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Forum: Armchair-GM6 hours ago
Thread: Marner For Saros
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>gmgb</b></div><div>Yes, obviously wins are a team stat - one that goalies have a huge hand in (those wins are near impossible to get if your goalie isn't playing well). It illustrates that Saros was likely playing above average hockey during that stretch. As someone who was actually watching him play, I can attest that he was. The eye test isn't perfect, but obviously no one point of analysis is. That's why no one gets pedantic about one specific stat like, save % or whatever.

I assume Samsonov was also playing above average hockey when he went 9-2-2 during that same stretch (check your stats). Good for him. If he could play at that level for as long and as much as Saros has over the past few years, he'd probably be worth something too.

Now please, take no for an answer. There's no interest in Marner on this end. RW isn't a big enough need. His salary is high as it is, and an extension that comes with a raise would definitely be too much. Whatever the acquisition cost would be, it's not worth it for NSH. The Preds have a better chance of success next year with Saros, than they would with Marner instead. Negging on Saros doesn't change that.</div></div>

Samsonov was 5-2-5 for the first 3 months of the season with a .858sv% and even in February he was 6-2-0 with a .888sv% … so to prove my point, wins are purely a team thing and goalies don’t have to play well to win games.

Saros was a league average goalie this year with a .906sv%. But you say he’s been playing better? .. how’s that .880sv% in the playoffs so far through 3 games? That’s not NHL level goaltending. Save to say you’re overrating him but okay we’ll trust your eye test 😉
Forum: Armchair-GM10 hours ago
Forum: Armchair-GM11 hours ago
Thread: Marner For Saros
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>gmgb</b></div><div>Just trying to have a little fun there, guy. Let's not take the front page hysterics of Canada's worst newspaper too seriously. Really just wanted to illustrate that Saros is the main reason his underdog team is keeping staying competitive in their series. Marner's one assist and lackluster play is a big reason why TOR is behind in theirs.

Saros finished 4th league wide in goalie point shares, 1st in saves, led NSH to a franchise record undefeated streak. <strong>He's been strong since Feb - not just during that month. </strong>

NSH doesn't make a Saros for Marner trade because a year of Marner (even at his very best) doesn't do anything for NSH if they don't have an elite goalie. Would you go all in with a goalie as inexperienced as Askarov? I'd argue Marner's contract is a bit steep right now. Obviously he's going to want a raise on the next one, and I don't think he's worth it.

RW is the deepest area of NSH's prospect pool, so Marner isn't filling some big need for them anyway. If NSH were to trade Saros for an established player making big money, a center or RD would be their target.

Bottom line is NSH is a better team with Saros, than they would be with Marner instead of him.</div></div>

Saros has literally been league average since the end of February.
Forum: Armchair-GM11 hours ago
Thread: What on earth is going on here
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>LuckyMoneyPuck</b></div><div>what i know is you are down 2-1 and you got lucky as hell on the game you won.
For a team that's supposedly the "better team" your 5v5 goal scoring is equal through 3 games.
Hardly the sign of you out playing anyone.

Some facts are you are getting beat bad. Game 1 BOS completely controlled from the puck drop. 2 5v5 goals and they were never looking back.
Game two was a close game that TOR managed to edge out.
Game 3 BOS out played you to the point that the ref gave you 5 power plays on some pretty ticky tack calls to help you get back into it but TOR couldn't do anything with it..... hardly out playing BOS there buddy.
If anything in the moments that counted it was BOS that out played you by a significant differencce.

But shows what you know about hockey.... arrogant one.</div></div>

You know what’s funny.. you not realizing that just because Toronto is down 2-1 in the series that they haven’t been the better team. THAT shows how little you know and that you’re probably more trying to troll a teams fan base than anything.

Look at the last two years of first round for Toronto:
2023: Toronto was heavily outplayed by Tampa for most of the series, yet won the series 4-2
2022: Leafs outplayed Tampa for the majority of that series and lost the series 4-3

The best team doesn’t always win. If they did, there wouldn’t be a point in playoffs.

But okay kid, have your opinion. Take care.
Forum: Armchair-GM11 hours ago
Thread: Marner For Saros
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>gmgb</b></div><div>I never mentioned anything about "who's better". Comparing a goalie and a winger is a pointless apples vs oranges debate.

NSH isn't adding anything, because even a one-for-one trade doesn't make sense for them. It doesn't matter how much TOR values Marner or what they want for him, if NSH isn't in the market for the guy.

