Nucker101
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- Apr 2, 2013
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Totally agree with this thinking, my only hesitancy is selling Pettersson right now, I do think he can bounceback like Hughes has, maybe not to exactly what he used to be in terms of impact but at least in terms of production bouncing back to an extent. Even if you don’t want him here long term, I’d gamble onto holding him for another year and then look to move him when he (hopefully) is scoring at 65-70 point pace.Like, for the new regime the first thing they have to do is come in here and build a new identity for this slow, soft team. We need to get faster, more competitive, harder to play against. And you have to figure out which guys can fit that sort of team.
And to me, that list is :
JT Miller (80% of the time)
Tyler Motte
Matthew Highmore
Juho Lammikko
Vasili Podkolzin
Nils Hoglander
Quinn Hughes
Luke Schenn
Those are the guys who if you dropped them into a Vegas or Colorado or Tampa would fit in and succeed (or in the case of Podkolzin and Hoglander, inconsistently show those traits as young guys but can be expected to be those types of players).
And that makes it a hell of a lot harder to move any of the guys on that list, unless you get a major overpayment. And that's the problem they're having with JT Miller as well.
It would be a hell of a thing to trade away like half the list of guys who fit where you want to go starting next year but get stuck keeping a pile of guys who represent the shit team this has been in the past. And they want to do a re-tool, not a rebuild.
I also think Garland has some nice shit disturber tendencies that make him hard to play against, I think he’s the type of player who would actually be more effective on a team that’s hard to play against. I’d also happily keep Burroughs around as organizational depth.
But other than that, I agree with your list. I’d shop around the likes of Horvat, Boeser, Myers, Pearson and eventually Pettersson(unless he somehow becomes less afraid of contact again).