Roboturner913
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Before things get all elitist here, remember that about 2/3rds of the people on this board threw a hissy fit when we re-signed Derek Ryan.
I've been throwing a hissy fit for months in anticipation of re-signing Derek Ryan.
Get on my level.
First of all, I�d like to say hello to all of you, canes fans. I come from Slovakia, where this team is not especially popular, but from my early childhood, one year after relocation from Hartford, I have always been a caniac ... what a difference to a local slovak guys who were fans of that time traditional teams like colorado, new jersey, detroit .... I am extremely pleased, that there exists such a community of canes fans .... like all of you, i am excited for the new season, as i finally see our beloved team having a real chance to do some damage .... so just let�s hope that RF keeps his job doing ... let�s go canes ... whatever it costs
I'm from Bulgaria and honestly i watch almost every our game in the last 8-10 years... In our time zone when the game starts (let's say 7 PM in USA), we are in the middle of the night (2:00 in Bulgaria).Welcome! Do you watch any games on tape delay or do you stay up to ridiculous hours at night to watch?
We should be able to flip him for more than a 5th when the time comes so there is that.
another European, welcome!First of all, I´d like to say hello to all of you, canes fans. I come from Slovakia, where this team is not especially popular, but from my early childhood, one year after relocation from Hartford, I have always been a caniac ... what a difference to a local slovak guys who were fans of that time traditional teams like colorado, new jersey, detroit .... I am extremely pleased, that there exists such a community of canes fans .... like all of you, i am excited for the new season, as i finally see our beloved team having a real chance to do some damage .... so just let´s hope that RF keeps his job doing ... let´s go canes ... whatever it costs
Before things get all elitist here, remember that about 2/3rds of the people on this board threw a hissy fit when we re-signed Derek Ryan.
I'm from Bulgaria and honestly i watch almost every our game in the last 8-10 years... In our time zone when the game starts (let's say 7 PM in USA), we are in the middle of the night (2:00 in Bulgaria).
Well, you see, that's because it was a terrible hockey transaction. I would imagine that move was incredibly well-received by the Facebook crowd. NewChar should be on a two-way contract.
As far as this move is concerned, it didn't really click for me until I started looking further into his advanced stats. I always knew he was that guy in Chicago that took a lot of tough assignments, but the numbers make it painfully obvious how much of an impact this player has on the game. This is a move cosigned by our analytic guys through and through. The deployment percentages I posted earlier are just .....absurd. There's really no other way to say it. I don't know if there is another center in the league that has been this specifically deployed and simultaneously effective. For example, some people have brought up McClement's name while talking about this transaction. Carolina deployed McClement in a defensive zone start approximately 60% of his shifts during his time here and his Corsi has been, understandably to a degree, -8.8 over his tenure. Kruger was deployed 71% of the time last season in the defensive zone and was only -0.2 CF% rel. The year before he was deployed 81.3% (!!!) in the defensive zone and his CF% rel was only -3.4. This is very likely the best 4th line center in the game and if hockey awarded the Selke trophy meritoriously as opposed to it being "best defensive forward who also scores a **** ton of points," then Kruger would be perennially at the top of the heap.
When you add Kruger to our penalty kill, the expectations are just absurd. We were good last year even with McClement being on the downswing of his effectiveness. When you add potentially the best defensive specialist in the game up the middle and shore up the goaltending behind the rest of the unit, you're talking about a PK that should be almost impossible to exploit with how well coached this unit has become. This is an exciting, exciting move if you're a fan of the Hurricanes not being scored on. Don't let the subtlety of the move detract from the potential impact it could have.
You'd think we got Crosby. We got a fourth line center. Who makes ridiculous money for the role. He's a good player at what he does, but I'm not gonna throw a party over it. Of course we got him for a 5th round pick. We're definitely not getting a top six center, which to be fair it seemed unlikely we were getting one anyhow. I should be happy, I've wanted us to embrace the Nashville, Columbus approach of a team of B forwards instead of a couple of A's and a bunch of C's. Easier to replace guys, fits our budget better. Allows us to keep a strong d core, and hopefully be consistent threats to make the dance. So I am glad we are going that way, but I'm still not sharing some of y'alls enthusiasm about this acquisition - least not to that level.
You'd think we got Crosby. We got a fourth line center. Who makes ridiculous money for the role. He's a good player at what he does, but I'm not gonna throw a party over it. Of course we got him for a 5th round pick. We're definitely not getting a top six center, which to be fair it seemed unlikely we were getting one anyhow. I should be happy, I've wanted us to embrace the Nashville, Columbus approach of a team of B forwards instead of a couple of A's and a bunch of C's. Easier to replace guys, fits our budget better. Allows us to keep a strong d core, and hopefully be consistent threats to make the dance. So I am glad we are going that way, but I'm still not sharing some of y'alls enthusiasm about this acquisition - least not to that level.
I just don't agree with his pay scale and with our budget as low as it is with already being a good defensive team with our gm admitting our most obvious deficiencies are on offense I'm not supper pumped with the little money pk will allow to be spent being spent on better defense on the offense as well as the recent addition of leadership and character but not much actual offense.
Well my concern is that we've spent the available "extra" money already by adding six million or so with these two players. RF and pk already have a really good idea about how much the rfa's to be are going to add to the budget. I think the money spent on these two could really be the "extra" cash pk is allowing for RF to make moves "to make the team better". These players do make the team better, just not in the way initially intended. This team didn't need less defensive starts for the offensive lines as much as it needed the offense lines to play better offense. I'm not convinced the two are as tied as directly as I'm being lead to believe.
I do think Rask can be better than he was. I don't think his drop off had anything to do with defensive starts. I feel maganement identified Rask and Jstaals offense as not good enough. I actually didn't totally agree. I felt with a rebound from Rask and adding a legitimately offensive third line center while flogging jstaal to play more intense offensively would get us better offense. We have the growth of Aho and Lindy, if the centers bring their a game we will have better offense. Based on what RF said, it seemed they really wanted to get aggressive offensively. I don't think we're getting Neal. I think we may have what we're getting now. Of course I hope I'm wrong and maybe there's something else.