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The Sheldon Keefe Era Begins
Noooo. J. Boqvist signed by Florida. The dream is crushed again...
Yeah, exactly Gritsyuk can easily be that guy for Jack in the top 6. If they can get a Swiss knife player, like Colton, I'm not holding onto Lenni for dear life.
I probably wouldn't this unless he specifically said he wouldn't play in NJ but even then it's not for Ross Colton
It's clearly what they're looking for him
Well, no, it's not. I said the same thing when it happened. Just because it's hindsight for some of you and, apparently, Devs management, doesn't mean it wasn't reasonably foreseeable.Except they traded for Allen and Kahk at the same point. It’s total hindsight to say they should have only traded for Kahk AND trusted him with the starting spot last year and backup now when he was awful in San Jose and they basically got him for negative trade value
I don't think Brady Tkachuk and Jack would work well similarly to why Meier and Hughes haven't clicked well. Tkachuk shoots the puck a SHITLOAD. He has 700 shots the last 2 years which is kind of absurd.
I mean they were after Stamkos and Marchessault.
What’s annoying is he probably is going to do well enough in Winnipeg in a short sample size on a good team, if Allen spits the bit here we go again lolits very weird that a small faction of our fanbase has this hard-on for Kahkonen, a guy who played all of 263 minutes here and who the GM basically said he didn't care about.
Well, no, it's not. I said the same thing when it happened. Just because it's hindsight for some of you and, apparently, Devs management, doesn't mean it wasn't reasonably foreseeable.
I probably have a dozen posts on here pre Markstrom trade slamming the Allen acquisition because the value made no sense, the timing made no sense, and it ensured Kahk wouldn't be here because it was obvious they'd pursue another goalie in the offseason. I said at the time, the season was lost when they finally added a goalie. So why in the world give up assets for a goalie that doesn't fix your problem for next season??? They legit overpaid for another goalie a few months later!
That's just bad management. I don't really see how this is debatable. It isn't like they acquired Allen in November and he didn't live up to expectations. He was acquired late in a lost season, performed as expected (even better than what I expected tbh), and they STILL immediately got another goalie. So what was the point?
TL;DR: At time of Allen trade, I said it didn't make any sense with the season already lost and Allen obviously not being the answer for next season. The Devs management apparently agreed with him obviously not being the answer, yet decided to light picks on fire anyway. Dumb.
its very weird that a small faction of our fanbase has this hard-on for Kahkonen, a guy who played all of 263 minutes here and who the GM basically said he didn't care about.
Kahkonen was just a body for us to take back after we dumped the remaining year of the Vitek albatross off on San Jose.
Vitek really needed to be dumped after the playoffs last year, not that I blame them for not doing it. Nobody knew yet that he was FUBAR'd here. I didn't expect anyone to know, and I wasn't even sure that he'd be unsalvageable here after that. And we already had to exile Blackwood, so we weren't exiling two guys in on offseason and going with Schmid and some rando UFA guy from last year.
Be glad San Jose took the terminally ill Vitek off our hands. I was already wondering right before that if we were gonna have to buy out the last year of that deal.
Not that I've heard. I've heard Nashville has been sniffing around.I want Colton badly, but have we ever even been rumored to be interested in him?
I dont have anything against the guy and wish him well, and I am sure he'll be a competent backup in Winnipeg. But my original point remains...I dont get why he matters one way or the other for NJ
I think Taresenko is the only other forward where we were linked rumor wise besides March and Stammer.
not a 10 team no trade though. It’s a 10 team trade. Hopefully his ass is dumped but it’s also possible none of the 10 teams he puts on the list want to trade for him.
Nobody fawns over mid players quite like Devils HF
I forgot Beckman, who we just traded for. He's probably in somewhere around 7 or 8. I guess Salminen would be #12. That would bey list of any NJ forward prospects I'd see as having even a vague NHL hope.You forgot to put Graham in there, or is he so NHL ready you don't consider him a prospect anymore?
I think the injury was after all of that, wasn't it? I have a hard time believing he was injured the entire year. Maybe at the end, before he was shut down for good.Not absolving him but that injury he had seemed like no joke and I wouldn't have past him to play through regardless how bad it was to maybe save his career with how bad his 23-24 was and this medical staff has shown they're absurdly inept with injuries in the past.
They also signed AJ Greer who I was told "Greer sucks IMO. Had a decent run but he’s slow, not very skilled and isn’t a good NHL player in my opinion. Think we can find better bottom 6 help." after suggesting him being in our bottom 6.Lol cup champs signed Jesper Boqvist, but I was told he was off to Europe and wasn't an NHLer on a meaningful team