TruePowerSlave
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Claiming NAK is a no brainer. Dude was pretty decent last season and the depth sucks.
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expatriatedtexan
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When given the list of names: Newhook, Compher, Rodrigues, Meyers, Rantanen...which one seems most likely to succeed as a 2C?
I think the obvious answer from the start has always been Mikko. The delay in trying it could potentially be costing the Avs points in the standings. If I'm right in assuming that Rants has asked to be used as a last resort, then this will strictly come down to Bednar's patience.
I pretty damn certain he can play center in the NHL. The question is, can he come close to approximating a 9.25M center?
I think the obvious answer from the start has always been Mikko. The delay in trying it could potentially be costing the Avs points in the standings. If I'm right in assuming that Rants has asked to be used as a last resort, then this will strictly come down to Bednar's patience.
I pretty damn certain he can play center in the NHL. The question is, can he come close to approximating a 9.25M center?
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Bone Breaker
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if its the club that pays for damages on the Cup, I could see the owners vetoing this claim. 
edit: also, Id only bring him back if NAK agrees to change his number to 47.
edit: also, Id only bring him back if NAK agrees to change his number to 47.
Cousin Eddie
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Yeah I’d definitely put a claim in. As of November 1 the priority list is based on the current standings as opposed to last year too, I believe. That means we’ll be around 15th.
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Weird, I may sound really dumb, but looking at Hunt stats, it says he scored a goal this season, but I can't remember it? I'd absolutely claim NAK, and probably waive Hunt or Maltzev at this stage.
Bone Breaker
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I don't think the Avs didn't want him, they just didn't want to pay him a million dollars.
TruePowerSlave
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That can't be it. 1M is peanuts and AHL bums get almost the same amount if they stay with the big club.
The Avs probably just hoped the youth would do more, they didn't.
When you're in a cap crunch and you're already paying Cogliano $1.25 million, O'Connor $1.05 million, and Helm $1.25 million, throwing another million out there isn't exactly the no-brainer people on here are making it out to be.
TruePowerSlave
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It's more like throwing around 200k to have NAK instead of some AHLer on the team. The cap crunch isn’t that bad.
The Kingslayer
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Wouldnt hate NAK back here. He did tone down alot on the bad penalties after a month.
AHL bums get 750k... $1M is 33% more. In what world is a 33% raise nothing?
$250k also makes a huge difference on the cap from the start of the season. That's over $1M in extra cap spade at the trade deadline.
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FTR after 10 games last year Makar had 2G 6A 8 pts.
This year after 10 games he has 1G 9A 10 pts.
So it's not a disaster.
However, last year he scored 7 goals in the following 5 games. So he had 9 goals after 15 games. That's going to be tough to replicate.
This year after 10 games he has 1G 9A 10 pts.
So it's not a disaster.
However, last year he scored 7 goals in the following 5 games. So he had 9 goals after 15 games. That's going to be tough to replicate.
Metallo
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So are we not going to talk about how Bednar is running his lines this year?
Why did MacDonald play 3:03 minutes today? Maltsev 4:41. Meanwhile ERod is getting 23:13 as a forward (which is #1 dman minutes on a normal team).
That's a very unusual way to manage ice time, to say the least. Especially this early in the season!
Almost looks like Bednar is mad at the GM for giving him shit players and wants to let them know that he's not going to use them.
Why did MacDonald play 3:03 minutes today? Maltsev 4:41. Meanwhile ERod is getting 23:13 as a forward (which is #1 dman minutes on a normal team).
That's a very unusual way to manage ice time, to say the least. Especially this early in the season!
Almost looks like Bednar is mad at the GM for giving him shit players and wants to let them know that he's not going to use them.
BobRossColton
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So Dylan Strome might've been productive for us, he's got 9 points. I'm just reading stats though
dahrougem2
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Dylan Strome sucks.
I'm usually one to question Bednar's TOI allocations, especially when it comes to the 4th line and the defensemen.
However, today was an anomaly. CBJ had 7 PPs while the Avs had 5, and a guy like Rodrigues who plays on the PK and on PP1 was going to end up with an absurd amount of ice time.
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CBJ 4th line averaged more than twice as many minutes as our 4th line.
UncleRisto
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Kuraly PK's for sure. And we're getting the other Foudy, too. It's in the rules, we have to.
TruePowerSlave
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Unlikely Makar equals last season this year, he set the bar pretty damn high.
He is still a PPG Dman though despite looking pretty meh most of the time, no other Dman in the league can do that.
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