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Player Discussion: Vladislav Namestnikov
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I'm hoping we swap him for Drouin on Tuesday. For the first time ever, he looks like he doesn't belong in the league right now. Not just that we have better options, but he looks like he can't cut it yet. I know Coop doesn't like to change a winning recipe, but 8:24 in icetime is pretty telling.
zeykshade
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I honestly dont't think he's ready for Playoff hockey, particularly on the wing. He'd need a bit more exp on the wing in the NHL during the reg. season for me to trust him at it in the Playoffs. Drouin is dynamic. It's not like Vladdy's defense on the wing is lightyears ahead of Drouins at this point. Center? No doubt he's much more comfortable with the puck. His play away from the puck is not nearly as good.
Yeah, I'd like to have him in the A too to get a solid playoff run in down there. But then we'd be down to 12 forwards again with no ability to rest healthy players (Morrow might need it). So I'm not sure. I'd rather not call his season finished via pressbox (like Vasy's season is effectively over, it seems), but if we send him down we might have to use that last call-up to make sure we have an extra body.
Volodya Krutov
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Kid definitely "lacks" something vs the big boys, not elusive enough to dance circle around them, not physical enough to pass through. Will severely need to pump iron in the off-season.
Per Days' Joe Smith tweet in the other thread:
Bigger opportunity like maybe centering the 2nd line to start the season? We can always go back to Stammer centering or Flip for that matter.
TKO
Drouin-Namestnikov-Stamkos
Flip-Paquette-Cally
Killorn?-Boyle-Brown
Bigger opportunity like maybe centering the 2nd line to start the season? We can always go back to Stammer centering or Flip for that matter.
TKO
Drouin-Namestnikov-Stamkos
Flip-Paquette-Cally
Killorn?-Boyle-Brown
Todd1a
Kucherov or prospect
vladdy has shown me nothing in the nhl to prove he is a top 6 guy yet. I think he starts off as the 3rd line center and we go from there.
Lord Stan 2020
Elite fan
dont see him in top six anytime soon he is what 21?
wait till is 24 everyone will be happy he is good on skates he has the pedigree hes gonna be a great player might never get to top six for us but we are over abundance on talent lol
he is legit top 6 somewhere at some point lol he plays good 200 foot game is smart smarter then anyone seems to realize he gets the game he will work out again with clutch and make a bigger impact i like him playing with callahan and x myself think cally will teach him style we need out of him might take two years till we are very pleased about his overall game but this kid will get there he has the vision hockey iq etc.. will take more and more of browns minutes on d in this coming season
The Gongshow
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No way Vladdy will be on the 2nd line with Stammer, we'll be lucky if Drouin makes it there next season. Killorn won't be on the 4th line either after the beast of a playoff he had. It will be interesting to see where Flip ends up. Names hasn't impressed me yet and looked awful in the playoffs. I would rather have Flip as 3rd line center than him. He's still young and improving so I haven't given up on him yet but just saying he's not ready yet.
Drouin - Vladdy - Callahan
Teach both guys two way hockey while being a strong scoring line in the process.
Or
Vladdy - Flip - Callahan
Saw this line towards the end of the season and they showed a lot of promise, and can also be a strong shutdown line
Or
Killorn - Vladdy - Drouin.
Also saw this line for a bunch of games and they were hot! Move flip to 1c and Stamkos to LW.
Teach both guys two way hockey while being a strong scoring line in the process.
Or
Vladdy - Flip - Callahan
Saw this line towards the end of the season and they showed a lot of promise, and can also be a strong shutdown line
Or
Killorn - Vladdy - Drouin.
Also saw this line for a bunch of games and they were hot! Move flip to 1c and Stamkos to LW.
Todd1a
Kucherov or prospect
Cooper will have him bounce from lines 1 and 4 lol I'm sure vladdy and drouin will play 4th line min's together.
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Vladdy, Witko, Ashton, and Walcott only players expected to play in either TBL or SYR that don't have contracts for 2015-16. O'Donnell (NCAA), Gusev (KHL), and Masin (CHL) are other players that are long shots eligible to play for Syracuse with TBL rights that don't have contracts.
He'll get signed. Probably wants a two year deal similar to Sustr and they may only want one since we have other forwards pressing him for a spot.
Todd1a
Kucherov or prospect
Just waiting for the stamkos cap hit next year is my guess. Then maybe we do a two year cheap deal with vladdy like you said. If stamkos gets to much then I only see vladdy get a one year deal. We have other contracts to take care of next season. Killorn, stamkos, kucherov and do we resign coburn ?
Stamkos doesn't affect Namestnikov signing. Namestnikov will make just over a million so if it's a two year deal it's a non issue. Browns contract ends next year at almost a million so they can just not resign him if needed.
Todd1a
Kucherov or prospect
maybe a vladdy debate do i take the one year deal hope to break out and cash in next year or take the two year cheap deal ? but I still think yzerman is taking some time off with his family in detroit. seems after the condra deal I think he went back to detroit to relax with family for a few weeks. then I think he heads to toronto when stamkos agents are ready and prepared. After the stamkos deal I think vladdy signs then he moves on to extending kucherov.
Lord Stan 2020
Elite fan
i saw offer i kinda like folin would have to ask for a pick myself for vladdy
id seriously consider this folins offense hasnt shown up yet but think hes an upgrade to sustr already big kid 210 6 ' 3 so got the right size is smooth guy i like him so would be an interest righty if offense came he could be a four staple on right side
id seriously consider this folins offense hasnt shown up yet but think hes an upgrade to sustr already big kid 210 6 ' 3 so got the right size is smooth guy i like him so would be an interest righty if offense came he could be a four staple on right side
Our staple on the right side is Stralman and DeAngelo going forward. Folin would be bottom pair only. He has put up roughly the same offensive numbers Sustr has in the USHL, NAHL, NCAA, AHL and NHL. I don't see him taking off offensively anymore then Sustr will. No sense in trading Namestnikov for something that's not a clear upgrade unless the pick is really high. I rather use Namestnikov in a deal to rid ourselves of Carle.
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He's just trade bait for Montreal because they are giving up on Subban.
But Vladdy had best be our starting 4th line center because he's a stud and that was demonstrated last season!
