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Laudan

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Forum: Armchair-GMFri at 1:07 pm
Thread: Ive had it with this team
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Karlface</b></div><div>I get the Hate out there but here is my take:

Holl #1 was protected due to the cap but for the obvious #2 reason....

Some one please tell me where you can replace 20+min per night 85-90% of those min will be decent non hidden from teams top 6 mostly starting in your D zone and after all said end up being a + player on the year..... oh ya and for 2 million per year.

The guy might not be a premier Defenseman .... but your getting a STEAL for the price per quality min played.

not all your D can be 60pt scorers

If he takes another step forward this season everyone is going to be saying the dude is a steal and to resign him for 3.5-4M X 4-6yrs while he is still under contract for 1 more year at 2mill.</div></div>

*facepalm*
Forum: Armchair-GMThu at 2:49 am
Thread: Did Dubas Protect the Right Guy
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>GenXHockey</b></div><div>So our defence was the reason for the exit? No it has been great. I don’t know why you’re concerned about mccaan. Figured you’d hate a soft analytics player like him.</div></div>

Will just quote the guy because he nailed the point i was making with that statement :

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>draft_em_sign_em_trade_em</b></div><div>If Holl is your 2nd best RHD than you're team fails to get pass the 1st Rd. Proven fact.</div></div>


So, to answer your "hipotetical " question first, no it wasnt the D, it was actualy great, thanks to Muzzin ( once more ) and to Brodie being Dr. Jekyll ( you briefed me on him 2 years back, so i hope you know what im talking about ) and the honorable mention of everybodys non-favourite Bogosian, so there was one guy in each pair that was able to excel in his own end and make possible Campbell panned out as second coming of Hasek.

This years exit was caused by MTLs tactic to completely shut down first two "super" lines and our bottom six couldnt deliver, they performed same drill on both WPG and VGK till they ran into TBL, which throwing around 1st picks for 3rd Liners proved to be superior mindset to win the Cup, twice. Also Keefe failed when after 3-1 lead he didnt stripped Matthews off his checking experiment and told him to be Matthews 2019, so standing on the top of face-off circle with his stick in the air. It would end 4-1, but kid fatigued down because for being Ovechkin type of GOAT, you need a lot of stamina and he just wasnt ready conditions-wise, yet.

As for McCann case, im not hard on him as much as im soft on Holl. When Dubarelli fleeced PIT for the second time within one year and they signed Dermott my guess was :

TML goes 7-3-1 after fleecing for McCann, which smelled like finishing the TBL-experiment and leaving to SEA : F are Engvall &amp; we know how Spezza draft would end, D are Holl and Dermott and G would be Hutchinson.

Hopefully Hakstol is blindsided about Holl as much as 95% of TML fan base, him being "TOP 4 D", so they pick him, Dermott fills next to Jake "the workhorse" Muzzin with same effect and for 500k less and also 5 years longer or even Liljegren can finally jump up, cause even Zaitsev looked decent next to Muzzin. So all in all, if they took Holl, Dermott fills in, if they took whoever else, "TOP 4D" stays and 95% fan base is happy

Andersen signed 2 x 3,8M, so he pushes his shares back up, finally playing behind decent D and being back to 2,38 GAA instead 2,8 GAA as he was in those years behind....., well you know behind what

Foligno signed 2 x 2,6M, orelse this years TDLs "all in" was one of the dumbest ive seen in last years where you shed 1st for a 33y old rental, where Hall costed 2nd ( i read he will be MIN, so that TBL-like experiment just fell flat )


2021 / 2022

Mikheyev - Matthews - Marner........it went well till kid cut his wrist
Galchenyuk - Tavares - Nylander......it went well till infamous Overtime pass failure
Kerfoot - McCann - Foligno..............attempt of channeling Goodrow - Gourde - Coleman
Simmonds - Semyonov - Spezza.....and Brooks

Rielly - Brodie......................................tho i would "dump" Rielly for Sandin and bring another Muzzin over off-season
Muzzin - Dermott
Sandin - 1,6M left in my simulation

