CapitalsCupReality
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- Feb 27, 2002
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Cleary's knees bother me. If you're projecting that roster with cap space, I'd rather go after a guy like Raymond and fill out from the top down (granted, I have no idea what kind of money Raymond's looking for).
Interesting idea though.
I work with huge wings fan and from what he says those knee are in rough shape.
Raymond would probably be too expensive for a forth line role. Also, at this point, Chimera>>>Cleary. Cleary is done.
Makes sense. He hasn't been remotely the same since Bourque.
any player 3rd in the league in assists is elite. even strenth or not. his even strenth play is very likely temporary anyway.
Backstrom has been almost completely ineffective at even strength since coming back.
If we're trading a package of Johansson, Orlov, and a 1st, we better be getting a whole ****ing lot more back than Mark ****ing Giordano.
Being 3rd in the league in assists, in a shortened season, with most of them coming on an overachieving power play does nothing whatsoever to mitigate concerns about a player's even strength play, especially considering that player is not the reason the power play overachieved.
What makes you think his even strength play is temporary?
He was their leading scorer at ES. That leads me to believe that those issues, whatever they are (30 points in 48 games is not bad, though, ~20th in the league) are not isolated to him alone. The team took quite some time to find any sort of groove at ES.
if you take the 33 goals out of his career he wouldn't have been that far off his typical performance last season. his assists per game was up enough to make him a point per game player. his second best season was 88pts in 82 games. 48 in 48 is about where he belongs.
a quick look at the numbers and backstrom was the caps leading scorer at even strength. ribeiro had 9 more pp points than backstrom.
I think this falls into the, if it aint broke, don't fix it, category.
if you take the 33 goals out of his career he wouldn't have been that far off his typical performance last season. his assists per game was up enough to make him a point per game player. his second best season was 88pts in 82 games. 48 in 48 is about where he belongs.
if you take the 33 goals out of his career he wouldn't have been that far off his typical performance last season. his assists per game was up enough to make him a point per game player. his second best season was 88pts in 82 games. 48 in 48 is about where he belongs.
a quick look at the numbers and backstrom was the caps leading scorer at even strength. ribeiro had 9 more pp points than backstrom.
I think this falls into the, if it aint broke, don't fix it, category.