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Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 18 at 10:57 a.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 15 at 6:40 p.m.
Thread: Nursery
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>CD282</b></div><div>Three weeks is a tiny sample size that doesn't inform the future very well.

But since you want to go down that rabbit hole... over the past 3 weeks Nurse has played the <strong>37th most 5v5 minutes in the league</strong>. That's most certainly NOT 3rd pairing minutes. And he has posted 60% xGF, SCF and HDCF in those games.

Stop making **** up.</div></div>

Ya and look at his competition. Since March 8/24, Nurse is second last at 27.8% for TOI% vs Elites. To simplify that for your pea brain, out of all our dman, not include Ceci and Stecher, <strong>Nurse has played the least amount against elite players. </strong>

PS, you still haven't even tried to argue against any of my points I made against Nurse, obviously because you know I'm right.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 15 at 4:57 p.m.
Thread: Nursery
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>PurpleHippo</b></div><div>It depends on the day with him (which isn't a lovely thing to say about a 9.25M dman); at times he does an incredible job and fills the exact role we need him to, others he doesn't.
Idk if I'd say he's mid cause to me that means he's around average which he isn't, he's still a top pairing or at least great 3rd option dman on almost every team in the NHL.

I get frustrated with him too, but realistically unless we can actually replace him with an as effective player it would be a pretty massive step in the wrong direction for us right now to dump him.</div></div>

I say he's mid, because there really isn't anything, other than skating, that he excels at. Quick breakdown:
- For someone who's 6'4", he is not as physical as he can be.
- I mentioned before, his flaws on the PK. He's really bad. Statistically, our worst PK dman.
- He will not be able to successfully QB a PP on any other team. He had "success" with us because of Nuge, 97 and Drai. He has never shown skills to control the PP as a dman, like Barrie and Bouchard do.
- His gap control is awful. Leaves to much space for the attacking player and commits way too early to blocking the shot (which he rarely does).
- I said his skating is good, but he does not use it nearly as much as he should/can, other than the odd time he joins the forwards. PS, last time he did that, Stars had a 3-1 and scored....Too many times i've watched him in the d-zone where he can easily skate the puck out of danger, but chooses to turn the puck over with a bad pass.

Based on all of this ^^^ I have no issues calling him mid :(
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 15 at 4:24 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMMar. 19 at 3:50 p.m.
Thread: Next year is the year
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>CD282</b></div><div>Again, hyperbole. Edmonton is 96th percentile in speed bursts above 20mph, Colorado is 99th percentile. So they are a faster team, but they're the only faster team.

Hyman, Nuge and Kane are still well above average skaters.

Fair point, but how many of those stats are occupied by McDavid or McLeod. Hyman and Nuge are good skaters, but they're both on the decline. Kane does not play a fast game at all anymore, complete 180 from pre-injury.

This is all true, and adding Tanev doesn't help. Actually Ceci and Desharnais have above average top speed, but they don't get there often enough.</div></div>
Trading Ceci for a faster defenseman would help a lot. Ekholm is also 34, so skating will be more of a concern for him too.