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Forum: NHL SigningsAug 24 at 6:11
Thread: San Jose Sharks signed Jasper Weatherby (2 Years / $925,000 AAV)
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>FunMustBeAlways</b></div><div>Ehh I just really don’t see the upside. He’s not bad but he’s just kind of a washed prospect at this point. Don’t really see him jumping out of the AHL anytime. I’d love to be proven wrong though some of the tools are there.



Uhhh not sure where this is coming from but even if you don’t watch a ton of games, it’s pretty obvious Weatherby just isn’t that good. He was drafted as an overager, and put up less than a P/PG as a 23 y/o in the NCAA on a good UND team. I watched a few playoff games last year (although not many). But in those games it was brutally obvious that guys like Sanderson, JBD and Shane Pinto were much better prospects. The reason why people shouldn’t have slept on Caufield is cause he was putting up a GOAL a game as a 19-20 year old. I’m not saying I want him to not succeed, but he’s not better than Chmelevski, Gregor, Pederson, or Gambrell by any stretch of the imagination.</div></div>

it's the NCAA not the CHL. Players don't put up a PPG FFS.
There are many players who came out the NCAA not putting up a PPG from the NCAA. It's like saying, Bryan Rust must not be any good he didn't put up a PPG in the NCAA.
Meanwhile he's an easy top 6 winger on any team in the NHL.
Meanwhile guys who did put up a PPG, like ZAR are bottom 6 guys in the NHL, not that ZAR isn't a good player.
You are just so off base it's not even funny.

You want to rag on a kid who you clearly don't watch in a league you know nothing about.
His production for the NCAA level is solid. His size is A+ for the next level and he's not slow.
There is nothing not to like about this kid, and his ability to make the jump and play consistently at the NHL level.
Furthermore, at no point did Caulfield put up a PPG. The fact that you don't even know who he is, is very F ing telling.
Forum: NHL SigningsAug 22 at 2:20
Thread: Philadelphia Flyers signed Travis Sanheim (2 Years / $4,675,000 AAV)
he got like 100k for every goal he bled out on the ice.

I know the NHL has a serious shortage of defensemen. I know the question of, who else is going to do it, is a real issue.
But FFS.
I have been pretty clear that the NHL needs to start playing the youth sooner. I have echoed that time and time again for the penguins. So many people object with "they aren't ready"....... on guys who could probably step up with minimal problems.
This contract right here is a prime example of that. When there are no defensemen, they start making a killing at the top, the Need way out paces the supply and the over pay starts trickling down to massive payouts for guys who really should not be getting paid this much, over and over and over again. It's time for the NHL to pull it's head out it's butt and start playing the youth.
Forum: NHL SigningsAug 19 at 11:17
Thread: New Jersey Devils signed Chase Stillman (3 Years / $925,000 AAV)
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Dzinger18</b></div><div>Bad pick considering all of the options that were still on the board. Still should be a future top 9 forward for them, though.</div></div>

"Bad pick"
SMH.

No need for that now. Good for him, and good luck to him.
Every year there are late round guys that develop into good players. Be it Barzal or Pasta or whoever. Were the picks above them "Bad" picks too? At the time of those drafts no one would have thought so for a lot of them. So it's really hard to say here so no need to knock the kid. The only real guy here that people will spin wheels on is Raty. He had a huge drop, and maybe he should have gone much higher. If he pops and ends up a steal, everyone will look back at it and say, that was clearly a possibility and a really dumb mistake. All be it a lot of those same people were probably the same one's saying, his production dropped and he didn't deserve to be there, they will instantly turn into "experts" who knew if he explodes. But the rest of these guys, it's not so easy to come to that conclusion.
The talent is relatively even across, and they still have to keep developing.
Forum: NHL SigningsAug 15 at 7:28
Thread: Vancouver Canucks signed Jason Dickinson (3 Years / $2,650,000 AAV)
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>drewjenkins</b></div><div>The break even is at 7-8 players for each team .... the top 7-8 contracts + buyouts next season are roughly equal between Toronto and Vancouver.

Toronto then begins to take the lead as you slide down the depth ....

