A top line of Ribeiro - Spezza - Vrbata could certainly do some damage. Even if Spezza is a playmaker, he does shoot the puck a lot and is a 4 time 30 goal scorer. Certainly better than Ribs in the dot, though I wouldn't say he's that much better defensively. Due 4M in salary next season - the last on his current contract.
I'd have to wait and see on what Ottawa's asking price would be for their Captain, though. I'm absolutely not interested in giving up our 1st for him, at the least.
His publicized view is that most GM's do their homework before drafting a Russian player, I'm not sure why he'd care to repudiate that. Seems like common sense and a view held by the vast majority of GM's out there.If Maloney got both Grabo and Kulemin and drafted Barbashev to boot, that'd be one hell of a way to repudiate his publicized views on Russians.
A top line of Ribeiro - Spezza - Vrbata could certainly do some damage. Even if Spezza is a playmaker, he does shoot the puck a lot and is a 4 time 30 goal scorer. Certainly better than Ribs in the dot, though I wouldn't say he's that much better defensively. Due 4M in salary next season - the last on his current contract.
I'd have to wait and see on what Ottawa's asking price would be for their Captain, though. I'm absolutely not interested in giving up our 1st for him, at the least.
I think those are the 7 D we go with this year. It changes if we package one of Stone/Gormley/Schlemko in a trade for a top 6 forward, if so, we then pick up a veteran UFA stay at home D. Bit it would be somebody cheap like Rosivol not a 3 mill + guy.
I also wonder if the Coyotes are going to sign a buy out victim?
I'm keeping my eye out on Brad Stuart. If he does get bought out, there are realistically only 3-4 other teams he'd probably be willing to sign with in order to stay close to his family in California.
Anyways, awesome news regarding the resign of Summers and for about 200K/year less than what I'd expected he'd get. Hope he does get regular time on our bottom pairing next season.
This reminds me of my horrible middle school stage
Anyway if we're going to get cocky one could easily say that Tippet and DM know more about hockey than all of us combined and they both like Yandle's game. End of story right?
We can sit here and speculate all we want, but GMDM is on record saying Yandle will only be traded for an overpayments, and there's no reason to think that position has changed.
Hey guys, stats lie, don't you know? So let's throw out stat A and totally go all in on stat B to try and explain away something we should all be capable of admitting by now - that Yandle is the weakest in his own zone on the team and is handled that way by Tippett.
The gap in your logic - the one wide enough to drive an 18 wheeler through - is that Corsi tells us nothing about the defensive abilities of the players on the ice. It's a good measure of how much general offensive push a player may bring but it does not magically dispel or dampen things like poor judgment or a lack of effort. It is quite possible to be a positive Corsi player and be a total liability on the ice. This gets even more questionable when you consider the breakout usually runs through Yandle on the ice, so he should be voted "most likely player on the Phoenix roster to have padded Corsi numbers." Of course you don't really mention that David Schlemko has a higher Corsi than Yandle. Wonder why?
Just to further put dirt on this: OEL and Z are both negative Corsi players. Not only that, but this "magical offense" that Yandle brings? He actually scores at a rate lower than Morris, OEL, and Connor effin Murphy.
What's the phrase of the day here? Cognitive dissonance?
You don't need to read advanced stats to know that Yandle is a gambler, and that the payoff isn't always worth the risk. For a team desperate to reestablish a defensive identity, he looks like an awfully juicy trade target.
The last 20 games our d was much better. Our biggest problem is scoring. Getting rid of our top scorer makes it a bigger problem.