I kind of want him to go regardless, but that's mainly because I question his qualifications/added value since I view his hire as purely "helping out an ex-Shark".
I think a 3rd is most likely as well. He's a rental being UFA after this season. A 2nd can be possible if he plays just like last season, and a contending team gets in a jam with goalie injuries.
So much worse then i thought lolWell Hill shat the bed last season so a 3rd rnder is fair value. Honestly watching Hill his mechanics are terrible and he is always behind the play if anything the sharks win this trade. Of course the sharks history is Hill becomes a veznia winner
would Buffalo had entertained an offer of Eklund + moldy bread, because that's all we had to offer
We had enough to offer that was comparable to what Vegas moved for Eichel.
Vegas was that good. Hill played good but the high danger chances were quite lopsided. Florida's bottom 6/pair got destroyed.
You could’ve pulled Toskala out of retirement and probably still won with that team
Yeah I’ll take the L on this one. I still don’t think trading Hill was a mistake. He would have either continued to suck here or made our draft pick worse.
Yeah. I don’t think anyone could have predicted the end result and frankly the way the defence protected the net I don’t doubt any number of 3rd stringers could have thrived with a little bit of confidence.
Nah. That didn’t make a difference. Frankly, the biggest benefit the knights got was florida doing all the dirty work for them and then bowing out with a whimper.Vegas is showing again that LTIR wins championships
No, you are still correct that trading Hill was the right move. Hill doesn't get the Sharks into the playoffs and he isn't going to be starter material by the time the rebuild is done. Might as well get a pick. Plenty of below-average goalies get a team a cup and plenty of below-average goalies look legit under certain coaching systems.
One can’t overlook that a player, using Stone as an example, doesn’t benefit greatly by being held out for half a season. Avoiding bumps, bruises and potential injury. Let alone the physical tax that happens from playing every other day. I’ve think that is a difference.
Yeah I still think the real mistake was trading for him in the first place when anyone with eyes could see the team was going to be bad regardless of goaltending. I’d rather have whoever we would have drafted 43rd overall last year in the system right now instead of ever taking the chance on Hill.
Didn't they just need someone not named Jone5 in net at that point? If for no other reason than team morale?
I wish we had just kept Jones tbh. I doubt our goaltending the last two seasons would have been much worse and we wouldn’t have his buyout cap hit on the books until 2027.