<strong>Deal with it brotha. </strong></div></div>

A. I hate to break it to you but TOR depth sucks.
It sucked last year, it sucks this year. So I have no idea what you are talking about "take the lead"
second, You can keep trying to get around the fact that TOR is vastly more top heavy all day with "deal with it brotha" comments. But TOR is far more top heavy. Which was the WHOLE POINT.
Why are you even still arguing it? Can you not just admit that paying 3 players an average of about 11 mil per, is clearly heavier and most likely going to be significantly heavier?
Are you that jealous of VAN that you can't admit that. I'm not even a VAN fan and I can clearly see this is true.
TOR fans are just obsessed. It's like you are all blind to reality. You are paying a lot of money at the top. A lot. More than probably any team in the league in their top 4 players. But here you are...."other teams are top heavy"
Even EDM paying McDavid and Drai is less top heavy. That's the biggest contract in the league. Maybe TB is close. I mean it's hard to find a team in the league as top heavy as TOR.
Forum: NHL SigningsAug 15 at 5:40
Thread: Vancouver Canucks signed Jason Dickinson (3 Years / $2,650,000 AAV)
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>drewjenkins</b></div><div>The problem with your theory is .... Toronto's 5th-13th players on the list are better than Vancouver's 5th-13th players.

And clearly Toronto's top 4 is better than Vancouver's top 4 ... and Toronto has 5 million extra to spend on the final 10.

Oh and BTW I was estimating Pettersson + Hughes + Boeser's contracts for next year ... and their on the low end.</div></div>

none of that has anything to do with anything about being top heavy.
You just realize that your math is way off, your comment was off, and now it's excuse time.
TOR is top heavy. Period. VAN hardly. The 5th-13th being better is neither here nor their. Being top heavy isn't about the talent level on the ice. It's about salary cap structure.
So why bother getting into some pissing contest over who's players are better. The fact that you had to go 13 deep to get there basically says, he down to the 4th line and 3rd pairing VAN pays more! Like WTF cares. That has nothing to do with being top heavy. Top 6 Top 4 Goalie you got 11. So you got most the 3rd line. It's basically the 4th line up. That's depth spending.

Clearly TOR has a better player in Matthews. But you're pushing your luck in saying Marner is. One could also argue that the Matthews contract sucks due to the length. So lets not pretend TOR did some great job in their top. They didn't. They over paid a lot. Almost no one wants that Marner contract. JT to 35 isn't exactly great and something teams probably don't want to hold onto.
If they were that much better than VAN how come those VAN players won a playoff round in the last 2 years and TOR has not?
Forum: NHL SigningsAug 15 at 2:53
Thread: Vancouver Canucks signed Jason Dickinson (3 Years / $2,650,000 AAV)
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>drewjenkins</b></div><div>In this example ... Vancouver's top 13 contracts take up $5,200,000 more cap-space than Toronto's top 13 players.

And I would argue (correctly) that Toronto's listed top 13 are significantly better than Vancouvers.

Despite this, Vancouver will have $5,200,000 less cap-space to fill out the final 10 roster spots.

And if Pettersson + Hughes don't sign bridge deals this will be even more lopsided next year.</div></div>

If you have to go 13 deep to be 5.2 million more over the cap, you're not top heavy.
TOR is by far the more top heavy team. If it takes you 13 spots deep to get there that tells you that a team has depth.......or at least should considering how deep they are spending.
Forum: NHL SigningsAug 15 at 6:04
Thread: Vancouver Canucks signed Jason Dickinson (3 Years / $2,650,000 AAV)
It's a decent deal for VAN.
I think people on here are wanting to hand guys way to much money. Pettersson isn't even a PPG player. But people wanting to throw him insane money. He is close to a 30 goal guy though if not already one. But he has some injury issues. My guess is he goes in the 7s.
Hughes on the other hand. You take away the PP and his game really suffers. 64% starts in the Ozone and a 50% corsi. But people want to hand him 8-9 million. Are you kidding me. He shouldn't get that. My guess is 5-6 range is a fair value. He's a one trick pony. His corsi sucks, he's bleeding goals against in even strength play and 5v5 play. He's just not a very complete defenseman at this point. People are too obsessed with points and not looking at the whole player.
Forum: NHL SigningsAug 15 at 5:55
Thread: Vancouver Canucks signed Jason Dickinson (3 Years / $2,650,000 AAV)
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>drewjenkins</b></div><div><strong>VANCOUVER | 2022-23 | TOP 13 CAP-HITS</strong>

$8,000,000 = Pettersson
$8,000,000 = Hughes
$8,000,000 = Boeser
$7,300,000 = OEL
$6,000,000 = Myers
$5,500,000 = Horvat
$5,300,000 = Miller
$5,000,000 = Demko
$5,000,000 = Garland
$3,300,000 = Pearson
$3,000,000 = Hamonic
$2,700,000 = Dickinson
$2,500,000 = Poolman
$2,400,000 = Buyouts
----------------
<strong>$72,000,000</strong> ​= Total


