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Forum: Armchair-GM23 juin 2023 à 19 h 15
Sujet: Yotes Not as Many Awful Dumps
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Birtle34</b></div><div>This team has been written off numerous times and numerous decades, I wouldn’t hire the moving trucks yet. Not sure you have been following, and judging by attendance you haven’t. This team is quietly coming together, possibly in spite of what’s going on around it, few bargain players traded off for more future and picks isn’t going to help anything, especially with the abundance of picks that they all ready have. So I don’t trade the guys that you have some years on that all ready have been there and seem like they are sticking around. Couple of the right dman and in another years rookie of the year Logan Cooley, another 6 and 12 this year, this squad is going to be decent in arizona or otherwise.</div></div>

Attendance? They have a 5 thousand seat arena and no hope of a new one. The team is done. And yeah down the road they may be decent but right now they don't have money to have even top end AHL facilities, why any NHLer would want to go there is not something I can see happening after losing their latest arena deal.
Forum: Armchair-GM23 juin 2023 à 18 h 36
Sujet: What would you pay for William Nylander
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>bhunt333</b></div><div>the answer from all opposing fans will be , a 4th round pick and a 4th liner simply because nylander is a leaf</div></div>

It's absolutely ridiculous how much sh*t I've seen where opposing teams' fanbases undervalue our players and overvalue theirs. Like I saw a few minutes ago a trade proposal of Nylander, Roberston, and a 1st for Toffoli and Andersson, and Flames fans had said even removing Toffoli would be a no, like in what world is Andersson worth Nylander, Robertson, and a 1st. Give me a fkn break. It's absolutely absurd. And i just saw an Oilers fan try to dump Ceci and some AHLer for Toffoli. We're over here being told 80+pt guys are worth nothing meanwhile other teams are trading trash.
Forum: Armchair-GM21 juin 2023 à 11 h 3
Sujet: yesss
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Newtown</b></div><div>Is everyone just going to ignore the fact Bertuzzi is 28 and has never played 82 games? He has a career high 62 points. He never made the playoffs in Detroit, not once. Boston had clinched before he got there and all he did was help them deliver one of the biggest choke jobs in NHL history. I find it humorous that Marner is looked upon as a playoff failure but has made the playoffs every year of his career and is almost a PPG with 14 points in 11 games. Bertuzzi is worth about 5*5, and there will be lots of regret there. 6 x 7 is just ridonkulous.</div></div>

in fairness he's a very solid player and played well in the playoffs, Boston collapse or not. That being said, I agree that his injury history is way too risky and while I agree his contract should come in way lower, some GM wanting grit and etc will make that mistake. Just think/hope that won't be Toronto.
Forum: Armchair-GM20 juin 2023 à 14 h 10
Sujet: Agressive Retool
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Newtown</b></div><div>It is a crap shoot. Which is why I’m advocating to keep all three unless someone pays to take Murray. In which case maybe you sign a cheaper veteran. Heck even FLA had 3 goalies this year and started the playoffs with their 3rd stringer. I don’t like the odds of Murray/Woll. Woll isn’t ready yet for the reins and we don’t want to ruin him. Murray hasn’t done anything in a long time to suggest he’s the guy to lead a multi-billion dollar franchise that is ready to win now. But yeah, Murray is rolling the dice more than Sammy and a lot of goalies based on recent performance.</div></div>

That's definitely not a bad idea. Giving up assets to move Murray seems dumb to me. Keep em all, and I am fine with that.
Forum: Armchair-GM14 juin 2023 à 23 h 0
Sujet: Sabres Offseason
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Newtown</b></div><div>I had high hopes for UPL back to his days with the Wolves but he seemed lost at times last year and got worse as the season went on. the one expectation I would have for him is to get better as he becomes accustomed to the league. Not sure Buffalo is the team to play air tight defence while he gains confidence. Levi, on the other hand seems to ooze confidence. Letting in a bad goal or having a bad game doesn’t seem to phase him. I’d certainly be looking for a very, very good veteran to pair with him. Buffalo is a young and fragile team that will need exellent goaltending as they mature into a better defensive team. If I’m Kevin Adams I’m not risking my young players confidence on two young goalies. There’s probably another GM willing to take UPL in exchange for an older more established goalie and some picks. I really think you need to choose between the two. UPL is 24 and not waiver exempt anymore. By comparison Samsonov is 26 and seems to have been around forever. Ottinger, Hart, Skinner, Kotchetkov, are all 24 or younger. UPL isn’t a kid anymore, he needs to show that he is a capable NHL goalie.</div></div>
I think there is a reasonable correlation to say that he wore down as the season went on. For a good while UPL was the best Goaltender Buffalo had available, because Anderson kept getting hurt, and Comrie was absolutely brutal and unreliable. I think he played a few too many games in a row at times, and everyone knows if you watched the Sabres last season how bad the defense was in front of their goaltenders. I don’t think they will trade UPL right away unless the deal is simply too good to say no, I think this could be the make or break season for him though. Since Comrie is already signed for next season, I don’t know if Buffalo is looking for yet another goalie, if only because the owner doesn’t want to spend money if he doesn’t have to. Some people think Levi might even start the year in Rochester, which I don’t think will happen unless he comes to camp completely unprepared, or gets hurt. Buffalo probably will not risk losing UPL on waivers, but Comrie is less likely to be taken if they try it. If for some reason someone actually did grab him most Sabres fans would not miss him.
Forum: Armchair-GM9 juin 2023 à 20 h 59
Sujet: Taking bad contracts and working on future
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Newtown</b></div><div>Well, that injury prone Matt Murray won two Stanley Cups. He wasn’t sitting on the bench but leading his team. That said, Toronto should have paid more attention to his recent history because that’s exactly what they got. You are forgetting one thing — Ottawa retained and gave up 2 picks, Toronto didn’t pay for him by giving up quality young assets.</div></div>

Well no but Ottawa did. So Toronto will have to pay to get him moved. Nothing against Murray tho. Im a diehard pens fan and still love Murray even though he hasn't done anything since. But like his playing style and him in general. To bad he's always injured. Imagine what he would've been like if he wasn't injured all the time.
Forum: Armchair-GM8 juin 2023 à 19 h 6
Sujet: Brad treveling 2023 off-season
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Newtown</b></div><div>26 year old 99 point Selke finalist. Averages over 100 points per 82. 33rd ALL-TIME in career PPG. First team All-Star RW the last two, beating out Pasternak, Kucherov and Rantanen.

When you can’t throw out any forward names because the comparisons are obvious, throw out a defensive D knowing you can’t compare apples to oranges. Nice try, but Toronto will it’s 100 point Selke finalist.</div></div>

I tried rational discourse with this homer earlier - doesn’t work. No perfect way to gauge player’s values - jfresh + some other models try to isolate an individual player’s contribution - but we can keep it simple. Marner is paid way more $ and if they are both FAs today -Marner would be paid way more $. Love Slavin - great player, but offense is more valuable than defense and an offensive player that is also strong defensively is 😎