ugh and 2 straight years of this!
Speculation: 2024-25 Roster thread
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ZegrassyKnoll
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This is the closest thing to a GDT so I'll just say it here: I wish we could have gotten a look at Celebrini in the pre-season. I have this sick feeling he's going to light us up on Saturday and start the doom spiral from the get-go.
Hockey Duckie
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From THN's Patrick Present:
From a bird's eye view, the only nightly lineup locks on the blueline are, in all likelihood, Gudas, Fowler, Dumoulin, and LaCombe.
Interesting. I would have thought it would have been Minty instead of LaCombe. Just odd to have eight d-men up unless the team wants to monitor Minty's health and not completely rush him back on a daily basis as well as rotate between Luneau and Zell to improve their defense at the NHL level?
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ZegrassyKnoll
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Yeah Minty should be considered a lock unless he's still recovering from injury.
AngelDuck
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The best/deepest opening night lineup we’ve rolled out in 6 years IMO
DavidBL
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It's really only deep IF the kids take real steps. All of them.
AngelDuck
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I didn’t say it was a deep roster in general(although it’s not as bad as you think), I said it’s the deepest roster we’ve had in 6 years
That’s an astonishingly low bar to pass over, but still shows there’s been some progression in quality. No major accomplishment but we’re heading in the right direction
The Midnight Burrito
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Killorn and Gudas doing some real work here.
DavidBL
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I mean it looks promising adding Cutter. Imo, Fabbri is a downgrade to Rico. Everyone else we really already had. At least at forward. If the kids can be who we hope they are then yes I'd say it's a step in the right direction. At D we swapped Right shoot Lybushkin for left shooting Dumoulin. I like Dumoulin more but he shoots the wrong side. I'm hopeful for a good season but it entirely be driven by if the kids take the necessary steps.
caliamad
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We actually started season well last year and injuries took a big toll. Never recovered from that.
I think Fabbri actually fills a role (aggressive forechecker/puck hound) that Rico didn't and it's something we lacked, still do. The skill difference is a marginal factor IMO.
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Oh yeah, those two kids ruined the curve.
AngelDuck
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Agree on Fanti providing something we clearly have lacked. I wish he was a bit better defensively but it’s mostly because the rest of our forwards are terrible defensively
Also agree that the skill different between him and Henrique is negligible.
The only concern with Fabbri is health. Rico was pretty durable
All Mighty
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Reimer tipped the scale a bit out of nowhere.
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Reimer probably enough to get us on the list
Mcginn was supposed to be that type of player that Fabbri is…. Speed/gritty type who can chip in goals. Unfortunately Mcginn busted due to a severe injury. Both of these players have had injury issues… I don’t think either should be long term players for us with their history.
Hopefully both play out of their minds in their contract year so we can get some wins and picks at the deadline when we sell off.
Hockey Duckie
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Totally forgot we picked up the old man guarding the chalice from the Indy movie to factor in skewing the age average higher.
Anaheim4ever
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Amazing how old Detroit is despite not been in the playoffs for such a long time.
Pittsburgh and Islanders need a rebuild, old and mediocre.
As is often the case, I'd like to seen the median rather than average age.
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Hockey Duckie
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Maybe make a box and whisker plot if they're finding the median age. That'll give us more info in one graphic about the state of the team. For example, a far lower median probably would imply a rebuild team. Inversely, a far older median probably would imply a team that at the end of its playoff window and might need to go into a rebuild.
