Confirmed with Link: Addison traded to Sharks for '26 5th and Adam Raska
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BagHead
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Seriously, if you don't watch Sesame Street, you miss out on things like Andrea Bocelli singing to Elmo. Like, you're watching Breaking Bad when you could be watching this!?
Unironically, I love that song. Rocking my kid to sleep to it has really done a number on me.
I am reluctant to say that a 23yo is done growing as a player, but I have never seen Addison be an enthusiastic defensive player. He didn't make a ton of blunders with the puck or bad judgement plays like Dumba and Klingberg, but he just didn't seem to know how to apply himself to defensive, and even offensive 5 v 5 situations like he did in PP's, where he was vg. He looked like a worse shooting, better passing Brad Hunt out there.
Down in the AHL he was better in 5 v 5 play when he had the puck, but he was nondescript at best w/o it. Once he got up to the NHL his 5v5 play got exposed, as he had less time to retrieve pucks and make good plays.
I still wonder if there is anything left there to be developed, both mentally and physically.
Down in the AHL he was better in 5 v 5 play when he had the puck, but he was nondescript at best w/o it. Once he got up to the NHL his 5v5 play got exposed, as he had less time to retrieve pucks and make good plays.
I still wonder if there is anything left there to be developed, both mentally and physically.
I hate to be that person, but the only thing that really sticks out to me from his time here was when Carter messed with the kid's car.
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When I saw him in the preseason games, the first word that came across my mind to describe his play was "pedestrian".
He was standing around and chasing the play at the same time, never reading off of his partner, not knowing where to go. Uninterested.
Honestly feel like Addison gave up on the franchise. He at least played with "gusto" in the AHL. Was constantly involved in scrums, often the one initiating them. Was not at all afraid to stand up to bigger players. He was honestly quite chippy. In the NHL he looked to placid and passive.
So... same-o-same-o.Poor Addy...Sharks down 4-0 vs Vegas and he's -4
He's used to it by now.
At least he isn’t playing scaredPoor Addy...Sharks down 4-0 vs Vegas and he's -4
Sharks are just in trouble period. Them thinking Addison was going to be anything more than a 7d PP specialist Is just as foolish as the rest of us that wished the same. I still hope the dude turns it around and finds something more, but I wouldn't bet on it.
3 of those goals don't happen or at least are heavily contended with a defender like Faber on the ice. He's so out of his depth, even his PP QB status lead to short handed goal against that he misplayed. This is after he gave up a breakaway on the PP against EDM that he misplayed as well.Poor Addy...Sharks down 4-0 vs Vegas and he's -4
So... Par for the course for Addison.
It's why he couldn't be given signified 5v5 time and why he kept losing his PP position too... which fir a PP specialist, is a BIG problem.
Nobody is saying he's the reason, just pointing out his continuing to play as poorly as he did here.
It was well known San Jose was a shit show before he got there... him getting 21+minutes of ice time sure won't improve their issues.
This is still the aspect of the NHL and sports in general that I just will never understand. Rewarding incompetence, so antithetical to literally every other aspect of this sport.
BagHead
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Hopefully it all comes together for them. Being a bad hockey team is the easy part, if your team's owner can stomach it. Inverting the record is the hard part. They could be a fun team to watch if they pull it off.
It's kind of interesting to watch. It's socialism done by billionaire capitalists for themselves (combined with the top earnings teams supplementing the bottom earning teams). So weird.
Sports are a business. The business does better if teams succeed. The draft provides a path for bad teams to get better and keep the business healthy. It's not really that complicated.
A healthy league is a league that allows turnover in which teams succeed.
The NFL is the best at that... go figure, it's the only one that doesn't use a crap lottery system.
Even the worst NFL teams have massive development staffs, combined with them drafting 20+ year olds vs 18 year olds. Taking the best young talent the sport has to offer and sticking them in the worst management system in the league every year just seems like a great way to weaken your product and produce worse players.
Not all the worst have bad manganese teams. Don't take the NHL as the norm. Lottery systems really screw things up.
Often times the worst teams are building new manganese crews at the same time... as is usually the case in the NFL... not so much the NHL.
Sports sells hope. Good teams do this with on ice success. Bad teams do this with promising talent for the future. This brings league success.
Where does apathetic and tortuous tendencies for middling teams with mediocre success reside
??Where does apathetic and tortuous tendencies for middling teams with mediocre success reside
The mailing address for that is a PO Box in St Paul Minnesota.
