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FlamesNutt

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Forum: Armchair-GM4 juin 2021 à 17 h 55
Sujet: Seth
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>flamesfan</b></div><div>So you think gio was better than hanifin and Tanev?</div></div>

Do I "think" Giordano was better than Hanifin and Tanev individually this past season? Yes. But that's merely my personal opinion.

So...let's take a look at the stats.

Giordano led the teams defense in the following statistical categories, Goals, Assists, Points, Shots on Goal, Shooting %, GWG, PPG, Hits, Blocked Shots and Time On Ice

Tanev led the teams defense in +/- and SH Time On Ice with 3:07 per game followed closely by Girodano at 3:03 per game.

Hanifin DID NOT lead the team in a single statistical category, he did however have more PIMs than Giordano. 18 to 14.

Now some may argue that Tanev is a better defender than Giordano and that's a valid discussion, but Tanev definitely isn't a better all around defensemen as he doesn't skate as well as Gio, nor does he have the offensive upside. This is backed up by the fact that Tanev averaged 12 SECONDS of PP Time On Ice.

Hanifin makes a great partner for Tanev as he is more of 2 way defender, leaning more towards the offensive end of the ice, therefore complimenting one another's style. Looking at Hanifin' PP Time On Ice and SH Time On Ice at 46 and 30 seconds respectively, this tells me that both coaching staffs (Ward and Sutter) didn't feel the need to play him on either first unit as there were better options. Even Stone, Mackey, Nesterov and your boy Valimaki who 'can easily do what gio does' all averaged more SHTOI than Hanifin.

If in fact Hanifin and Tanev were better than Giordano, one would think that the 'professionals' within the organization might make a push for their ice time to be increased???

Or were saving them for the playoffs...
Forum: Armchair-GM31 mai 2021 à 17 h 36
Sujet: Getting closer
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Letter_Kenny</b></div><div>I understand Seattle needing to get to the cap floor of 61.5 million. But they could make a side deal with a team like Tampa for instance and take local boy Tyler Johnson (who can still play) and gain a good young player in Barre-Boulet as a sweetener plus get a 1st round pick. That's a better use of 5 mil than taking Nielsen's rotting hockey corpse and a 3rd Rd pick.</div></div>

You'll get no argument from me that there are better ways to spend $5M, but I can find plenty of other examples of NHL GMs making worse mistakes than this. We can all come up with a million different pie in the sky scenarios that make sense to us, but at the end of the day, it's nothing more than an exercise for fans as you and I and 'coga16' and 'ArakinSkywalker' are nothing more than keyboard jockeys.