I'll just ferry then walk the 30 minutes! Half the walk is along the waterfront anyways. Or Uber.Wish they would have put it in a non-horrendous place, as far as traffic goes. I know I won't be wanting to go there unless it's the Wild.
I'll just ferry then walk the 30 minutes! Half the walk is along the waterfront anyways. Or Uber.Wish they would have put it in a non-horrendous place, as far as traffic goes. I know I won't be wanting to go there unless it's the Wild.
I'll just ferry then walk the 30 minutes! Half the walk is along the waterfront anyways. Or Uber.
Pretty much the best idea. But any walk is met with the danger of having to fight a crowd of homeless people. That get's old.
“My first season in Minnesota, we were looking for a veteran defenseman to come in,” he recounted. “We were also looking to dump a little payroll. So I came up with this brilliant idea of trading Nick Leddy to the Chicago Blackhawks. He’d been our first-round pick the year before. We picked up a veteran defenseman in Cam Barker, who had 40 points the year before, and we were able to offload another player and save some money. It was genius. I got under budget, I added a veteran D, and I traded away a young defenseman that may never play. How’s Nick Leddy done?”
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“I think there’s certain inputs you have to look at when you make a decision, and I was kind of just a gunslinger then,” he acknowledged. “Again, not every trade you make now works out. Sometimes you can have a process and make a really good decision in a lot of ways, and it just doesn’t work out. Sometimes you get lucky the other way, you’re not prepared and somebody falls in your lap. There was no process there, I made a terrible decision. I saw Nick later on, and said, ‘Sorry about that.’ He said, ‘You traded me to Chicago, it worked out OK.’ You learn from those things. Not every decision turns out, but it’s a process, and going about things the right ways.”
He seemed a bit slow and clumsy in MN. Now he seems fast. I think it's just how he sees, processes, and reacts to the game.I was wrong about Tuch - 21 points in 22 games. Thought he would be decent, but near PPG? I'd thought you'd be crazy.
He seemed a bit slow and clumsy in MN. Now he seems fast. I think it's just how he sees, processes, and reacts to the game.
It was 6 games. All of the critiques at the time were inane.
Do you think another 3 games would have helped? 9 games is all we get to critique CHL players before we send them down. They were fair assessments at the time.
Timid, afraid, slow and clumsy were not fair assessments. He looked like 98% of the young players that come into the league. People questioning his NHL future (and there were some) based on those 6 games definitely wasn't fair.
It was how he looked at the time; which is a fair assessment. Calling him a future PPG player or a bust would have been speculation.
Yeah, I fully disagree with him looking like that.
He looked exatly like every hockey player looks when you ask them to play at a speed that they have never played at before.You thought he looked like a NHL player when he got called up? Rookie or not, he wasn't ready for the NHL when he got called up. There's nothing wrong with that, he learned some of what the NHL game was and what areas he had to improve on.
You thought he looked like a NHL player when he got called up? Rookie or not, he wasn't ready for the NHL when he got called up. There's nothing wrong with that, he learned some of what the NHL game was and what areas he had to improve on.