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Wqrrior

Wqrrior
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Forum: Armchair-GMFri at 4:07 am
Thread: year down
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>SociallyHawkward</b></div><div>Idk. As a hawks fan strome lit it up for a season and only got 3 mil. If Fiala has a great season I still can't see him getting more than a 5 mil 5 year deal.</div></div>

Strome experienced notable fallback from his trade year (in his contract year). He also was playing with elite players.... and happened to take a bridge deal due to the Hawks cap situation and the state of the league / world.

Hawks fans generally like to compare situations on other teams to the hawks (aside: i mean i get it, but why does it seem like hawks fans do this more than other teams??) but theres no comparing Strome and Fiala.

- Fiala has already had his bridge deal. Players come off bridges either aiming to go to FA, or to get money. Strome is 2 years behind... essentially getting what Fiala already did.

- Fiala already had a proven year in Nashville, followed by a down year that sparked the trade

- His explosion was on a different tier from Stromes.

- Fiala became the face of Minnesota. the faces of Chicago are long established. Your profile picture is one of said faces. Minnesota had no face, then Fiala exploded.

- He's doing this alone. There's not really any star power on this team. he has become a star, and plays with undeniable energy and determination. Watching him late last season, in the playoffs, and even this first game tonight... you know when he is on the ice. He's the teams best player; and I note again that he is able to do this essentially alone. There's no Toews or Kane, heck, there's no DeBrincat level players on this team.

If he builds on the past two years, and at the age of 24, continues to grow, I see no reason why MIN won't hand him a big boy long term contract now. It's the same type of betting on the future that happened with Keller and Hischier. Except I'd argue there's more to look forward to in this case, and more already proven than those two cases.

Wild fans can chime in ( <a href="/users/TanSor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@TanSor</a> <a href="/users/MNBassman" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@MNBassman</a> ), but if he exceeds all odds again this year and decides to ink long term, I'd expect at least 6.5M....
Forum: NHL SigningsTue at 7:29 pm
Thread: Vancouver Canucks signed Travis Hamonic (1 Year / $1,250,000 AAV)
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Hockyluv21</b></div><div>Benning had a good off-season. I do think that Vancouver's slightly worse this year than last, but that's not because the moves that he made weren't smart. It's just that I think that losing Markstrom and Toffoli is going to hurt them short-term. It made room for Hughes and Pettersson later on, and prevented a cap crisis. They were good moves.</div></div>

Might I remind you that Toffoli had absolutely no bearing on the success of the team. A handful of games after a trade where he only contributed modestly (not enough to say that he caused the team to make the playoffs), and then he was hurt for all of the playoffs, where his impact only won the team one single game.

All of the outside fans seem to think Toffoli is such a huge detriment / loss to the roster - but in reality the team did what it did without him. Losing him is harmless and won't be noticed.

The fallback of markstrom is easily forgotten in the drastically improved defense.

Your other two points (signing room / cap crisis) are valid and true.
Forum: NHL SigningsTue at 7:02 pm
Thread: Vancouver Canucks signed Travis Hamonic (1 Year / $1,250,000 AAV)
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Hockyluv21</b></div><div>Some decent defensive depth for Vancouver on the right side. Schmidt, Myers, Hamonic. Not bad. Certainly better than last year's side of Tanev, Myers, and Stecher.</div></div>

I can't believe people laugh at Benning's offseason.

Sure I am a canuck fan, but my posts on this website show that I am also a hockey fan... Benning had a fantastic offseason: He learned from his past mistakes. He didn't extend anyone unnecessarily. He wasn't too loyal to any specific player (This is a CRUCIAL error that most successful teams have - keeping the gang around often kills franchises)... and waited everyone out to get two top four defensemen both cheap on the cap and the wallet.

Forget losing Markstrom. Forget Toffoli.... this vancouver team is better on paper for this season opener than they were for the year prior. Now the question it only looks that way on paper.
Forum: Armchair-GMJan 8 at 6:32
Thread: 2021 Season Predictions for ALL TEAMS plus In depth Leafs roster
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>PleaseBanMeForMyOwnGood</b></div><div>Vancouver's entire season will depend on goaltending and I am not entirely confident it's going to work out. I have little faith in Holtby and the average for Demko hasn't been great really. He was a 3+ GAA and his save percentage was what .904? Then he had a few great games in the playoffs. I think what he will be on any given night will be closer to his regular season than the playoffs. Better hopefully but even a bit better than last year is still an average goalie.

As for the defence, I just don't see the improvement, Edler is a year older, Schmidt was on a great team and while he is definitely good how will he be on a weaker team? Hughes is obviously terrific but he's hardly going to be a defensive stalwart. Myers isn't good and his contract is terrible and then Juolevi is just at best a passable NHL defenceman. I think both Myers and Edler will regress and won't be able to take on huge minutes, Myers literally hasn't been able to for years if ever, and I think Schmidt will be asked to do a lot more than he may be used too.

All in all, they could very well be the 3rd best team in the division or 6th, it'll all come down to goaltending.</div></div>

Goalie coaches can make a large difference (Clark is great). Also remember the entire Washington motivation last year was down. I am willing to give Holtby a chance. Also Demko and Hart were always up there as top goalie prospects. His sudden success might just be a realization of that potential. He won't be as solid as was in the playoffs - but I'm expecting noticeable improvement. I want to see it before i discount anything.

Edler was better last year vs. at least the 3 years before this. We might see his age more, but he will have a lesser role. Team can't be all that much worse given we took Vegas to 7 games in the semis... we didn't make it there by fluke. Schmidt just adds to an already solid team. Your analysis on the VAN defense kind of shows that you have never routinely watch Canucks games as few of those points are relevant to the team nor are these the major issues.

I do agree that the teams success will be a large product of the goaltending.