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At least we won't have the usual suspects coming here just to complain about Gusev playing with Eakin on the 3rd line
At least we won't have the usual suspects coming here just to complain about Gusev playing with Eakin on the 3rd line
I've been pissed all day after I heard this trade. The team clearly doesn't trust Glass to be the 3rd line center and who knows why they value Reaves and Holden so much.
It is clear that McPhee didn't value Gusev, not even over Eakin for an extra year. This wasn't the team unable to keep him, it was they didn't think it was worth the bother for them.
Vegas will whoop some Shark butt, pillar to post, all season - Gusev or not. I hope peg leg pirate's groin is ready. There's only so much gutless flopping Meier can do to draw penalties with Pavelski gone.
PD - you did see the post above yours? Granger reporting VGK tried to trade Reaves and Holden and couldn't find any takers.
“What we didn’t want to do was tear the team apart to accommodate one player,” McPhee said. “We like the chemistry on our team. We weren’t interested in moving other players. We like our players. We like our team. We like the chemistry, and we didn’t want to extract players from the team that could ultimately hurt us.”
A league source told The Athletic the Golden Knights sent feelers out to see if teams would take salaries like Ryan Reaves ($2.775 million) and Nick Holden ($2.2 million) off their hands, but general managers around the league weren’t eager to help McPhee out of a cap crunch.
The article is a bit contradictory on that point...
Turk has nothing to do with this. It's all the GMs. Turk even said the way he followed it was through the papers.Sounds to me like they were not too motivated to move those contracts, especially Reaves as I don’t think McCrimmom would be all that eager to trade him.
In my gut, I think the major impediment to adding Gusev was probably Gallant. If he was banging the table for him I think the upper brass might have tried harder to make room.
But from the GMs perspective, what if they created some holes to sign Gusev only to have Gallant complain about having to play him similar to what happens with Ship? They might have feared that.
Mcphee’s mention of Gusev’s lack of size and ‘elite’ speed sounds like it might have come from Gallant as well.
PD - you did see the post above yours? Granger reporting VGK tried to trade Reaves and Holden and couldn't find any takers.
Eakin is known quantity/quality. #2 in taking faceoffs.
(#s 4 and 5 won't be back with team.)
Gusev as winger won't be taking many faceoffs, most likely.
(I'd expect Pirri to get more faceoffs, as a center. And Tuch, Nosek will probably take more.)
Karlsson is taking most faceoffs of team. Taking more would increase his ice time (perhaps wearing him out) decrease other F ice time.
Looking for good 3rd and 4th line centers (&/or responsible wingers) to take faceoffs.
Turk has nothing to do with this. It's all the GMs. Turk even said the way he followed it was through the papers.
That's not how faceoffs work. Bill simply takes the most because he's on the ice more than everybody that isn't a top 4 D.That would mean Stastny was third in faceoffs? That needs to change anyway as that is our best faceoff center. Stastny first, Karlsson second, then they could have had Roy, Nosek, Glass, whoever fill out the rest of them.
As it stands now, Stastny and Karlsson as one and two, Eakin probably does challenge Karlsson for that second spot since he is still here and then Roy, Nosek taking fourth line draws.
We will probably have to trade a center in the season as I think Glass will force his way into the lineup.
I think Lawless provided a good blueprint for dealing with the Gusev situation: just forget he was ever part of the club, it helps with the disappointment.
Just go back to the expansion draft and revel in the fact that Tampa was one of the teams we pillaged the best.
We got 2 2nds, a 3rd and a 4th for taking on a stiff and his contract for only one year. That is a damn good return.
And if that Tampa 2nd was the one we burned in the Kolesar trade let’s forget about that too. At least McCrimmon hooked up the Wolves I guess.
I've been pissed all day after I heard this trade. The team clearly doesn't trust Glass to be the 3rd line center and who knows why they value Reaves and Holden so much.
Kolesar has all the earmarks of a good 3rd line power forward. He looked great in the 2nd half and the playoffs.
So do you see him making the team sometime in the next couple years? I have seen him play live and he did not seem NHL caliber.
I think I agree with this assessment. I think he could be tried as a Reaves replacement on the 4th line but I don't think he would be a productive third liner.
That would mean Stastny was third in faceoffs? That needs to change anyway as that is our best faceoff center. Stastny first, Karlsson second, then they could have had Roy, Nosek, Glass, whoever fill out the rest of them.
As it stands now, Stastny and Karlsson as one and two, Eakin probably does challenge Karlsson for that second spot since he is still here and then Roy, Nosek taking fourth line draws.
We will probably have to trade a center in the season as I think Glass will force his way into the lineup.
That's not how faceoffs work. Bill simply takes the most because he's on the ice more than everybody that isn't a top 4 D.
I’m just giving my gut instinct and it tells me that Gallant has more say here than just reading the papers.
At the very least, we can safely assume the GMs asked Gallant want he thought of Gusev after seeing him practice. I imagine the feedback was not all that positive.