It is going to be interesting to see how he handles the trade deadline this year, assuming we don't completely bottom out between now and then.
If the Devils keep close to this same pace up for the next couple months, I think Shero might have to consider trading Henrique for a more veteran LD whose contract expires either after 18-19 or 19-20. Since we look to have a lot of talented prospects from Castron, I think it might be the best move for the team.
The only thing the Devils lack right now on the NHL team is a LD that can play a similar role to Greene. Would help to ease in Severson, Santini, Mueller, and Butcher a bit by having a second reliable partner in the top six.
Someone like Edler, Muzzin, or Martinez would be ideal. Gunnarsson or Coburn are a couple other candidates, but I feel as though they're a tier below what the Devils need. Bouwmeester is a bit too old but he could probably do the job. Johnson, Cole, and Hamhuis are all UFAs at years end so that could be another alternative.
Someone pretend to be Ray Shero and explain to me how he is going to improve this team's defense corps during the season and next offseason.
More comparisons to the Yankees. There was huge debates on what Cashman should do st the deadline with the Yanks way ahead of schedule and this year supposed to be a rebuilding year.
His approach ended up being the right one IMO. Only buying players he felt could be hell in the short and long term, while also protecting the top prospects still in the system.
Same here. If we are still riding high, it shouldn’t be out of the question to go out and buy if the right deal for a piece that can be a long term solution is available and if we can protect most of our top assets.
As Chico put it best, he was a ‘tractor’ that couldn’t be stopped!People forget how good prime Zubs was.
I think even if you trade Henrique for an older LD the Devils win in that trade. The Devils are slowly getting to the point where Henrique really isn't needed. Bratt and Hischier have pushed him out of the top six. Coleman, Gibbons, and Bratt have all shown to be valuable PK guys. Even if some of those four crash and burn, there's still JQ, Zacha, and Blandisi waiting for their chance and Johansson coming off IR.
The biggest hole right now on the team is the LD side behind Greene. Moore isn't good enough to be a 2LD and whatever kid is playing with him is forced to carry him a bit. We need the opposite so the kids can focus on their game. Even if you trade him for a guy like Edler and he walks after 2018-19, I think the year and a half of Edler will do more for the defense than Henrique will do for the forwards.
I think even if you trade Henrique for an older LD the Devils win in that trade. The Devils are slowly getting to the point where Henrique really isn't needed. Bratt and Hischier have pushed him out of the top six. Coleman, Gibbons, and Bratt have all shown to be valuable PK guys. Even if some of those four crash and burn, there's still JQ, Zacha, and Blandisi waiting for their chance and Johansson coming off IR.
The biggest hole right now on the team is the LD side behind Greene. Moore isn't good enough to be a 2LD and whatever kid is playing with him is forced to carry him a bit. We need the opposite so the kids can focus on their game. Even if you trade him for a guy like Edler and he walks after 2018-19, I think the year and a half of Edler will do more for the defense than Henrique will do for the forwards.
I'm one of the people who "bash" several of the "advanced" (love that term BTW, lol) stats, not because it challenges my hockey world, but because I have quite a bit of experience breaking down research and statistics, and I genuinely don't think most of them are very useful. Way to many dependent variables come into play in such a manner that I believe there's far more randomness than significance than most people generally understand, and Corsi, IMO, is the worst of them all.
It reminds me of scientific research that gets underway, and only after 17 months of work does someone realize the methodology was flawed from the start. I believe Corsi is the answer to a question that isn't particularly useful to ask in the first place, relying on multiple "iffy" assumptions.
Moreover, anyone who knows anything about statistics knows that more input is better than less input. Whenever a commonly known crappy player is pointed out as having a great Corsi, or a commonly known solid player is pointed out as having a crappy Corsi, these are just dismissed as odd outliers. Ummmm...Okay. Well then, if Corsi really is critical, TEAM Corsi should be a FAR greater indicator of statistical correlation to achievement than ANY lone individual player's Corsi is correlated to a given Team's achievement. Yet here again, I can (every year) provide examples of team's with the better records having mediocre Corsi, or celler dwellers with very good Corsi. The metric is flawed, in no small part due to the fact that as I began by saying, there are just too many dependent variables at play, and not all of them which are captured as positive/negative are actually positive or negative (i.e. blocking shots is a GOOD thing (captured in Corsi as a negative thing), forcing opponents to take numerous shots from the outside is a GOOD thing
(captured in Corsi as a negative thing), often weakly lofting shots on goal from the blueline is a BAD thing (captured in Corsi as a positive thing), etc.....
As Chico put it best, he was a ‘tractor’ that couldn’t be stopped!
I'm so glad personnel moves aren't made by fans. Say what you will about Henrique, but I'm not ready to say that Hischier and Bratt make him completely irrelevant. I WANT to believe that Bratt is the real deal, but the guy is still a 6th round pick with only 17 games experience in the NHL. I'm still not ready to proclaim him the next Daniel Alfredsson.
Ha, the fine print makes it funny.
Everyone needs to buy a ticket in regards to Zacha
I think his argument is: The Kings were the top Corsi team last year and did not make the playoffs. Thus Corsi is useless.I think that's what he's saying. Team corsi is valuable but individual corsi less so.
Buy high, sell low?Someone pretend to be Ray Shero and explain to me how he is going to improve this team's defense corps during the season and next offseason.
Buy all the pucks. Teams can't score if we possess all the pucks.Someone pretend to be Ray Shero and explain to me how he is going to improve this team's defense corps during the season and next offseason.
I'm going to roll with what he have for the time being. But I have been attacking the issue with #'s. From Mueller, to Butcher, to Rykov, to Sissons, to Walsh, to Chainey. This upcoming draft I will look to add more talent as well. Then we will need to let these young D men develop.Someone pretend to be Ray Shero and explain to me how he is going to improve this team's defense corps during the season and next offseason.
Someone pretend to be Ray Shero and explain to me how he is going to improve this team's defense corps during the season and next offseason.
If you wanted to critque Corsi, you would know not to simply look at a team's record, because Corsi is generally looked at only for even strength play. Special teams performance hugely impacts a team's record and that isn't captured in Corsi. Moreover, Corsi does not account for a team's goaltending, another massive variable in a team's success. And if you were skilled in statistical analysis, you would know that producing anecdotal examples of outliers does not prove or disprove anything.
It seems like you don't really understand Corsi's application.
Okay, so then, what exactly is it telling us? I hear over and over again that it's a proxy for possession. Okay... what's possession worth? The Kings are a good example, possession is just one part of the game.. The problems that I have with Corsi and Fenwick is that I don't know if it's really been established that they're reliable measures of possession, and even if it is, I don't know that we really understand how much of a role possession plays in determining who wins.
Okay, so then, what exactly is it telling us? I hear over and over again that it's a proxy for possession. Okay... what's possession worth? The Kings are a good example, possession is just one part of the game..
The problems that I have with Corsi and Fenwick is that I don't know if it's really been established that they're reliable measures of possession, and even if it is, I don't know that we really understand how much of a role possession plays in determining who wins.
The Kings are the outlier in this instance and the Devils in the lockout-shortened season were another.