D is still far away from TBLs and to those who are backing the ED decision as "if we only lose 7th and Hållander, we are ok with Team left intact"....well that "intact Team" just failed in 1st Round....again


Holl is product of Muzzin and im really sorry 95% of TML fanbase cant see that. Hes 29y and he didnt just drink Red Bull last Season and turned into what most of you see as "TOP 4D" cause his "over-night wonder" completely coincide with him being Paired with Muzzin. That tandem works mostly cause Muzzin is busting his ass out at his 30y and makes Holl look like hes NHLer with 70% of job in that tandem being done by Muzzin. Last few Games against CBJ when Muzzin went down should make you people start to realise what i am talking about.

When i was preaching how Dubarelli needs to re-sign Muzzin cause hes the only "D from the books" in the Team, most of you were opposing me with fact how slow he looks and similar. believe me ( and i bet you can tell that by yourself too cause im not talking science here ) if you get fatigued that reflects on your stability, explosivness and all the other things connected to state of your body. Hes 30+ and if you ever stood on any "fighting surfaces" ( cant come out with proper english expresion, thinking of boxing canvases, tatami and such ) then you know how hitting, skating, blocking are wearing you off quickly....especially if you are the one thats doing 70% of them on 5 v 5 and 80% on 4 v 5 on your tandem. Wonder if he would fell so awkwardly against CBJ if otherwise....and this year....again, out in Game 6 with an injury, doubt WPG would fell without him in case they would advance

Holl is No6 D at most and his 2M are to much for that position, especially now with Dermott being 1,5M and you know you were one of main advocats how he can be as good on RD as anybody else on Team. Holl was just lucky the sun shined on him that day he was paired with Muzzin, otherwise we would be talking about Dermott only today and noone would even remember Holl was on Team. But then again....beggars cant be choosers, so....
Forum: Armchair-GMWed at 10:14 pm
Thread: They could have protected him
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>MatthewsFan</b></div><div>I don’t even think the go after Holl or Dermott if they went 7-3-1. With some of the selections I could have seen them take Joey Anderson. Then you’d have your D and McCann + Kerfoot 🤷‍♂️</div></div>

As always the guy above just show you how dumb you are by wanting to keep both Kerfoot + McCann for 3rd line and even Holl, who SEA wouldnt touch cause they watch games and they know "TOP 4D McDavids kryptonite" is just a clumsy, insecure-with-puck leetcher on Muzzin....no wonder old fart goes down every year in playoffs by being over-worked on every of his shifts.....

Arent they adorable in their homerism with their "TOP 4D" for 2M is a bargain......

btw, you know its bad when they are stating Points for Dman as a valuable argument
Forum: Armchair-GMWed at 9:06 pm
Thread: Absolute waste of a trade
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Loops</b></div><div>Everyone who thinks the McCann trade was poor asset management and that Seattle would have taken Holl instead are the idiots. The McCann trade was purely third line Center insurance so we didn’t lose Kerfoot or if we did lose Kerfoot we had McCann. <strong>Seattle never wanted Hol</strong>l..</div></div>

Thats exactly why you expose him.

7-3-1 would leave to SEA :

Forwards : Engvall, Anderson and Spezza ( who we know what he would do if drafted )

Defenders : Holl and Dermott

Goalies : Hutchinson

Some ppl are waveing around here with threat of SEA asking 1st and 3rd to take the exact player but in the names above i dont see anyone not expendable.

