Modifié 28 avr. à 22 h 42
Quoting: Ledge_And_Dairy
I'm not even referring to Hughes. Marino, Severson, and Hamilton all played more ATOI. Graves is very mid, he is fine but far from a reliable 1st pair guy.
You are completely wrong about Markstrom. He had a very good October - December and an amazing January/February. His March/April was not strong but to say he sucks is flat out wrong. This is not up for debate.
I am not saying Wolf + Vladar won't be fine but it won't be nearly as good.
I think you are vastly underrating he w good Hanifin is and how badly the loss of him will affect us. I am not arguing that those other players played well but it's a very safe bet Sharangovich and Coleman are going to have a drop off in S% next year.
I was talking/comparing Left Handed/Sided Defensemen
@MoxNix. What do you think of Markstrom!?
Hanifin was decent but he’s gone now and signed for $7.35mil. Weegar’s his replacement actually, so now we need Kylington to step up and a Big Gritty Shut Down guy to replace Zadorov.
Graves would do that and is better than Zadorov in every way, he’d be a better fit and I’m confident would do better in CGY than PIT. Find me a Bigger & Better UFA who will sign in CGY and for no more than $4.5mil/yr
OEL is an option but he’s smaller and older, so is Kulikov
Dillon very likely gets more than $4.5mil/yr and is 34 in Nov
Doubt Giordano of TJ Brodie return to CGY. Both are even smaller & older and do we want them back? Doubtful
Wanna Bring Zadorov back? I personally don’t
Cole & Edmundson both suck
Scandella or Forbort maybe? That’d be scraping the bottom of the barrel AFAIC. Better to try Gilbert, Solovyov, Okhotiuk, Hanley or Grushnikov
After considering everything and not thinking of another Trade Target other than Jake Middleton, Graves with term at just $4.5mil/yr seems like a decent move to me. Sure he’s know Hanifin, but he’s not far off while only having 60% of Hanifin’s Cap Hit. Hanifin is for sure the Better & Faster Skater, but Graves brings more Size and Grit. Kylington will be the Skater and Graves will be the Muscle and Weegar does both, just a bit slower and smaller
I thought Weegar might be best with Miromanov, but you could always go:
Weegar-Andersson
Graves-Miromanov
Kylington-Tanev/Hakanpaa/Myers/Pachal/Brown
I think we need help on Defence the most and Wolf, Vladar & Raanta can battle it out between the pipes. I thought Raanta might be a good AHL Mentor for our new Finish Goalie Signing if he didn’t make the Team out of Training Camp or obviously a Mentor to Wolf and/or Vladar if he did and we carried 3 Goalies till we figured out which 2 to keep on