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LloydminsterLarry

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Forum: Armchair-GMMar. 12, 2023 at 4:18 p.m.
Forum: NHLFeb. 26, 2023 at 12:32 p.m.
Thread: 2022-23 NHL Season Discussion Thread #11: The Main Event
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>ARMCHAIRGMOFTHEYEAR</b></div><div><div class="tweet"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Zach Dean is player going to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/stlblues?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">#stlblues</a> from Vegas. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Vegasborn?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">#Vegasborn</a>.</p>— Andy Strickland (@andystrickland) <a href="https://twitter.com/andystrickland/status/1629894163817717772?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">February 26, 2023</a></blockquote>

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Very good return for the Blues.
Armstrong's killing it with this string of trades.
Admittedly I'm lower on Barbashev than most but Dean strikes me as waay too much go up for such a flawed player.
Forum: NHLDec. 12, 2022 at 12:18 a.m.
Thread: 2022-23 NHL Season Discussion Thread #6: No More Summer of Dorion
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>LloydminsterLarry</b></div><div>“Analytics are god”

“The eye test…”

I’m an old guy and I’ll even admit I under analytics are here to stay. However, they are now the lazy default for people on the internet. I understand we can’t watch every single game every night but I’m not going to look at some guy on twitter to tell me if player x on Winnipeg is any good or if player y on Nashville has advanced states equal to player z on Chicago. You’re better off reading about a team and their players by reading their local sport media than trusting national sports outlets or random people on twitter.</div></div>

Looking at both is the best. Analytics don't take every aspect of the game into consideration.
Forum: NHLAug. 13, 2022 at 9:10 p.m.
Thread: 2022 WJC Discussion Thread
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>LloydminsterLarry</b></div><div>The forwards got all the attention heading into this world Juniors but I honestly wasn’t thrilled with the defence.</div></div>
It’s kinda funny that 7 of our 10 best forwards aren’t here and everyone in our top 9 still looks great (now that Roy is on the 3rd line, I like where everyone is positioned honestly, the only slightly weak link would be Foerster at 2RW, but he did have a good game today). Losing Power and Guhle on the backend was a MAJOR loss though. I’m really not sure why guys like Seeley and Sebrango are on the team. Lambos hasn’t looked good. The only thing I can say about Del Mastro is I heard his name exactly once. O’Rourke is okay on the 3rd pair I guess. Cormier and Thompson are hard carrying anything that happens from the blueline right now, Zellweger shows flashes of brilliance but he needs to get his act together and finish the plays. He keeps baubling the puck and making poor passes, which isn’t like him, if he can start hitting tape to tape passes again he’ll be fine. But that would still only give us 3 solid defensemen, and none of them are a #1. And only Thompson is useful in his own end.