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Forum: Armchair-GMMay 30, 2023 at 10:14 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 14, 2023 at 10:26 p.m.
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Skyraider112</b></div><div>Every year between the ages of 15-23 are big for developing players, forwards more so in that range. D keep develop slower so around 25-26 and goalies until around 29-30. My point being a forward prospect takes a massive leap in development every season from 15-20, and usually smaller but still important steps for a few years after those. So if two players have the same output in the same league but one is one year older, the younger player is more impressive by a significant margin. At least that's how I see it. Imagine someone like Bedard. If he could have played on Chicago this past season at 17 years of age I'd bet he still would have been able to put up 40-50 points in the NHL. Now with his upcoming season at 18 I'm gonna guess he'll be around 70-80 points. That's a huge difference.</div></div>
Yes, I’m constantly education ppl here about how forwards develop &amp; peak faster than D-Men and Goalies, but there’s lots of considerations here

How bout their size. Holtz is listed at 6ft/192lbs while Pelletier is only 5’9/165lbs. Takes a lot of guys time to fill out. Bedard has an advantage as well being 5’10/185lbs already

Next would be rink size and physicality. Int’l ice is much bigger, so there’s more space to work with and less hitting, whereas it’s a tighter closer and more physical game here in North America. The QJMHL is more of a high offence and less physical and defensive game, but Pelletier had the advantage of playing in tighter spaces

My point is there’s so many considerations, but your first year in any league is usually challenging, but especially professional hockey, even and including the AHL where you’re playing against men the same size or bigger than you. They’re either prospects on the same road you are, experienced fringe player or former NHL’ers, so although it’s not the best in the world, it’s a bigger, stronger, substantially more physical league that both would have to adjust too and did exceptionally well

Again, my expectation of Holtz is much higher given his size and draft position, but your points are all valid as well

As for guys picked 1st overall, they’re typically phenoms, so can skip the AHL, but not always. Slafkovsky has amazing size, but needs time to adjust to the North American game, same goes for Nemec. You’re right that Bedard is likely already NHL Ready though, so will start in the Big League right away
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 10, 2023 at 10:40 a.m.
Thread: buff
Forum: The BoxMay 8, 2023 at 4:51 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 28, 2023 at 1:00 a.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 27, 2023 at 5:02 p.m.
Thread: going big
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Stadel</b></div><div>its capfriendly, not a court of law... clearly bogosian's past hasnt hurt his future so idk why youd think the sabres would...</div></div><div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Dan_the_Man</b></div><div>No robin Lehner completely trashed Buffalo organization it's on record Eichel trashed the organization this is cap friendly deal shows you're a completely disgusting person to publicly without any proof calling a person a junkie make you a 💩 Have a nice life welcome to my ignore</div></div> <div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Skyraider112</b></div><div>That dude is just mad that Tampa is about to be eliminated by the Leafs haha. He's also salty that Ross Colton is likely to be traded and that you put together a good offer for him. I applaud you and thanks for truthing that user about our organization.</div></div> Let's all read this article in the Athletic:
https://theathletic.com/522117/2018/09/13/islanders-goalie-robin-lehner-opens-up-about-his-addiction-and-bipolar-diagnosis-i-could-not-stand-being-alone-in-my-brain/?ref=diebytheblade.com
Robin had nothing but praise for Jason Botterill:
"During this whole process our GM in Buffalo was so incredibly supportive. We met when I came back and had a great and productive discussion. Jason and the Sabres organization had decided to move on from me as their goalie and, in the end, my family and I thought a restart would be the best thing. <strong>I still wanted to stay if they wanted me.</strong> But deep inside I knew changing scenery would be the best thing for my recovery. Now what to do. My relationship with Jason didn’t end in that meeting. He contacted me during the summer a few times to check in on me. His check-ins still continue today, despite me not being on his team." So let's put that to rest.

Bogosian walked away from $5,000,000 to sign for $1,300,000, then took two more pay cuts to $1,000,000 in '21 and $850,000 now.
He was a really bad defenseman in Buffalo and could have received his full salary but he CHOSE to walk away.
He was not treated unfairly.
No other team wanted his salary so why would the Sabres.
Whether Zach was a crackhead or not, he acted as if he was.
He, along with Kane, was not a good fit in Buffalo.

Eichel, well maybe you can tell me how a team can lose Ullmark, McCabe, Montour, Ristolainen, Reinhart along with Jack and improve?
Jack was a lazy prima donna on the ice and now it is fairly obvious that he was a problem in the locker room.

Let me close, Thompson, Cozens and Samuelsson all took long term below market value contracts, do not be surprised if Power and Dahlin follow suit.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 19, 2023 at 5:25 a.m.
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>NickC1988</b></div><div>Poor marketing of the sport (Overloaded schedules on Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday), inability to forward think, the Fanatics debacle, the coyotes..... Do you need more? This is scratching the surface....</div></div>

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Manson</b></div><div>Him not relocating teams to traditional markets.</div></div>

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>palhal</b></div><div>You have 20 minutes. Bettman has failed miserably in making the NHL a big money maker for the vast majority of NHL teams. I don't blame the people of the USA, but they just aren't interested in watch Network NHL games, therefore the NHL revenues haven't increased that much.</div></div>

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Canucks33</b></div><div>By far the biggest sin in my books is the complete void in international best on best play. Crosby and McDavid have not played together at all which is a sin against hockey itself.</div></div>

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Skyraider112</b></div><div>Well he kept the Sabres in Buffalo despite many wanting the franchise to relocate after the owner's debacle, so I will be forever grateful for that at least. IMO his biggest drawbacks to his time as commish were the two lock-outs (obviously that sucks for all parties) and his failure to expand the game in Canada, where I think there are at least 2-3 markets that could support NHL teams and be very successful (Quebec, Hamilton, Halifax/Regina). For all I know he may have explored some of those options, but I doubt he did. Keeping franchises like Arizona around just doesn't make sense long-term to me, and I love the Coyotes team</div></div>

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>BruinsGM37</b></div><div>Sorry I couldn’t help. Hope you do good on your essay</div></div>

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>HOCKEYBOY448</b></div><div>Just woke up hope it went well. I agree with many of these comments.</div></div>


Thank you all for the ideas and support

I ended up getting a 95% and only missed points because of formatting errors lol

Again thank you all it did indeed help
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 18, 2023 at 8:03 p.m.
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