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Forum: Armchair-GM23 sept. 2018 à 16 h 31
Forum: Armchair-GM2 sept. 2018 à 16 h 14
Sujet: Why Nate!?
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Eli</b></div><div>Well, yeah, if Brannstrom is ready, that'd be great. But he probably isn't, and playing him over ten games comes with its own set of issues..... trade for Kempny and play him on his off side!</div></div>

There’s a reason why we didn’t re-sign Sbisa after this season (and why the Nucks let him go and no ones signed him yet), and why we traded Emelin immediately after the expansion draft. There’s no need to get anyone. We can easily hold out from inside the organization. Even is Branny’s not NHL ready, playing partly in those 20 games is valuable experience since he’ll be down in Chicago anyway. It’s a win-win situation; he plays well, he gets a roster spot, he doesn’t play well, he goes to Chicago anyway where he would have been.
Forum: Armchair-GM26 août 2018 à 18 h 39
Sujet: Karlsson to Vegas
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>NickC1988</b></div><div>Players enter their primes at 27 and decline usually around 33/34. 24 year old players are still developing. This trade forces Vegas to bump lower quality players into the line up. Merrill was a healthy scratch majority of the playoffs. Lindberg and Tatar struggled, you bump up Nosek to the 3rd line and suddenly there's more holes because of the trade. It creates more holes for Vegas to fill.</div></div>

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>The_Ultimate_Pielord</b></div><div>Miller, Theodore, Tuch and a 1st for that package would be absolute robbery for Vegas, even if you're as high on Theodore and Miler as is in any way reasonable.That's a #1D, a top-pair D, a top-6 F and a nothing first for a Norris contender, a low top-line F, a high top-line F, and a 3rd line forward. That's robbery.</div></div>

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>OldNYIfan</b></div><div>Carrying it one step further, I don't think Las Vegas should exchange this package for Karlsson, Duchene, Dzingel and Stone. But then, I'm an extremist.</div></div>

I just happened to come back into here and saw like 14 replies in this thread lol. I’m surprised by how much came out of my comment.
Now, my philosophy for how I think this team should go about this season is, as UltimatePielord said, we should go all in and chase the cup while our Fleury window is open. Yes, I’ve seen countless people say that he will likely play until he’s forty-plus years old but I’m not sure his active goalkeeping will allow him to play at a serviceable level for more than maybe 3-4 seasons. I think after that he will start to drop of drastically sort of like what’s happening with Pekka Rinne. We are similar to Nashville in that they built up their team with big name players (Subban, Josi, Johansen etc.) and really good youngsters (Forsberg, Arvidsson, etc.) to push for the cup while Pekka Rinne is “too good right now”. We should follow that line of thinking.
As for our lines, the first line is already set in stone. The second line is likely Tatar-Stastny-Tuch as Gallant wants Tatar to have two steady linemates to play along side him night-in-night-out. The third line of Haula-Eakin-? Is where we need to make some moves. Eakin had good production last year, but I’d want Haula to play center to get as close as he can to producing like he did last year. In terms of the third line we have plenty of depth forwards like Carpenter, Lindberg, Pirri, etc. to play the 3rd line RW but none of them brings me confidence to produce there. I’d personally prefer to move Eakin in a trade to clear a spot for Haula at center and acquire players to play on the wings. I’d love a Dzingel-Haula-Chiasson third line for example. The fourth line is also set in stone. On defense, the left side is loaded with Schmidt, Theodore and McNabb. The right side needs another Top4 D to fit between Miller, Engelland and Holden. Someone like Faulk would obviously fit in that role for example. In goal we have great depth behind MAF and a good almost ready prospect pool. Glass and Suzuki really could use a season in the minors to be ready for the NHL and Brännström/Hague could crack into the lineup late in the season as depth guys. Lastly, we also need some cap space to extend and re-sign a lot of players and manage depth. Sorry for the novel, thanks!