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Ploppz

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Forum: Armchair-GM18 juin 2023 à 14 h 5
Sujet: Vegas goes crazy
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>athrin</b></div><div>ROFL clearly you do not listen too or read hockey news/blogs, ARI took less because they did not want to 1. retain on Chych and 2. take back any salary in the trade and OTT was the only team to fulfill those conditions.</div></div>

You getting all your news from half baked hockey articles tells me all I need to know.
You also used to parrot that "Ottawa would never trade their 2023 first"... but here we are.

Teams waited out Chych because the asking price was abysmal. Two firsts+? Chych's contract was super affordable, 4.6 didn't need retention.

Debrincat isn't getting the same value he had after coming off a 41 goal season dropping to 27 and being a defensive pylon That's just how it works. Stop being a massive homer for once.
Forum: Armchair-GM17 juin 2023 à 10 h 43
Forum: Armchair-GM21 août 2022 à 19 h 56
Sujet: My take on the 24 worst contracts in the league
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Ploppz</b></div><div>I believe that KK's term is way too long for what he's accomplished. He also played with Aho and Teuvo or Trocheck &amp; Teuvo for the first 20-25 games of the season, and he played a fair share of games with Necas as well, so i'm not really buying into the Lorentz and Martinook argument. It's not like he was dumped on the 3rd line from the get go. In fact, only on 4 of his 12 goals last season was he primarily assisted by a bottom 6 forward, while the other 8 goals were assisted by defensemen or top 6 forwards. As for KK's assists, only 3 out of his 7 primary assists were to someone who'd be classified as a bottom 6 forward. So again, not like he was scraping the bottom of the barrel all season long.

Grubauer was horrible. If you like advanced stats, go look up his WAR and his Goals saved above expected. Even Arizona's goalie Vejmelka was better with close to the same amount of games played. I get that it was a new team but a lot of goalies transitions to new teams without stinking up the joint like he has.</div></div>
When he played with Aho and Trocheck, it was as a winger, but he looked very out of place, since he is a natural center man. I can understand why you would argue that the term is a bit much for what he has done so far, but just looking at how he was utilized, his game was much better as a C which is why he didn’t stay with Aho and Trocheck but got shifted down to 4C relatively quickly. In the small sample size he had as a 2C with at least 15:00 minutes TOI, if I remember correctly, his PPG was at a 1.5PPG pace. Like I said before, this year will be the make it or break it year for KK, and if what he showed in that small sample size last year is the real KK, he will have one of the best value contracts in the league.

As for Grubauer, I would agree that most goalies won’t stink up the joint in their first year with a new team. I believe the best comparable would be Markstrom and his first year with Calgary. The situations are very similar, and I would imagine Grubauer will bounce back much like Markstrom did. So only judging a player on what they did in the first year of their contract with a new team before even seeing the remainder of his contract kind of seems dumb. Of course, there is the possibility that he sucks for the rest of his contract, but if the comparable to Markstrom is any good, I would bet he ends up bouncing back. I mean, it’s not like goalies never have a bad season, and right now, I would take the stance that Grubauer had a bad season on a new team. I won’t make any judgement on the contract until at the very least next offseason, when he has adjusted to the new setting. But I digress, and we can just agree to disagree.
Forum: Armchair-GM21 août 2022 à 18 h 10
Sujet: My take on the 24 worst contracts in the league
If we are adding some advanced statistics into this, KK shouldn’t be on this list. If I remember correctly, his points per 60 was one of the league’s best, and was better than was one of the leagues best forwards, one Nathan Mackinnon. The 6.1 from last year, was bad, but that was only to get him away from MTL. Not to mention, he was on pace to put up career highs in points playing in a much diminished role than he did in MTL. But I guess this year will be the make it or break it year, especially with KK having the opportunity to play as the 2C with better linemates than Lorentz and Martinook, who aren’t exactly known for their offense.

As for Nuke, I was predicting he was going to get 7mil, so my bet is that his contract will be a steal. I also am a big Grubauer defender, and given that it was the Kraken’s first year, I don’t think it’s fair yet to call Grubauer one of the worst contracts. He didn’t have a good year, but that could also be chalked up to new team and new teammates. It would be more fair to judge him on this year as there would be more familiarity with the rest of his team and coach, and my guess is that he will turn out like Markstrom did in his second year with Calgary, because for those who have forgotten, Markstrom was terrible his first year with Calgary. But that is for time to tell I guess.