Pump up the "elite 2 way winger" making almost $11M, and downplay the goalie making less than half of that for having a bad first half of the regular season all you want. One guy is making front page headlines for being invisible in his series, and the other is getting player of the game accolades from his teammates. I'm glad NSH has the second guy.

https://twitter.com/TheTorontoSun/status/1782888983736840241

https://twitter.com/PredsNHL/status/1783301548690284562</div></div>

Your argument for Nashville not making the trade a possibility is the Toronto media vs the Preds giving their goalie a 1 game award that means absolutely nothing? LOL

What stats are you looking at to say that Saros only had a bad first half?
October: .915sv%
November: .880sv%
December: .911sv%
January: .906sv%
February: .926sv%
March: .905sv%
April: .904sv%

… the guy has literally been barely mid level goalie all season. He had one good month in February and the rest he’s barely above the league average save percentage of .903sv%

Sounds more like you’re hyping up Saros than me hyping up Marner.
Forum: Armchair-GMYesterday at 9:25 p.m.
Thread: What on earth is going on here
1) Marner isn’t 100%. He’s still nursing the high ankle sprain and he’s been shutting down Pastrnak the whole series - it’s not all about offence with him. He looked good in game 3.

2) Samsonov has been fine, 1 bad goal in game 3 and another that maybe he coulda had but was a picture perfect shot. Outside of only the 2nd period of game 1, he’s been steady. He’s not the issue - the lack of scoring (again) is the issue. Mainly the PP (again..)

3) The kids aren’t who are going to help you win the most. The Matthews line has been the best. The Kampf line has been great. And the Tavares line has had its moments. Holmberg and Robertson are getting caved in defensively so they gotta earn their ice time by being reliable in their own end before they get anymore ice time.

Relax. It’s a 2-1 series where Toronto has been the better team for 8 of 9 periods but unfortunately the best team doesn’t always win. Swayman has stolen games for Boston and Toronto’s offence needs to find an answer for him
Forum: Armchair-GMWed. at 2:19 p.m.
Thread: Shakeup
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>OldNYIfan</b></div><div>You need several seasons of Matt Boldy and Marco Rossi a <strong>lot</strong> more than you need one season of Mitch Marner, and if Marner is going to re-sign with you in 2025, you can wait until 2025 for him to do so.

I'm not spending a second-round draft pick on Filip Gustavsson, who could be this year's Scott Darling (one and done).</div></div>

GM’s don’t “wait a year” to sign a guy if they have a chance to get him sooner - that’s a dumb perceived way that only capfriendly users seem to think is logical. GM’s know their job isn’t secure and if they see a way to improve the team while they’re in control, they do it. Hence why trading for Marner would be a good idea because it gets him into the system sooner and helps them win now. GM’s can’t wait for a window to close before they make a move. &amp; another reason would be adding Marner before free agency gives Minnesota a chance to sign Marner for 8 years instead of 7 and it gives them a lot more negotiating time to get a better deal done.

But this notion of “waiting a year” is not something that GM’s do.
Forum: Armchair-GMWed. at 2:14 p.m.
Thread: My Hopes for Next Year
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>CD282</b></div><div>Four NHL teams and 7 NHL coaches over 8 seasons have ALL played him in their top-4. And they're ALL smarter than you and me.

The issue the past couple of years is that Edmonton was playing him on their top pairing - he was getting fed literally top-10 hardest minutes of any defenseman in the league. He's not suited to that. Now, however, they have him on the 2nd pairing (Ekholm - Bouchard is their 1st pairing) where he is doing just fine.

Every time you comment you show the world how small-minded and biased you are.

Have a great day.</div></div>

How am I being bias for pointing out the obvious that Ceci is not a top 4 guy? Your only argument is his ice time and deployment when you fail look at the situations he’s been in.. he’s only gotten top 4 minutes because every team he plays on has terrible defenders. Just because he plays top 4 with $hitty defenders doesn’t make him a top 4 guy. LOL.

Every time you comment and think Ceci is a top 4 defender you show the world how dumb you are. Ceci is not a top 4 guy. It’s partly why his own team attempted to trade him at the deadline to improve their defence.. but his teammates said they liked him too much and didn’t wanna mess up the chemistry. But he is not a top 4 guy. He’s arguably a #6 defender at best. 🤣
Forum: Armchair-GMTue. at 7:41 p.m.
Thread: Realistic next year
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>WJC_Enthusiast</b></div><div>Their cap situation is so horrendous that for the 2024 offseason they have a choice:
-either they take steps in addressing the defense like you did here, but doing that also means having a questionable G tandem
-either they upgrade their G but in doing so they can't do much about defense</div></div>

If they improve the defence then the goaltending doesn’t need much upgrading - Woll will be a fine starter as long as he can stay healthy. But the Leafs have played AHL level defence in front of him and he was still incredibly reliable before his high ankle sprain. Safe to say he’s not at 100% since coming back, but with an improved defence and a healthy Woll the team will be much improved.

The real issue they need to upgrade this summer is the PK unit. It continues to let them down a every playoffs

Edit: their cap situation really isn’t that bad. Should have about $15M to sign guys and no one needed over a third line role up front and maybe 1 top defender. They’ll have about $3.25M per player to spend and with the forwards being depth they’ll be cheaper so it allows more money to go to the defence. Should be fine with the cap