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Forum: Armchair-GMYesterday at 8:26 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMYesterday at 3:10 p.m.
Thread: Imagine if Hextall Didnt Ruin The Team
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>DNP1932</b></div><div>I think the problem lies more with how they were moved, why, and what the returns were, lets face it neither the matheson and Marino moves were good, and even if we weren’t “technically” better we still would have more flexibility with younger still growing players compared to players that would be regressing. I think a more competent GM wouldve made much more meaningful moves with the same 2 players being traded out. The karlsson deal is ok in my eyes, and it wouldve never been made if it weren’t for the terrible moves that were made by hextall.</div></div>

I think we have a misunderstanding. My comment was about the ACGM, not Hextall's poor decisions. I agree with basically everything you said except for the EK deal comment. That rocks simply in how many of Hextall's mistakes it undid, let alone that it added a player of EK's caliber.
Forum: Armchair-GMMon. at 9:58 a.m.
Thread: Imagine if Hextall Didnt Ruin The Team
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>JSEB93</b></div><div>Outside of the Malkin/Trocheck swap - I do think it's a better team. If we're correcting Hextall's mistakes, then we can also remove Carter's contract too which would give like 7mil to add another forward to help with depth</div></div>

And I think that's where my criticisms mostly lie. We can make these ACGMs of "oh, what if Hextall didn't make mistakes" and they undo his bad moves instead of replacing them with good ones. In hindsight, we have the cap space to add to this team, and we'd still have our '24 1st to use for an upgrade if we didn't make the Karlsson deal. The team wouldn't necessarily be better if Hextall didn't screw everything up, but it would have the assets and cap to make additions and be decisively better.
Forum: Armchair-GMMon. at 9:53 a.m.
Thread: Imagine if Hextall Didnt Ruin The Team
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>DNP1932</b></div><div>Yeah idk, like i get it, but its sorta cherry picked, keeping the carter and letang extension but getting rid of the malkin’s, sure hes regressed but he certainly outplayed Trocheck the 1st year of each respective contract, this year yeah you definitely have a point with the quality of each’s linemates. Also can make an argument that if malkin gets moved to wing either last year or this coming year he will out produce him. Puusty probably out produces Lafferty in a full season, I’m taking eller over Blueger just for the pure fact they fill the same role and eller had better availability, neither is ideal for 3C but both are passable. the defence is definitely more stable, but imo if youre gonna take away malkin, then letangs contract needs to go too, hes good for his age for sure, but hes consistently injured (I know that’s not his fault) and hes gonna be consistently going down the ranks as a #1 Dman. I agree with you this team isn’t that much superior if at all, the biggest factors are keeping McCann and a more stable D core for the past 2 years.</div></div>

I'm honestly not so sure the defense would have been more stable.

Marino was pretty good his first season in NJ, but like I mentioned, his defense regressed heavily this season. Yeah, the Devils' goaltending was questionable this year, but he went from 2.05 goals against/60 last season to 3.35/60 this season. That's a gigantic drop, and goaltending is only going to be responsible for a part of it. He definitely was better than Petry in 22-23, but this season, he wasn't going to do us any favors.
And as great as Matheson's production has been in Montreal, he's also been worse defensively there, and missed nearly half of 22-23 with injuries. Again, part of his numbers being worse are simply from having tougher matchups as the #1 guy on a pretty bad team, but I'm still not sure that he'd be as good as he was in his final year in Pittsburgh had he stayed.

The difference with this roster for me is that accounting for Malkin's cap instead of Trocheck's, this team has a little over $5.5M to work with to add to the team. I still think it could use an upgrade on D or 3C, but the Pens would've had the space for it. Going for a reset to a couple years ago and then not adding on is as much of a solution as keeping the current roster the same is.
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 7 at 10:19 p.m.
Thread: My Radical Trade Proposal To The Leafs
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>edeangel84</b></div><div>There is no replacing MP and I admit the defense is clearly worse. I do not think the bottom six is worse though. Trenin is an upgrade over Smith at this point and Kampf is certainly no worse than Acciari. Marner is a 90-100 point winger who has always been counted on to be one of the leaders. In this team he does not have to worry about that and I think the guy would only benefit from getting out of the Toronto media world.</div></div>

I didn't say I thought the bottom 6 was worse, I said it's not better. Trenin and Kampf are another pair of defense-only guys. We tried that this year and it didn't work. We could keep Raks - He played well with Bunts &amp; Geno, and was playing hurt - and add another top 6 winger like DeBrusk or a 3C like Roslovic. If we want to have a decent chance, our depth needs to be better, whether that's from acquisitions or young guys like Ponomarev, maybe even Yager if we're lucky, making an impact. I like Trenin quite a bit, but I don't think he's an upgrade to Smith and I don't think he's a significant impact. On a team with good depth, he and Eller are probably 4th liners. And they're both much better than everyone on that 4th line.