Hockey Duckie
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When Z is the best defensive forward on the line, then, "Houston, we have a problem." I'd probably want to try Lundy at LW instead of Fabbri.
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When Z is the best defensive forward on the line, then, "Houston, we have a problem." I'd probably want to try Lundy at LW instead of Fabbri.
Someone needs to do a points guessing thread for the end of this coming season. Just having last years team healthy would have probably been good for 10~ more wins.
Deuce22
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I don’t want a guy on the squad that chooses when he’s going to care.
KaseMeOutside
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I don't like penciling Gauthier into the top line or top 6 when he's played 1 game
The way I see it is we're going to have three 2nd lines with a rotating cast of players until some chemistry identifies what lines are what.
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As long as at least one of them isn’t a defensive black hole, that’d be a great situation. Much better than the one 2nd, 2 4th, and one AHL line we ran last year.
Gauthier is the real deal. Flyers fans would not be so upset if he was not. He should be at least in the Top 6 next season.
You sound like my wife
KaseMeOutside
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Talent wise our forward group nice just depends on how well they develop this year
Leo
McTavish
Zegras
Terry
Gauthier
Vatrano
Strome
Killorn
Fabbri
That's a legit top 9 right there just based on talent
Key is gotta stay healthy. Always going to have injuries but last year was over the top, and this team didn’t have the depth last year, they added Gauthier, but they needed another Top 6 guy.
Adding Fabbri will help, From what I have read, he is a good player, an upgrade to our bottom 6, but staying healthy is what the concern is. He is a career .50 PPG player, and had 18 goals in 68 games last season, which is better than what we got from guys like Jones, Groulx, Leason, Johnston, and etc.
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190Octane
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Easy to say when you’re on the outside of a situation and no matter what you do it’s not going to make a difference.
These guys are humans and not machines so it’s impossible to not let emotions like hopelessness and disappointment creep in.
I know that people will reply to this and say that they're professionals and it doesn’t matter because they’re being paid millions of dollars to play a game. This is an understandable viewpoint, but I’ll preemptively ask those people if they’ve ever mailed it in on a Friday at work and not put in their best effort because they weren’t feeling it. I’m sure that almost everyone here has regardless of how much money you’re making.
Deuce22
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Fair enough, and true. But as much as I could control it, I would want players (or employees) that don't cave in to their circumstances and mail it in. It's settling for less, it's being OK with normal.
190Octane
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Of course, but after 4 years of it, it’s tough to not let it affect you. Even then he still made the all star game in 2019 and 2022 so it’s not like he’s been complete shit.
I think if there is something to play for in February and March he’ll be a big reason of why the team is there.
Dirk316
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We added a 6'4 gentle giant
Our forward group is just as bad and I'm watching people post their wish lineup with Johnston the only physical forward healthy scratched. What a mess
Hockey Duckie
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Health is the biggest factor this year. This addresses two issues: players being on the ice and the lack of fatigue could reduce our PIMs. If our club continues to rack up injuries, then I blame our FO and coaching staff for running our team down.
The second factor is our ES offensive game plan. If Cronin doesn't allow for flexibility and creating an offense based upon the talent at hand, then...
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sowcufucakky
I think middle 6 is more appropriate for next year to be fair to him. He should be expected to have a 2nd half fall off like pretty much every rookie does. May get some time on the top line, but I don’t know about him handling those minutes come January/February. We have the depth to put him where he needs to be.
Smirnov2Chistov
Fire Greg Cronin!
It’s like what I posted the other day with what Ray Ferraro on overdrive..
You need ‘giants’ out there besides skill. You can dictate the game more imposing your force
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He's not close yet but I think the trade up for Solberg is evidence that the front office is of like mind on this.
Smirnov2Chistov
Fire Greg Cronin!
I think it’s a good starting point, but for this roster to be playoff ready, I think a bunch of turnover still needs to happen.
Zegras, McTavish, Gauthier and Carlsson are great pieces, but the surrounding players around them aren’t helping.
He seems like a gym rat through and hrough. Well, last time we saw Comtois this ripped, his career started to fell off
hopefully it gets better for McT. We need him to play a better overall game
