Confirmed Signing with Link: [FLA] Nikita Gusev signs with the Panthers (1 year, $1M)
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DingDongCharlie
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Barkov is an ideal center for a guy with elite skills but slow and defensively suspect. For $1 mil prorated this is a low risk high reward deal
kerrabria
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Called it with the $1m.
Can he play RW? All his goals seem to come from the left-side of the ice.
If he needs a defensive C, that's fine. All of our centers have a strong two-way game. If he needs a strong finisher, that might be a problem. Our only guys who have first line caliber finishing abilities are Barkov (playmaker first), Huberdeau (playmaker first), Verhaeghe, and Hornqvist (specific kind of finisher).
Plus, Huberdeau is exclusively an LW, and Verhaeghe needs to play LW too.
Can he play RW? All his goals seem to come from the left-side of the ice.
If he needs a defensive C, that's fine. All of our centers have a strong two-way game. If he needs a strong finisher, that might be a problem. Our only guys who have first line caliber finishing abilities are Barkov (playmaker first), Huberdeau (playmaker first), Verhaeghe, and Hornqvist (specific kind of finisher).
Plus, Huberdeau is exclusively an LW, and Verhaeghe needs to play LW too.
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Porter Stoutheart
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Kinda nice to see "all sides" work this out. Normally if a guy isn't fitting in, a team lets him languish, the player still wants his money, and it ends there only after the season ends and the contract expires. Kudos to these sides instead for coming to a happier ending for all involved.
Thomas Colavecchio
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FYI, the L 1 RW for the majority of the year so far has been Duclair, out with an upper body injury for about 2 weeks now. Marchment has been moved up and down the lineup a lot by Coach Q, but ideally be a bottom 6 winger, not be on L 1.
With "Duke" coming back soon, this move will allow for some better line balance. if Gusev offers anything.
violaswallet
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Props to Gusev: he gave up over >500K pre tax to play somewhere else. We complain about overpaid players (and with a particular animus against Russians but not true here)Kinda nice to see "all sides" work this out. Normally if a guy isn't fitting in, a team lets him languish, the player still wants his money, and it ends there only after the season ends and the contract expires. Kudos to these sides instead for coming to a happier ending for all involved.
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Had no idea Ferrari made cars with minimal horsepower and a top speed that isn’t sufficient to be on a freeway.
Show me a gif or a clip where he is slow. It is a nonsense that NJ organization was spreading out. Devils current system is designed for scrubs who never can maintain puck possession - instead they chase the opponents trying to create an occasional turnover. This is outdated system managed by an outdated dinosaur of a coach. Gusev did just fine when they tried playing some kind of a passing game, was second in points on that team. You can hardly do that without horsepower.
Here's the proof that you can see in bits and pieces that Gusev has good speed
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Yes, you’re in luck he did well last season on a Coleman-Zajac-Gusev line before the Coleman trade and and a Bratt-Zacha-Gusev line afterwards.
He’s a non-physical, elusive undersized playmaking forward, his defense is weak and don’t expect a lot juice from his weak shot, though he certainly can get pucks on net and he got them in there more last season.
A big issue for Goose this season was that our power play imploded. Last season Gusev was big part of our late season success with the power play, in the last 20 games we had 28% success rate and he led the team in that period with 9 points (3G 6A). With new coaches and no pre-season they never quite figured what how to make it work, it went from mediocre to awful as the staff had to focus on the struggling PK with what little practice time they had. Gusev was snakebit everywhere but it was his inability to produce at all on the power play, while his defensive play was proving too costly 5v5, that likely got him taken out of the line-up.
I hope he works out in Florida, a center who can cover for him defensively while Goose adds offense to the line had been a formula that had worked out ok in 2019-20. If it was a regular season and NJ didn’t have the most brutal schedule in the NHL for much of the season, with 25 games in 43 days before getting two days off in a row after a lengthy COVID suspension, Ruff could have used practice days to iron issues out but that’s impossible with a game ever other day with no breaks. He’s a nifty, cerebral player. There simply wasn’t a way for Ruff to find time to work out kinks with him within this meat grinder schedule that NHL is pushing teams through while working with a lot of developing players on a young team. Someone was going to lose out and it was Goose. Hopefully he will be energized by the change and new opportunity.
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I don't see as he has much choice. You don't bring Gusev onto the Panthers to play him with Wennberg or Acciari.
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I actually think that if you get bought out during the season, you shouldn't be able to be signed on for the remainder of that season.
Oddbob
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That was a contract termination not a buy out
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He's a very high IQ east west offensive player with skill. I enjoyed watching him, but he just didn't fit on our team of north south burners.
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