<strong>TORONTO | 2022-23 | TOP 13 CAP-HITS</strong>

$11,600,000 = Matthews
$11,000,000 = Tavares
$10,900,000 = Marner
- $6,900,000 = Nylander
- $5,600,000 = Muzzin
- $5,000,000 = Brodie
- $3,800,000 = Mrazek
- $3,500,000 = Kerfoot
- $2,500,000 = Ritchie
- $2,000,000 = Holl
- $1,500,000 = Kampf
- $1,500,000 = Dermott
- $1,000,000 = Bunting
-----------------
<strong>$66,800,000</strong> ​= Total


<strong>Vancouver is going to be significantly more top-heavy than Toronto next year (even with bridge deals).

What are they going to do when their bridge deals expire?</strong></div></div>

you're paying 8 mil more in TOR for your top 3 players and VAN is "significantly more top-heavy" HTF does that math even work?
Forum: NHL SigningsAug 13 at 7:55
Thread: Columbus Blue Jackets signed Zac Rinaldo (1 Year / $750,000 AAV)
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Kotkaniemi15</b></div><div>I never said laying a hit makes him an enforcer. All of the dirty actions and fights make him an enforcer. The hit is showing that Rinaldo’s stature doesn’t prevent him from engaging people larger than him.</div></div>

what fights?
He's had 2 legit "fights" in the past 3 years. One of them the much bigger player didn't not look like he really wanted to fight the little guy, and the other one, if you want to call him being a punching bag, wasn't exactly a fight.

Do you know anything about the guy you are talking about?
You like to go, he has game misconducts. He got one of those for the refs separating him from Clifford before he got killed. It was a nothing of a misconduct.
Dirty hits? He plays on the edge, and every time someone touches a guy today, it's, he's such a dirty player. You aren't allowed to hit anyone.
By far and away most of his hits have been clean hockey plays.
But go on there.
Forum: NHL SigningsAug 13 at 7:51
Thread: Columbus Blue Jackets signed Zac Rinaldo (1 Year / $750,000 AAV)
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Claesson4Norris</b></div><div>I'm like 90% sure you deliberately choose to have the worst takes about everything on this site as a bit, but on the 10% chance I'm wrong, it's really remarkable that you've never stumbled into a good take even by accident.

There's more to being a good fighter than just size. Look at the best fighters in NHL history, it's not just a list of big hulking monsters. Tiger Williams was 5'11, Rob Ray was 6'0, McSorley was 6'1 190, Dale Hunter was 5'10, Ken Deneyko was 6 flat, Domi was 5'10. Knowing how to fight matters more than just being big. Dave Dziurzynski was like 6'3 and like 230 lbs or something, and he was one of the worst fighters I've ever seen.

Don't get me wrong, Zac Rinaldo is a **** hockey player, and has no business being in the NHL, but he IS an enforcer. His sole job his entire career has been to come in, play like 8min a night, throw some big hits and to punch people. Now I don't think he was ever a notably good one, but if you don't think he qualifies, you don't know what the term Enforcer has meant in the NHL for the last decade or so.</div></div>

When people who have horrible takes want to talk about other peoples takes.
Your "enforcer" has had 3 so called fights in the last 3 years.
Lets see, in 2019 he had this "massive" brawl with Clifford.
https://www.hockeyfights.com/fights/n259962
clearly worth one of those "game misconducts"
Then there is 2020, where he god rag dolled by Deslauriers in his only fight of the year. A fight he clearly had no business taking, Hell the guy even let up on him because he knew he was 7 inches taller and like 40+ pounds heavier. But you know "enforcers"
https://www.hockeyfights.com/fights/n260818
The last one in 2021against Watson, who honestly looked like he didn't even want to drop gloves against the much smaller player. Not that I blame Watson, he's taken so much heat, he probably didn't want to hear it going after someone 1/2 his size.
https://www.hockeyfights.com/fights/n261712

But yet here is your incredibly bad take about what an "enforcer" is.
The winter Olympics is soon. You'll be able to enjoy all the figure skating you want.
Rinaldo is not an enforcer. Period.
He is a tough little player who hits. That's part of hockey. But trying to sit here and say he's an enforcer is like trying to say Brandon Tanev is an enforcer. He's not. Everyone knows he's not.
He might get into an occasional scrap now and then due to his physical style of play. But that doesn't make him an enforcer. Everyone in the hockey world knows this. He's not the guy you are rolling out there to go fight after someone does something dirty against your team. He's too damn small.

But sure thing, the guy who got into 3 "fights" in the last 3 years is an "enforcer". Hot take there on your part.