Toronto won't likely be better as for Boston there is talk they may go with a complete rebuild and moving key players out as for injury depleted people need to keep in mind Ottawa most of there key players and still beat many teams.
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Toronto won't likely be better as for Boston there is talk they may go with a complete rebuild and moving key players out as for injury depleted people need to keep in mind Ottawa most of there key players and still beat many teams.
our problems up front are not necessarily the centres....it's too much of the same IMO. When you have centres the size we have you need some grit elsewhere and we don't have that. Stone being banged up does not help. For all the Hoffman fans if these past 10 playoff games don't make you realize that he may well be the softest player in the league I don't know what we'll. Dzingel is an ok player but he doesn't provide something different than what we have in abundance. What we need is 45 goals from 2 wingers that have Stalberg size/speed to replace Hoffman and Dzingel. That provides some level of physicality and ability to play on the boards and also gives us some offence.
Ryan is having an interesting playoff. He's been excellent in the first 50 games of his first 3 years. After that mark he's ran into injury issues. This year he's been on and off hurt and utilized differently all year. He had a good last 10 games without being on the scoresheet alot and in the playoffs he has been excellent and by far our best forward outside of jgp's 4 goal game. He's taKen a ton of heat here so props to Ryan for showing up.
Ryan is having an interesting playoff. He's been excellent in the first 50 games of his first 3 years. After that mark he's ran into injury issues. This year he's been on and off hurt and utilized differently all year. He had a good last 10 games without being on the scoresheet alot and in the playoffs he has been excellent and by far our best forward outside of jgp's 4 goal game. He's taKen a ton of heat here so props to Ryan for showing up.
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Well said.
Chabot and White look like great pieces....but they won't be enough. We are putting a ton of hope on Brown...which is scary considering he is a very risky (as in big boom/bust potential) project right now.
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How is he not? Very few centers of his size make it to the NHL, and those that do are rarely in the top 6.
Combine the rumoured work ethic issues and his relatively disappointing season, and I think most are fearful that he's headed towards bust territory already.
While I believe he's going to pick it up, the chances of him becoming a #1 center are quite low. I'm sure you know that.
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I've never been very high on Brown because I've seen too much of him to ever think he could become a #1C and all the comparison to guys like Thornton when we drafted him by some here. This is a post I made soon after draft day and many called me negative just for saying I would've prefered McLoed.
McLoed is absolutely tearing it up and Brown has been a ghost for the entire year. Of course McLoed is a more complete player and has less developpment to do than Brown, but at this point I don't even think Brown has a higher ceiling. I would've traded Brown over Dahlen easily alsso. I hope this team stops trying to draft guys mostly because of their size and start to draft guys based on who they are as players. On draft day it's always the same, you'll have two equally good players and you'll have to draft the tallest guy 5-10 spots before just because he's taller. Good on NJ for recognizing that McLoed was better than Brown and maximizing their assets.
We've done the same with Gagne, guy was supposed to be in the 50s and we took him before guys like Chlapik who had always been a superior player...
Other than that pretty happy with our drafting..
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????? Young in the NHL is 21 and under. Karlsson, Turris, Hoffman, Stone , Methot, Phaneuf, Ryan and Brassard are not young!!!!!
You are correct. I had a post a few months back where I said the Sens window was now because their best players were at their peak and they have very little talent coming up. That post was seen as trolling! The reality is that the Sens have no core players in the 20 -24 age group which will spell doom and gloom in a few years.
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Well, I think Chabot/White have great chances to be core players. I don't think they're franchise level players...though Chabot has an outside shot of becoming that based on his skillset.
I am not sure we're really in a different place than we were with our miracle run under MacLean. Overachieving to our detriment in the years to come.
I agree Chabot can be a great player and White could be very good. Ottawa's problem is they don't have any really stud players aged 21-24. Almost every other contending team does.
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I said we have no real stud players between the ages of 21-24 Karlsson will be 27 in 3 weeks.
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Thinking about next years d pairings.
Harpur - Karlsson
Methot - Ceci
Chabot - Dion
I really like Harpurs quiet game. Big physical guy to go with Karlsson. I wanted to put Dion there with Karlsson but i dont want our bottom pair to be too green.
Harpur - Karlsson
Methot - Ceci
Chabot - Dion
I really like Harpurs quiet game. Big physical guy to go with Karlsson. I wanted to put Dion there with Karlsson but i dont want our bottom pair to be too green.
Well we will hve those 21-24 year olds pretty soon.
Chabot and white will contribute.
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