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Armchair-GM
5 hours ago
Thread:
Cap dumping ground AND still fighting for a playoff spot
About the last thing the Avs need is to give up a 1st for an underachieving undersized dman who would NEVER get any PP time in COL. That’s an easy pass.
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Armchair-GM
5 hours ago
Thread:
What a TDL for Sakic
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>NMAvsFan</b></div><div>This isn't bad but the future looks tight. Most people are going to hate this but I bet Sakic is going to ride with JTC as 2C; maybe he'll rotate him and Newhook. Or, maybe he signs an older guy to a one-year deal to cover there until Newhook is ready to take over there. I just can't see him tying up a lot of money in someone like Copp with key players coming up for new deals the following year.</div></div>
I agree with all of this. I could see that vet being Statsny assuming there isn’t any bad blood on how he left. Sakic hasn’t ever really been a GM that give 4+ yr contracts to outside UFA’s also.
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Armchair-GM
5 hours ago
Thread:
My Suggested Lines vs EDM
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>NMAvsFan</b></div><div>IDK, Bednar doesn't seem to like Murray and he doesn't really have anything on JJ plus he hasn't played in a good long while. I guess if JJ gets lit up, maybe Murray gets in but we'd probably see a lot of pair shuffling before it got to that point.</div></div>
Just going by JJ playing I believe 1 shift after the massive gaffe that lead to a goal just 9:19
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Armchair-GM
9 hours ago
Thread:
Nobokovs Mock Offseason Avalanche
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Nobokov</b></div><div>You also raise reasonable questions about the costs of these RFA's, I just happened to be relying on Evolving Hockey's contract projections while also trying to keep things in line with the rest of the market with the whole 32 team mock offseason. Also with trading that 2023 1st I didn't realize Sakic said he wanted to keep it, so good note there. I do think the trade itself is decent value though with Anaheim retaining on both players, getting a top-4 D and middle-6 winger with a proven scoring record at those cap hits will help Colorado a lot.</div></div>
Fair I mean you were using data from a good modeling. The ANA trade though the last thing COL really needs to do is be spending high end assets on a top 4 caliber dman when they have Makar Toews Byram and Girard, and while they are both left shots Girard and Byram can play on the right side, or even better just use the cap space acquired in the trade instead to get Manson back. Kudos though that’s a lot of work and honestly the only real miss you had was Meyers that pretty good. Good job, love ACGM’s that stir good conversation.
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Armchair-GM
9 hours ago
Thread:
How St Louis can beat Colorado in 23
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>STLBlues17</b></div><div>So much of fan perspective is based off of stuff that is ultimately irrelevant. Like they’ll remember one play that was really bad, or something a stupid media member said, or fall victim to their own biases. It’s why the “eye test” is more or less fake to 90% of fans.</div></div>
Yeah totally, the league has changed so much. Fans fall in love with those small eye test moments and want to ignore the real results. Fans imo are notorious for loving on those bottom 6 guys they lay big hits but get destroyed in shot and possession metrics. Sometimes the least exciting player is being the most effective.
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Armchair-GM
9 hours ago
Thread:
Game One Round Three
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Scooter81</b></div><div>NAK has 35 hits and 2 Penalty minutes.</div></div>
Different team, different series. The EDM series is going to be so much more up and down. At least imo.
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Armchair-GM
9 hours ago
Thread:
Getting Younger and 2nd OVA
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>TheRaphMan</b></div><div>The 13 games he missed were as a result of being cheapshotted. Not like he got injured just playing hockey.</div></div>
You’re not really trying to say that Anderson doesn’t have a reputation earned for missing games? In addition he is no where close to being something that is worth being the center piece of a trade for 2OA
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Armchair-GM
11 hours ago
Thread:
Game One Round Three
Imo Newhook and Murray in for NAK and Jack Johnson. Jack Johnson shouldn’t see the ice again unless their is an injury.
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Armchair-GM
11 hours ago
Thread:
the flyers but fixed
Yeah total troll job, nobody does those trades but you acknowledged it.
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Armchair-GM
11 hours ago
Thread:
Nobokovs Mock Offseason Avalanche
A few critiques: no way NAK gets anything remotely resembling that. He’s an RFA that was a waiver wire claim, Sakic is a notorious hard negotiator with those guys, personally I think he gets a 1yr $1.25M prove it deal. Nichushkin won’t get an 8 yr deal especially at $6M, look what Rust and Coleman for comps. Kuemper unless he just goes monster mode the last 2 rounds he isn’t getting that. Markstrom and Binnington are the easy comps. Sakic has said keeping the 23 1st is a priority so they won’t trade it for a Tatar Shattenkirk package. AJ Greer will never play in COL for reference check out what happened in MIL when he was prospect. Ben Meyers is a lock for the bottom 6 as is Maltsev probably. Manson is very likely to be back. Creative but lots of over pays.
