mhockey91

mhockey91
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BUF GM for GM Game #1
PIT GM for GM Game #2
Forum: Armchair-GM12 hours ago
Thread: Pens Realistic Retool
crazy how much the young goalies value has dropped. in an exert from NHL.com ranking the best goalies in the league back in 2017:

In two NHL seasons, Murray has already become an elite goalie. He has won the Stanley Cup twice, the only player in NHL history to do that as a rookie. He went 32-10-4 with a 2.41 GAA, .923 save percentage and four shutouts last season, and for NHL his career is 41-12-5 with a 2.32 GAA, .925 save percentage and five shutouts in 62 regular-season games.

"He doesn't chase the game around," Weekes said. "He's very calm in the net. He'll make you make the first mistake and make the first move, typically before he will. Now we've just got to see it for the whole year now that the net is his. There's no Marc-Andre Fleury behind you. We know this guy has the pedigree."


I still think Murray has that potential to be an elite starting goalie, he has shown consistent flashes of brilliance, it just sadly wont happen here in pit
Forum: NHL Signings12 hours ago
Thread: Pittsburgh Penguins signed Jared McCann (2 Years / $2,940,000 AAV)
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>jasondomitrovic</b></div><div>Notice how everyone is commenting on how thankful they are because of all the questionable moves by J.R. lately. WE ALL know what's up! We watch this stuff and we know what's a good value for both sides when we see it. Juts DON'T OVERPAY for anyone and it's better to sit still than to do something rash or stupid like giving up a 1st round 15th overall pick for a guy that nobody was giving a 1st overall pick for. I would have rather traded away Matt Murray for Kasperi Kapanen and STILL had our first round 15th overall pick than to be where we are now without that pick and WITHOUT our higher rated prospect that plays center and plays a very good two way game.

Who agrees or disagrees?</div></div>

very well said
Forum: Armchair-GMFri at 2:30 am
Thread: Isles gave hell of a fight
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Isles777</b></div><div>No doubt Trotz is a very good coach, but they would have made the playoffs with another coach such as gallant or DJ smith. I don't think those coaches would stubbornly play a bottom 5 defenseman in the league (boychuk) instead of dobson who proved he was NHL ready back in October.<strong> I don't think some fans realize how much one awful player can negatively impact a team-</strong> giving boychuk more minutes after pelechs injury in January singlehandedly put the isles season on life support. That's on trotz. Fans who don't follow the isles closely just assume that he carries a bunch of fringe NHLers to the playoffs, when that isn't the case.

Most of his career pageau has been a borderline 2C. His counting numbers have never been great, but his rate/underlying numbers have always been solid when you take into account quality of teammates and deployment (mostly defensive zone starts, yet is a strong play driver 5v5). Pageau is known for carrying below replacement level players and still being able to have a positive impact in terms of expected goals %.</div></div>

as a pens fan... I know too well.

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just looking at his numbers on this website through the years, yeah his offensive zone starts is very low like you said, but besides 2020, his 5v5 numbers haven't looked great at all. Im sure quality of teammates is definitely an issue, but I still would never view him as a 2C on a cup team.
Forum: Armchair-GMFri at 2:02 am
Thread: Isles gave hell of a fight
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Isles777</b></div><div>The narrative that trotz is the reason why the islanders are good is BS. Sure he’s a good coach, but he makes self defeating moves and never ices his best lineup. The coaching isolates also have him having an average impact on the team. If anything the goalie coach Mitch korn deserves more credit

Speaking of pageau, he had the best defensive metrics on the team during this run and literally carried brassard and komarov offensively. He provided 1C value, with trotz electing to roll 4 lines, it made sense for the isles to sign pageau to that contract. Team context matters.</div></div>

What trotz (or any of the isles coaches) has been able to get out of that lineup is impressive. Metrics aside, the coaching staff took a team that wouldn’t have even made the playoffs if this were a normal year, to 2 wins away from the SCF. Not to mention out coaching Sullivan last year in 2019 vs pit. He has been great for them.

JPG had a great playoff run sure, but his regular season metrics have been average at best. Will he continue his success this season; or will he regress to being a below average 3C like he’s been in the past? Maybe the isles system will help him succeed, but I’d still be very hesitant to pay him that big money, especially with a cap crunch incoming