by most accounts martone did not look very good at WJ and his skating is very AVG at best. I have him behind frondell for the hawks.
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Chuck Testa
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Martone's skating did not look good at all when he was on the ice for Canada at this WJHC. Maybe it takes a little while for him to pick up speed but there didn't seem to be much burst (if any) in his skating. Maybe he just had a rough tournament, I dunno.
For me he's firmly behind Schaefer, Hagens and Misa. Top 3 pick in this draft is a must for the Hawks.
For me he's firmly behind Schaefer, Hagens and Misa. Top 3 pick in this draft is a must for the Hawks.
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If you can land a true #1 D you can always trade away another D prospect in the system for a forward. You cant pass up having an #1C and #1D.
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Those three games doesn´t mean a thing. Matthew Tkachuk´s skating isn´t perfect but he gets the job done. Let see how Martone plays rest of the season.
TLEH
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Well doesn't that mean they aren't exactly that good of prospects and we shouldn't be avoiding drafting a guy like Schaefer just because we have them? That is what it means to me.
it would be a prospect for prospect swap. KK for similar forward prospect. hypothetically it would be something like KK for Nazar. even thou they are both on the hawks.
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If the kool-aid is to be believed, Vlasic-Lev, Korchinski-Rinzel, Allan-Del Mastro/Kaiser is fine enough to roll with for the near future. Now tell me the top line of forwards. Going on year three of using third liners with Bedard sounds great to me! Problem is, I'm not sure anyone in this draft is an instant top line-ready player. However, if either of Korchinski or Lev aren't trending well and defense is still that much of a need that this guy is better than what's already here, that should be enough to get KD on the hot seat.
So a middle pairing guy for a middle six forward? The Hawks have that in spades.
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Because Jones for Johansen worked great for the preds..so great they had to sign Matt Duchene and trade for Turris once they realized Johansen was never gonna be the first line forward they believed him to be
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Ah yes a different team f***ed it up a decade ago so there's no way it could possibly work out for the Hawks.
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To be fair, Johansen wasn’t healthy for the SCF in 2017. Had he been, I firmly believe the Preds win the Cup that year.
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Let's just 1 for 1 Larsson for Hall (NJ side, not EDM side) (this is back when Hall was really good)
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Hawks have years left on their rebuild until they don't...lets see some of these kids start to impact the NHL roster before passing on a guy like Schaefer if he's the clear number one because we have XYZ prospect in the pool...move Allan to RD and pair him with KK and send SJ to Dal, it makes a lot of sense anyway...once this team has less holes then position can be more of a deciding factor on the margin
Schaefer-Lev
Vlasic-Rinzel
KK-Allan
thats a deep group to build around, use every draft/offseason after to add to Bedard and Nazar and figure out goalie
Schaefer-Lev
Vlasic-Rinzel
KK-Allan
thats a deep group to build around, use every draft/offseason after to add to Bedard and Nazar and figure out goalie
TLEH
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Then if they’re that good to roll with in the future then they should return a good return.
