News Around the League Part IV: Offseason chatter
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sabremike
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1) Good friend of JT
2) He's going to see few games with the Isles. His main role is to be the veteran presence for the young guys in Bridgeport.
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I've seen Boulton play one time live. In Atlanta. When he had a hat trick. I couldn't believe my eyes. It was the worst game I've ever been to as a fan.
I think The Russian scored our only goal so that was fun.
I think The Russian scored our only goal so that was fun.
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Was there a worst player than Eric Boulton on our 11-12 team? Rod Pelley did play 7 games and Mark Fraser played 4 games for us that year, but Eric Boulton played FIFTY-ONE games that year! Not even Jam Canssen was as bad as Boulton that year. And I don't even think Barch or Peters were as bad in their respective seasons with us.
Boulton was the only player I hated on that 11-12 team, after Pelley and Fraser GTFO. Not that I liked Kurtis Foster or Tedenby much either. I didn't like Tallinder much either, but he was gone injured by January until game 4 of the SCF. As far as players on our roster for damn near or all of the entire season, Boulton was the only one that year.
What a **** player he was for us, an absolute disgrace. He was gross in ever sense of the word. The sad thing is that Boulton might actually be the second oldest active player in the league if Elias and Dan Boyle don't play this year.
Boulton was the only player I hated on that 11-12 team, after Pelley and Fraser GTFO. Not that I liked Kurtis Foster or Tedenby much either. I didn't like Tallinder much either, but he was gone injured by January until game 4 of the SCF. As far as players on our roster for damn near or all of the entire season, Boulton was the only one that year.
What a **** player he was for us, an absolute disgrace. He was gross in ever sense of the word. The sad thing is that Boulton might actually be the second oldest active player in the league if Elias and Dan Boyle don't play this year.
tr83
Nope, still embarassed
At least Boulton played hard and we knew what he was. Ruutu is slow as molasses but it's not his fault. Lou traded for a bad contract in the hopes he would contribute in 2014. Michael Ryder on the other hand was a loser AND a baby. If he only had more ice time to mope around in the neutral zone, maybe he would get the perfect pass to fire a 90 footer at the top corner of the net.
Ryder was such a disappointment. His skating was putrid and he was only effective if he had the puck on his stick in a shooting spot. At least when Sykora was here the second time around he scored, his skating was terrible but he found a way to score a lot. Hard to believe just 2 years before Lou signed Ryder he had scored 35 goals. Oh well, NJ has finally purged the have beens and fillers for the most part.
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I definitely don't disagree with you on the other two, I'm just talking the 11-12 team, which those guys didn't play on. I wound up HATING Poni 2.0 after we got him back the next season, despite liking the second trade at first and loving having him back. I also loved the initial acquisition of him as well. Poni in 2012 was awesome, Poni in 2013 was a very terrible piece of space junk.
As far as Ruutu goes, I do maintain that he was stiffed by both staff's in the 14-15 season, when Zubrus was playing above him. He was better than Zubrus THEN. But then he fell off a cliff completely last offseason and wound up being the worst non-goon forward to play for this team possibly EVER. I'm sure we had a couple scrubs in the 80's that might have been an equivalent.
Ryder was good for the first half season, even though he was streaky. He would definitely have his droughts. But at some point in January of 2014, he completely hit the deck. I mean, I couldn't believe my eyes. He was on pace to score over 30 goals in 14-15 as of January of that year. And then he finished with like 2 for the last close to 40 games, and played every game (if I'm not mistaken) for the rest of the season. So it's not like he missed time and only scored 2. Maybe he scored 3? Whatever it was, it made Clarkson's 5 goals in the final 34 games of the the lockout year (After 10 goals in the first 14 games) look not as bad.
I thought Sykora 2.0 was probably the best retread acquisition we made, post Claude Lemieux 2.0 in 99-00. Clemmensen 2.0 wasn't bad in 08-09, but only because he managed to hit a hot streak at the right time and was only supposed to be Frazee's mentor in Albany that season. That's the only reason he was even signed in the first place that time. Gomez 2.0 wound up being awesome too. He might have been our best forward in 14-15, at least for the 4 months that he played. Maybe Cammalleri was a little bit better.
Gomez, Cammalleri, Larsson, Greene and Cory were far and away our best players that 14-15 season. And ironically enough, it was Gomez's best stretch probably either since he played for the Rangers or during his first season in Montreal. Which was 5 years before that.
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He was so terrible in his last year and a half with us/last year and a half of his career, I don't even know how often he even had the puck to even get a chance to shoot it.
And one more thing on Boulton's 51 games as a Devil with no points/not even on the ice for one goal for all season long. The hilarious thing is I clearly remember Boulton assisting on a goal in what I believe was the first preseason game of that season. I wanna say it was on a goal by either Elias or Sykora, both were on the ice with him I believe. One scored it and the other got one of the assists and Boulton got the other.
I only remember that happening because I would bring it up whenever laughing about how Boulton went 51 games with no points/not even on the ice for a goal for. He didn't have one + rating all season long LOL.
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He's been dealt like 50 times and every time he brought back a guy/pick better than him. I think Tarasenko, Turris and Dvorak were those picks/players.
His saga is hilarious.
tr83
Nope, still embarassed
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Thing is that's probably not even as bad as most of the signings Holland has made this off-season. Detroit might be even for some rough times unless Larkin and Mrazek can be absolutely amazing for them...
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Perennial powerhouse losing the majority of its cornerstone pieces over the past few years (and aging vets), struggles to come to terms with its downfall and attempts to scrape by with overpaid, aging UFAs. As oppose to coming to terms with reality and realizing a rebuild/retool is needed.
Sounds familiar.
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As Devils fans, we may have already gotten front row seats to see this movie before, yeah.
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I've made that comparison for a while but if anything Holland is getting far worse locking in stupid long long term deals for meh and older players. There is also that whole playoff streak dynamic, it's like KH is obsessed with never missing the postseason.
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Yeah, that contract is ridiculous. I have absolutely no idea what Holland is doing in Detroit. He should be fired.
I see no problem with giving Dekeyser a 6 year deal. He's a great player. Just not for 5 million a year. ~4 mil a year seems fair.
I think a fair contract for Boucher would be 1-2 years at 1.65 per season.
That Mike Hoffman contract is a bit much in my opinion. 4.75 would seem fair to me.
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wings fans seem to think it's a good deal though. defenseman who puts up points, is 5m AAV really that bad?
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That's odd. He's a big role player though.
I saw a tweet about Swedish guys signing longterm but cheaper deals. He said it could be a cultural thing. Klefbom, Larsson, Klingberg and now Jarnkrok.
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