aragorn
Do The Right Thing
- Aug 8, 2004
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I agree with you ... although a RW trigger appears pretty available on the FA market. Dadonov or Hoffman types are prob the easiest piece to acquire.
I think Ottawa has another guy who could score a lot of goals from the right side in Pinto unless of course they use him as a centre. But if he ends up on RW than they have another big guy in front of the net scoring goals within a few feet of the crease where most goals in the NHL are scored. Pinto is also a big guy, strong, playing for one of the best NCAA schools at the UND team who plays with an edge & can make some space for himself & is hard to move. He isn't going to score like Hoffman or Holtz would score like, but he will tip pucks in & fight for lose pucks & score a lot of ugly goals.
IMO they are adding big goal scorers who will be difficult to move from in front of the net who will fight for space & make life difficult for goalies. They may not have elite goal scorers but they have a few guys who can shoot the puck & fight for the puck in tight quarters. IMO they could have a pretty big future top nine if they all pan out, regardless of who people want to see play together on lines. Imagine if they are able to add a centre (Kent Johnson) in the 2021 draft to replace White eventually or move Pinto or Stuetzle to 3rd line centre & draft Guenther RW in 2021, the future team potentially just keeps getting better, on paper anyway.
Tkachuk - L. Brown - Batherson
Stuetzle - Norris - Pinto
Jarventie - White - Sokolov
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