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How is Perhonen with the Oil?
He stayed in Finland, I think his season started as did Klefbom's. They're both not in camp.
How is Perhonen with the Oil?
Gardiner for the Leafs was amazing last night. Still can't believe Anaheim traded him for Beauchemin. What were they thinking??
Oilers:
Impress:
Nugent-Hopkins
Martindale
Bunz
Marincin
Pitlick
Lander
Gernat
Tyrvainen
Un-impressive:
Rajala
Teubert (In the one game at least)
Rieder
Davidson
Blain
Yeah, I remember how upset I was after I heard of the trade. Not sure how I feel about it now, but the reasoning of the trade - for those other fans that are a little less familiar with the situation in Anaheim - has almost perfectly been described in Brodeur's post:Plenty of Anaheim fans were asking that very question.
Ducks added a wealth of similarly aged D since the 2008 Draft. Notably acquiring Sbisa and having Fowler fall into their laps in 2010. Fellow 2008 pick and Wisconsin teammate Justin Schultz had leapfrogged Gardiner according to many observers. 2009 pick Sami Vatanen looks pretty good as well.
The Leafs took an extra year of Lupul's contract. Might seem like a trivial matter for Toronto, but they can take advantage of a situation like that. Whereas Anaheim probably needed the financial flexibility after this season. (...)
To the Ducks, they felt like losing Gardiner wouldn't put a huge dent in their farm system. Freeing up Lupul's 4.25 milllion in 2012-13 could add to the pool towards re-signing Getzlaf/Perry who'll be entering their walk years. Or they could use it towards finding a forward who fits in better than Lupul would have.
Ducks added a wealth of similarly aged D since the 2008 Draft. Notably acquiring Sbisa and having Fowler fall into their laps in 2010. Fellow 2008 pick and Wisconsin teammate Justin Schultz had leapfrogged Gardiner according to many observers. 2009 pick Sami Vatanen looks pretty good as well.
The Leafs took an extra year of Lupul's contract. Might seem like a trivial matter for Toronto, but they can take advantage of a situation like that. Whereas Anaheim probably needed the financial flexibility after this season. Can't argue the move from a Toronto standpoint. Burke can take advantage that the Leafs have deeper pockets (ie, the Lombardi/Franson trade).
But these are the sort of things you'll have in a cap environment. We see this sort of trade in the NBA often, where a team will fork over a first rounder/prospect in order to take on a contract which expires more quickly.
To the Ducks, they felt like losing Gardiner wouldn't put a huge dent in their farm system. Freeing up Lupul's 4.25 milllion in 2012-13 could add to the pool towards re-signing Getzlaf/Perry who'll be entering their walk years. Or they could use it towards finding a forward who fits in better than Lupul would have.
Yemelin and Gallagher for Montreal. In the 1st scrimmage, Yemelin layed 4-5 big hits with a really good defensive coverage. Today, he calmed down a little bit but he displayed very good offensive skills.
I'm interest in Magnus Hellberg's and Adam larsson's camps? Are they doing good so far?
How is Hellberg compared with all the other goalie prospects, wich are great, in Nashville?
From the Montreal-Dallas game last night:
MTL Positives
Brock Trotter
Yanick Weber
MTL negatives
Alexei Yemelin
Jarred Tinordi
DAL positives
Tomas Vincour
Philip Larsen
DAL negatives
Brenden Dillon
Yemelin was absolutely amazing last night. Was all over the place. You can see he needs to adjust but it's pretty clear he has NHL-skills. I mean, how many guys have his agressiveness and hitting ability + can skate so smooth and make those kind of outlet passes?
He's like a bigger Niklas Kronwall.
So which is it?
I didn't notice Filatov at all last night aside from the first assist. I don't know what you guys are talking about.
From the Montreal-Dallas game last night:
MTL Positives
Brock Trotter
Yanick Weber
MTL negatives
Alexei Yemelin
Jarred Tinordi
DAL positives
Tomas Vincour
Philip Larsen
DAL negatives
Brenden Dillon
For the Wild:
Positives
Phillips' skating. If you didn't know that he was greatly knocked for his skating, you probably wouldn't even notice it.
Scandella is playing like a man possessed at training camp.
Gillies has already been largely penciled in as making the team, but he's still proving that he really deserved it.
Bulmer has been everything he was advertised to be. He's really taking after Clutterbuck, although he still has penalty trouble.
Negatives
Wellman hasn't shown anything to say he can make that jump to NHL play.
No one in the cluster of potential 7th defensemen have taken a step above anyone else. There's still hope that someone will jump out and put pressure on the bottom two pairings for ice time, but it looks like we might be signing Hendry off the tryout for that depth spot.
McMillan has been largely invisible...to the point where I just had to find proof online that he was at training camp before I posted this.
Maksim Mayorov was pretty obviously the best forward last night in Columbus vs. Winnipeg. He outperformed guys like Umberger, Vermette, Prospal, Kane and Wheeler consistently over the course of the game(not to say those guys played poorly). He came away with a goal and an assist, but I think I was most impressed with his compete level and short area burst. There are few players I've seen that can move 10 feet laterally as quickly as he did last night, and even fewer that can do it at 6'2, 210. On top of that, he showed great hands and a willingness to hit. It might just be one game, but for that game he looked much closer to his lofty 2007 #8 ISS draft ranking than his AHL stats would indicate.
David Savard played very poised. He played opposite Wisniewski on the PP and didn't look at all out of place. Boone Jenner also played exceptionally well. With his combo of compete level, size, skill, speed and attitude, it's hard to believe he made it out of the top-20.