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Armchair-GM
11 hours ago
Thread:
Getting Younger and 2nd OVA
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Campabee</b></div><div>LMAO, Ylonen is 22 not 23, he was also under contract in Liiga where he was left for development in hos 19 and 20 yo years. He was sent to Laval halfway through his 21 yo season to help make the transition to NA easier and develop further. This year he has played a key role for the Rocket and was brought up when needed due to injuries. This was his first full season in NA and he has 36 points in 52 games playing for the Rocket. BTW this is the same route a lot of European prospects take and many of them dont make the NHL until 23-25 where they go on to have great careers. Lehkonen was not under contract and was brought up too fast by management at the time. He missed out on some key development that prevented his scoring abilities to be more of a threat at the NHL level.
BTW raantanen took the same route to the NHL as Ylonen has but he was given his shot at 21. By your logic Lehkonen had more value than Raantanen did at the same age cause he had 1 year at 20 points before Raantanen broke into the league, which is utter ridiculousness</div></div>
Ylonen will be 23 when the season starts. Rantanen played 9 games at C with the Avs in 15-16 his d+1 year and was a 20 goal scorer in his 2nd year. But you go ahead and tell me how Rantanen followed the same path because before his age 23 season he had 80 goals.
Do me a favor don’t respond, I had you blocked because you are so condescending and such a homer and can’t handle anybody disagreeing with you.
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Armchair-GM
11 hours ago
Thread:
How St Louis can beat Colorado in 23
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>STLBlues17</b></div><div>Funny you mention Kyrou, most blues fans are ready to cast him into the sun for missing those two chances and playing bad defense… like there aren’t 3 other forwards who are significantly worse defensively and ignoring he was the only guy who had a smidge of jump last night</div></div>
Yeah he needs to get better defensively but he was the only guy that the COL defense was worried about getting back. It is funny because everybody on CF and about 80% of Avs want to murder Compher simply because they think he isn’t good or that he is massively over paid. I guess it’s all about perspective.
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Armchair-GM
12 hours ago
Thread:
How St Louis can beat Colorado in 23
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>STLBlues17</b></div><div>Yeah not surprised Schenn and Barbashev sucked, but tbh Saad was quietly solid, Buchnevich had a couple excellent games too. But good point, Colorado shut down the cycle you mentioned, Thomas had no space to do his thing. Blues were super rush heavy this season and struggled to sustain time. Krug out didn’t help. Surprised how well the blues d kept Colorado away from the net (mikkola helped) but eventually the volume and possession killed them.</div></div>
I think COL started to get swallowed up in the series a bit at points, the late goals in periods happening because guys got out of position, and the just complete shut down in game 5 for 20+ minutes where they just went into a shell. Personally I think something is wrong with Rantanen he missed the end of the season with illness, struggled with the puck and seemed slow the whole series. I think that his struggles really affected the top line. Kyrou was really good I thought, and he will get better especially when he learns a counter move to compliment his speed. Yeah 100% right the Blues did a great job keeping the net front clear for the most part, I also thought they did a really god job significantly better than COL did on the pk to. The PK is a massive concern for COL against EDM.
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Armchair-GM
13 hours ago
Thread:
Getting Younger and 2nd OVA
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Campabee</b></div><div>1. Anderson has been basically healthy the last 2 years for the Habs. Sure he missed 4 games and 13 games in the last two years respectively but his time missed was just minor injuries.
2 Ylonen is a right winger prospect not a center prospect and played in 14 games this season. He also projects to be a more offensive version of Lehkonen who we just got a 1st + for at the deadline.
3. The total package IMO out weighs the risk on Slafkovsky or Nemec never making it. The Devils are looking to compete now not 2 years from now. That is what makes this package interesting for them as Ylonen is NHL ready now and Anderson fills a need for them.</div></div>
How is basically healthy missing 13 games this year? He isn’t worth being the center piece of a trade for 2OA sorry.
Ylonen will be 23 hasn’t even established he is a regular NHL player, Lehkonen had 2 full seasons and had 20+ pts, at the same age. I think it’s wishful thinking to think he is going to be anywhere near as good as Lehkonen.
