I think watching Brent Burns dominate us was a wake-up call. Candidly, I am both surprised and pleased at Poile's willingness to adapt on the fly; he's as old school as you can get in terms of tenure, and yet seems to be capable of plenty of new tricks.
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I think watching Brent Burns dominate us was a wake-up call. Candidly, I am both surprised and pleased at Poile's willingness to adapt on the fly; he's as old school as you can get in terms of tenure, and yet seems to be capable of plenty of new tricks.
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I could see a bottom rotation of Bitetto, Grannberg, Elliott with Bitetto getting more regular time than the other two.
Tony really showed some progress as the season went on and especially in the playoffs, I was far more confident in him than Jackman by the end. He'll never be more than a low end 5 or middle od the pack 6. But that's all we need him to be.
Especially if we split PKS and Josi, they would be eating up a lot of minutes and really minimizing our reliance on the 3rd pair, similar to Chicago
Tony really showed some progress as the season went on and especially in the playoffs, I was far more confident in him than Jackman by the end. He'll never be more than a low end 5 or middle od the pack 6. But that's all we need him to be.
Especially if we split PKS and Josi, they would be eating up a lot of minutes and really minimizing our reliance on the 3rd pair, similar to Chicago
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Yup. I understand his frustration but a little more patience from his end and he'd be contending for a spot on the bottom pairing now like you said.
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Alot of bottom pairing dmen out there in free agency that could provide decent value. Schultz, Polak, Medvedev, Wiercoch. Bitteto impressed me down the stretch and atleast partially earned my respect. That said, I definitely don't want to depend on him on a nightly basis.
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Surprising. We have to bring in another defenseman for depth purposes unless Elliot is the guy we envision as the number 7 man.
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So we have over $7 million to play with ok free agency or trade then. Because Jarnkrok will get about 1-1.5 million and granberg will get league minimum.
Poile has been intense trading lately with the Johansen for Jones and now pk for Weber. Maybe we make our biggest free agency splash ever, we have the cap space and I do think our team must look pretty attractive to free agents who want to win and play for a good city.
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Matt Carle was bought out, he could be signed on the cheap. He's pretty bad at times, but probably a bit better than Jackman. Just wasn't close to $5M worth. Preds could probably sign him as the 6/7 guy for around $1.5M which is also a savings from Jackman.
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I know nothing about him. Is he fast/mobile? Because I don't see Poile signing any big slow plodders
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He is more mobile than Jackman, has trouble with the puck and coverage sometimes. If the 3rd pair is seeing limited minutes it could work. There's probably better options though, I haven't put much consideration into it.
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