I agree. Cooley and Nazar are both fast, skilled, undersized centermen. I do like Nemec as well. Plays a complete game and I think he can be a number 1 defenseman. There isn't much intersection of skill and size in this draft. Slafkovsky, who I like, but he probably goes #2. Not a fan of Geekie.
Nazar looked crazy fast and quick...the whole team looked good at the U18's, but they have a huge advantage playing together as a team the whole year nad having their top talent there, as opposed to the other teams that re thrown together, and have a of of talent playing in other leagues.
The goal in trading him would be to shed cap to extend Fiala, so minimal cap would have to be coming back our way. Unfortunately that'd probably mean the return would look like butt, too.
Along those lines probably, yeah. There should be decent interest in him, but I have no idea what the market looks like when you factor in $6m in cap going to the other team for next year.
Dumba has some similarities to Letang stylistically. He's not as good, of course, but Dumba is a really good skater, very athletic, has some offense, is vg defensively but always good for a WTF? blunder once every 3 games or so. Dumba isn't big, but strong and combative...more so than Letang.
Letang won't give a hometown discount? Dumba is a good dMan, but you don't want him to be your #1D.
Well, russo has been wrong before. Hope he is wrong in this. I won't go over why this is a bad decision by guerin, if true. Just makes me angry.
What exactly does Russo being wrong or right have to do with this comment when he explicitly stated he is reading between the lines. You're manufacturing outrage over this posters take on a podcast where nothing was truly said about this subject. Not trying to come at you just don't follow your thinking here.
Unless Fiala expects 10 mill a year, I am going to be extremely angry if they don’t sign him.
