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Forum: Armchair-GMHier à 8 h 9
Forum: Armchair-GMsam. à 1 h 58
Sujet: Completed top 4
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Db1899</b></div><div>Please tell me this is just click bait and it’s not going to happen lol
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Should Mike Babcock be considered the odds-on favorite to be the next coach of the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Isles?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">#Isles</a>?Maybe.More ⤵️ <a href="https://t.co/hhgQDkiS8u" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://t.co/hhgQDkiS8u</a></p>— Kevin Kurz (@KKurzNHL) <a href="https://twitter.com/KKurzNHL/status/1525193862796517378?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">May 13, 2022</a></blockquote>

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It would be hilarious in a sad way, when we finally thought we’d see Barzal and the young guys flourish in a new system with a modern coach/mindset. Then we get the young guy bully Mike Babcock lol.
Forum: Armchair-GMven. à 10 h 7
Sujet: Completed top 4
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Db1899</b></div><div>Yeah I’m not the biggest Lou guy but even he couldn’t take how bad Trotz was at handling players under the age of 25. Everywhere Trotz has coached most of the young guys hate him, it’s pretty telling.</div></div>

No, I'm not either, BUT he shows accountability by this move, he doesn't accept failure and he puts that on Trotz, I like it. Now he puts himself in the "cross-hairs" (is that the right use of the wording?) and I like it... I can try to gather some thoughts from Stefan if you'd like to? Do you know more Islanders fans by the similar thinking as ours? (Sorry for the grammar)... I can try to talk to him and "report" back to you and similar Islanders fans about his thoughts if you want to if he is in the mood. Without getting into the details I can "report" that he's not feeling well by a disease he's got, but he always likes to talk about the Islanders...
Forum: Armchair-GMven. à 9 h 53
Forum: Armchair-GMven. à 7 h 55
Sujet: New Jersey Devils
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Tintin</b></div><div>Oh ok, got it. Yeah there’s gonna be some real competition for all those winger spots next season and I expect at least one of Zacha, Wood, Tatar, AJ or Kuokk to be traded come October.

There are a few reasons why I’d rather steer clear of trading for a big name winger.
First one is that I believe the current core needs to prove they can at least contend for a playoff spot standing on their own legs, moving that #2nd ova would be rushing it for a team that’s been planted in the basement since 2018.
Then there’s the fact that offense is currently the strongest area for the Devils, and with one more year of growth for that young core, I expect that to develop further. Meaning that AdB doesn’t actually fill a major need.
Between Cooley, Holtz and other prospects in the org I think there’s at least 50% chance one player will become just as good as AdB is today.
AdB needs an extension in 2023, likely to come in at 10m. That means that the Devils will run a risk of losing some other core player that offseason or the subsequent one given that current ELCs will expire.

Basically #2 ova + Mercer (for example) &gt; AdB.

Sry if this got a bit tedious to read.</div></div>

No, I get you completely, it's totally reasonable to suggest the overall defense and mainly goaltending should be the priorities considering the offensive skills already in the system... I think Holtz will be a very good top-6 scorer next season for instance.
Forum: Armchair-GMven. à 7 h 8
Sujet: New Jersey Devils
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Tintin</b></div><div>Thanks for doing a Devils AGM, overall a fun lineup!
Some thoughts tho:

I could live with giving those pieces up for Boeser, though I’d prefer Devils not doing it.

I don’t like the Preds trade for the Devils.
Myers doesn’t seem to be anything more than a 7th dman in the NHL, would much rather have one of Mukhammadulin, Bahl, Walsh or Okhtoiuk playing 3rd pair.
Don’t really know much about Knak other than that his counting stats doesn’t stand out and that Scott Wheeler doesn’t rate him among NSH top 20 prospects.
No reason to give up a very underrated winger in AJ and Kuokkanen who still has some runway to grow into a middle six forward for those two pieces imo.

I guess the value is fine-ish for DeBrincat and would be very fun to have him in the lineup. But I’d much prefer Devils keeping #2 and draft Cooley (or Wright if he slips), no reason to overthink it.

I like the Husso signing.
Bernier could be done at the pro level following his hip injury.</div></div>

Yeah Johnsson and Kuokkanen are just for creating cap space, they should get something better in return for sure (just made it easy for me lol).

Well I would say it's 99% certain that Montréal will pick Wright, you could argue DeBrincat is a top-5 LW in the league and fairly young, Slafkovský or Cooley does not have that kind of ceiling. Why not get a proven top-5 ish LW in his prime right now instead...
Forum: Armchair-GM10 mai à 2 h 58
Sujet: If Lou wasnt an idiot
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>editor9999</b></div><div>The Toews trade was kinda inevitable since they were gonna be cap crunched. Although losing Eberle in the expansion draft could have be avoided by just exposing Clutterbuck.</div></div>

Inevitable? I’m so tired of this bull****, so if Isles are in a cap crunch going forward they give away Barzal because he needs a new contract? He could’ve traded away Nick Leddy, Josh Bailey, Cal Clutterbuck, Leo Komarov, Andrew Ladd, Johnny Boychuks contract or even Jordan Eberle, just to keep a young top pair defenseman who signed for 4 million in Colorado. And no he didn’t became a top pair defenseman on Colorado, he already was with Isles. I realize Ladd, Boychuk, Komarovs contracts would be very expensive to get rid of at the time with the dead cap and all but whatever prize you just do it to keep Toews. I’m sure Lou would’ve been able to give away Leddy and Bailey without giving up any assets etc. this narrative that it was inevitable is the most tiresome ever.
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