pharrow

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Forum: Armchair-GM4 hours ago
Thread: Are these trades realistic
Every one of these trades is unrealistic.

The Toronto trade is a massive over payment.
You are giving up a 1st pair defense guy on many teams for an over paid winger. Then you add another roster player, a pick, and a backup goalie with trade value. No thanks.

Hörnqvist is going to be a hard piece to move. I don't see any team in the hunt wanting to trade for him. Considering the NTC that ends that. He really needs to go to a team needing a locker room guy. A team like Ottawa could really use someone like him as the culture there is broken. They need a veteran guy or two to come in and correct that. He'd be perfect for that. But no way he waives to go to that dumpster fire. To be honest, I think going to a team that isn't a "threat" could save the rest of his career from concussions. He's gonna have CTE at this rate. He's probably better off going on LTIR and retiring. But a frog can't tell when you boil the water if you raise it slow and the same can be said about humans getting CTE when they are getting paid millions.
Forum: Armchair-GMThu at 1:41 am
Thread: lol we can and we willthe common sense version
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>blowing_the_zone</b></div><div>yeah, I dunno pharrow. I mean, I agree with your last three sentences almost completely, with only a little quibble on not seeing it all with this leafs team.

I think we saw it often over the year, its just wasn't been sustained. The leafs were right there with Boston again this year and outplayed them for long stretches throughout the series.. but I think they did that mostly on skill.

I really think that alot of them have tuned Babcock out... That his double standards, rhetoric, decisions and inability to adapt when things weren't working took a toll on their buy-in. Now, that's no excuse and Dubas and company will need to decide if the roster needs a shakeup or if the coaching staff does in order to get the collective, full team buy-in and committed drive required to win.

For my money I hope this group is given a shot to be fully assessed under a different coaching regime before the roster is blown up. The group is too young and talented not to take that gamble, imo - and alot of energy, time, effort and mula has gone into developing them... Cause once you trade them, you don't usually get them back. And if the coaching, in fact, partly holds the blame, then where are we left 2 to 3 years from now?

I think the leafs are set-up really well, with a good pipeline of prospects on the way. Too early to start taking it apart now. Keep the offense in tact. Be patient with D development, even if it means a step back. I think it'd do the leafs well to let them develop as a group, and to stop looking outside for quick short term fixes. We need to be real - we have a ways to go..</div></div>

All I know is they got torn up by Bergeron in the faceoff circle and it cost this team big time. They brought in JT just for that sort of thing. And Matthews is suppose to be a generational talent.
Bergeron was never put in those sort of words, they were saved for Crosby and Ov.
They have to have the compete level to step up to an aging 33 year old center and win. That's what it means to be the next "great" you have to actually beat the players you want to replace. Not wait for them to fade out.
I don't think it's the coach. He's not a bad coach at all. They needed to play harder. You have to want to win. Boston did, Toronto didn't.
Forum: Armchair-GMThu at 1:35 am
Thread: Pittsburgh
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>WhatsaMaattaWithYou</b></div><div>Just about every post and comment you make about the Penguins is ridiculous and makes people lose brain cells. With over 4k posts, one would presume you would know more about hockey than you do. Maybe spend more time educating yourself on the sport and less time giving lowbrow opinions. This last comment cements that sentiment. What you typed was contradictory in the point you are trying to prove. I suggest you reread it. Don't come at me saying "period' and tell me to watch the games when your evaluation of players is elementary at best. You probably think Garrett Wilson deserves to hold a regular roster spot.

The fact I need to even break this down for you is crazy. It'll be even more frustrating because you won't understand what I'm going to say and you will respond by repeating yourself but I will make it very simple to follow for you and I will even highlight it.

Here we go...

<strong>Offense (scoring), is driven by the defensemen. The defense must be able to transition the puck to the forwards and the forwards make offensive zone entries while maintaining puck possession. It takes little to no skill to chip the puck up off the glass or soft dump it out of the zone. </strong>

You wanna blame the only 2 defensemen on the team with puck moving ability but have admiration for the defensemen who are have zero offensive upside and defend averagely. How about the entire team played terrible? That's where the blame should be placed. They showed no heart. They don't want to go to the dirty areas, fail to win loose puck battles and did not play playoff hockey. Zero effort whatsoever. They have become complacent and stale.</div></div>

I'll tell you what "hockey pro" you let me know when you want to come lace up skates with me and we'll see all about your hockey knowledge.

