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NHL Offseason Thread 2018 |OT| Vegas sins, lottery wins and BargainBins
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Sweden will get silver and someone on the team is going to throw the medal into the crowd again.
No way. He's come back from the brink this season. At the start, I was worried he would be let go but he's worked well with us and I've no issues with him remaining our head coach. Besides, who would we replace him with? Not exactly a big pool of candidates available.
He has a history with us and our minor league team but I'm not a fan of his.
Dude is a notorious choker. Better just to dump him in Edmonton or Montreal.
Caught the end of the Marlies game. Grundstrom to Rosen to Johnsson to Aaltonen was beautiful passing.
If only they spent half of time making their shit games than they do with their memes.
No. I'll take Maurice anyday. If only for the dry sense of humour.
Vigneault is a better coach I think, but it doesn't matter since Mo is definitely the better choice for the team right now (and isn't going anywhere obviously lol).
I see The Athletic will be releasing some draft rankings and bios tomorrow, yay!
Oh wait Jets don't have a first rounder this year. Boo!
BUT... Chiarelli is a dumb dumb and may trade his 10th overall for immediate help on the blue line. How about a battle tested, huge-ass RHD with serious offensive capabilities??
As a bonus, like most people I keep forgetting Myers was born in Houston so he might have a special place in his heart for teams called the Oilers! It's a brilliant win-win!
I see The Athletic will be releasing some draft rankings and bios tomorrow, yay!
Oh wait Jets don't have a first rounder this year. Boo!
BUT... Chiarelli is a dumb dumb and may trade his 10th overall for immediate help on the blue line. How about a battle tested, huge-ass RHD with serious offensive capabilities??
As a bonus, like most people I keep forgetting Myers was born in Houston so he might have a special place in his heart for teams called the Oilers! It's a brilliant win-win!
Man, what the fuck is this timeline.
I gotta look back but who was everyone's pick in the beginning of the season of making the Stanley Cup final?
I gotta look back but who was everyone's pick in the beginning of the season of making the Stanley Cup final?
There's something about Pronman's stuff that just makes me wonder if he actually has any sort of talent for scouting, or he's a guy who just collates scouting reports and then borrows templates baseball to make his articles. At times it's like he is filling in hockey MadLibs.
Maybe it's the self-promotional thing? In his preview of the 2018 draft, he boasts that what follows is the result of thousands of hours of effort over the past 2 years. Which would make sense: If watching and writing about amateurs was his full time job, he would indeed have clocked thousands of hours over a 2 year period.
Maybe it's the self-promotional thing? In his preview of the 2018 draft, he boasts that what follows is the result of thousands of hours of effort over the past 2 years. Which would make sense: If watching and writing about amateurs was his full time job, he would indeed have clocked thousands of hours over a 2 year period.
I think he puts that stuff out front because he is constantly attacked by people who don't like what he writes.
Hr constantly caveats everything saying this is what he views his draft board as, as if he was a GM and drafting. It is never a consensus thing. He goes to other scouts for information when he comes up short. Like if he can't go see player X, or whatever, he asks scouts about that player to get a general feel. Otherwise it's all stuff he sees himself.
He also puts skill above damn near everything else. If he knows Player Y has a really good chance to be Joe Thornton, but has an equally good chance to be Luca Caputi, he is going to put that above the guy who is almost guaranteed to be Ryan Dubinsky. Lots of teams apparently wouldn't do that.
I personally enjoy the hell out of it all. It's all written well enough, its thorough, and he explains his reasoning well with everything.
Also, Brooks says that the Rangers' coach search all along was basically Quinn vs. Montgomery.
https://nypost.com/2018/05/20/rangers-will-be-getting-exactly-who-they-wanted-in-david-quinn/NY Post said:
Incredible year for Pettersson
Still no certainty on whether or not he signs with the Canucks or spends another year in Sweden. He may want some assurance that he won't be spending the season in Utica
Still no certainty on whether or not he signs with the Canucks or spends another year in Sweden. He may want some assurance that he won't be spending the season in Utica
In the wise words of Michael Scott and Dwight K. Schrute... WE WILL BURN UTICA TO THE GROUND
Drafting is an inexact science, but I guess he figures that he has more sources and experience than some armchair GMs. He's not wrong there.
Whenever I read that Pronman values skill above all else, I think back to a few years ago when he ranked Brandon Manning ahead of Gostisbehere on his list of top Flyer prospects.
He was also down on Sanheim, who is supremely skilled.
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