Because Sharks never put him on LTIR cause they didn’t need the space.
I mean, he knew it was gonna be bad. But Granlund missed the first bunch of games and he's definitely above replacement level. Hertl with missed games. Benning, as much shit as he gets on the boards, is above Okhotiuk replacement level and probably better than Rutta. His injury is what made us do better with Addison of all players. I think this team is still worst without the injuries, but it's far closer to Chicago, maybe down to the wire. That's only 3-4 more wins after all.
I don't hear delusion. I hear desire and drive. He can want to be a top pairing guy all he wants, and frankly all of our young D should be saying the same thing.
I mean, it wasn't a bad bet on himself because he got the GM to give him the contract he wanted anyway. The problem was DW thinking that it was a good idea to make him whole after he got 33 points in 70 games and thinking that player was worth committing 4.725 mil in cap to.
I mean their defense was awful. Even with those 4 I don’t think you can outscore what the defense gave up.
Nobody is saying it's a playoff team, but rather that it is not the worst team in the league. Just look at the handful of games that Couture came back and played. Team went 4-1-1 in the 6 games that he played. They also gave up 2.67 goals per game compared to 4.04 goals per game on the season.
Obviously. But there’s a difference between “probably a bottom-2 team in the league” with all those four centers healthy and “literal abomination, affront to the sport of hockey, worst record in the cap era” with only one or two of them in the lineup. My point is that going into the season, neither Grier nor us expected the team to be this bad.
Id like to add that even if they did finish dead last the team would be infinitely more watchable. Losing 6-4 is more fun than 10-1
Not only did they never get any games with all 4 of them. They only had 22 games where they iced 3 of them. They won 11 of those 22 games.
My issue is that I don't see the vision or physical tools where he can become a top-pairing dman. If I were a coach, I'd be having a conversation about Thrun about what his path to NHL relevancy is...and I suspect that it'd be as a middle-pairing dman who can move the puck well and is solid defensively (think a better version of Matt Benning).
The Couture-Weber comparison is not really apples to apples. Weber was already out and known to be out for the rest of his career. They were nowhere near as clear with Couture's prognosis and I don't see what point is made by comparing the two in this regard.
Exactly. It wasn’t even reported he was injured until after “Captain’s Skates” started.
Yup exactly. We may not have been much better in the standings but we wouldn’t have been blown out 8-1 literally one in four games like we did this season.
I don't either, but I still want my players to have that drive. This was Thrun's first full season and it was a grueling one. But that helps him understand the grind and the physical and mental tolls a full season takes. But now he can go into the summer with a clearer perspective on what to train.
