Claesson4Norris

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Forum: Armchair-GMil y a 10 heures
Sujet: Is this team a contender
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Eli</b></div><div>$700k for a year of Marner is a contract written as a love letter to teams trying to stay at the salary floor. I'm just enjoying the conversation about which team steps up.

<a href="https://www.capfriendly.com/players/mitchell-marner">https://www.capfriendly.com/players/mitchell-marner</a>

OEL is not as good as Karlsson, and will never be as good. The parallel is that with each of them, when their plus minus goes way negative, they get a lot of points, but when their plus minus goes even, they get fewer points. If you wanted 50 points out of OEL, he could give them to you. You'd just give up a lot of breakaways. If you wanted an 80 point defenseman, yeah, you'd want Karlsson or maybe Carlson rushing the puck every shift like they didn't have to play defense.

But OEL last year was -3, solid on the penalty kill, and IMHO his numbers took a dive because Arizona mistakenly made Phil Kessel the focus of an otherwise good power play.</div></div>

Plus minus is such a horrible stat for measuring anything, especially defensive play. It's especially useless for guys who play the ridiculous icetime those guys do. They're on the ice so much all situations, of course they're going to be on the ice for a lot of goals. The stat doesn't tell you anything about how they effect play.
Forum: Armchair-GMil y a 11 heures
Sujet: Is this team a contender
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Eli</b></div><div>Fair points. For all the Senators fans who get on here and whine that Karlsson's gone, it's nice to hear one call out a couple of similar style players for focusing too much on offense. I kinda think on a team that lets defensemen rush the puck, rather than focus on defense, OEL and Leddy might outscore Karlsson this year, but I agree they give up too many breakaways sometimes.

Johnson quietly and unremarkably eats a few minutes, and makes a few hits. I definitely give him negative trade value because he is declining and has little idea how to play with the puck, which one now expects for $3M.

What would you think if it were the Ottawa pick?</div></div>

I don't know any Sens fans who would rather still have Karlsson, that trade is very clearly a huge W for Ottawa. Also comparing Karlsson at any point to Nick Leddy and OEL in recent years is just borderline disrespectful. At his worst he was never as bad as he was reported to be, he was always average to slightly below average. OEL and Leddy get straight up shelled defensively. Also saying Leddy could outscore him is flat out ridiculous. The last two seasons, Karlsson has put up points totals close to Leddy at his peak, but he's done it while missing like 30 games a season. For all the woes about his decline, Karl has paced for 70 and 58 points in his last two seasons. He's just had nearly a full year to get as healthy as possible, I wouldn't be surprised to see him right back in the Norris conversation.

As for the thing about the Sens pick, there's no way Ottawa should be trading a top 5 pick. They're rebuilding, and you build through the draft. It doesn't make sense, the team has flat out said they won't do it, I don't know why anyone thinks it's a thing they should consider doing.
Forum: Armchair-GMSat at 9:00 am
Sujet: Rating Trade Options RW
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>CMac66</b></div><div>Unless it's someone of great significance, or a reasonable trade I'm not too bothered to trade for one.
But I'd rate Tuch, Laine, Anderson at the top of my list with Anderson being the cheapest get. Tuch might be the hardest of the group simply because I don't think Vegas wants to trade him. And I don't think we really have what the Jets want in a 2nd line C or top RHD.

Last on my list would be Virtanen, Nylander and Debrincat. Not touching Virtanen lol. Nylander and Debrincat are nice players but they're invisible when the don't score, less so for debrincat. I'd like players that bring more to the table</div></div>

I think it's pretty likely that they're going to make a trade for one. I don't think the Sens bought out Bobby just to save 3mil over 4 years, especially when they're still gonna have to spend that money anyway to hit the floor.
Forum: Armchair-GMSat at 1:58 am
Sujet: Murray Boychuk Russel
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Green4D4Again</b></div><div>Gave me a chuckle. I think Dorion is playing the long-con. I won't be upset at #3 cause Stutzle or Byfield is a win/win. I won't be surprised by Sanderson either because he's got Dorion draft pick written all over him. My heart and mind say Raymond at 5. Quinn is a reach at 5 but after watching 67's games all year, I'm not surprised to see his draft status sky rocket. I'll give up being a Sens fan if Askarov is chosen at 5.</div></div>

I just don't really buy that the Sens are tipping their hands to Jeff Marek of all people. I'm sure he heard something from someone, but I doubt it's much more than speculation. The Sens in recent history have pretty good at keeping a tight seal, especially compared to how it used to be.