You have not a clue what you are talking about. Clearly defensemen retrieve pucks that are dumped it. But they don't generate an offense. That is not and never will be what their main job is.
And as much as you think not getting the puck out of their zone is on defense men, 90% of the time it's usually because a forward didn't do his job.
Forum: Armchair-GMThu at 1:31 am
Thread: lol we can and we willthe common sense version
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>JoeForts</b></div><div>I find it a little ridiculous to say this was their best shot. Really? The core group of this team is 20-23 years old, they haven't even hit their prime yet. So you're telling me that all these young players now are gonna be on the decline? Nonsense. Comparing them to Crosby, sure .... the team that got handed a generational player .... Sid won the cup in his 4th year in the league. So it was exactly instant success for the pens either.</div></div>

It's not about the core group of players. It's about the Salary they are about to make and how it's going to drain the rest of the talent away from the team for a long long time.
They were on the cheap, and it was the best shot they were ever going to have because they could afford the rest of the talent around them.
Forum: Armchair-GMThu at 1:29 am
Thread: Pittsburgh
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Chigurrhh</b></div><div>He's been on the third pairing with Pettersson playing away from the top lines of his opponents. What are you talking about? He's been doing perfectly fine in that role too.



Funny that the Penguins didn't need any of that for their recent cup runs. Ryan Reaves lol. Do you forget how useless he was as a Penguin?

You are spewing a lot of ridiculous, uniformed stuff here. Johnson's numbers slightly improved by being moved to the left side. But they were still complete garbage. Team can't generate offense when he's on the ice.</div></div>

He was sheltered?
61% of his starts were in the DZone, You know the area of the ice that the best offensive players get their starts.
Come on, please watch games before talking.

And those playoff series against teams like washington is exactly why the brought players like that in. They can't have star players getting smacked in the head with sticks and knocked out with concussions.
Any penguins fan knows that.
Forum: Armchair-GMThu at 1:27 am
Thread: Pittsburgh
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>WhatsaMaattaWithYou</b></div><div>FYI, when you are earning a substantial salary and playing a lesser role on the team, that is being sheltered. Do you honestly believe paying a player with no offensive upside 2.5 million per season to play minutes that wouldn't even break a sweat, good asset management? I would bet you money that Reaves has contributed to more losses than wins. Oleksiak wasn't brought here to be a fighter and when he went against a tough player (Wilson), he got dropped. Then traded!

You keep telling people to look at his stats and to watch games, etc. You have been provided with links and quality sources to verify what people say yet you totally disregard everyone else's opinions. Where are you getting your information and news from? The Onion???</div></div>

Can we take a poll on that. How many people think Big Rig wasn't here to drop gloves? I mean really. Do you think before you type that?

Sheltered minutes? WHere? 61% of his starts were in the DZone, and he was "sheltered'

Just delete your account.
Forum: Armchair-GMThu at 1:23 am
Thread: Fixing Small Parts
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>WhatsaMaattaWithYou</b></div><div>Hold on a minute. On other threads you were supporting Jack Johnson saying he's serviceable and on an ok contract. Now you are saying otherwise. On top of that you are defending a player (Maatta) who was scratched 3 out of 4 playoff games over a player with arguably one of the worst possession analytics stats in all of hockey (Johnson). A player that's so slow, a 70 yr old with a cane could beat him in a foot race and makes panic decisions with the puck because he shies away from being hit.

The whole +/- stat is outdated and again, you keep using "old time hockey" argument points. Your opinions are yours alone and you have every right to believe whatever it is you believe is the truth but to keep arguing with everyone on basically the same subjects over and over again is a bit silly.</div></div>

I have stated multiple times that JJ played horribly on the right side. He has no business there and it showed. He was only there because Schultz got hurt and they had no one else capable of filling that role.
So I don't really see how that's contradicting anything. At no time should those two players, and frankly and two LHD be on the ice together. It screws up the whole team because it's very hard to back hand a puck across the ice and that limits your ability to exit the zone and generate offense.

So I don't really get how you think that's a contradiction. You act like I haven't pointed out how annoying it is when people list TOP 50 each position and then they list Defense instead of LHD and RHD as if they are interchangeable and it doesn't matter.

The +/- stat means a lot when you play on the right and it's a -20 and when you play on the left and it's a +16. I think you can figure that out.
JJ takes a lot of heat, some of it is deserved other times it isn't. Like when his coach leaves him on the RHD side, and his line mates pinch leaving him exposed.