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Speculation: 2023-24 Armchair GM thread

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What if instead of trading 21+ to move up in the draft, we trade 21+ to Anaheim for Mason McTavish? Anaheim doesn’t need Fantilli, Zegras, and McTavish..:sarcasm:
 
Thinking about it, Brackett needs to have Lambos, Ohgren. and Yurov hit the ice hot especially in the AHL. If they stumble or take another few years to develop into depth guys, there is going to be a lot of heat on the front office. I still think they need to dump the entire development team.
 
thestonedkoala said:
Thinking about it, Brackett needs to have Lambos, Ohgren. and Yurov hit the ice hot especially in the AHL. If they stumble or take another few years to develop into depth guys, there is going to be a lot of heat on the front office. I still think they need to dump the entire development team.
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Do they have a high skill guy anywhere in the development team? I get the reasoning behind having Hendricks and good dudes who are willing to help and what not but I find it hard to develope high end talent without having someone actually know how to.
 
DeagleJenkins said:
Do they have a high skill guy anywhere in the development team? I get the reasoning behind having Hendricks and good dudes who are willing to help and what not but I find it hard to develope high end talent without having someone actually know how to.
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That's a good point. They have McLeod, Hendricks and Bombardir as the personal for player development. Could we uh get someone that player higher than the 4th line?
 
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thestonedkoala said:
That's a good point. They have McLeod, Hendricks and Bombardir as the personal for player development. Could we uh get someone that player higher than the 4th line?
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Keep the guys as they are good for moral and such but gimme a skilled dude to help train skilled players. Get Vanek in or something just as a resource at least.
 
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thestonedkoala said:
That's a good point. They have McLeod, Hendricks and Bombardir as the personal for player development. Could we uh get someone that player higher than the 4th line?
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Guys that played higher than the fourth line don't become player development coaches.

And for the same reason that Gretzky failed as a head coach I'm not even sure it would matter.
 
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DeagleJenkins said:
Do they have a high skill guy anywhere in the development team? I get the reasoning behind having Hendricks and good dudes who are willing to help and what not but I find it hard to develope high end talent without having someone actually know how to.
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High skill players don't usually make good coaches. It's the bottom of the lineup player that make coaches. The high skill players see and experienced the game differently than the guys who had to learn all the tricks and fight tooth and nail for their playing time.
 
Wabit said:
High skill players don't usually make good coaches. It's the bottom of the lineup player that make coaches. The high skill players see and experienced the game differently than the guys who had to learn all the tricks and fight tooth and nail for their playing time.
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I agree but you Godda have some sort of person to call on. Not every skilled player is a trash coach, there’s plenty of skills coaches out there who is probably goto over Matt Hendricks and Cody McCleod. I’d hope we have some of them on our payroll to help players such a Rossi to get to that next offensive level needed.
 
Wabit said:
High skill players don't usually make good coaches. It's the bottom of the lineup player that make coaches. The high skill players see and experienced the game differently than the guys who had to learn all the tricks and fight tooth and nail for their playing time.
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Imagine thinking Jacques Lemaire wasn't a skilled player.
/putting words in your mouth

My only reason for posting this is to say that while you guys are right that lower level players tend to make better coaches, that doesn't always hold true, there are exceptions both ways. What makes a coach good vs. what makes a player good are almost completely different skill sets. Same goes for good mangers, etc., which is why I sometimes wonder why the NHL hires players to do these jobs so regularly. I have to imagine the majority of them are underqualified. Not that guys like Chayka have done super well, so far...
 
BagHead said:
Imagine thinking Jacques Lemaire wasn't a skilled player.
/putting words in your mouth

My only reason for posting this is to say that while you guys are right that lower level players tend to make better coaches, that doesn't always hold true, there are exceptions both ways. What makes a coach good vs. what makes a player good are almost completely different skill sets. Same goes for good mangers, etc., which is why I sometimes wonder why the NHL hires players to do these jobs so regularly. I have to imagine the majority of them are underqualified. Not that guys like Chayka have done super well, so far...
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I heard Jesus was born in a good manger....

More seriously though, Lemaire was more of an exception to the rule. I bet you could name good hockey players that were also good coaches on one hand.
 
BagHead said:
Imagine thinking Jacques Lemaire wasn't a skilled player.
/putting words in your mouth

My only reason for posting this is to say that while you guys are right that lower level players tend to make better coaches, that doesn't always hold true, there are exceptions both ways. What makes a coach good vs. what makes a player good are almost completely different skill sets. Same goes for good mangers, etc., which is why I sometimes wonder why the NHL hires players to do these jobs so regularly. I have to imagine the majority of them are underqualified. Not that guys like Chayka have done super well, so far...
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"Generally speaking" he's correct. That's why he said "usually" and didn't make an absolute statement.
 
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I'm not convinced Newhook is a center long term and he's not really showing much offensively, Rossi or our 1st is just too much to give up for him.

Comtois is hitting free agency though, I'd like to see him on a cheaper contract here. Put him on the third line instead of Foligno, if there's an injury in the top six you can see what he can do there instead of guys like Foligno, Gaudreau, Duhaime.
 
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I'm not convinced Newhook is a center long term and he's not really showing much offensively, Rossi or our 1st is just too much to give up for him.

Comtois is hitting free agency though, I'd like to see him on a cheaper contract here. Put him on the third line instead of Foligno, if there's an injury in the top six you can see what he can do there instead of guys like Foligno, Gaudreau, Duhaime.
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Give him steels contract from last year. Trade Foligno and plug him into that spot.
 
Newhook is probably exactly what you get with most #21 picks but I would still prefer to roll the dice and get lucky vs adding more mediocre middle 6's like Newhook appears to be.
 
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Dickie Dunn said:
Newhook is probably exactly what you get with most #21 picks but I would still prefer to roll the dice and get lucky vs adding more mediocre middle 6's like Newhook appears to be.
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Actually, it appears that he is not even a C, but a 3rd line W, at best. He's looking more and more like Jost.
I know Rossi hasn't done a damn thing yet, but I'd rather swing and miss with him.
 
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KaprizovSaveUs said:
dropping in as I have some tidbits from a guy who is "close" enough (info is 2 people removed from Guerin essentially) to Guerin that It's reasonably likely that this is true; I'm not saying it's for sure truth, but it's what I heard from someone that is close to someone that is close to Guerin.
-AZ is interested in Rossi
-Wild really really really want to draft a center
-The swedish scouts like Edstrom
-Brackett likes Moore, Guerin loves the idea of Danielson
-They're going to try and move up with one of thier 2nds and/or Addison
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Guerin pretty much coming out and sanding best center available lol
 
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