Recalled/Assigned: Jason Zucker (Jan 1: Re-called from Iowa)

[BigT2002]

Fantastic goal and game by Zucker ones again!

The excitement your talking about is absolutely there..

He jumps likes a bunny after every goal he scores..

Him and Nino NEED to stay as a line no matter what. Don't care what happens, but those two need to stay linemates. They are talking constantly on the bench on what they are going to do and they are starting to find one another on the ice.



FF :43 second mark

 

[MK9]

Ha, same here.

I don't think he has a future here. Our top-6 wings are already:

Parise, Niederreiter, Coyle, Pominville

It's simple, he has no place.

Yeah...wouldn't want depth in case a few of our top 6 go down eh?

Thaaaat'll never happen though.

 

[MNWILDFAN001]

Yeah...wouldn't want depth in case a few of our top 6 go down eh?

Thaaaat'll never happen though.

Having depth is great. Only problem is Zucker isn't going to want to stay in the AHL forever just so the Wild have someone to call up when there is an injury.

 

[MK9]

Having depth is great. Only problem is Zucker isn't going to want to stay in the AHL forever just so the Wild have someone to call up when there is an injury.

He may not, but it's not up to him. He's not an obtuse guy, I'm sure he's got enough self common sense to self examine and see he's not ready quite yet either. When he's ready there will either be a spot at that time or there won't. If there isn't Fletcher can then trade him for possibly another, maybe even better asset and Zucker can find his place in the top 6 on another team while we groom another. It's a revolving door and is as it should be. Moving and developing assets is a never ending cycle.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

Having depth is great. Only problem is Zucker isn't going to want to stay in the AHL forever just so the Wild have someone to call up when there is an injury.

Coyle can easily play on the 3rd line to make room.

 

[tyratoku]

Coyle can easily play on the 3rd line to make room.

I agree. I never liked Coyle as a top-six center, and even as a top-six winger he is in over his head a bit, but he's looked fine on the third line so far. There needs to be some growth in the offensive department, but overall he's looked good there IMO.

 

[AJ Thelen]

The thing is, it comes down to goalscoring.

I know we all want size, but at the end of the day goals are winning games. You can be as big as you want but you still have to put the puck in the net.

Zucker is showing that he can handle top six and be effective.

And i got to say, the way he scored his first goal this season is exactly how i picture him scoring.

Using his speed and quick release to put in the back of the net.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

Only problem is both Zucker and Neiderreiter are natural LWs. One of them would have to show that they can consistently play on the right side. Unless we did something like...

Parise - Koivu - X
Nino - Granlund - Pominville
Zucker - X - Coyle

We'd have ~ $7-10m available to fill out the "X" spots.

 

[AJ Thelen]

Only problem is both Zucker and Neiderreiter are natural LWs. One of them would have to show that they can consistently play on the right side. Unless we did something like...

Parise - Koivu - X
Nino - Granlund - Pominville
Zucker - X - Coyle

We'd have ~ $7-10m available to fill out the "X" spots.

I like the idea of having 3 scoringlines, but i would maybe like to see another center than Koivu alongside Parise.

Parise - Briere - X
Nino - Granlund - Pominville
Zucker - Koivu - Coyle

Now, who would we want on RW?

 

[Harvest]

I like the idea of having 3 scoringlines, but i would maybe like to see another center than Koivu alongside Parise.

Parise - Briere - X
Nino - Granlund - Pominville
Zucker - Koivu - Coyle

Now, who would we want on RW?

Have you watch Briere this season?

 

[ThatGuy22]

I like the idea of having 3 scoringlines, but i would maybe like to see another center than Koivu alongside Parise.

Parise - Briere - X
Nino - Granlund - Pominville
Zucker - Koivu - Coyle

Now, who would we want on RW?

You want to bring in a 36 year old Brierre, who can't stay in the Canadiens lineup, to play 1C?

 

[tyratoku]

I like the idea of having 3 scoringlines, but i would maybe like to see another center than Koivu alongside Parise.

Parise - Briere - X
Nino - Granlund - Pominville
Zucker - Koivu - Coyle

Now, who would we want on RW?

Drop Briere from your hopes.

He is done. He has been playing on the fourth line for Montreal. He has 13 points in 30 games. Last year he had 16 points in 34 games.

There is no reason to hope he comes here. He is overpaid, over his head, and not any better defensively than Brodziak to make up for lack of offense.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

We have the room to add 2-3 $5m guys... Derek Roy for ~$5.5m? He's still a 50ish point player; we could either reunite him with Pomminville or put him between Zucker and Coyle for a pretty promising 3rd line.