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Forum: Armchair-GMSep. 19, 2018 at 10:13 a.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMSep. 18, 2018 at 4:05 p.m.
Thread: Getting younger
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>LoganOllivier</b></div><div>I'm speaking with mountains of statistical evidence. In the current era of the NHL, players have their best season around the age of 24 and stay close to that level (+/- 5%) until they hit 30 when they almost always start declining. The rate of decline varies to a degree and there are outliers. (Joe Thorton and Patrick Marleau) So could Giroux possibly improve? Of course its possible but its highly unlikely, you're asking an aging body to bounce back and perform better than it did when he was in his prime, humans don't work like that.

Last year scoring seemed to be up quite a bit league wide, and Giroux was part of that trend. I think its a huge stretch to expect him to continue to get better while his body gets creakier and creakier.</div></div>

Lol funny enough i agree with all that, the fact still remains though that Giroux changed to LW and showed that he has the ability to be a player like Thorton in terms of production at an older age not in terms of play style. You can say that Giroux is getting older so he isn't worth anything but the NHL is all about what have you done for me lately and Giroux has proved himself just as much as any other player in the NHL except of course for some crazy play by McDavid. Giroux will never be worth a trade to a Mcdavid, Matthews, and Dahlin but he still has real value in the NHL that exceeds the value of Panarin.
Forum: Armchair-GMSep. 18, 2018 at 3:37 p.m.
Thread: Getting younger
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>LoganOllivier</b></div><div>He could leave for nothing? Oh my god! Well lets definitely give up 2 1st round picks and Panarin for a guy who's over 30 and will never match what he has done in the past. That right there fellas is how you build a winner. Why top at Panarin, maybe Edmonton will give you McDavid or maybe you can get Matthews, Nylander and Marner from TO?</div></div>

I dont think you read the conditions i put there, and you have no way of knowing if Giroux will regress or get better your clearly speaking without knowledge. Panarin is a great player but he has never put up the numbers Giroux has. If Panarin leaves via free agency you get nothing you logic is as flawed as the thought process of Ottawa management.
Forum: Armchair-GMJan. 12, 2018 at 4:04 p.m.
Thread: dat good good
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>ClockReads2113</b></div><div>Caps fan here. But you're still wrong. Green just got into the All Star game. Has 24 points in 41 games with 1 more year on his contract. MacDonald has 6 points in 27 games and is terrible possession wise and has 3 years left on a bad contract. PHI would have to add a lot more to get Green.</div></div>

You and everyone else knows that there are many other defenseman more deserving than Green to be an allstar this year. His selection was purely a pick to make sure Detroit was represented.

For example a player like Mikhail Sergachev is more deserving but would not get selected due to 4 TBL players already being selected.

I will admit that the Flyers would probably retain salary but again this deal is SOLID.
Forum: Armchair-GMJan. 12, 2018 at 3:53 p.m.
Thread: dat good good
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>ShafferPens</b></div><div>Congratulations.

You figured it out! Crosby does suck! I do hate Philly! I hate Philly and that’s why DET doesn’t do that trade! You figured it out! It’s not like it doesn’t make sense for DET at all but yay!

lol why would DET consider this even, they will get a 1st at the deadline. And they have to take on Macdonalds’s contract with only a 3rd coming back.

Think before you post.</div></div>

I do think but it doesn't seem like you don't, Mike Green is not what he used to be and will at most command a late round pick. You are foolishly basing his value on what he could do 3 years ago. MacDonald may be the joke of the NHL for his contract but he is a serviceable defenseman to a team that is rebuilding, which is what Detroit is right now.

This overall is an intelligent trade for both sides you just need to get rid of your bias to realize that.