GDT: [#63] Get two birds Stone’d at once

[serp]

Yeah he's not a huge creator of offense by himself. Not really a distributor.

And neither is Benn . Basically only Radulov and Klingberg are. Maybe Spezza still a little bit and well Zuccarello now.

Looking at it now i think the problem is not neccesarily goalscoring but just creating offense. The players can score if someone creates for them but barely anyone can.

 

[M88K]

He builds hotels and restaurants, not hockey teams.

Good owners back the **** off and let their money do the work.

Bad owners get involved and micro-manage things they dont understand.

Ask sens fans.

Guess he's a bad owner, because he started micromanging things last year, the Hitchcock hire was all him

 

[serp]

Guess he's a bad owner, because he started micromanging things last year, the Hitchcock hire was all him

He got impatiant. That Hitchcock hire also landed us Hanzal and maybe Methot who just never fit here but are clearly Hitch players.

 

[Stevonidas]

Definitely Keep:

Radulov
Zuccarello
Hintz
Heiskanen
Klingberg
Lindell
Bishop
Khudobin

Maybe Keep:

Seguin
Gurianov
Polak
Faksa
Janmark


Everyone else needs to be cut, traded, or bought out prior to the draft.

 

[M88K]

He got impatiant. That Hitchcock hire also landed us Hanzal and maybe Methot who just never fit here but are clearly Hitch players.

Yes but who knows how involved he was in that, those moves also are Hallmark Nill moves.
Character guys with no skill and are Big and "play the right way" and basically any praise that doesn't include skill type guys

 

[M88K]

Definitely Keep:

Radulov
Zuccarello
Hintz
Heiskanen
Klingberg
Lindell
Bishop
Khudobin

Maybe Keep:

Seguin
Gurianov
Polak
Faksa
Janmark


Everyone else needs to be cut, traded, or bought out prior to the draft.

And who pray tell do you plan to replace the teams best player with? if he's only a maybe

 

[serp]

Yes but who knows how involved he was in that, those moves also are Hallmark Nill moves.
Character guys with no skill and are Big and "play the right way" and basically any praise that doesn't include skill type guys

I don't think Hanzal would've been signed without Hitchcock. That move made zero sense with how Nill build the roster previously.

 

[Zapp]

Definitely Keep:

Radulov
Zuccarello
Hintz
Heiskanen
Klingberg
Lindell
Bishop
Khudobin

Maybe Keep:

Seguin
Gurianov
Polak
Faksa
Janmark


Everyone else needs to be cut, traded, or bought out prior to the draft.

Depends what direction we go in.

If it's a rebuild Rads and Zucc are gone.

Klingberg has climbed my list of trade-baits for us. Heiskanen and Lindell are a better top pair imo.

 

[Kcb12345]

Definitely Keep:

Radulov
Zuccarello
Hintz
Heiskanen
Klingberg
Lindell
Bishop
Khudobin

Maybe Keep:

Seguin
Gurianov
Polak
Faksa
Janmark


Everyone else needs to be cut, traded, or bought out prior to the draft.

Keep Seguin and Faksa and go get 2 more top 6 forwards and another top 4 dman and we're suddenly a very different team

 

[M88K]

Depends what direction we go in.

If it's a rebuild Rads and Zucc are gone.

Klingberg has climbed my list of trade-baits for us. Heiskanen and Lindell are a better top pair imo.

This is a bad take.
He had the best season of his career a year ago, and has been dealing with injuries and a bad coach for pretty much the whole year

 

[Ragernschnapple]

Jimmy Nill one game closer to being fired

 

[serp]

This is a bad take.
He had the best season of his career a year ago, and has been dealing with injuries and a bad coach for pretty much the whole year

His contract is also really cheap for his skillset. You're not getting anyone as good back that is this cheap.

 

[serp]

Anyone saying oh we should trade Klingberg. He is playing injured sicne that Tampa game where he again blocked a shot . Previously he was just getting back in his groove after he missed ~20 games. Since he blocked that in Tampa shot he has not looked good everybody can see that but what can you do ? Sit out and what ? Who replaces him ?

 

[Stevonidas]

His contract is also really cheap for his skillset. You're not getting anyone as good back that is this cheap.

Not to mention he's probably the best puck handler on the team and makes the powerplay look somewhat intimidating.

 

[Kcb12345]

"If we're gonna win games, we're gonna win 2-1" - Monty

 

[AveryStar4Eva]

Dam that third period was hard to watch. I’m still on the make the playoffs train, but this team needs a serious overhaul. You can’t get out shoot 19-1 in the final period, even the Senitors could have done better than that.