In case SEA takes Holl, Dermott jumps in for 500k less, 5 years younger and much more upside as clumsy and insecure-with-puck "TOP 4 D McDavids kryptonite" Holl

In case SEA takes anyone else, you kept your beloved "TOP 4D" Holl

As for McCann, kid is on his way to rise, would make great fundation to build 3rd line as its C with his shooting upside over Kerfoot, who is feeder more than a sniper, Kerfoot filling in for PK and McCann for PP, but hey....who are we to know anything about hockey if its not backuped by stats-sheets.
Forum: Armchair-GMWed at 12:39 pm
Forum: Armchair-GMSun at 3:17 pm
Thread: Why didnt Leafs go 7-3-1
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>MatthewsFan</b></div><div>I hear you that top 4 D’s are hard to come by (Holl) but is he really a top 4 Dman? If not paired with Muzzin he is terrible, really bad. I get that the cost to keep the roster in tack was probably going to be higher than Hallander and a 7th, hence why they got McCann, but going 7-3–1 and exposing Holl and Dermott was the right play IMO.</div></div>

My guess was :

in this years 1st Round exit MTL exposed Flaunt No3 if you want to build Stanley Cup winning Roster

Flaunt no1 : inproperly built D for decades - adressed with bringing in Muzzin &amp; Brodie ( with honorable mention of Bogosian ) where at least 2 D-men are able to excel in their own end

Flaunt No2 : no decent Backup - adressed and panned out beyond expectations, mainly cause of the things written above, sadly Andersen went down before he was able to wear himself off during 70 Games which would be No7 Game in 1st Round...but now the problem re-occures with only one above average Backup signed to the Team

Flaunt No3 : presented to you by MTL where their tactics focused on completely shut down first two lines ( same with WPG and VGK ) and exactly there is TBL excelling in last 2 years, having their bottom 6 as best as it can be, and those are bringing victories to home bay when playing against MTL and similar.

TML goes 7-3-1 after fleecing for McCann, leaving to SEA : F are Engvall &amp; we know how Spezza draft would end, D are Holl and Dermott and G would be Hutchinson.

Hopefully Hakstol is blindsided about Holl as much as 98% of TML fan base, him being "TOP 4 D", so they pick him, Dermott fills next to Jake "the workhorse" Muzzin with same effect and for 500k less and also 5 years longer or even Liljegren can finally jump up, cause even Zaitsev looked decent next to Muzzin.

Andersen signed 2 x 3,8M, so he pushes his shares back up, finally playing behind decent D and being back to 2,38 GAA instead 2,8 GAA as he was in those years behind....., well you know behind what
Foligno signed 2 x 2,6M, orelse this years TDLs "all in" was one of the dumbest ive seen in last years where you shed 1st for a 33y old rental, where Hall costed 2nd


2021 / 2022

Mikheyev - Matthews - Marner........it went well till kid cut his wrist
Galchenyuk - Tavares - Nylander......it went well till infamous Overtime pass failure
Kerfoot - McCann - Foligno..............attempt of channeling Barclay - Gourde - Coleman
Simmonds - Semyonov - Spezza.....and Brooks

Rielly - Brodie......................................tho i would "dump" Rielly for Sandin and bring another Muzzin over off-season
Muzzin - Dermott
Sandin - 1,6M left in my simulation

And now Dubarelli went with protecting Holl, i mean really ?

To those who are backing the ED decision as "if we only lose 7th and Hållander, we are ok with Team left intact"....well that "intact Team" just failed in 1st Round....again
Forum: Toronto Maple LeafsMay 23 at 7:53
Thread: What are Matthews and Marner doing?
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>GenXHockey</b></div><div>I still think marner looks awful. But Matthews has looked great in both games.</div></div>

One thing about Marner...its Play-offs against MTL who are leading League hitters, so you can imagine how they are shutting them down.....half of TML Team is playing like walking on eggs when they are in puck possesion cause they know its coming for them. Marner with his height and weight looks as great as he can in those conditions.

When they are off the puck, i hope every game will look like that Game 2 yesterday, tho some of those hits still looked pansy.

Im yielding here about Matthews in the moment and my eternal criticism of him ( on top of everlasting salary bitterness on my side )..kid finally stopped acting as movie superstar amassing his Points for the Stats pages and he started to throw himself around....Ovechkin analogies and comparisons can finally take place as justified, tho still on diapers level, but if he will keep progressing in mentioned element of game....