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Forum: Armchair-GMsam. à 23 h 6
Sujet: Best Team No ELC
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>pretzelcoatl</b></div><div>Miller, McLeod, Bogosian, and Dellandrea are the only choices I dislike of the main 18 skaters. I would replace them with York, Tatar, Liljegren, and the best center with the money you have left.

Miller is good but at 3.8 there are plenty of players making half as much or less that are as good or better. York imo is the most cost effective LD under 2m.
McLeod is a great 4C, but you can do better than that when you have the whole league to pick from. He's also relatively expensive.
Dellandrea is okay but not a fraction as good as Tatar. Who cares if he disappears in the playoffs when he's on your fourth line.
Bogosian is just mid</div></div>

I disagree with all of those. I think Miller is one of the most underrated defensemen in the league and is already very effective with his amazing set of physical tools. He just has Fox who eats up the offensive minutes. I think he's already exceeding his contract in terms of value.

I just took McLeod for his speed. Any 4C would work on this team.

I don't like the way Tatar plays and I wouldn't want him on my team even at 1.5M.

Bogosian is just a cheap veteran RHD. I think it's worth it to have at least one veteran in the whole defense core and considering it's the #6 spot that get's him the edge.
Forum: Armchair-GM14 sept. à 1 h 52
Sujet: Who goes to Abbottsford
Hopefully Dries is nowhere near the NHL roster.

I think Mikheyev starts on LTIR to buy some time. By the time he'd ready to come back we could have another player on LTIR. Pearson is also likely to be healthy out of camp.

I have Pearson, Hoglander, Joshua, Studnicka and Di Giuseppe all on the team, Mikheyev on LTIR with Podkolzin, Aman, Dries and Raty in the AHL. Hoglander requires waivers so unless he's injured or traded he's in the NHL. Joshua gives us toughness and Tocchet seems to like him along with Di Giuseppe. Tocchet also mentioned last season that Studnicka got sick and lost some weight in the second half of the year so I expect him to look better (along with him being right handed and able to play center giving us lineup flexibility). I expect Podkolzin to be recalled quickly and often.

On defense, the top-5 is clearly Hughes, Hronek, Soucy, Cole and Myers as of right now. I'd expect Wolanin to take the last spot in the lineup as a LHD with Irwin and Juulsen as extras. Rathbone, Brisebois and Woo waived with Hirose, McWard and Johansson in the AHL.
Forum: Armchair-GM29 août à 21 h 8
Sujet: Cup By 30
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>mv21227</b></div><div>Garland has just as good of a chance as Boeser to bounce back as a strong top 6 player. He has great metrics, especially at 5v5, and is much better defensively than Boeser. He’s also cheaper</div></div>

That's the response of someone who hasn't seen either player much. Boeser has more potential and can be a pure goal scorer, which is very valuable. Boeser just had an off year where he played with an AHL caliber center for a third of the year and still beat Garland's career high in points. Have you considered what he could do with A) A healthy summer and training camp B) Moving on from his father's passing C) Playing with Pettersson or D) Playing with the Miller we saw in the second half?

I understand that we've asked these questions before and it hasn't worked out, but at the end of the day I take Boeser's current play and bounce back potential over Garland.
Forum: Armchair-GM28 août à 13 h 45
Sujet: Top 30 Wingers
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>C21</b></div><div>I wouldn’t put Kuch in the same tier as Tkachuk. I think Tkucher is in a tier of his own when it comes to wingers right now and the 6th best skater in the league. He’s a great two-way guy and easily capable of 40+ and 110+ and his impact goes further than than just numbers or defence. He didn’t even need to get on the scoresheet to be the biggest reason why Florida clutched up in games 6&amp;7. No one else is doing that right now. As for Kuch, I think this years Kuch is what we can expect in a full season from here on out. Very elite player, obviously, but 30-110+ with not too much of a two-way impact isn’t enough to put him in tier one imo. And that’s a big reason why he’s placed 6th here. The guys above him just bring that extra juice when it comes to goals and/or two way game. Marner’s about the same level goalscorer, a bit behind as a playmaker but miles ahead in the two-way game. The rest of the guys in front of him are better goalscorers most definitely capable of 100+ point seasons and outside of Pasta, better two way guys as well. Robo is also a better goalscorer capable of 100+ points.

And as for Brady, Keller and Kuz moving up a tier, I would like to hold off until I see more of what they did this past season. Neither Brady or Keller are bonafide 90+ scorers or anything to write home about in the two way game and Kuzmenko while basically dropping 40 and being a decent two-way impact, scored a lot of those goals on tips. I want to see if he can repeat that and prove that it is just part of his game. High tip numbers are historically very hard to replicate year-year</div></div>

I agree that the unique playstyle and effect that M. Tkachuk has on a game is what elevates him into the top tier. Having a superstar that plays with as much grit and sandpaper as him underneath real skill and talent is extremely rare. That's why I love B. Tkachuk as well, they are pretty much in their own category in terms of playstyle classification.

I guess I would say that I feel you are underrating Kucherov then. Maybe I value past/recent Playoff performances more but Kucherov was the deadliest player in the Playoffs during their Cup wins and absolutely lethal at all times. I think what he showed was comparable if not better than what Kane did during his best 3 year stretch in the Playoffs. He is one of the most creative players in the league and he has the vision and confidence to find every single weapon available to him, including ones that nobody else can see. He relies on nothing but his raw talent and it made him the undisputed best winger in the league recently and I guess I don't think he deserves to have that taken away from him yet. I don't think anyone else on the entire list has accomplished anything close to what Kucherov has in terms of sustaining elite play and in both peak and duration.