Speculation: 2018 Off-season Thread #3
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We will have a couple that roll forward and Langenhammer we will till his rights for a few years in the event he ever wants to come back to nhl.
TheLegend
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I'm not sure if they have actual sources or are just speculating, but this nhl.com article (Coyotes optimistic after Galchenyuk, Grabner additions, strong finish) says Chucky will play 2C and Grabner will be on the third line. Based on that what do we think of?
Panik Stepan Keller
Perlini Chucky Stroz
Cousins Dvo Grabner
Crouse Strome Fischer
Richie
Oel Demers
Chychrun Hammer
Goose kconn/Lyabushkin/Oesterle
Raanta
Kuemper
Is stroz more of a finisher or playmaker? Ideally we'd have a playmaker at rw since Perlini is a shooter, and Chucky seems to be more of a shooter over a playmaker as well. Could flip Stroz and Keller if Chucky ends up looking really good at center and have that be our 1st line.
Panik Stepan Keller
Perlini Chucky Stroz
Cousins Dvo Grabner
Crouse Strome Fischer
Richie
Oel Demers
Chychrun Hammer
Goose kconn/Lyabushkin/Oesterle
Raanta
Kuemper
Is stroz more of a finisher or playmaker? Ideally we'd have a playmaker at rw since Perlini is a shooter, and Chucky seems to be more of a shooter over a playmaker as well. Could flip Stroz and Keller if Chucky ends up looking really good at center and have that be our 1st line.
rt
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Lilhoody
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This forum needs a dislike button. In the case of this one, it wouldn't be personal though.
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Here is to another season of Tyson talking about Stopping greased BB's, pepperoni pizza, his nose and jockstraps hanging from the ceiling.
It gets even worse when the kidcaster is on. I feel bad for complaining because I have this hunch when my little one is old enough to do it, she'll want to get in on it. Then I'm going to be offended when rt mutes his TV when my daughter is on. haha
We just need Todd to go on another racial rampage and get canned. If we can start there, I'd say this is the best offseason EVER.
It gets even worse when the kidcaster is on. I feel bad for complaining because I have this hunch when my little one is old enough to do it, she'll want to get in on it. Then I'm going to be offended when rt mutes his TV when my daughter is on. haha
We just need Todd to go on another racial rampage and get canned. If we can start there, I'd say this is the best offseason EVER.
And then we get Jacob Graves and a conditional sixth round choice in the 2019 Draft in exchange for forward Ryan MacInnis.
Hmm... So I guess our offseason is pretty much done now eh. We're definitely not going to trade for Auston Matthews.
TheLegend
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A lot of people followed the early horrible losing streak and the memes. They didn't stick around for the 2nd half and can't be bothered to look at the standings. If Raanta is healthy and stays in form, everyone will be 'shocked' by the turnaround when it's about what we expected.
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The first half of the coyotes season is what happens when you change coach/system and have virtually zero practice time due to scheduling. A lot of people are underestimating the impact of this. The second half coyotes are more indicative of the team, I think we are going to surprise a lot of people this year.
rt
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He selected it to respond to. That’s worse than the goober who asked.
I hope you are correct. I think our D core being injured, lack of consistent goal tending, many young players, and Tocc trying to make our team play like Pitt is the combination that killed us first 20 games. Tocc changed his strategy at the 20-25 game mark, our D eventually got healthy and Raanta was lights out the last 30 games, and our record improved.
Our key this year is Raanta playing well and not being injured, we need 60 games out of him at a high level. we can't expect Vezina quality like the last 20 games, but he needs to be a top 10 goal tender. Also, our D core , which I think is very good, needs to stay healthy. Our Pk needs to be top 10 also and our PP needs to at least be mid pack. If our D and goal tending can keep our GAA down, we have a playoff shot. It is still too early to know if we turn it around like Colorado, 90-100 points, or wind up a 75-85 point team with just a slight improvement, or somehow be a 70 point team again (I don't see that this year). We are due for a better then expected year.
Some of the young players will have good years and others will regress, again, just too hard to say, it's the nature of young players, they lack consistency. I wouldn't count on young guys making major improvements as a key to our success. Strome could be a 50 point 2C this year or a bust and still in the AHL, or somewhere in between, its anyones guess, 50/50 shot of either.
It should be a fun year with lots of hope, I'm looking forward to it
My line combination ms would consist of:
Keller - Step - Panik
Perlini - Galchenyuk - Grabner
Hinostroza - Dvorak - Fischer
Cousins - Strome - Crouse
Richardson
All of those lines aside from Strome and Crouse are all NHL players, for once.
My oh my Chyka has done good with whatbhes been given.
Keller - Step - Panik
Perlini - Galchenyuk - Grabner
Hinostroza - Dvorak - Fischer
Cousins - Strome - Crouse
Richardson
All of those lines aside from Strome and Crouse are all NHL players, for once.
My oh my Chyka has done good with whatbhes been given.
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TheLegend
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He was polling Twitter for questions.... so what else would you expect?
She.... btw.... was from Chicago.
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