Alf Silfversson
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There is no reason...no VALID reason that Chlapik couldn't have been one of our bottom six forwards last year (and this year). Still think he could top out as a decent #3C.
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There is no reason...no VALID reason that Chlapik couldn't have been one of our bottom six forwards last year (and this year). Still think he could top out as a decent #3C.
On a playoff team he likely gets buried. On our team he’s in the top 6 showcasing. We are a stepping stone.
Kuzmenko is a real deal. Andrei Kuzmenko at eliteprospects.com
Isn't that big but bulky. Can skate, shoot, stickhandle, good IQ as well. He's at his prime (turns 26 in a month) and a really talented player.
I agree that Ottawa is a good variant for him. Good chance he'll make the main roster.
Isn't that big but bulky. Can skate, shoot, stickhandle, good IQ as well. He's at his prime (turns 26 in a month) and a really talented player.
I agree that Ottawa is a good variant for him. Good chance he'll make the main roster.
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The reason is that Chlapik didn’t want to play a bottom 6 role. He’s quoted as saying that he thought Ottawa was trying to transform him into a checker and he was not into it. Is that a valid enough reason?
Alf Silfversson
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Playing in the bottom six doesn't have to mean you are purely a checker.
I mean our braintrust may be dumb enough to think that but it doesn't make it so.
Chlapik said that he signed in Switzerland because he believes it is the best way back to the NHL. But he is going to sign only with a team that offers him "significant role". I have my doubts about that happening.
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Kuzmenko doesn’t walk on water, so confirmed he’s a good fit for the Sens.
Having a shooting winger that could provide some finish on the 2nd line is something, we should for sure be looking at
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Artem Zub to Andrei Kuzmenko :
"Yeah comrade, come join us, their manager will give you the easiest and quickest path to money. The team sucks here so you'll have the chance to put numbers"
"The atmosphere is great too, we suck but there's a lot of character here so we learn how to cope with all the losing"
I don't know if "playoff hopes" is the first thing they'll be looking at. If I was their agent, I'd be looking at opportunity to make a name for themselves and earn more money and role following that, on a playoff team. So start with a player development team like the Sens, then get serious business offers from other teams.
Ouroboros wrote this in December :
"Didn't any of you guys read the Mendes article about Chlapik? He didn't want to play on an NHL 4th line - he straight up says he didn't enjoy that role and didn't want to do it. Not much the team can do in that case."
I think it was more specifically "4th line". It means that he probably wanted at least a 3rd line role but was stuck in a number's game like Balcers (and well, Duclair too in the end)
Anyway, good for him, NL is the 3rd highly paid league after the KHL and SHL.
"Yeah comrade, come join us, their manager will give you the easiest and quickest path to money. The team sucks here so you'll have the chance to put numbers"
"The atmosphere is great too, we suck but there's a lot of character here so we learn how to cope with all the losing"
I don't know if "playoff hopes" is the first thing they'll be looking at. If I was their agent, I'd be looking at opportunity to make a name for themselves and earn more money and role following that, on a playoff team. So start with a player development team like the Sens, then get serious business offers from other teams.
Ouroboros wrote this in December :
"Didn't any of you guys read the Mendes article about Chlapik? He didn't want to play on an NHL 4th line - he straight up says he didn't enjoy that role and didn't want to do it. Not much the team can do in that case."
I think it was more specifically "4th line". It means that he probably wanted at least a 3rd line role but was stuck in a number's game like Balcers (and well, Duclair too in the end)
Anyway, good for him, NL is the 3rd highly paid league after the KHL and SHL.
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Alf Silfversson
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Time will tell if he could be an NHL player on other teams but he was absolutely better than some of the trash we played last year and some of the trash we're playing this year. He would have been cheap and he had even showed that he could play a bottom six role in the NHL in previous short stints.
There are plenty of players who go unsigned but are NHL caliber. That's a pretty dumb argument to make. Chlapik, after his time with us, expressed that he wanted to go back to Europe. It's no surprise no one signed him. Now it sounds like he wants to make his way back. If he has a good season in the Swiss League he will likely get an NHL offer.
But carry on defending how the Sens buried this player for the likes of Anisimov's corpse, Stepan, Haley, Bishop, Tierney and Galchenyuk.
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Assuming that is true, at less than a million bucks that is what we should be looking for. Instead we pay Tierney and others millions more to be Tierney or worse.
Good teams fill the bottom of their roster with young talent who is just breaking in, even if they never become more than 3rd liners.
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Alf Silfversson
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He said he didn't want purely a 4th line role. Not the same thing. Chlapik never insisted on playing top 6. He had played in the bottom 6 before. We'll never know for sure but he likely saw Arty Party, Haley and others getting NHL paychecks over him and decided the organization did not value his abilities and he'd never get a fair shake here.
Adding Balcers, Duclair and likely Chlapik to our forward group would have been welcome in any of the previous two years.
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There's some truth there, though top teams are usually top heavy and look for cheaper options to fill the bottom of the lineup. Not necessarily just younger players.
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Looks like he is a right shooting LW with skill. If he signs here will be put him in a spot to succeed or play him on the side he isn't used to like Brannstrom? Or DJ won't play him because he looks skilled and not a physical grinder?
I know, but we didn’t have a top 6 role for him any time soon, and he wasn’t good enough for one. The team tried to get him to play a bottom 6 role so that he could maybe make the team, but he didn’t want to make the team in that kind of role. He chose to leave instead and play bigger minutes and a bigger role over seas. It’s great for him, and not a loss at all for us.
In my opinion he would not move the needle on our team right now at all, and Neither would Balcers. Gambrell is a better bottom 6 player, as is Sanford, and when we’re healthy neither of those guys would have a roster spot.
Duclair could have been nice, though we do have Formenton so I’m not sure where he’d fit.
I like him better than Duclair TBH,has that kinda abrasive way about him...Add in world class speed and I can see him being great 2nd.3rd line forward for us
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