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Hockyluv21
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Armchair-GM
5 minutes ago
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Hamilton at the Deadline with an Extension
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Islesforthecup</b></div><div>I wouldnt that contracts a disaster</div></div>
Hidden in Carolina's return is Fowler and his rather steep contract. Freeing up Fowler's $6.5M for 6 years allows Anaheim to afford the "bad team tax" for Hamilton. I also think that Hamilton is the kind of player that will bring Anaheim to Cup-contending status.
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Armchair-GM
51 minutes ago
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Gopher It
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>ecupirate07</b></div><div>Canes keep Dougie at 8 to 8.5 million</div></div>
Well yes, that too, but again, this is not a bad package at all if the asking price grows to Karlsson money. I doubt it, but there's an outside chance that it could happen. Pionk seems like the real deal and Gustafsson's a nice depth piece that's still super-young. Add the likely-to-be-late first and it's a nice return.
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Armchair-GM
53 minutes ago
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Gopher It
Canes accept ONLY if Hamilton can't agree to an extension with us before the trade deadline. Hamilton isn't going anywhere until that time.
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Armchair-GM
1 hour ago
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IMO the Best Suitor for Vince Dunn
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>MisstheWhalers</b></div><div>I don't get it, why are the Blues looking to move Dunn?</div></div>
Tarasenko's way ahead of schedule. They need to free up cap room sooner than expected, and Dunn's an easy one to move because of youth and potential. Only question is going to be the return.
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Armchair-GM
5 hours ago
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IMO the Best Suitor for Vince Dunn
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Claesson4Norris</b></div><div>Trading more for Vince Dunn than what they got for Devon Toews would be a tough look.</div></div>
Different team circumstances. Trade value is a very fluid thing.
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Armchair-GM
5 hours ago
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IMO the Best Suitor for Vince Dunn
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>tsyls</b></div><div>I’d have to argue that the Jets would be a better spot for Dunn. Islanders isn’t too far off though</div></div>
Isles are considerably more comfortable with parting away from 1sts, though. Lou and Trotz both prefer right-now help as a philosophy, especially team-controlled right-now help.
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Armchair-GM
5 hours ago
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IMO the Best Suitor for Vince Dunn
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>AndrewLadd</b></div><div>Yes!!!</div></div>
It's the perfect kind of low-cap add IMO to make up for losing Toews as a cap casualty. A Pelech/Leddy/Dunn left side isn't bad at all and gives a guy like Andy Greene, who's still effective in short bursts, plenty of rest.
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Armchair-GM
7 hours ago
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COVID Lines
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>canes2020</b></div><div>They better hope the guys clear protocol soon, this is a tough lineup to put on the ice against Tampa & Dallas</div></div>
Hope Brindy studies a bit from the Barry Trotz playbook of defense.
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NHL Signings
Tue at 12:02 am
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Vegas Golden Knights signed Pavel Dorofeyev (3 Years / $925,000 AAV)
Another in a line of interesting Knights picks from the mid-rounds: Elvenes, Korczak, Dugan, Kolesar, Cormier, Saville, Morozov, Deliberatore, now Dorofeyev. For such a new franchise and for such a win-now front office, they seem to do a really good job at the draft.
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Armchair-GM
Mon at 7:07 pm
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My Prediction of the Blue Jackets Future
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Price_is_the_goat</b></div><div>yeah but not everyone thinks like that. some players like the lavish life, while others don't. IMO vegas is the best city to live in as an nhler</div></div>
Unless you're Evander Kane, I 100% agree. Columbus and Raleigh are great spots, though. Don't get fooled by the fact that they aren't technically big cities.
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Armchair-GM
Mon at 5:39 pm
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Guys that only play bc they were 1st round picks
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>hanson493</b></div><div>i think vladar is more likely to be malcolm subban but that wouldnt be a missed pick in the slightest.</div></div>
A Malcolm Subban outcome, relative to where Vladar was picked...is absolutely a draft hit.
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Armchair-GM
Mon at 5:16 pm
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Best Contract Per Team - Read Description
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>NoWah49</b></div><div>Theodores contract is gonna be the best in the league</div></div>
Perhaps the singular reason why Vegas was comfortable with fitting Petro long-term.
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Armchair-GM
Mon at 3:59 pm
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Guys that only play bc they were 1st round picks
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>hanson493</b></div><div>zboril was also a little blocked by chara and krug. lauzon has surprised the hell out of me. i think alot of people wrote off zboril because he didnt immediately make the nhl.</div></div>
What I find really funny is that Hockey Twitter loved to rag on the Bruins for their 2015 draft for years on end, and yet...Zboril, DeBrusk, and Lauzon are NHL players now, and Vladar is on the verge of becoming one, as well. 4 NHLers in 1 draft class isn't exactly shabby work, even though that draft was so ridiculously deep that guys like Barzal/Connor/Aho came after them.
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Armchair-GM
Mon at 3:49 pm
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Guys that only play bc they were 1st round picks
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>hanson493</b></div><div>zboril was also a little blocked by chara and krug. lauzon has surprised the hell out of me. i think alot of people wrote off zboril because he didnt immediately make the nhl.</div></div>
I just have a rule to never call draft picks on cup contenders busts until at least 5 years after the draft. In the case of defensemen like Zboril where there's only 6-7 slots available per team, maybe even more than that. Good teams are good for a reason, and it often takes guys drafted in such organizations an extremely long time to get the opportunity.
