm not even sure the above gets Radulov.