Taze em
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At this point it's pretty clear Stan is just giving Q as many options for cheap young players as possible and letting him make his choice.
A plan I far prefer to him resigning players far past their best-before *cough*Handzus*cough**cough*Rozsival*cough*
Also much better then Stan's plan of trading high value assets for failed NHL talent (Rundblad)
And the 3 years of Rozy for Hawks was solid pickup by Stan. Not sure why you are so upset with it given Hawks won cup and advanced to WCF last 2 years with help from Rozy
If 'with help from' means 'in spite of' through 2013/2014-2014/2015 then you may have a point.
I do love how a walking liability that managed to stop vomiting all over himself for all of 5 games suddenly became a norris candidate hero on these forums.
Chances are, if you aren't playing in North America by 27....you're just not making it in the NHL. He is hardly "young".
Say what you want about Rozsival this season (and I wouldn't disagree with it, he was brutal but was still sadly our 5th best defenseman from all the crap we've had to watch minus Timonen who hasn't really gotten much ice time and Rundblad showing flashes at times and of course his solid play in the playoffs) but he was damn solid in the Hawks shortened cup season. I still think Q should've rested him more this year, but hindsight is 20/20.
Chances are, if you aren't playing in North America by 27....you're just not making it in the NHL. He is hardly "young".
Miss-imformed statement.
Firstly, many players chose not to play in the NHL.
Secondly, d-men,especially defensive d-men, can take a while to develop.
This player may well be a decent defensive type d-man and great penalty killer.
But did anybody else open this thinking we were up for some award I'd never heard of?
Plenty of guys that could hack it on a bottom pairing in the NHL decided to make more money playing at home instead of riding buses and paying dues over here.
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If another team wants him, he's probably worth getting. Hawks be Yankeein'
But did anybody else open this thinking we were up for some award I'd never heard of?
Defensiv D are known to dominate and get much attentionB. Then you would know of him, i.e. dominating some Euro league.
He went from a decent KHL team to a crap one in SMLiga. Not an upward career trajectory.
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He may be the next Randy Gregg, but the odds are very overwhelmingly against it.
The odds of a 7th round pick making it in the NHL is low, yet you don't punt the pick.
Troy Brouwer was such a pick and we got decent production from him and turned him into a 1st round pick.
Signing this guy is a decent lottery pick for nothing.
Zero reason to be negative about it.