DJ Breadman
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I know nothing about this guy other then he is big and came up through frolunda system so sounds good
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Westcoasthabsfan
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He stated he was also home sick.
Having more countrymen around will make him less homesick.
NCAA players are generally not NHL bound the year after they leave college. I'm sure Montreal can give him a "dada" to entice him. To sign Krug, Bruins had to play him right at the end of the season for his contract to kick in. After that they return him to AHL and he spend most of the next year there too. Justin Schultz was more of the exeption I think.
Personally I think the guy just doesn't want to be in Hamilton, the rest is all excuses. It's not like he's going to make it to the NHL with a bunch of excuses either. Nygren might just be a player with the typical KHL profile.
Now...would this guy be coming straight to the habs do ya think? or hamilton and then tryout next year?
Who does he replaces? Bouillon on the 3rd pairing?
Unless we somehow decide not to keep Markov
hototogisu
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Most of these guys go to where there's an immediate opening...Dekeyser, Sustr, Schultz, Gilroy off the top of my head. All played little to no AHL games in their first years with the teams they signed with (Sustr is the exception but he was only recently sent down after playing 38 games with the Bolts this year).
So I'd say unless we can promise him a solid NHL shot, he probably won't sign here.
Whitesnake
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That's about it. Top dollars and the analysis that a real opening is there to be taken. Thing is.....Habs, like everbody else, could offer the top dollars. And the fact that there's so little d-men signed could be interesting. But then, if the guy has somewhat of an agent, they won't stop there. We all know Subban is in. They probably do know that Beaulieu and Tinordi are knocking. So in the end, they'll review every team and see where they are at. But by the sound of it, Flyers seems to already be cautionly optimistic....
CanadienShark
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You know much about this guy? Care to give a little report if you do. I've never heard of Folin.
Whitesnake
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I have to be honest and say that I only watched him once. So frankly, not enough to have an opinion aside that what I read on the net, is pretty much the analysis i have on the player. Big shot, a great and smooth skater, big guy but clearly not a punishing d-man. More of an offensive minded d-man that is fine defensively. A very good package that would be incredible to work with if he'd be 18. At 23, well I think he could step up right away. But we're not talking about top 3 as far as I'm concerned. But that's solely based on 1 game.
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That Habs Fan
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Would love to add this guy to our depth chart, we need a player like him at RD. Would make it easier to move Gorges in the offseason as well.
Scintillating10
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Price is Wright
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We shouldn't have drafted Fucale. French Canadian. We tried these before....it didn't work out. See Louis Leblanc and Eric Chouinard.
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Brock Trotter and his size playing the center positions going to have a hard time cracking an NHL lineup. Great in the A, but when playing the faster and stronger NHL, it was a struggle I found for him.
Yann Danis is a goalie totally different development between a promising dman and a goalie. You can't just compare them because of NCAA ties.
ClasslessGuy
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We've had a tough time competing for NCAA free agents in the past. I doubt this gets done. That said, I think we do have a better opportunity under our current management team.
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