Confirmed with Link: Guerin named GM

[57special]

I'm dreaming of a goal explosion from the young forwards. Donato, Kunin, Greenway, Ek, Fiala, Zucker, Parise, Staal, Zucarrello should average 20 goals each- is that crazy talk?

 

[P10p]

I'm dreaming of a goal explosion from the young forwards. Donato, Kunin, Greenway, Ek, Fiala, Zucker, Parise, Staal, Zucarrello should average 20 goals each- is that crazy talk?

Greenway, Ek, Kunin, and Donato need to take big steps to be able to say you can count on them for 20.

 

[BagHead]

Greenway, Ek, Kunin, and Donato need to take big steps to be able to say you can count on them for 20.

I don't think that's what he's saying. He's saying that if you add in our best goal scorers to those guys, they all would average 20 goals. 180 goals out of our top 9 wingers. It might happen?

 

[P10p]

I don't think that's what he's saying. He's saying that if you add in our best goal scorers to those guys, they all would average 20 goals. 180 goals out of our top 9 wingers. It might happen?

Would love it to happen!

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

I don't think that's what he's saying. He's saying that if you add in our best goal scorers to those guys, they all would average 20 goals. 180 goals out of our top 9 wingers. It might happen?

180 goals / six top 9 wingers = 30 goals average.

I think you meant “top 9 players”.

 

[57special]

Thanks for explaining me, Baghead.

 

[AJ Thelen]

Q&A: Bill Guerin talks state of the Wild, Kaprizov plans,...

I really liked his answer on this one:

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[BlackBusa24]

Q&A: Bill Guerin talks state of the Wild, Kaprizov plans,...

I really liked his answer on this one:

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It could either be a good thing or a bad thing.....

 

[AJ Thelen]

It could either be a good thing or a bad thing.....

It’s a good thing.

 

[thestonedkoala]

Seems like Guerin already has a better relation with Bruce LOL

 

[BagHead]

180 goals / six top 9 wingers = 30 goals average.

I think you meant “top 9 players”.

Indeed I did. Sort of. I actually noticed there were no centers in that group, so modified the sentence, but then forgot to adjust my phrasing. Oops.

 

[DANOZ28]

I'm dreaming of a goal explosion from the young forwards. Donato, Kunin, Greenway, Ek, Fiala, Zucker, Parise, Staal, Zucarrello should average 20 goals each- is that crazy talk?

i may have already posted line#1 zucker 30G/ staal 25G/ zuccarello 20G; line2 parise 25G/ koivu 15G/ fiala 20G; line3 greenway 15G/ kunin 15G/ donato 15G; line4 foligno 10G/ ?????10g/ Hartman 10G. add 50G from our D and boom goes the dynamite 260GF! (that's with spurgeons 14) so Guerin has something to work with.

 

[57special]

I'll be disappointed if Donato gets only 15G, Ek 10, and Kunin 15(unless he is playing C). Donato has to score to put up with his defensive and physical deficiencies, Ek has to use that shot and big body of his...though if he is a 4th line C I can't expect much.

As I've said many times before, I want Kunin to be a two way RW who scores 25g...I don't think he has the speed or size to play C, and it will take away from his offense.

 

[TaLoN]

Q&A: Bill Guerin talks state of the Wild, Kaprizov plans,...

I really liked his answer on this one:

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I get the impression Guerin has spent more time in Minnesota already than Fenton did in the entire past year.

On Friday, he threw out the first pitch at the Twins game, then met with Twins executives Derek Falvey and Thad Levine and got to meet manager Rocco Baldelli.

On Monday, he held his first hockey operations meeting, sitting down and talking over the roster and training camp for three hours with coach Bruce Boudreau and his staff.

On Tuesday, he got his first taste of the Great Minnesota Get-Together by doing a bunch of radio and TV interviews and eating a couple Pronto Pups at the State Fair. Afterward, he drove out to Eagan in the afternoon and spent two hours with Vikings GM Rick Spielman. He got the full tour of the Vikings’ impressive practice facility, watched some practice and met with coach Mike Zimmer. Later that night, Guerin and Boudreau sat down for a get-to-know-each-other dinner at a popular (aka $$$$$) steakhouse in Minneapolis.

