Mike_Gartner

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Forum: Armchair-GM15 hours ago
Thread: Torque Meter
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Sagecoll</b></div><div>Pretty sure the Rangers have learned their lesson of making dumb moves like trading for Adam McQuaid to block Deangelo's development, that's why they didn't sign anyone to block Fox.

They brought a guy in like Joe Morrow into camp last year in case Fox wasn't ready but he was. If you want to sign an expendable guy making league minimum money to hold down a spot til the kids are ready. (Freddy Claesson, Paul Ladue, or even like Zach Bogosianor Trevor Van Riemsdyk). But you didn't do that. You paid 3 mil for a guy who wasn't even good enough to play D consistently for the PANTHERS this year.

It's just a poor management of resources</div></div>

the Panthers are pretty deep at D, the money aspect of this means nothing, sign him for 1 mil/2 mil - doesn't make a difference.
i've watched enough of MP to know that he is a decent 3rd pairing guy, that isn't going to hurt the team.
he isn't blocking development of anyone playing 3rd pair minutes - i assume you are talking about the development of Miller and Lundkvist. If you are, wrong take - they shouldn't even be playing up next year, some time in the AHL will only help them and their futures.
Forum: Armchair-GMFri at 12:16 am
Thread: Bye Eichel
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>MisstheWhalers</b></div><div>Okay so what is it then, trade Eichel or not cause you're contradicting yourself now? Lol

Really they lack a 2C and pretty much an entire 3rd line, if they sign the right guys in UFA this summer as placeholders and keep building through the draft they should turn things around, just can't rush it and make any dumb trades.</div></div>

Not contradicting myself. You asked a question and I semi-answered. I didn’t say it was the right or wrong thing, just that in theory it could be done.

As for the team itself, they need to build through trades, not the draft or FA. There isn’t a soul in the NHL that would sign in Buffalo unless they overpaid. And drafting is just kicking the can down the road. For the sake of Eichel, they need to be in playoff mode, not patience mode. They have been building through the draft since 2010, hasn’t gotten them very far now, has it?

A 2C and entire 3rd line is exactly what I was talking about in my above post. No serviceable middle 6...
Forum: Armchair-GMThu at 11:34 am
Thread: Bye Eichel
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>MisstheWhalers</b></div><div>Eichel is an elite 1C, that is the hardest position to fill,
sorry I just don't see an Eichel trade that would make the Sabres better. No one guy can do it by himself but the Sabres aren't that terrible, just need the GM to add a few pieces and they should be a playoff team at least, they also have some good prospects in the system, the future still looks bright if they don't
f@ck it up.

Make an ACGM of an Eichel trade that makes the Sabres better, I'd be interested to see it.</div></div>

I understand your point, but an elite 1C on a team full of trash means nothing.
the team has no goaltending, no center depth, no serviceable middle 6...

they have a decent core, but that is to be expected when they have had a top 10 pick for most of the 2000. they lack maturity and experience.
are they still rebuilding from 2014? the answer should be no, they should be trading every pick and prospect they have to build around: Eichel, Skinner, Reinhart, Kahun, Olofsson, Montour, Dahlin and Jokiharju - eventually around Cozens and maybe Mittelstadt. if their name isn't listen above, they should be fired into the sun.
Forum: Armchair-GMThu at 11:12 am
Thread: Bye Eichel
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>MisstheWhalers</b></div><div>Is there any Eichel trade that could possibly make the Sabres better? Idk, maybe but I doubt it, the guy is elite, it'd have to be a major return to replace him and make the Sabres better.</div></div>

the simple answer is yes, if a deal was structured around bringing in quantity that could fill in the top 6. hockey is not a sport that favors 1 all-star on a team.
Eichel has proved he can't do it himself. the guy puts the team on his back pretty much every night and Sabres management has failed him.

the difficult thing is determining what the return would/should be. in my opinion there isn't a pick or a prospect involved. the trade needs to be made with a team that is just starting a rebuild and needs to unload.
Forum: Armchair-GMWed at 3:31 pm
Forum: Armchair-GMMar 13 at 11:07
Thread: Playoff team
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Bf3351</b></div><div><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/canada-sweden-world-juniors-medal-toss-1.4476183" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/canada-sweden-world-juniors-medal-toss-1.4476183</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xGMGm6kkt8" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xGMGm6kkt8</a>
These are the kind of things that make a team reluctant to give up a significant return for a player like this. Playing for a new franchise might be exactly what he needs. He needs to be traded though, his time for the Rangers is done, he will not do better with them. If he gets traded it will be with giving up a bad contract or an add-on for a good player.</div></div>

sweet videos, i especially like the one of the kid talking to a camera in his mother's basement.
i honestly think that the Rangers give him another shot next season out of camp. if it doesn't work they trade him, but it won't be for a 5th rounder.