Value of: Victor Olofsson
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Ledge And Dairy
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He almost certainly gets another chance somewhere. Teams like Vegas, Tampa, Florida, Colorado, etc are always looking for the next cheap show me contract
Beerz
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I hope he gets another shot... seems like a great guy.
His shot seemed to have disappeared this year and without that his negatives are just too much to overcome
His shot seemed to have disappeared this year and without that his negatives are just too much to overcome
Panthaz89
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Seems like Chicago would be nice they aren't worried about winning and can just focus on scoring.
Jared Dunn
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Is there a good team with an underwhelming powerplay that a trigger man could help? If so cheap deal there, if not he probably goes to one of the bottom feeders for a year at less than 2 million. He will get a deal if he wants it
Gabrielor
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Tough to say, since he's had zero interest level seemingly for 2 years.
1 year, vet min from someone is the best case. The SHL is the worst case.
Bottom 6 PP specialists who can't be physical or defend or provide speed aren't carried by many teams.
1 year, vet min from someone is the best case. The SHL is the worst case.
Bottom 6 PP specialists who can't be physical or defend or provide speed aren't carried by many teams.
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I don't think he fits those teams if we're being honest, regardless if he can find better production again. The style of play just doesn't fit for somebody they want in the top 9/available spots.
Ledge And Dairy
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MN needs shooting talent and goal scoring in the middle 6, his defensive play is abysmal but could maybe be covered for through the team structure. I could see him as a bargain option for the Wild.
The thread about a 2nd line winger for the Wild dovetails with this. He could be an interesting buy-low option. He's a good guy, just has a lot of limitations in his game. When he's focusing on getting his shot off, his wall game goes away completely. He's not physical at all so he has to be smart with his positioning and stick and since he doesn't have a great separation burst, he can't handle long because people will be on top of him right away. But if he can function with some more complete players, be the guy who is the trigger man and generally benefit from having someone find him with a cross-seam pass, his shot is still excellent.
biturbo19
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He's definitely in that "1-year prove it deal" sort of reclamation project territory. Whether that's with a decent team...or just a bottom feeder looking to fill out their roster, is the real question. But guys who have shown they can score at the NHL level like he has, will get another look. Reminds me of Radim Vrbata, both as a player, and as a situation where his scoring really tapered off bigtime for a while...before he "rediscovered" the scoring touch and carried on with his career for a few more years.
He's probably just one of those players who can be "good on a bad team" but is pretty "bad on a good team". Though even that aspect has seemed to fall apart in Buffalo of late. As he's been passed by all sorts of players.
He really just needs to go somewhere with low team expectations that he can be a Top-6 Powerplay Specialist and if he's kind of leaky defensively and doesn't bring much else to the table, so be it. But he's not exactly one of those veteran role model sort of players that you'd necessarily want on a "tanking" or "rebuilding" team with a lot of impressionable younger players around either.
He's probably just one of those players who can be "good on a bad team" but is pretty "bad on a good team". Though even that aspect has seemed to fall apart in Buffalo of late. As he's been passed by all sorts of players.
He really just needs to go somewhere with low team expectations that he can be a Top-6 Powerplay Specialist and if he's kind of leaky defensively and doesn't bring much else to the table, so be it. But he's not exactly one of those veteran role model sort of players that you'd necessarily want on a "tanking" or "rebuilding" team with a lot of impressionable younger players around either.
CanadienShark
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From all the talk, he puts in the work off the ice and is well liked by his teammates and coaches. It's just the lack of footspeed in short areas is terribly limiting for a smallish, non-physical player to overcome outside of being a complementary player to someone more talented. His issues aren't about being a bad attitude or even being lazy, it's being small and relatively slow that does him in. He's an odd player - when he had the wrist injury two years ago, he went to work mining pucks for others and generally being a responsible and workmanlike player. Then last year, 21 even strength goals despite not getting prime deployment or linemates (mostly due to good chemistry with Mittelstadt in January of '23) but he was off his game already. This year, it's just never popped and more complete players have replaced his minutes (Benson in particular who is an absolute disruptive dynamo on the forecheck and plays both the PP and PK).
CanadienShark
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Yeah I think it's a good spot for him and he could be good value for the Sharks. Maybe he can revive his career. Worst case, he's a filler.
biturbo19
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That's fair. And i wouldn't necessarily presume to know what he's like in the room, etc. But i feel like there's an indictment in the way he's fallen out of favour with coaches (and other teams who have no interest in trading for him). So fair or not, the perception is that he's more of a "sponge" for easy goals. Rather than the sort of real "culture carrier" that teams like to surround their top young skilled players with.
That's what makes him a bit of an awkward fit. Good, deep, competitive teams don't typically need his skillset. So if teams deep in their rebuilding process don't want to risk him giving the impression that you can score 30+ without having to really engage that much...or that "working hard" results in less goals, even if he's a warrior in the gym and stuff (which i'm not sure on)...i can see where his market really shrinks.
Ends up in a sort of narrow "middleground". Teams that are on boundaries, but looking for a good "buy low" candidate to boost their PP or scoring in general.