On Wednesday, Guerin and owner Craig Leipold took in the local Minnesota pro’s daily pre-training camp skate and scrimmage in Edina, then went to lunch with Wild captain Mikko Koivu.

Later Wednesday, Guerin also got together with Zach Parise as the new GM tries his darnedest to meet with or speak with almost every player on the roster before he leaves next week for the Wild’s prospects tournament in Traverse City, Mich.

 

[57special]

Fenton was an arrogant jackass.

 

[dBoon]

Russo's 2 part interview on the Athletic sold me on "Billy," and sold me again. I really think he understands the relationship part of the gig of which GMPF seemed entirely unaware of. Being liked or disliked makes a difference.

 

[nickschultzfan]

Russo's 2 part interview on the Athletic sold me on "Billy," and sold me again. I really think he understands the relationship part of the gig of which GMPF seemed entirely unaware of. Being liked or disliked makes a difference.

I agree. Seems like he knows that he needs to put out all the fires around the organization and community, and he is executing on that immediately. That is a fair amount of awareness from day 1 and shows that he is a leader.

I was lukewarm on his hire (more excited about Fenton getting canned), but I am getting more optimistic. He might actually be the prefect guy to get Spurgeon to re-sign and get guys to fall in line in the locker room. Hope the talent evaluation and trade ability is there too.

 

[thestonedkoala]

I'm curious to see his staff hires; we need another assistant GM, I believe. I'd like to see him fix the scouting department and development department as well.

 

[Digitalbooya]

i may have already posted line#1 zucker 30G/ staal 25G/ zuccarello 20G; line2 parise 25G/ koivu 15G/ fiala 20G; line3 greenway 15G/ kunin 15G/ donato 15G; line4 foligno 10G/ ?????10g/ Hartman 10G. add 50G from our D and boom goes the dynamite 260GF! (that's with spurgeons 14) so Guerin has something to work with.

I think these would be more realistic*:

Zucker 25g/ Staal 25g / Zuccarello 17g
Parise 28g / Koivu 14g / Fiala 15g
Greenway 15g / Kunin 15g / Donato 15g
Foligno 7g / Sturm 5g / Hartman 10g

Suter 7g / Dumba 18g
Brodin 4g / Spurgeon 10g
Seeler 2g / Pateryn 1g

* = when healthy

That’s 233 goals. Would have been good for 20th in scoring this past year.

 

[57special]

Sturm over Ek?

 

[Digitalbooya]

Sturm over Ek?

He probably is better than Ek

But yeah, I forgot Eriksson Ek.

 

[DANOZ28]

if zuccarello is such a assist machine he should be able to bump up zucker's & staal's totals. also i think dumba 20g & spurgeon 14G. fiala really needs to get back to 20G or fenton wet the bed on that trade.

 

[Digitalbooya]

if zuccarello is such a assist machine he should be able to bump up zucker's & staal's totals. also i think dumba 20g & spurgeon 14G.

Zucker and Staal's totals were already bumped up from Granlund.

There was one dman with 20 or more goals last year. I do think Dumba can do it, but realistically I expect him to be in the 15-18 goal range.

I don't expect Spurgeon to replicate this past season's total for this very reason: Dumba will be back. Spurgeon was put into a lot of spots that Dumba would normally be in (1st pair, 1st pp unit, etc). With Dumba back I expect it to be shared, thus reducing Spurgeon's opportunities.

 

[Webster]

if zuccarello is such a assist machine he should be able to bump up zucker's & staal's totals. also i think dumba 20g & spurgeon 14G.

Zuccarello's linemates on the Rangers were on fire, but they had a major drop in production when he was traded.
I guess this says it all.

Zucker, Staal and others who will play with him should score more this season.

 

[TaLoN]

if zuccarello is such a assist machine he should be able to bump up zucker's & staal's totals. also i think dumba 20g & spurgeon 14G. fiala really needs to get back to 20G or fenton wet the bed on that trade.

Well, keep in mind we used to have Granlund the assist machine and they were slumping when he was playing some of the best hockey of his life early last year.