BackVechkin
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I think Connolly is a very solid 4RW. I would love to see caps trade winnik for picks and sign brandon pirri to a contract
I know people love their sarcastic comments about how the Capitals' additions lately are going to put them over the top, but their bottom-6 is pretty clearly better after these moves. Connolly may not end up being their 3RW but he will at least provide more competiton for Wilson/Galiev/Vrana.
A 3rd line of Johansson - Eller - Connolly is pretty decent and there's some possibility of upside with all three of those players. Good signing.
I know people love their sarcastic comments about how the Capitals' additions lately are going to put them over the top, but their bottom-6 is pretty clearly better after these moves. Connolly may not end up being their 3RW but he will at least provide more competiton for Wilson/Galiev/Vrana.
A 3rd line of Johansson - Eller - Connolly is pretty decent and there's some possibility of upside with all three of those players. Good signing.
Eller > Richards
Connolly > Latta
Vrana/? - Chimera
Broken down like that and its hard to argue the bottom 6 wont be better. And depending on how well GmBm does with mojo/orlov we could be in a nice spot to make a move at the TDL
Galiev 26 GP 1-3-4 career
Connolly 210 GP 27-32-59 career
At the very least Connolly is an upgrade over Galiev/Latta and should be the 4RW. Best case he breaks out and gives them a cheaper scoring-line RW next season when there may be a lot of turnover at the position next summer.
Eller > Richards
Connolly > Latta
Vrana/? - Chimera
lets see. i think galiev beats connolly out for the available sweater. time will tell.
Winnik = Chimera
Jason Chimera scored 20 goals last season.
Daniel Winnik has scored 21 goals in the last three seasons combined.
You're alone in thinking that. I can't really think of any area where Galiev is superior to Connolly. Perhaps dekes.
Only 4 of Chimera's goals came on the PP. He had the same amount of 5on5 goals (12) as TJ Oshie, and more than Kuznetsov (11) or Johansson (10).Meh. Winnik took Chimera's salary slot. Chimera got PP time. Winnik won't.
2014-15 they scored the same amt of goals (granted, Chimera out scored him 15-9 previous year). Winnik is a better PK'er, and is def slotted 4th.
I like Chimera better, don't get me wrong, but Winnik is a different player and adds different values.
What's their fancy stat comparison, since I know how much that matters to you?
Caps bottom 6 start of last season:
Johansson - Beagle - Wilson
Chimera - Laich - Latta
Caps bottom 6 start of this season:
Johansson - Eller - Wilson
Winnik - Beagle - Connolly
That's far improved, IMO, and costs
That wasn't their bottom 6 at the start of last season.
Johansson was 2LW up until Beagle went down and they needed a new 3C.
Chimera played 3LW pretty much the entire season.
And while Burakovsky got a couple starts up the lineup at the very start of the season because Backstrom was out as soon as he came back he went back to the 4th line until Beagle went down.