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exo2769

exo2769
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Canes and Yotes are tied for my 2nd favorite teams. I lived in AZ and NC for a bit. Both tremendously fun places.
Forum: Armchair-GMHier à 14 h 48
Sujet: i wish this trade would happen
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Drshnuckels91</b></div><div>From someone who is not a hawks fan why are you guys so persistent on trading him (Also for super cheap)?

He was a 50 point player a couple years ago and is still young

I get he doesn't have the best work ethic but that can be fixed</div></div>

Are you referring to DStrome?

It's complicated. I don't actually want to trade Strome, but their old coach (Jeremy Colliton) couldn't see past Strome's flaws to put Strome into a position of success. It got sooo bad that Colliton sent DStrome to the prospect training camp vs playing with the NHLers. It's nuts how poorly they treated him. It got to the point where I ...before the firing of Colliton... wanted to see him leave just for his sake. Most of us Hawks fans understand he's not a 2-way player. He's never going to get Selke votes. He's never going to be a Hart candidate, BUT he does do a lot that's very well. He's got great vision, great passing, and plays a really good bumper on the PP. He is very offensively gifted. DKing (Their new coach) gets this and just yesterday he played really well again on the PP and got a goal.
Forum: Armchair-GM30 nov. à 19 h 52
Sujet: Is Strome A Lazy Entitled Player
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Penguins_Legend_Sheary</b></div><div>Thanks for the feedback. So just to confirm, you don't believe Strome's struggles are due to his weak effort and attitude?</div></div>

So it's the chicken and egg to most, but there really is a start imo. As someone who has followed this saga through it all...I believe it starts is with management. He's a center. He came to the Hawks and scored 51 points in 58 games...as a center. The reason Stan traded for him was because the Hawks were short center depth. So Schmaltz for Strome looked good. THEN we win the lottery and get Dach. That's no one's fault. In fact a good thing! We can debate until the cows come home about Dach vs Byram. Let's just leave that be for now. NOW the Hawks deepest positions are center and LD. So, they try Strome at wing. He struggled. He never played wing. Then he gets injured at wing and sits. He TECHNICALLY still scored roughly at the 51pt in 58 game pace that bubble year...when he was a center, but management still said no. Even this spring training. Jeremy Coliton and Stan sent him down to the prospects side of scrimmages vs the Pros when he played center. They never once let him attempt to be a #2C. It was Tyler Johnson and Toews. Strome is NOT a 2-way center. That's not a slight. It's just knowing who you are. He's a Power Play offensive dynamic player. It's ironicly exactly what the Hawks lack right now, BUT YET AGAIN. He can't even get ice time. It's actually quite embarrassing.
Forum: Armchair-GM30 nov. à 14 h 55
Sujet: Is Strome A Lazy Entitled Player
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Penguins_Legend_Sheary</b></div><div>exo2769 aussie_blackhawk chihawk

What'd you think of this issue?</div></div>

At this point I'd do the NYR trade. I just feel terrible for Strome. The Hawks have messed up his development and he deserves better. I would not do the PIT trade. Don't really want Matheson's contract. The Hawks have Caleb Jones, McCabe, Beaudin, Kalynuk, Stillman, Phillips that they're splitting LD ice time too right now with additional LD draft picks looking to sign soon. Having 4 more years of Matheson will certainly hurt the long-term goals of the Hawks. Maybe the Hawks trade some of those assets away? maybe, but they still aren't looking for Matheson. They'll be looking for a stay-at-home Dman like Hampus Lindholm.
Forum: Armchair-GM29 nov. à 12 h 50
Sujet: Forecasting
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>NickC1988</b></div><div>While an interesting idea, it doesn't leave the hawks with much wiggle room in free agency to improve. Let's face facts, this team is icing two 4th lines. I think the best bet the hawks have would be to sell this deadline, Columbus is miles ahead of them and will continue to improve with next year's 1st as well (Fingers crossed it's in the top 2 somehow). However at this point, they can't focus on where that pick ends up, they need to figure out how to complete a one year retool to make this offense more relevant. I don't think Matt Murray helps any of their needs in the coming seasons. Lankinen has been good and there's several goaltenders that are UFAs this season.</div></div>

There's a couple things that go into this.

*I'm not "fearful" of bonus overages, but it's something I'm focused on. Right now the Hawks have zero cap space and there will certainly be some amount of bonuses even for games played. Trading Shaw away and getting ourselves out of the LTIR usages could save us cap next year that'll likely be equal to the $1.25M delta in cap space. Could be better, could be a little worse, but certainly needs to be considered. This leaves the $1.25M cap hit in (2) years from now. I think with Toews/Kane/Connolly off the books we can find $1.25M in cap and still get players.

*That 2022 OTT 2nd will be a pretty good pick. OTT will certainly like saving $6.5M in cash.