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Forum: Armchair-GMSat. at 5:09 p.m.
Thread: second attempt
Can we NOT trade for Brady, please.

He's never has been or played a single second of time at RW on his off-hand side for the entirety of his career. He's strictly a LW.

So playing him there is asinine.

Boldy on the other hand IS and always has played RW whenever he wasn't being experimented at center. RW is his NATURAL position.

Furthermore, Boldy is quite literally in the same class of player/tier as Brady, with similar levels of production over the last three years and damn near the same PPG. Brady just hits more. Well good for him. BOLDY COSTS $1.2M LESS, FOR TWO YEARS LONGER.

Even if this were to happen. That's not a trade I'd consider, as it'd strictly be a 1v1, so throwing BOTH Lambos AND Rossi into the deal for a VERY late 1st is questionable at best.

We're much much better off keeping both Boldy and Rossi, and their combined future production, than packaging them in a gross overpay for a player we neither need or should want over what we already have.
Forum: Armchair-GMFeb. 12 at 9:14 p.m.
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Forum: Armchair-GMOct. 15, 2023 at 7:39 p.m.
Thread: Lafreniere
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>GreatWhiteNorth</b></div><div>Lafrenière will cost no where near a 1st plus a A prospect. He’d be lucky to get a 1st in return at this point. Something similar to what Nail Yakupov got Edmonton is a fair comparison.</div></div>

He absolutely does.

1) Lafreniere is hardly Yakupov.

2) He's only 22. There's still plenty of time for him to break out.

3) It's incredibly hard to produce top-six production from a 3rd line role. Which is where he's been stuck since he entered the league. Under two different coaches, now three, and has yet to have any consistent time in NY's top-six. That kinda matters.

In fact, this is literally the first year that he's had either the opportunity to seize a top-six role or will be utilized in one regularly. He's otherwise been blocked from the role to date.

It's incredibly early to be calling him a bust.

4) A former 1st overall pick who is still under 23 years old is still going to command a hefty acquisition price regardless of their production or development. Because that potential upside and talent is still going to be there. Especially when that player HAS shown flashes of the skillset that got them picked 1st overall in the first place even in the NHL.

At this point Laf needs either one if two things.

1) To be given a top-six role, and let him sink or swim no matter what over the course of an entire season.

Or 2) Be given a fresh start somewhere else.
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 4, 2023 at 2:28 p.m.