Rumor: 2024-2025 Trade Rumors and Free Agency Talk | Part Deux

[dahrougem2]

I imagine Buffalo shopping Byram has more to do with the fact that Dahlin, Power, and Samuelsson all have long-term contracts as LHDs.

Byram is the easy one to move and might help you fill a more pressing need.

That said, it does feel like his true ceiling is that of a #3.

 

[The Kingslayer]

I imagine Buffalo shopping Byram has more to do with the fact that Dahlin, Power, and Samuelsson all have long-term contracts as LHDs.

Byram is the easy one to move and might help you fill a more pressing need.

That said, it does feel like his true ceiling is that of a #3.

Byram going to Vancouver is inevitable.

 

[Zandar]

Have we traded Colton and Wood to NJ yet?

 

[NOTENOUGHRYJOTHINGS]

Byram going to Vancouver is inevitable.

Supposedly two years (or one year?) ago the Canucks turned down Newhook and Byram for Miller.

 

[RoyIsALegend]

Have we traded Colton and Wood to NJ yet?

Not yet.

Apparently the hold up is that the two teams have never discussed this at all.

 

[Foppa2118]

Form Mikko thread:

Yeah, and Mitts didn't learn his lesson. Mikko found a way around it.

No one buys my fatigue theory anyway.

It's an injury, or psychological.

I think it's part fatigue due to the style he wants to play and part this is who Mitts is.

I think ordinarily he's an inconsistent 60 point kind of guy at the end of the season, with multiple hot and cold streaks, but the cold streak has been longer this season, because he might have hit a wall physically trying to do too much.

I always had concerns that he seems to goes full out 100% every shift with his skating, while also having to do what's required in Bednar's system. He'd try to win battles in the corner against bigger guys, holding onto the puck and playing off the contact for his possession game, then have to skate hard on the back check later.

I've lost track of the amount of times I've seen Mitts have a taxing shift in the O zone, then at the end of his shift, have to put his head down, and hustle back to prevent an odd man rush after a turnover when he's clearly gassed. He just often looks like he's skating too hard and trying to do too much.

Props to him for caring, and putting in the effort, but It just doesn't seem sustainable over 82 games + playoffs for him. I'm not sure he has the natural athleticism required to do that consistently.

 

[flyfysher]

Form Mikko thread:


I think it's part fatigue due to the style he wants to play and part this is who Mitts is.

I think ordinarily he's an inconsistent 60 point kind of guy at the end of the season, with multiple hot and cold streaks, but the cold streak has been longer this season, because he might have hit a wall physically trying to do too much.

I always had concerns that he seems to goes full out 100% every shift with his skating, while also having to do what's required in Bednar's system. He'd try to win battles in the corner against bigger guys, holding onto the puck and playing off the contact for his possession game, then have to skate hard on the back check later.

I've lost track of the amount of times I've seen Mitts have a taxing shift in the O zone, then at the end of his shift, have to put his head down, and hustle back to prevent an odd man rush after a turnover when he's clearly gassed. He just often looks like he's skating too hard and trying to do too much.

Props to him for caring, and putting in the effort, but It just doesn't seem sustainable over 82 games + playoffs for him. I'm not sure he has the natural athleticism required to do that consistently.

Where does he live in the offseason? Wonder if it is a matter of altitude.

 

[BobRossColton]

If it's an off-season trade for mitts, is there better Rfa center targets or would it be trade for assets then to use on someone with term?

 

[CobraAcesS]

Form Mikko thread:


I think it's part fatigue due to the style he wants to play and part this is who Mitts is.

I think ordinarily he's an inconsistent 60 point kind of guy at the end of the season, with multiple hot and cold streaks, but the cold streak has been longer this season, because he might have hit a wall physically trying to do too much.

I always had concerns that he seems to goes full out 100% every shift with his skating, while also having to do what's required in Bednar's system. He'd try to win battles in the corner against bigger guys, holding onto the puck and playing off the contact for his possession game, then have to skate hard on the back check later.

I've lost track of the amount of times I've seen Mitts have a taxing shift in the O zone, then at the end of his shift, have to put his head down, and hustle back to prevent an odd man rush after a turnover when he's clearly gassed. He just often looks like he's skating too hard and trying to do too much.

Props to him for caring, and putting in the effort, but It just doesn't seem sustainable over 82 games + playoffs for him. I'm not sure he has the natural athleticism required to do that consistently.

It makes me a little irritated when people say he's looked lazy. Anything but..

Mikko learned to chery pick based on his talent and shot. Makes sense why he never wanted to be a center here.

Mitts can be fine, he just needs to adapt, apparently the hard way.

Through repetition the body adapts, as long as you give it the necessary fuel.

I should have done way more fitness related stuff before I joined the Army lol. I was a computer nerd signing up for the hardest job. It took a lot of pain, but I adapted, and thrived at an elite level.

Just depends how much you want it.

 

[Foppa2118]

Where does he live in the offseason? Wonder if it is a matter of altitude.

Not sure, but I don't think it would be altitude at this point. He should be acclimatized like the rest of the team.

I'm just speculating, but I feel like it may just be an issue of trying to do more than he's capable of. I could be wrong, but he doesn't seem to have the same natural athleticism as other guys.

I think he even said he worked on his conditioning a lot in in the off season too. May just be a limit to what his body is capable of, I don't know.

A guy like Lehky for example I think may be a better natural athlete to play that high motor style, and he also finds time to coast every now and then to recover during a shift, before going hard again.

Mitts just always seems to be skating at 100% of what he's capable of. Or close to it. When he's skating in transition with or without the puck. When he's spinning back and forth with the puck down low. Then on the backcheck.

Doesn't seems sustainable to me, unless you're a really high level athlete.

 

[missionAvs]

No doubt they would improve on 2C if there was a proven player available in exchange for Mitts. I don't think Mitts has done anything that Pärssinen can't do in his place at only a 775k cap hit.

Let's not go crazy with this talk here. I like Parsnip but I want him to just up and replace Wood full time. Ship Wood to Arizona and I guarantee he shows up in Glendale still confused as to where the NHL team went.