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Hall's offense was definitely missed during the regular season, the team had no secondary scoring.
How do you figure that.....
GF 2016-17 = 243
GF 2015-16 = 199
Hall's offense was definitely missed during the regular season, the team had no secondary scoring.
How do you figure that.....
GF 2016-17 = 243
GF 2015-16 = 199
Maroon - McDavid - Caggiula
Lucic - Draisaitl - Slepyshev
xxxxxx - Nuge - Puljujarvi
Pitlick - Letestu - Kassian
Klefbom - Larsson
Sekera - xxxxx/Russell
Nurse - Benning
Talbot
Brossoit
Based on how the playoffs are going I feel this should be the template in the off-season. This group is establishing themselves.
Eberle and Pouliot somehow need to go.
How do you figure that.....
GF 2016-17 = 243
GF 2015-16 = 199
Firstly, I was talking about the forward group only in the post you quoted.
Ask Coyotes fans. Rieder is one of their most defensively reliable forwards. He is a fixture on their PK and led all forwards in shorthanded icetime, so you comparing his game to Strome now has me laughing. Have you watched Rieder play???
As for DeAngelo, we do happen to have a need for a RH PP QB. IF the organization thinks Benning can slot in on the 2nd pair next year a guy like DeAngelo as the #6 makes sense. He could be the next Shattenkirk in terms of PP production.
Close to my thoughts only I'd go a little further.
I'd keep Caggiula on the left and add a RW to play top 6. I'd prefer to replace RNH with a 2 way center who can win faceoffs. A second pair RD who can move the puck would be huge. Maybe keep him as a winger or get him a winger that can take draws.
They have to be players who are upgrades of course. Eberle and Pouliot will likely rebound so keeping them wouldn't be the end of the world.
RNH isn't a bad player but face offs, while mostly over rated, are killing us a little in line matching and critical situations.
I'd love to keep Russell in a bottom pair role but his price point is probably prohibitive and I think we need that puck mover.
Salaries for incoming players matter. If we take in a big contract it needs to be the second pairing D.
After next season RNH, Ebs, Pouliot and Fayne need to be gone.
to be fair the guy said secondary scoring...
once you take out the production by Maroon-McDavid-Drai the numbers cant be too great.
86G-133A-219pts were scored by the top line..
to be fair the guy said secondary scoring...
once you take out the production by Maroon-McDavid-Drai the numbers cant be too great.
86G-133A-219pts were scored by the top line..
Disagree with your opinion of RNH, to me he's a 55 point guy, I see this season as an outlier, he will bounce be back to the 50 point mark.
Eberle for a 3c does not make us a better team, you can get way more value for Eberle and just sign a 3c, Hall's offense was definitely missed during the regular season, the team had no secondary scoring.
Then he should prove it instead of simply stating it as gospel when overall GF numbers are up substantially. Hall disappeared the final 20 games of the regular season last year.
How do you figure that.....
GF 2016-17 = 243
GF 2015-16 = 199
so Eberle+ for Zajac?RNH is capable of that 50-55 point mark for sure. In the right situation he could be a 65 point guy IMO. Put RNH on a team like Ottawa who has a ton of right handed goal scorers that play a physical game and a RH PP stud on the backend like Karlsson and sure, RNH could even put up 70 points in an 82 game season.
The problem is it will not happen here. Unless RNH is playing on the 1st unit PP and playing at ES with McDavid or Drai, the chance he hits even 50 points in an Oilers uniform again are near 0% in my opinion.
Eberle for a 3C who could match up against tough competition is a big win too. It frees up a line centered by Drai or McDavid to feast on 3rd line opposition, at least at home.
Connor McDavid. Factored in on 100 of those 243 is Crazy good, he covered up the secondary scoring problems all year.
RNH,Eberle and Pouliot all had there worst years here and should have probably had 15 more goals from them.
I admittedly don't watch the Yotes more than absolutely necessary, but nothing about the stats I've seen or his play screams to me that he's some kind of defensive ace. More of a semi-skilled all-around player who's fit into the role because, well, the Yotes suck.
I'm sorry I hit a sore spot by comparing Rieder and Strome, but I got the sense from your post about balance that you preferred another big banging body, which Rieder - correct me if I'm off base here - definitely is not.
possibly a fluke but Nuge has won 21 draws the last 2 games. 63% in game 6 and 53% in game 5. He might be learning a thing or 2 this series.
Let's not do the Hall thing again right now.
Please.
A 3rd line of Cags/Strome/Kassian isn't the worst thing in the world as the line has a decent mix of skill sets. My issue would be running out McDavid, RNH, and Strome as your top 3 centers. That is where the balance is severely lacking.
I've seen a lot of posts by you lately talking about moves that make us a good regular season team. Well I've got news for you- the cup isn't won in the regular season.
Hall scored as many goals and 2 more points than Eberle...he was gonna be the answer to our secondary scoring?
My bad for participating. Gotta lighten the mood.
Lets trade for Hall then? not sure why he is being brought into discussion here.
For me that trade only made NJ is a legit destination for Eberle. They are hurting for D so I would do Eberle+rights to Russell for Zajac
Lighten the mood?
Eakins still annoys me. One of the darkest parts of the decade of darkness.