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Forum: Armchair-GMNov 13 at 3:15
Thread: Wild fans what you want
Donato probably isn't worth trading for MN, his value (due to his play) is in the toilet. When he's hot he's white hot, when he's not he's a fringe NHLer. Lots of flaws in his game.
Fiala is finding his game, MN should hold on to him for the season to see what he is.
JEE is doing all the right things except putting the puck in the net. The Wild need to keep him and hope he finds his shot, simply because they have nothing else for centers. He'd be a quality 4C for any team.

All of them are buy low players right now.

I'm guessing that the Wild GM is asking a higher price than they are worth right now. After Fenton sold low on everything last year, the new GM won't take anything but a premium for any of the players. He'll probably hold on to everyone and ship off a rental or rental+1 at the TDL. Hire a new coach and make offseason trades for what the coach wants the team to be.
Forum: Armchair-GMNov 13 at 3:02
Thread: MIN plz
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Blazingbat11</b></div><div>I'm just trying to get a fair take on what his realistic value might be. No doubt the Habs would have interest in him, but some of the values in deals involving him on here seem a little ridiculous. Let's be real here, Defensive dmen don't hold that much value, right? All the buzz from recent years that defensmen have a lot of value on the market are the offensive type, or at least two-way dmen. Just looking at the stats, he seems nothing more than a solid defensive dman. That isn't exactly what the Habs are looking for. The only criteria that he has for the Habs is that he's a LD.</div></div>

Brodin is a 2-way d-man that errs on the side of caution. You're trying to get your value based entirely on stats and not watching him play. Defensive d-men have plenty of value as long as they aren't pylons.

Go to naturalstattrick and do a 3 year (it's how long BB has been coach) 5v5 comparison between Brodin and Muzzin or Brodin and Trouba.
Forum: Armchair-GMNov 13 at 2:56
Thread: MIN plz
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Blazingbat11</b></div><div>I don't get where this premium value for Brodin is coming from? but since you're comparing his value to that of what Muzzin got. Muzzin is leaps and bounds better overall than Brodin (purely looking from a statistical perspective)

Muzzin avg close to 40pts for the past 2 seasons, and is solid defensively (undestatment).

Brodin avg closer to 20pts for the past 2 seasons, and although he still pretty solid defensively, is considerably weaker than Muzzin when looking at the analytics.

Only thing Brodin has on Muzzin is age... but I think it's pretty clear what kind of player Brodin is. He's a solid 2nd paring defensive Dman. How does that warrant such a high asking price?!</div></div>

Brodin isn't an advanced stat darling. A lot of that is due to who he's had as his partner over the years. He's been stuck with Dumba (before he brokeout as a player), Folin, Pateryn, and Ryan Murphy quality players. The times he has had a reliable partner (Spurgeon, good Dumba) he's much more active in the o-zone play.

The Wild are a team that corsi/fenwick aren't good indicators. The Wild give up a lot of low danger chances, but few high danger chances. xGF/xGA and HDSCs for/against are the type of stats that give a better picture of the team/players.
Forum: Armchair-GMNov 10 at 1:10
Thread: MTL MIN CBJ WPG
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Shibbal18</b></div><div>Sheary is fine enough, and gives them some speed in their forwards that Bruce is looking for.</div></div>

Foligno is a good PKer, plays a physical game, and has been one of the main reasons in the improvements in JEE and Greenway's games.

The Wild aren't going to out-skill any other team in the league, they need to grind out wins. The speed BB talks about is more from passing (which has been awful) than skating.

Besides the midget LHS wing spot has already been filled by Zuccerello. There isn't much that separates Sheary from Donato and Fiala, who the Wild already have. Except the Wild have no team control over Sheary (UFA).

Sheary fits with the Wild worse than Byron (who MTL fans keep trying to dump off on MN).
Forum: Armchair-GMNov 7 at 5:43
Thread: MIN Trade
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>DonkeyLips</b></div><div>I don't. Ive mentioned numerous times today that he isn't an upgrade over bjugstad. In fact he is worse. Good players don't get sat. Good players play. Mediocre and bad players get sat.</div></div>

The Wild are also a badly build team. Zucker, Parise, Greenway Foligno, Fiala, and Donato make for way too many LWs on one roster. It's partially a numbers game with who gets sat, and vets are getting a much longer rope than the kids.

Fiala was as bad as the rest of the team to start the season. He got injured, pressboxed, and the coach laid into him; he's responded pretty well to so far.

Bjugstad is not the answer to the Wild's center woes. The contract term doesn't fit with the team and he's made of glass. If they want him, getting him as a UFA in 1+ years makes more sense than trading for him.
Forum: Armchair-GMOct 28 at 1:12
Thread: Minny swap
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>buffbry</b></div><div>Best player whose a healthy scratch nonstop and doesn't play cause Minny hates him. Svech has more value than him. Wild want to dump all 3 fyi, this trade isn't that far off, it can be tweaked but to make it like it's our of control is wrong</div></div>

Donato has been a healthy scratch once. MN is stacked with LWs: Parise, Zucker, Foligno (excellent 4th liner), Greenway, Fiala, and Donato. Zuccarello is also a LHS FWD but plays offhanded. It's becoming a numbers game as much as anything for the Wild.

JEE is the only one of the three that has much worth to MN; he plays center (team need), good in the d-zone/PK, but lacks o-zone awareness. Donato has so many flaws in his 200' game, but can get white hot in the o-zone. Fiala has all the tools but no toolbox.
Forum: Armchair-GMOct 26 at 4:00
Thread: redo vegas entry
The choice for MN on who to expose was between Brodin and Dumba. Going 4-4 and letting Vegas have the choice of Coyle, Granny, Nino, or Zucker was more likely than Spurgeon being exposed.

MN had LD depth with Suter, Brodin, Scandella, Olofsson, and Reilly. Dumba was still lost in the d-zone most of the time, but the only RD depth was Spurgeon, Dumba, Brodin (offhand), and Prosser. Scandella/Dumba was an awful pairing that season too.

Why is Theodore in this trade? Haula was the other player that went to Vegas.

Haula played himself out of the lineup after the Hanzal trade, to the extent the Wild brought JEE over from the SHL and burned a slide year of his ELC. Haula's days in MN were done after that.

Tuch had a meh year in the AHL and looked like a lost puppy in the cup of coffee he did get in the NHL that season.