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Forum: Armchair-GM17 juill. 2022 à 11 h 14
Sujet: What else do we need to make Playoffs
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Giakki</b></div><div>All thise teams except Ottawa didnt do much to improve i think they have a good chance against them.</div></div>

Columbus and New Jersey certainly did too. Washington did but are dealing with major early season injuries but they were a playoff team already so Detroit has a lot of ground to make up. The Islanders for example were about 35 goals (16 points in the standings) from making it last year when they had a horrible year for them. As a team they are still superior to Detroit as is right now and they have a continuation of the same defensive principles in their coaching staff and WAY better goaltending.

Just look at down the middle: Larkin vs Barzal; Nelson vs Copp; Pageau vs Suter; Cizikas vs Rasmussen. Being objective that is fairly close at 1C/2C (assuming Copp continues to play like he did with NYR) but favors NYI at 3C/4C.

Top 6 Wingers: Beauvillier/Palmieri/Lee/Bailey vs Bertuzzi/Raymond/Vrana/Perron is a fairly close matchup with an edge to Detroit in my opinion because of the talent upside of Raymond but it is only because of the two-way presence of Perron to cover up for Vrana's lapses in his own end. NYI doesn't have "flashy" wingers so easy to overlook them but they are responsible two-way players and get underrated often. Assuming a healthy year for Detroit means doing so for the Islanders as well so Lee can match Perron at least.

The bottom six: Bellows/Wahlstrom/Martin/Clutterbuck vs Kubalik/Zadina/Erne/Sundqvist would favor the Islanders until Zadina can produce consistently and there is some identity built for the Wings' 4th line.

Their defensive pairs start with: Pelech-Pulock vs Chiarot-Seider one is a veteran duo with a track record of success vs a newly formed duo with a guy that is very divided in his regard and an up and coming NHL star. At this point NYI win this matchup but there is a chance that magic is found with Chiarot next to Seider as an elite shutdown force; but it's not a given yet.
The 2nd pair is Romanov-Dobson most likely vs Maatta-Hronek which is a tough one to call since they are both newly formed. Does Hronek bounce back? Does Dobson build on his breakout year? Dobson edges out Hronek in most anyone's objective assessment.
3rd pair: Aho-Mayfield vs Oesterle-Lindstrom/Pysyk this one favors the NYI as Mayfield is at least superior to Oesterle and everyone else is unproven.

Goaltending is not even close:
Sorokin-Varlamov vs Husso-Nedeljkovic

Both teams have new Head Coaches; but the NYI promoted from within the same system whereas the Red Wings are starting fresh with Lalonde. Edge: NYI
Forum: Armchair-GM27 juin 2022 à 12 h 14
Sujet: liligreen only 14M wow offer sheet must have been flying
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Hullsy09</b></div><div>That is speculation. Any team could offer sheet anyone if they wanted to, regardless of retaliation. Any retaliatory action has to stem from a non retaliatory action. You say teams don’t offer sheet other RFAs unless they are offer sheeted, but you over look the original action. Montreal offer sheeted Aho without Carolina offer sheeting any of their guys.</div></div>

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Hullsy09</b></div><div>That is speculation. Any team could offer sheet anyone if they wanted to, regardless of retaliation. Any retaliatory action has to stem from a non retaliatory action. You say teams don’t offer sheet other RFAs unless they are offer sheeted, but you over look the original action. Montreal offer sheeted Aho without Carolina offer sheeting any of their guys.</div></div>

There’s been like 2 players lost to offer sheets in the last decade RFA’s for the most part are safe and history proves that