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Forum: Armchair-GM9 mai 2022 à 14 h 51
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Forum: Armchair-GM5 avr. 2022 à 15 h 17
Loved the write-up. Very thorough ACGM.

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>OP</b></div><div>Now onto the first trade where we go to New Jersey and acquire goalie MacKenzie Blackwood. Ontario native Blackwood was off to a rough start this year with his vaccination status which created a definite rift between the team and himself. As well as injury issues, Blackwood would likely be looking for a new place to call home. In addition the leafs acquire yet another defender in Damon Severson, who has 1 year left on his deal which the Devils can retain at 50%. The leafs do send over quite some value and here is why I think it would be a fair deal. Rodion Amirov I felt uncomfortable including in the deal with his cancer diagnosis and obviously who knows what will happen by the summer. But the devils do have his teammate on his KHL team Ufa Salavat Yulaev in Shakir Mukhamadulin. So Amirov was likely scouted out by the Devils scouts and both of them could enter north America together to likely play with the Utica Comets. Justin Holl goes back as a cap dump essentially. Ian Scott is a super unfortunate tale, a goalie who can not stay healthy. And moving to the Devils could be looked at his final chance to stay healthy and play a full season, likely signing up a 1 year deal. Also the Leafs include their first here. They are getting tons of value from Jersey anyways, a young ontarian goalie with RFA protection and a very solid Top 4 RHD. </div></div>

A few points on Devils.

1. The Blackwood/Management rift wasn't really about the vaccination thing (didn't help, but didn't cause the rift). The rift was that Blackwood came unprepared to play this season. Had surgery in off-season and didn't fully complete his recovery. Eventually re-injured himself and for a while didn't tell coaches he was hurting. Now, there are murmurs that Blackwood is saying Devils handled his injury poorly. Its not something that fans will get on him about, but its likely what put him in Fitzgerald's doghouse.

2. The Amirov/Mukhamadullin connection is right. Fitzgerald had actually scouted Amirov heavily (I believe saying once that he had seen more Ufa games than any other). And that is how he found Mukhamadullin. (Look back to any of the post-draft comments in interviews as he was asked often, "so, why Mukhamadullin?" and it was part of his stock answer).

3. Every indication suggests Severson re-signs in NJ. Fitzgerald said publicly before deadline that he wasn't trading him and expects to have him for two or more years. Also, there have been reports recently that both sides want a deal. Elliotte Friedman said as recently as yesterday that Severson wants to return and Devils want him back.
Forum: Armchair-GM3 avr. 2022 à 17 h 20
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>TrueCanuck</b></div><div>You’re literally only judging Konecny by his points.. cool story. Konecny brings an element that Toronto doesn’t have. He’s also responsible defensively much better than Nylander - &amp; what I mean by consistency is the fact that he’s going to give you the same effort on defence as he does on offence.

Tavares has the ability to make players around him better - look at what he did with Josh Bailey and Kyle Okposo. He does is with Nylander too - when Nylander’a in a slump, it’s usually Tavares that helps pull him out of it. Tavares is also at his best when he plays with guys that play with speed and move more north-south. Hats not Nylander. Nylander is an east-west guy with speed and that’s why the chemistry is more inconsistent. Konecny suits Tavares’ style better. &amp; if he doesn’t work out, try him with Matthews and put Marner with Tavares. It still works.

But hey just cause you disagree doesn’t me you have to resort to insults. Doesn’t seem necessary.</div></div>

The thing about Nylander is that he does have defensive skills, he just doesn't use them consistently. Dude is a wizard with his stick, and can steal pucks and create turnovers with the best of them. He can also back check with speed to break up plays when he's engaged. The problem with Nylander from what I see, is less his engagement in general, and more that when he goes into slumps, as essentially all offensive players outside of superstars do, he starts to really cheat/get lazy defensively to try to turn it around offensively. He also obviously is not as physical as anyone would like limiting his game. But I truly believe if anyone could get it into his/instincts to stop cheating/giving up defensively he could be a mildly above average defensive player based on his speed and stick wizardry, even with his less physical game... But all that being said he's in his mid 20s, so the chance that someone can change him decreases every year...