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tony135420

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Forum: Armchair-GMAug. 21, 2020 at 9:27 p.m.
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Forum: Armchair-GMAug. 12, 2020 at 10:29 p.m.
Thread: Retool
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>PleaseBanMeForMyOwnGood</b></div><div>Ekblad is good but he's never really morphed into the two way beast everyone expected him to be. He isn't Hedmen or Doughty level. He's not equal to Rielly. He's more like Muzzin than anything. Nylander for Exblad is close to fair. I am very thankful that Dubas isn't one of the panic stricken type of GM's who make deals for the sake of them only to watch them blow up in their faces.</div></div>

He had 31 5v5 points in this shortened NHL season (behind only Josi and Carlson). Doughty has never topped 27 in a season. Hedman hit 32 once (in 2014). Muzzin has never topped 25. Rielly has exceeded 23 5v5 points once in his career (when he got 43). He doesn't get PP1 deployment or the offensive role because of Yandle. He is also the same age now as Muzzin was when he was a rookie in 2012/13.
Forum: Armchair-GMAug. 10, 2020 at 10:38 a.m.
Thread: Win the lottery trade Mitch
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>tony135420</b></div><div>At the end of the day, this is that would be the product of parity in the leagues setup. Do you believe the NHL can only achieve parity by having small/lower reveue market teams succeed? Just trying to gauge where you draw the line when it comes to league parity?.</div></div>

I'm not entirely sure how I would fix the system tbh. I am from the UK, so our major sports leagues, football for example don't buy into the idea of parity being important, theres no salary cap and the rich teams frequently win.
I'm interested because the ideas of a draft and maintaining parity seem very important to NA sports, but no league seems to have a system that achieves this well. As a Detroit fan this obviously stings because we were the worst team in the salary cap era, and ended up in that place as a result of building a team as the NHL would want, trying to make the playoffs even when it was not in the best interest of the team long term.