I'm sorry to hear that, it really puts you at a disadvantage
Confession. I am 101 Third Graders on the NHL playoff bracket thing.
I'm sorry to hear that, it really puts you at a disadvantage
I'm not against that idea.
Trade for Erixon lmao.
Trade for Erixon lmao.
Wonder what went wrong with Erixon. He looked really promising when he was Flames property.
I pretty sure he was waived to free cap space and a roster spot, it also ensured Erixon could not be traded to a playoff team for depth. Not alot different than when Burke waived Bryz in Anaheim to keep him from going to a playoff team.Like Tim Erixon?
The same Erixon that was waiver fodder this year and picked up by the lowly Leafs?
This idea does not give me an Erixon at all
I pretty sure he was waived to free cap space and a roster spot, it also ensured Erixon could not be traded to a playoff team for depth. Not alot different than when Burke waived Bryz in Anaheim to keep him from going to a playoff team.
Erixon has been on teams with pretty deep blueline talent, especially since being dealt from the Rangers.
Well first you don't want to trade a player to a team you may face in the playoffs. Second the waiving prevents the new team from trading them to a contender.That doesn't make sense, why would you waive someone to prevent yourself from trading them to a playoff team.
In both the situations listed there was no chance the player was getting past the bottom 5 teams.Is there not a chance a playoff team would pick the player up on waivers anyways?
Well first you don't want to trade a player to a team you may face in the playoffs. Second the waiving prevents the new team from trading them to a contender.
My bad. I know with Bryz he was moved by Burke to give him a chance to play. But trading him to the Coyotes while getting an asset would have made it possible for the Coyotes to flip him at the deadline to a contender. So Burke waived him instead. It was something mentioned at the time and it is something that always stood out to me.I think the way you worded it just sounded really weird.
Bryz and Erix were waived because they weren't needed, not because they didn't want to trade them to contenders, because they can always just not trade them.
The way you worded it sounded like they did it to prevent them from ebing traded, which would be weird casue nobody is forcing them to make a trade lol.
If we want to be a 50% corsi team, we need to split up and upgrade our middle pairing. If we're rolling the same middle pairing next year the Flames will continue to be a poor corsi team. Wideman as a #5 + PP specialist is ideal. If we can get one of the farm boys, i.e. Culkin, Wotherspoon, Ramage, Kulak or Morrison to excel, maybe we can move Schlemko up to the middle pairing (Treliving seemed to really want this) with Russell.
Or we can roll
Wideman - Russell
Gio - Schlemko/Diaz/Smid
Brodie - Engelland
Offense from the back end would suffer a bit but not too much. At least then we would be able to roll 3 parings.
Or we can roll
Wideman - Russell
Gio - Schlemko/Diaz/Smid
Brodie - Engelland
Offense from the back end would suffer a bit but not too much. At least then we would be able to roll 3 parings.
No reason for Giordano to carry Brodie for a full season.No reason for Brodie to carry Engelland for a full season. Or to split Giordano and Brodie up.
Separating Wideman and Russell makes some sense given it's a valid question whether Wideman can repeat his performance from this season.