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If he played in Canada or a bigger American market, he’d be a household name. He’s the real deal.
2020/2021 Around the League Thread | Part 3
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If he played in Canada or a bigger American market, he’d be a household name. He’s the real deal.
RealGudbranson
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Jaw-dropping, marketable stuff here. I haven’t seen an interview but he looks like a personality to boot.
I think it’s more that with the divisional only setup a lot of fans don’t focus in on the other divisions. In a non Covid world he would be talked about as the leading ROTY candidate.
VanillaCoke
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Raistlin
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2 more years at $4.15 right? No one with term is getting claimed.
Hamilton, Pesce, Slavin, Skjei, Bean, Fleury, appear to be their top 6 now.
he hasn’t been the same since his back injury. He should have shut it down earlier when he had the injury.
vanuck
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Astounds me that he went in the 5th round when he was already playing in the KHL at the age of 17. Likewise with Panarin going undrafted. Or nobody taking a late flyer on Gusev in his D+1 season.
The talent pool of teenagers playing in European pro leagues is so undervalued it's crazy.
Well, also consider it's been 5 years from that draft and it also coincides with a period of time that Russians were not coming over immediately. He burned an ELC year in the off-season without ever playing a game for the Wild and is doing his final ELC this season. Money was also keeping Russians in the KHL at that time.
Clearly, he had the talent to come over a couple of years earlier, but was he making significantly more in the KHL vs an ELC contract in the NHL?
vanuck
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That may be so, though regardless you're still getting a veritable 1st line talent that late in the draft.
Even if they all came over at age 22 I'd still be very happy with that outcome for a 5th round pick.
Any late pick at that point, most are likely to take until 22-23 before they make the NHL. Some KHL guys come over, some don't. Tryamkin worked it so that he came over and played the final few games to burn his 1st ELC year and then did the 2nd year on his ELC.
Russian factor no longer what it was before. KHL money doesn't seem to be a big factor these days in keeping teens or early 20 year olds from coming to the NHL.
BenningHurtsMySoul
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Kaprizov likely makes a big impact in that playoff series, we were fortunate they didn't allow him to play.
Saved us our 1st round pick this year which could be a lottery pick. YIKES
canuckking1
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It f***ing kills me to see Tanev on the Flames. He should always be a Canuck. Pisses me off Jordy Benn took his number too.
Sutter tightened them up in a hurry. Montreal looks Colorado fast through the neutral zone against Vancouver but can’t even get any speed going vs Calgary.
I guess that old Calgary coach was Green level dud, cause Sutters dad seems to be getting everything out of that team. I predicted them to win the division at the start of the season and then as the season started saw i was wrong but who knows now if he can get them to compete to Torontos level
I think most teams look fast in the neutral zone against us, we employ this weird style designed to prevent the optics of the defense getting blown by on the outside. But all that retreating does is let them get into the zone with ease and build up enough speed in the neutral zone they can get on the puck first if they choose to dump it in. Very easy to play against.
Pastor Of Muppetz
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Always reminds me of JD Burke going off on Benning on Twitter a few years ago...Burke lambasted Benning for picking Myers over Gardiner..until he clued in that Gardiner was a LHD (not right)....The twitter posts were quickly deleted.
Fatass
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Our forecheck is juvenile. We send two and three guys deep even when the opposing d has clear puck on stick. It doesn’t work in the
National League. We give up way too many out numbered rushes, where the opponents have speed through the neutral zone and there’s no back pressure trackers. Our d are forced to back in because they have no other option. These chances off the rush are the most difficult for the goalies too. And it all starts with a piss poor system of forechećk.
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