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Armchair-GM
13 hours ago
Thread:
How St Louis can beat Colorado in 23
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>STLBlues17</b></div><div>It’s a little annoying having to argue with blues fans about how our forward group with 9 20 goal guys is somehow overrated. I complained all year about how we had pretty limited versatility and defensive ability from the wings. Hoping we can find our own Lehk or Nuke cuz the two guys we had like that are now retired and in Seattle.</div></div>
Yeah my contention going in was COL had more scoring depth because of scoring from the blue line. I was really surprised how little of an impact Saad, Buchenvich, Barbashev and Schenn had. The thing though that always impresses me with STL is how well they play that forward cycle on one side that ends up with a guy on the back door. Anyway good stuff mate!
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Armchair-GM
13 hours ago
Thread:
How St Louis can beat Colorado in 23
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>STLBlues17</b></div><div>They had no forecheck whatsoever, but I agree. I think a big move is coming on the Blue line and I’m hoping for a big reshaping of the bottom 6. Nichushkin and lehkonen basically killed every blues cycle</div></div>
It’s interesting getting other team's fans perspective. I thought Lehkonen was really good, and I thought Nichushkin was well below where he played in the regular season.
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Armchair-GM
14 hours ago
Thread:
Getting Younger and 2nd OVA
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Campabee</b></div><div>With the Canes pick projecting to be 31st OVA and Norlinders value around the 40-45 pick I think they take this deal.
Jersey are already open to moving the 2nd pick and want a power forward in return. For added value I included the 15th OVA pick and Ylonen a projected top 6 ceiling or middle 6 floor prospect worth around the same as Norlinder. Basically this package equates to mid 1st (15th OVA) + 2 2nds and a 3rd (Ylonen = 2nd Anderson = 2nd + 3rd)</div></div>
Yeah I get that, Nemec and Slafkovsky potential far outweigh that package imo. For me Anderson is the ultimate tease, speed and size, but he can’t stay healthy and he has never even been a 30 goal scorer. Reverse the position would you trade the 2OA for a 28yr old winger that’s never scored 30 goals, a C prospect that couldn’t get into the line up on a team decimated by injuries and a mid 1st rd pick. I sure wouldn’t do it.
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Armchair-GM
14 hours ago
Thread:
Burakovsky Roy
Echo <a href="/users/csick" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@csick</a> and <a href="/users/coga16" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@coga16</a> on Burakovsky value. Imo if you are going to sign Burakovsky you need to put him with a pass first center and feed him, I think a team like NJ is a better fit.
Forum:
Armchair-GM
14 hours ago
Thread:
How St Louis can beat Colorado in 23
STL got destroyed 5v5 in the series and the team speed difference stood out to me. STL really needs to retool the blue line if they want to contend.
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Armchair-GM
14 hours ago
Thread:
Getting Younger and 2nd OVA
Don’t think AZ is interested in trading 1st rd picks at all, but at least there is some solid rationale behind it especially if Weber’s actual pay is less than his cap hit.
NJ just don’t see the value for NJ in doing that especially considering they are just starting to hit their rise the 2nd overall could be a key contributor when they are truly ready to compete and given Anderson’s injury history just don’t see it.
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Armchair-GM
16 hours ago
Thread:
Rebuild
Not single team even remotely considers any of these moves.
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Armchair-GM
16 hours ago
Thread:
Game 1 vs AVS
It’ll be an interesting series. Give EDM an edge top line vs top line, 2nd line is a wash probably an x-factor could clearly come from either team here, bottom 6 gotta give the edge to COL more pieces, more production. D, biggest disparity in the series with a clear and significant advantage to COL. Goalie, at the start of the playoffs I would have said clear advantage COL, Smith has been good imo, and Kuemper seems to be struggling a bit since getting a stick in the eye in the first round. Obviously who plays better will have a significant impact on the series.
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Armchair-GM
Yesterday at 12:47 a.m.
Thread:
My Suggested Lines vs EDM
I think Murray gets in place of JJ.
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Armchair-GM
Yesterday at 12:45 a.m.
Thread:
if they lose both
Why would COL do that?
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Armchair-GM
Yesterday at 11:15 a.m.
Thread:
Kadri leaves
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>dtd_tank</b></div><div>Why wouldn't you just play Newhook there with some good supporting wingers while using your cap space to pay Burakovsky/Nichushkin and find a goalie like Jack Campbell?
Also, Landeskog could play 2C if Newhook isn't ready, couldn't he?</div></div>
What you do is play Landeskog on Newhook’s wing and let him shepherd Newhook like he did MacKinnon, basically playing the c role on defense. Burakovsky is out imo. COL top 6 wingers next year will probably be Mikko, Landeskog, Nichushkin and Lehkonen. Playing Lehkonen in the top 6 where he has looked really good allows the them to spend a little more in other areas.
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