..whatY'all already know who we SHOULD be targeting right now, real hard: Nick Ritchie from anaheim, still unsigned fool in this game. We would get a 260 time hitter, over 30 point scora and the morer it gets. He would be a real busy body for our rear ends. Hitting everythang and also standing through the ground against every other fool like Byfuglien, Lucic, Reaves and Wilson. He that bigg of a thang. Thats bigg right thurr. Y'all better recognize. He comes with a hefty price tag of 1 milj 400 thousands. That that paper right there. Pay up, get it. That would make us big and heavy hittas. Departement.
When I read it. For some reason it had a Bostonian undertone. Just me?Did he stutter?
If we want to make a trade, for a guy who could help our defensive right side, and play our style, I think we pick up the phone, and ask Detroit about Nick Jensen. He would be a great pickup, and wouldn't be as costly as some other moves. I don't know if Detroit would move him though.
No need to change anything at the moment with our D. Let's see how Dermott-Oz pairing works out in a quarter season before jumping the gun on anything.
This. And from the sounds of it, they have, and will continue to make, adjustments if need be
Pesce + J Gauthier for Nylander + 2nd.
Foegele
Pesce
2nd in 19
3rd in 20
For
Nylander
Gauthier
Nielsen
4th in 19
Neither of these are close to landing Nylander.
I would love to land Pesce but I can't find a way to bridge the gap between the 2 of them, and there isn't a collection of lesser assets that lands him from Carolina either unfortunately.
After watching the first line tonight I don't think we're in any position to trade Nylander at this point, he's one of the few players on this team that can cart the puck up ice for his teammates
Not may of our forwards are actually capable of that unfortunately and trading one of the few players that can is counterproductive to winning imo
I think Kapanen might be worth putting in that spot beside Matthews because Ennis was bad tonight. It worked in pre-season but nothing good came with Ennis tonight. 1 game and all etc but felt Ennis being with Matthews was just a bad idea to start.
That line needs a puck rusher, either sign Nylander or try Kapanen
There aren't many other options if Marner is playing with Tavares
Marleau can't do it and his advanced stats for carrying the puck into the offensive zone are brutally bad and Matthews needs to be cruising into the slot getting lost rather than carrying the puck in
Matthew's needs Nylander's help 5v5
Yeah, they need each other because Nylander was kind of useless without Matthews too.
We'll see...now that Nylander is officially losing money, maybe there will be more urgency.
I bloody hope so, we're a much better team with him in the lineup
Marleau-Matthews-Nylander
Hyman-Tavares-Marner
Leivo-Kadri-Kapanen
Johnsson-Lindholm-Brown
Much better top 12. Brown doesn't deserve to be with Kadri, haven't been impressed.
Brown is just a guy, love the effort but that's about it unfortunately
We need to improve our puck rushing/advancing from the forward group so we should look to get one winger that's decent at it on every line like you've got above
Ennis showed his limitations tonight as well, he's definitely a #13th forward at this point
I think i'd look to move Brown at some point, hate to sound cheap but 2.1M for what he brings just doesn't seem worth it to me, especially when things will get as tight as they will.
I'd wait until next off-season before I'd explore trade possibilities for him, I doubt he's going to be affordable when we need to re-up his contract so moving him with some term still left on his deal could help the potential return
Neither of these are close to landing Nylander.
I would love to land Pesce but I can't find a way to bridge the gap between the 2 of them, and there isn't a collection of lesser assets that lands him from Carolina either unfortunately.