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Armchair-GM
Mon at 3:43 pm
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Guys that only play bc they were 1st round picks
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>hanson493</b></div><div>zboril and frederic i think are wrong but for different reasons. frederic is in due to injury and lack of organizational depth. no pastrnak, no kase, etc. Ide say he was a 4th line checker on this team if it wasnt for injuries right now... however he looked fantastic with coyle and craig smith the other night and im not sure what happens after pasta and kase come back. Zboril has been solid this year. I think you could say zboril was only playing because he was a first rounder before the season but his play this year has been fantastic.</div></div>
I feel like the Boston group is more of the late-bloomer variety of 1st rounder that is seen in a lot of playoff contenders, where guys really have to earn their way to the top and are never going to be just given roles. Haydn Fleury and, IMO, soon-to-be Jake Bean, are other examples of this.
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Armchair-GM
Mon at 3:18 pm
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Guys that only play bc they were 1st round picks
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Kotkaniemi15</b></div><div>Ottawa is $10 million over the floor, and that’s after they traded Gaborik & Nilsson. They traded those people because their management is in love with toughness and violence.</div></div>
Now, if you really want to see "hard-to-play-against", look at Carolina, Columbus, Boston, and post-Goodrow/Coleman Tampa. Boston is one of the few that actually pull off a true "hard-to-play-against" roster every year because they find guys that actually have skill, with the grit coming last. Grit with no skill is called "bottom of the league".
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Armchair-GM
Mon at 3:11 pm
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Guys that only play bc they were 1st round picks
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Kotkaniemi15</b></div><div>Ottawa is $10 million over the floor, and that’s after they traded Gaborik & Nilsson. They traded those people because their management is in love with toughness and violence.</div></div>
Ottawa thinks that they're "hard to play against" when they're really just a dumpster fire that can't defend to save their lives. Also explains their questionable drafting outside the first two rounds, as well.
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Armchair-GM
Mon at 3:05 pm
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Guys that only play bc they were 1st round picks
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Kotkaniemi15</b></div><div>That, or they’re just dumb. We’re talking about the team that traded picks for Austin Watson & Erik Gudbranson. I don’t know who they’d fool by trading him, because even old senile Jim Rutherford knows not to trade for Galchenyuk now.</div></div>
Those two acquisitions were mostly about the cap floor, though. Guds makes way less in real cash than his cap hit.
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Armchair-GM
Mon at 2:54 pm
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Guys that only play bc they were 1st round picks
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Jetman</b></div><div>Esp when you look at Atlanta's record of picks...lol</div></div>
Yes, that's the hilarious part of all this. Atlanta was decent when it came to signings and trades, and Waddell always kept a clean cap sheet devoid of albatrosses like he does today in Carolina, but their scouting department was a complete and total dumpster fire. Thank god that Carolina had Yorke and Tulsky as incumbent guys in those areas of the franchise before Waddell came in, and he was smart enough to keep those two around, have them promoted up the chain, and have them protected with lab gloves and long-term extensions.
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Armchair-GM
Mon at 2:51 pm
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Guys that only play bc they were 1st round picks
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Kotkaniemi15</b></div><div>Yeah, although Galchenyuk’s one good skill allows him to play in the NHL, when people who are as good as him like Charles Hudon are playing in Switzerland. The only reason he’s in the NHL is because of where he was drafted.</div></div>
Galch's offensive skill has never been a question, though. It was always the other end that caused many coaches to wince and not play him in his preferred spot (center).
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Armchair-GM
Mon at 2:49 pm
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Guys that only play bc they were 1st round picks
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Jetman</b></div><div>Plus now with Stanley playing, Cole Perfetti(this year) is the only Jets 1st rounder not playing in the NHL...not to shabby of picks</div></div>
Their scouting department and their player development group have been the Jets' major saving grace throughout their post-Thrashers relocation history. Most teams would not survive the loads of trade requests and UFA shunnings that Winnipeg has, but they do because they're so good at those two particular things.
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Armchair-GM
Mon at 2:43 pm
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Guys that only play bc they were 1st round picks
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>SlickWilly</b></div><div>I mean, for some of them, like Nylander, Mcleod, and Galchenyuk, they "only" play because they have untapped potential that they haven't hit yet. They were picked in the first round for a reason. They just havent put it together yet. Nylander had 26 points in 65 games in his rookie season. Galchenyuk had 30 goals when he was 21. Mcleod was pretty solid throughout his OHL career until he suffered a torn meniscus and has had to compensate to regain some of the skills he probably lost over his recovery. Guys like these play because they have skill that can be brought out but just doesnt shine through every night</div></div>
Also, many of these guys are long-time NHL players and not the guys that get persistent call-ups only to do nothing. To me, those guys have made it on merit. Maybe they didn't hit their full potential, but they're NHLers regardless.
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Armchair-GM
Mon at 2:40 pm
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Which Players Will Be Negative-Tested First
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>EsoYeezus69</b></div><div>Hopefully Turbo first, cause I have him in my fantasy.</div></div>
I don't think that the Canes play at all without at least Staal and Turbo. They have the depth on defense to not play Slavin for a game or two, but the forwards are a different story.
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Armchair-GM
Mon at 2:37 pm
Thread:
Guys that only play bc they were 1st round picks
Galchenyuk had some good years in Montreal before coaches started to tamper his usage because of defensive issues. Jankowski's been in the NHL long enough to be called an NHL player, and same with Crouse. Also, Nylander's earned his spot with Chicago. He's unfortunately injured for the year, though.
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Armchair-GM
Sun at 10:53 pm
Thread:
Load up at the deadline
I don't want to make the same mistake that Arizona did by not making sure that Hall was extended before dealing a first for him. Fiala, OTOH, is well worth a 1st.
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