That's why I'm curious to see how JP plays in Pep's system. I honestly don't think that JP is that special of a player. There's not a lot of guys that can burn on this team- which I think was why Guryanov was favoured over JP initially. Now it's JPs time to prove himself. The bar to stay in the lineup isn't even that high- but we need one of them to produce.
i think ppl feel owed something when a player has high expectations but fails. it's absurd, of course, but explains why 2 players of the same production can have opposite fan sentiment.
I don't know that anyone "hates" him. I certainly have been one of the more vocal Gurianov critics and wanted him gone a long time ago, but I'd never say I ever hated him.
One of the reasons I wanted to see Bowness fired was to see if another coach would get more out of Gurianov (and others). So far, it's not happening with DeBoer, but we are seeing other players show us more. Maybe more time will help. Guianov seems to have always been a slow starter, even going back to his AHL days.
I wonder who’s the best young player we could swap him with.
I did a cap friendly filter of players who will be RFA, have a 2.5 to 3.5 mil cap hit. In a straight swap probably looking at Puljujarvi or Yamamoto. I'm assuming the cap hits would have to be pretty similar otherwise more pieces would need to be involved, Crouse is like 4.3 and Bellows is only 1.2
Oh right, forgot that Crouse has that horrendous contract going on atm, so nevermind that!
I feel like the bolded is an exaggeration. I always felt like we needed to see what he could do with a different coach before trading him away for nothing and I think that’s what most others felt as well. I don’t think anyone expected him to explode to be a 30+ goal scorer outside of Bones’ system.
Are you a holdover from the Minny days? I was a North Stars fan for years, and when they moved I decided cheering for a team in Texas made no sense, so I wandered around homeless for a bit, and then adopted Ottawa.This will likely be another game I miss.
Haven't properly seen one since the second Nashville game. All these Canadian games are blacked out for me with Centre Ice, and it's massively annoying. I've always used NHL.tv up until this season but since the NHL does everything in it's power to not allow fans to watch games AND turned their shit over the Sportsnet, the early season has sucked as a Stars fan in Canada. Yeah yeah yeah alternative means but those have become worse and worse for me for whatever reason.
At least this will be the last game I'll have a problem with for a while. Well, for two weeks until they play Edmonton and Winnipeg again.
