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Forum: Armchair-GM30 août 2023 à 4 h 36
Sujet: Drafting one position lower
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>RedWing9119</b></div><div>Yes, they've done a great job of winning the lottery 3 times in 7 years and finishing 4th when they had no business being that bad.</div></div>
I agree, it's completely unfathomable that lineups like these didn't compete for playoff spots between the 2016 - 2021 period.
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No team would be the least bit competitive if they had to suffer the goaltending the Devils had to experience in the 21-22 season (especially so when Jack Hughes is out injured half the season and Hamilton plays with a fractured jaw for 25 games or so)..
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Every single piece of the Devils "lottery luck" in 2017, 2019 and 2022 has been fully earned by the miserable state Lamoriello left the team in.
As Red Wings fan I'm sure you can sympathize with that given how Holland handled Detroit from 2010 and onward...

Would you please clarify to me how winning the lottery 3 times allowed Fitzgerald to:
- completely reshape the D corps
- develop late round picks like Bratt, Zetterlund, Sharangovich, Bastian and Schmid into key contributors of varying degrees
- flipping picks, prospects and roster players for impact players like Meier, Toffoli, Vanecek, Marino, Graves and Siegenthaler
... and still maintain a top 5 prospect pool in the league.
How does that work exactly?

I mean, what's stopping Yzerman from doing exactly that (as opposed to commiting 26.5m of his cap dollars to elite names such as Vrana, Chiarot, Copp, Compher, Husso and Holl)?
Forum: Armchair-GM25 août 2023 à 21 h 27
Forum: Armchair-GM19 août 2023 à 11 h 42
Sujet: Arpon Basu of the athletic said the Devils are still high on Anderson TDL MOVE
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>The_Rocket</b></div><div>Here is the quote from a mail bag article a couple weeks back. It’s literally just speculation:

I know the New Jersey Devils showed interest in him last season, and I don’t know if that’s changed with the acquisition of Timo Meier, but they can serve as an example of how an Anderson trade to a contender could work. The Devils have been slowly giving more and more to Alexander Holtz – the No. 7 pick in the 2020 draft – but unless he takes a big leap this season, the Devils might come to the conclusion he doesn’t quite fit their window, which is right now. If the Canadiens could leverage Anderson as a win-now proposition into a young player with growth potential, they will surely do it. It might not be Holtz, but it would likely take someone like him to convince the Canadiens to move Anderson because I don’t think he is viewed as someone they absolutely have to trade.
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Forum: Armchair-GM19 août 2023 à 11 h 21
Sujet: Arpon Basu of the athletic said the Devils are still high on Anderson TDL MOVE
Problem is that Coleman, Lehkonen and Goodrow (to a lesser extent) are significantly better players than Josh Anderson is, have been and ever will be.
To say nothing of the fact that Palat blows Josh Anderson out of the water in terms of overall ability AND playoff juju, your main selling point for this disaster of an Anderson trade.

Besides, most beat writers like Arpon Basu are woefully incompetent at making good bets for trade returns.
It's not even in their best interest to be reasonable and accurate in the content they put out as that, in comparison to this travesty of a suggested trade, doesn't drive clicks and engagement.

Anyway, cold day in hell before Josh Anderson returns anything remotely close to this.
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>TheFastAndTheFleuryous</b></div><div>I think that, even if the Devils are still interested in Anderson, they won’t send a first.</div></div>
There's no interest in Anderson from the Devils.
There has never been any interest in Anderson from the Devils.
There aren't any teams in the NHL sending a 1st for Anderson without 50% retention and significant sweeteners in return.

This is all Habs fans and Habs centric media spaces baiting for engagement and gaslighting the rest of the hockey community.