 

[Stevonidas]

"If we're gonna win games, we're gonna win 2-1" - Monty

Dude knows what he's working with, obviously. This team sure isn't going to win any shootouts.

 

[badboy1994]

This team is garbage, just look at the roster.

Team needs a full rebuild period, new scouts, new GM, new everything.


I don’t even blame Monty honestly, what is he suppose to do with this crap ?!?

 

[Kcb12345]

Yikes just saw another replay of the GWG. Seguin literally kicked it into the Stars net to try and block a centering feed that wasn't going to end up even near a Golden Knights player and had already deflected off of Klingberg's skate.

Typical Stars luck

 

[Troy McClure]

I don't think Hanzal would've been signed without Hitchcock. That move made zero sense with how Nill build the roster previously.

I think Hanzal was a signing that wouldn’t have happened had Nill known Radulov was going to pick the Stars. I don’t think it was part of any master plan by Nill or Hitch.

 

[LT]

I think we’re all overlooking how awful this team is on the road, specifically generating offense on the road.

We are tied with Anaheim for dead last in away GF. We are a bottom 5 team in away points %. We are a bottom 10 team in away PP%. Bottom 5 in shots for on the road. Pretty much every metric shows that we are awful on the road.

This is a problem that has persisted over the last three years. We have a strong argument for being the worst road team since 2016-2017. This problem has persisted through 3 coaches now, a big variety of depth players, and it seemed to come out of nowhere after the dominant 2015-2016 season.

This team is going nowhere until they figure out what the deal is with road games. It is what has held us back every year since our mini-run, and it’s going to prevent us from ever being a real contender again until it’s resolved.

Is it the line-matching? Do our top players crumble against the best competition when they can’t be sheltered? Is it all mental? Is it the fact that the team typically travels more miles than any other?

Whatever the problem is, it needs to be understood and fixed as soon as possible. We have 9 games each on the road and at home, and I feel very confident in saying it will be our performances in the 9 road games that determine whether we make the playoffs or not.

 

[LT]

I don’t think I’m going to even bother staying up for the Kings’ game. It’s way too late, and we’re just going to see another piss-poor road effort anyway.

 

[Ragernschnapple]

I think we’re all overlooking how awful this team is on the road, specifically generating offense on the road.

We are tied with Anaheim for dead last in away GF. We are a bottom 5 team in away points %. We are a bottom 10 team in away PP%. Bottom 5 in shots for on the road. Pretty much every metric shows that we are awful on the road.

This is a problem that has persisted over the last three years. We have a strong argument for being the worst road team since 2016-2017. This problem has persisted through 3 coaches now, a big variety of depth players, and it seemed to come out of nowhere after the dominant 2015-2016 season.

This team is going nowhere until they figure out what the deal is with road games. It is what has held us back every year since our mini-run, and it’s going to prevent us from ever being a real contender again until it’s resolved.

Is it the line-matching? Do our top players crumble against the best competition when they can’t be sheltered? Is it all mental? Is it the fact that the team typically travels more miles than any other?

Whatever the problem is, it needs to be understood and fixed as soon as possible. We have 9 games each on the road and at home, and I feel very confident in saying it will be our performances in the 9 road games that determine whether we make the playoffs or not.

I’ll go 2-6-1 remaining road games

 

[LT]

Out of 32 road games this year, 22 have seen us score 2 or fewer goals.

We are 4-15-3 in those games, including 0-10-2 in games with 0 or 1 goals.

 

[Sports2]

I think we’re all overlooking how awful this team is on the road, specifically generating offense on the road.

We are tied with Anaheim for dead last in away GF. We are a bottom 5 team in away points %. We are a bottom 10 team in away PP%. Bottom 5 in shots for on the road. Pretty much every metric shows that we are awful on the road.

This is a problem that has persisted over the last three years. We have a strong argument for being the worst road team since 2016-2017. This problem has persisted through 3 coaches now, a big variety of depth players, and it seemed to come out of nowhere after the dominant 2015-2016 season.

This team is going nowhere until they figure out what the deal is with road games. It is what has held us back every year since our mini-run, and it’s going to prevent us from ever being a real contender again until it’s resolved.

Is it the line-matching? Do our top players crumble against the best competition when they can’t be sheltered? Is it all mental? Is it the fact that the team typically travels more miles than any other?

Whatever the problem is, it needs to be understood and fixed as soon as possible. We have 9 games each on the road and at home, and I feel very confident in saying it will be our performances in the 9 road games that determine whether we make the playoffs or not.

Stars distance traveled is pretty middle of the road. One of the best for Western teams.