Does Sven play with the Avs the rest of the season?
I'm fine with this, but this is such a Bender move. This team is gonna be soft as butter next year.
Аrpon Basu @ArponBasu 16m16 minutes ago
Andreas Martinsen just referred to himself as a "really good bottom six player.". Not sure I've ever heard a player say that.
It'd be great if we kept Ghetto next year as an AHL guy/depth call up. We need more skill in San Antonio. But he probably only wants a 1 way deal.
I'm fine with this, but this is such a Bender move. This team is gonna be soft as butter next year.
Pretty happy about this move. Martinsen is a ECHL caliber player, Sven is 10 times the player he is. Even if Sven never amounts to anything more than a AHL player this is a win.
Sakic has said ok-spaghettio will be starting with the big team.
I think this is a solid move for the Avs. No it's not a draft pick like a lot of people wanted the Avs to be getting today, but it's a prospect the Avs are high on and have been for a while, in the eyes of the Avs this is easily better then the 5th or 6th round pick we would've gotten instead.
This was a good move, Martinsen is basically useless and while Sven isn't by any means a surefire Top 6 NHLer down the road, he's still young and has shown good skill in the AHL at least, so he may have something to discover still in the NHL.
Just because he starts here doesn't mean down the road he becomes an AHLer. I'm not fully sold he can be an every day NHLer.
People might have some legit complaints about Bednar but soft is absolutely not what he's after.
I think his obsession with Smith, him calling Goloubef an NHLer even though he's never stuck in the NHL, stripping McLeod of an A and benching him right off the bat and most the year, and now dealing Martinsen for Andrighetto says otherwise. I think this is telling of the kind of players he likes.
I think he's obsessed with a mechanical style of play that emphasizes positional play at the expense of physical play and emotion. He wants smaller players that can skate into the position he wants, rather than finish their checks. Doesn't matter that they're not very talented or capable of scoring at a rate that makes that style beneficial.
I think this has turned the team into more of a perimeter team than they should be. They don't shoot because they're too concerned with puck possession, they don't send enough bodies to the net to battle physically, and they don't finish their checks. They just skate with the puck and either turn it over or miss the net.