Clint
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We'll recoup that 1st rounder when Zito trades Huberdeau...
We'll recoup that 1st rounder when Zito trades Huberdeau...
We'll recoup that 1st rounder when Zito trades Huberdeau...
I don't think Zito really cares the Cats are among the top5, top10 or top15 in the league when the Cats' mgmt needs to focus on the possibility that they face the Bolts again in the first round and then they get eliminated again. So, essentially they have to engage in the arms race, trying to match up with the roster of a back-to-back SC winner.
Exactly and I think Mackie’s game looks to translate really well into the NHL as well. Very high on that young man right now. He has excellent tools.
Zito cares, keeping an eye on the future is important, Tampa isn't gonna be good forever. They lost their entire 3rd line from last season, and they will lose Johnson and Savard. Next offseason, Point is due for a big raise, and they will lose somebody else. Eventially Tampa will go through a phase of being mediocre. Zito has said on multiple occasions that they don't want to damage the future.
Obviously teams will be gunning for them even more now, and sooner or later they'll learn the best ways to beat Vasy, which is where their achilles heel actually is (if he can't paly every game). Play Vasy tough, play in front all the time, eventually you find the cracks.They'll lose some guys but they just keep adding more guys because it all depends on that their key guys are still in their prime. Just look at how many times ppl have predicted that "this year the Pens/Bruins being their process of deterioration"... and it just doesn't happen in a year or two. The Bolts will be a contender quality team for the next five years at least even tho some might think that their time is over because Goodrow and Savard are gone, and that five years will feel like an eternity.
I think that’s where a player like Sam helps, both of them actually. Same plays in your face and plows his way to the net while reinhart has some nasty hands in close with those tips. Guy is like Pavelski with his hands in close.Obviously teams will be gunning for them even more now, and sooner or later they'll learn the best ways to beat Vasy, which is where their achilles heel actually is (if he can't paly every game). Play Vasy tough, play in front all the time, eventually you find the cracks.
They'll lose some guys but they just keep adding more guys because it all depends on that their key guys are still in their prime. Just look at how many times ppl have predicted that "this year the Pens/Bruins being their process of deterioration"... and it just doesn't happen in a year or two. The Bolts will be a contender quality team for the next five years at least even tho some might think that their time is over because Goodrow and Savard are gone, and that five years will feel like an eternity.
I wonder what number Rhino will wear?
He previously wore #23.
Verhaeghe is a few months olderHags might give his number up to him, as he's the veteran.
*cough* high-gloveObviously teams will be gunning for them even more now, and sooner or later they'll learn the best ways to beat Vasy, which is where their achilles heel actually is (if he can't paly every game). Play Vasy tough, play in front all the time, eventually you find the cracks.
I hope he takes a really cool high number, like 96 or somethingI wonder what number Rhino will wear?
He previously wore #23.
The more draft picks and prospects they trade, the harder it's gonna be to keep replacing guys... I like that you tried to minimize the loss of Tampa's 3rd line but the fact is that they Coleman-Gourde-Goodrow
Or 10...?I hope he takes a really cool high number, like 96 or something
Jean Luc thinks 11 will be available soon…Or 10...?
Everything I see from him playing juniors in Kamloops, to World Juniors, to his previous NHL team. He is always worn #23.I hope he takes a really cool high number, like 96 or something
I assume this has already been posted, but you gotta love the quotes by Reinhart. He seems super amped up to join us.
Reinhart traded to Panthers by Sabres
So build for the future and also do not build for the future but move picks for immediate help. Guys like Goodrow are valuable, obviously if they can fetch you a 1st round pick, but you can't act like that they are part of the core that keeps their team going to the finals and win. Goodrows and Fat Maroons come and go and the core stays.
Ofc, the Pens and Broons are going to fall apart now because they've been in the playoff hunt for the past 10-15 years i.e. the entire careers of Crosby and Bergeron.
Even tho Knight, Lundell, Deni, etc. are good prospects but the Cats' track record still shows that they have exactly five roster players (Barkov, Hubs, Ek, Weegs and Tipp) as a results of how they draft and develop. So, on paper, the Cats' draft picks aren't valuable but they only become valuable once they are traded for something else.
NoWe'll recoup that 1st rounder when Zito trades Huberdeau...
He is a tipper, Tampa Bay scored the majority of their goals jus by tipping. he is also very accurate, loves to score top shelf, he is going to score 50 playing with Barkov. It seems that he scores a lot because he does not stop the motion of the puck, no time for the goalie to adjust.