after we played the jets however many times this year and ithen watching the jets a bunch in the playoffs i barely noticed this guy and have no take on him.
i believe that is a sign of competent bottom six dman who mostly plays within himself.
Yup.
I don't really have a strong opinion on Poolman, because I don't feel I know enough about him yet. I've watched every Jets game against us, and a few other Jets games, but he hasn't stood out.
Make no mistake, hfCanucks has 0 humility. People are looking at free to access advanced stats and not considering context and making broad assumptions while going in with their confirmation biases.
'lolz binnign iz dum, so dis bad singning'.
The truth is, we need RD.
We have Ekman-Larsson, Hughes, and Rathbone. All really good puck movers who need stout size beside them. Also, each of our LD mean that our RD don't really need to be great at complicated breakout passes. If the simple pass is there, make it. If it isn't, chip it behind the net to your partner who can skate or move the puck.
I suspect that this is a bet on potential in the same way that the Garland trade was (though Garland is obviously leagues above Poolman).
Garland has played something like 164 games, Poolman has played 120 games. I get that he's 28, but he has literally played a season and a half worth of games.
The NHL takes a long time to adjust to, particularly for non-star players and particularly for D (cue, "rofl godbrensun sed 300 games" meme). If the braintrust sees a guy who potentially isn't done growing, or who was miscast in Winnipeg, then I have patience to see whether they were right.
All of the basement dwellers who wouldn't have signed anybody who wouldn't give them a Tampa discount forget that this isn't occurring in a vacuum. There is pressure on the team to improve from the fans, from ownership, and from the players. If you leave a gaping vacancy that sewers your team (say go into the season an RD short, and then an RD gets hurt) and it tanks your chances, that's a year of everybody's career that you are wasting.
I'm not here to say whether it's a good signing or not, Jets fans don't seem to like it which isn't encouraging. But the Jets also don't have the specific fit that Poolman will fall into.
It sounds like when he played with Morrissey it was on the top pairing, facing the McDavid's and Matthews' of the league. Again, when this season started, he had one full season worth of NHL games.
In this case, we will be putting him with a puck moving fit, and I doubt it will be against top line competition. This means the fit is different.
Will be interested to see how this plays out.
