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Forum: Armchair-GMMay 8, 2018 at 5:30 p.m.
Thread: Reasonable and Promising
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>BeastModeUnknown</b></div><div>Your saying Amry will trade every prospect for a bunch of rentals? And Jake Allen is better than Robin Lehner.</div></div>

He got rid of a ton but he kept Thomas, Kyrou, Foley, Walman, and some others, and he made age-appropriate improvements that would deepen the current core so that we can compete with guys like Tarasenko, Pietrangelo, Schwartz, etc. in their prime and not have to wait for 5-6 teenagers to develop into players. If it were possible, I'd be all for something like this.

Allen and Lehner is probably a matter of opinion considering Lehner has had to stop pucks in front of a dismal team for most of his career. The bigger problem with Lehner is I think we'd have to qualify him at 4m or he would become a UFA... so we're not saving money, but we would possibly be into Lehner for one fewer year than we are for Allen, depending on his contract.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 14, 2018 at 7:31 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 5, 2018 at 1:32 p.m.
Thread: Armstrong finally recognizes the team needs a big change
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Ktaaffe8</b></div><div>OEL is like 27/28. Gallagher is 25. Rask is 25. Holtby is 28. I would not consider that older. And I also would not consider Parayko, Thompson, Berglund, Allen to be young powerhouses. I LOVE Parayko (have his jersey in my closet), but I believe we need a change and maybe need more of a high compete level. Parayko is always calm and relaxed, but maybe we need players that will spark us</div></div>

Just commented on someone else's page. I think Yeo is the problem with Parayko. He doesn't use him the way he should. He gets middle of the road PP time, always being paired with Dunn (who is good but is more of the same as Parayko) or Bouwmeester when he was playing and is consistently not playing the man and out of position. Ryan Suter, who is an extremely effective all around defenseman, looked horrible playing with Yeo. Speaking of terrible systems, Tarasenko is being played on the point when he should be playing circle down where he's more effective.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 5, 2018 at 11:03 a.m.
Thread: Armstrong finally recognizes the team needs a big change
I would love to get OEL to play WITH Parayko, maybe there is another way to acquire him. Bouwmeester still seems like an immovable object to me, but he seems like a good pro and might oblige if mgmt were to ask him to waive his NTC.

If we sign JvR I'd try to pry whoever schemes TOR's PP along with him (Jim Hiller?). It's not a lack of skill/personnel that plagues us on PP, it's the system. JVR might be a dud in our current system (Schenn had 17 PPG last year... 8 this year).

Not sure if we could talk WSH into taking on Berglund. They'd only move Holtby to be able to afford Carlson, and they just extended Eller who is essentially a Berglund clone.

Judging by Armstrong's reaction last night, my guess is that he's very aware of the flaws of this team (that he created). He should be seriously working on removing Berglund, Allen, Sobotka - no matter the cost - and bringing in some real winners that can complement our next crop of young players.