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Forum: Armchair-GM29 août 2023 à 14 h 11
Sujet: Cap Compliant No Superstars
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>pretzelcoatl</b></div><div>Horvat, Bertuzzi, Zucker, Konecny, Letang, Skjei, Dumba, and Jarry strike me as strange choices

Blackwood is a mind-numbingly bad choice</div></div>

Blackwood is a 3rd goalie and was probably the first 1 I came to the chances he sees anytime is very minimal and could replace him but meh...

As far as the skaters from watching games played they are in the forwards are all very good at getting in on the forecheck and creating pressure on the opposing team to get the puck out besides Line 1.

The defensemen are all above average at puck moving while being solid defenders not great by any means, but they are capable in their own end.

Jarry is definitely a biased opinion, but he's an above average goalie
Forum: Armchair-GM25 août 2023 à 8 h 10
Sujet: 2023-2024 Lineups
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>AStovetop</b></div><div>I think 3-5 is pretty accurate. It's really dependent on how the fringe NHL prospects pan out. If Eklund, Shakir, Robins, Bordeleau, Gushchin, Thrun show that they can be impact players in this season or next, then you'll have them + The vets who are still quality players (Hertl &amp; Couture) + REALLY high quality prospects entering the league (Smith, Musty, top five 2024 pick)

They have a lot of really good depth pieces currently but the issue is they lack the high end quality</div></div>


Its possible to see 3 year turn around if everything works out to the high end of things. If everything falls into place which is why speculation is fun, but as a wise man once said..... impossible the future is to predict
Forum: Armchair-GM24 août 2023 à 16 h 25
Sujet: 2023-2024 Lineups
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Rob32sjsharks</b></div><div>3 years is more accurate! Sharks are likely to be a bottom 3 team this year and get likely 3 1sts (NJD likely make ECF)
Add those picks plus our high 2nd to an already close to if not top 10 prospect pool and sharks will have what should be a top 5 prospect pool. Add to that 40 mil likely to spend in FA and the sharks have the potential to take big steps in 24/25 and have the potential to be in the mix for the playoffs by 25/26 season.</div></div>

Its possible, but it also depends on the strides other teams make during that time. Given who ended up winning the lottery this year for Bedard the league will probably cater to them to get the newest star's team back to relevance. (Not that the league would ever help any franchise more than another cause that never happens)
Forum: Armchair-GM24 août 2023 à 13 h 31
Forum: Armchair-GM24 août 2023 à 11 h 39
Sujet: what is left cap wise
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>CD282</b></div><div>So you're moving the goalposts now? How convenient.

Nothing you wrote disproves Edmonton as one of the deeper teams this year.</div></div>


I mean by setting the bar at 10 goals you are saying teams like St. Louis, San Jose, and Arizona had just as much depth as Vegas, Edmonton, LA, Seattle, Calgary, and Colorado in the west, and that they had more depth than Vancouver, Dallas, Minnesota, Winnipeg, and Nashville........ however if you look at 15+ goal scorers that is when these teams begin differentiating w/ the only team to make the Western playoffs with = 15 goal scorers as STL SJS and ARI (which btw STL and ARI had 5 and SJS had 6) was EDM with 5. And if you look across the entire league only 2 teams made the playoffs with less than 6 15+ goal scorers those teams were Edmonton and the Isles. The Isles have Sorokin and the Oilers have McDavid Draisaitl. That is the reason I moved the goalposts because it actually paints a more realistic picture.

While Edmonton does have more depth than other teams I would not classify it as one of the deeper teams.

:nod
Forum: Armchair-GM23 août 2023 à 17 h 3
Sujet: what is left cap wise
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>CD282</b></div><div>You literally set the entire scene, and half your rebuttal doesn't even apply.

:tearsofjoy</div></div>

How does half the rebuttal not even apply? Outside of 2 of your 10 goal scorers (I just remembered you used 10 not 20 my apologies) the remainder are either soundly in the top 6 or no longer on the team it is literal facts. Also, 10 were really setting the bar at 10 goals? I know its not much more, but wouldn't 15 show more signs of depth... which if you look at VGK 7 players had over 15 and 3 were at 14 and also Barbashev was on pace scoring 6 in 23 (Which gave him 16 total for the year between VGK and STL)..... of those goal scorers 2 aren't with the team this upcoming year and they are all forwards too meaning you have 8 players with at least 15 goals scored compared to 8 with at least 10 which is better depth?
Forum: Armchair-GM23 août 2023 à 16 h 49
Sujet: what is left cap wise
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>CD282</b></div><div>Outside the top-6:

Foegele scored 2.09 P/60 last season (1st line rate)
McLeod scored 1.86 P/60 last season (2nd line rate)

Those 2 form the basis for one of the best 3rd lines in the league. As a comparison, in Pittsburgh only Crosby and Malkin scored at a higher rate than Foegele, and McLeod was virtually tied with Guentzel (1.87 P/60).

That's depth. And they're back.</div></div>

While I appreciate bringing my team into this as it is a fair counter argument...... I would expect one of those 2 to garner top 6 minutes with Connor Brown returning to game action after suffering an ACL tear (I'm not saying that Brown isn't good we don't know how well he is going to do coming off that surgery). So that takes one of them out of the bottom 6 and into top 6 time making the depth even more miniscule <strong>if</strong> Brown doesn't return to prior form.