TheGoldenJet
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HA! Toss a Commodore and an Esquire in there too... why not?
Commodore Bob Bobson Dugnutt IV, Esq.
Long may he reign.
HA! Toss a Commodore and an Esquire in there too... why not?
Commodore Bob Bobson Dugnutt IV, Esq.
Think what that stat above should tell you is just how well he can drag a chump like JJ up too.
Said this in last nights GDT but if puck retrievals/50-50 battles for the puck were a puzzle, he's a master class puzzler. Not only securing it but the end result being it's either on a friendly stick or out of the zone.
I think he's a superb student of the game and was deployed perfectly at Harvard. Meaning he got the tougher assignments while the Fox's and Walsh's got softer minutes.
He had a problem to solve going from NCAA to pro of how to handle a forecheck and he's coming up aces in that test.
The offence, much like the DZ "problem", he's starting to solve that too.
Marino and Fox both look fantastic in the NHL. Hard to believe they were on the same blueline in college. What a powerhouse.
I love how he establishes body position in battles in the corners, boards, etc. For a not-huge guy he is extremely good at using leverage and positioning to win battles. Sign of an extremely smart, savvy player.
Watching the Wings play, I can't help but feel fearful of the Penguins downside once Sid/Geno/Kris near the end. Talk about hopelessness.
Seeing Marino and Jake makes me believe that this organization will find a way to establish a new core and avoid 5 years of misery.
Given the way the NHL works, it's better to bottom out completely for 2 or 3 years and get a franchise player than to be middling for any period of time. Once Sid and Geno are done, we should absolutely fire sale and just suck for a couple years.
Look at a team like Boston. Not exactly loaded with top-5 picks and yet every year they compete. Kucherov was a late 2nd round pick. Letang was a 3rd.
I used to be all about the Tank strategy but now notsomuch. Edmonton and Toronto aren't winning the Cup this year. Outside of Sid & Geno our tank picks were Fleury, Jordan Staal and Whitney. All good players but nothing Earth shattering.
Boston lucked out between 2014 and 2016 in their top picks...you have to hit on those picks and hit good...Pastrnak and McAvoy...they are top players, not just very good, and they were ready to play early...
I'm just not seeing great success from the tanking teams recently.
Colorado looks good now but they missed the playoffs for 6/7 seasons to do it, blech. I don't even want to go through what Edmonton had to either although I look forward to seeing McDavid challenge 2000 points for his career.
I think it's a cultural thing. For the tanking teams the top-5 picks get introduced into a losing culture and too much pressure is put upon them. Build a winning culture and perhaps a few of your late 1st rounders or mid-round picks hits big. A POJ, a Poulin, an Addison, a Jake, a Marino, a Jarry/Murray. Or you can wade out into free agency if you're willing to pay the price and can lure the guy. Panarin, for instance, was absolutely worth it. Then again, Erik Karlsson may not be. We'll see on Hall.
Marino makes me realize how bland af Pettersson is and how desperate we were for a real defense prospect that we all latched on to anything he did as good. Now that we've seen a good prospect, Marcus is just some jabroni to me.
yeah, I mean we’ll see if more teams like the Blues without top end talent win the Cups...but so far this past decade, the teams that got top end players high in the draft to anchor their teams around—Pens, Hawks, LAK, Caps— are the main ones who’ve won Cups...
No, if he's our 3rd pairing LD, we're in a good spot. He shouldn't be on the 2nd pairing.Pettersson's 22 years old and already capable of giving us 19 good minutes a night. He's not Marino, but he's absolutely a quality young defenseman, if a more complementary top 4 type.
That's tanking that happened 10-15 years ago.
I agree, but one nit-pick, Bouwmeester was a Panthers top pick, he was then signed by the Flames (traded as an RFA I think) where he was underwhelming and the Blues then traded for him.You still look at cup winning teams and uniformly see the presence of top picks there. Even St.Louis had top pick Pietrangelo (and Terasenko, Schwartz, Peron, Bouwmeester that I can think of) as 1st rounders drafted by St. Louis plus of course they got O'Reilly with picks and prospects. Even Boston back when had Seguin who was acquired for their own high pick Kessel, and big contributors such as Chara and Horton were also top picks albeit on other teams.
Immediately after Sid and Geno, we likely don't have any top half 1st round picks on the roster at all. Imagining that one can just build to success from there.... seems hard to square with post-cap realities. Detroit is about the only team that won without high picks and that's because they already had that team before the cap (and that Swedish scout making a mockery of everyone else with Lidstrom, Datsuyuk, Zetterberg, Homstrom, Franzen etc.... none of these drafted higher than the third round... nuts).
I agree, but one nit-pick, Bouwmeester was a Panthers top pick, he was then signed by the Flames (traded as an RFA I think) where he was underwhelming and the Blues then traded for him.
No worries, I googled it just now and holy crap, the guys Bouwmeester was traded for, such crap...lol. I wish you could get top 3 pairing defensemen for that kind of trash these days.True, my bad.
No, if he's our 3rd pairing LD, we're in a good spot. He shouldn't be on the 2nd pairing.
Watching the Wings play, I can't help but feel fearful of the Penguins downside once Sid/Geno/Kris near the end. Talk about hopelessness.
Seeing Marino and Jake makes me believe that this organization will find a way to establish a new core and avoid 5 years of misery.
No, if he's our 3rd pairing LD, we're in a good spot. He shouldn't be on the 2nd pairing.
I'm just not seeing great success from the tanking teams recently.