JediOrderPizza
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We just gotta toughen up our bottom six. It's super soft.
When your smallest defenseman is 6'2'' you can afford to have smaller forwards. If Wallinder makes the team you can have a 6'4 mobile defenseman on the ice at all times.We could have:
6'7 - 6'1 - 5'9 (Söderblom - Larkin - DeBrincat)
6'6 - 6'1 - 5'11 (Rasmussen - Copp - Raymond
5'11 - 6'1 - 6'1 (Fabbri - Veleno - Perron)
6'2 - 6'1 - 5'11 (Kubalik - Kasper - Berggren)
...or some other combinations.
So eight guys at 6'1 or more and only 4 small wingers, one per line.
this is what I have been saying but I added a late 2023 pick (5-7 round)Not a legit source, way too much. A 1st + 2 2nds is laughable. If Yzerman already offered that, Ottawa would've said yes in a heartbeat.
Debrincat is coming off a down year, with 1 year of control/needing a large extension, while having a short list of who he would sign with. Zadina + 2nd rounder is close to what will happen if Detroit makes the trade.
Zadina + 2nd rounder is close to what will happen if Detroit makes the trade.
Detroit is not adding a 1st to get rid of Zadina, he doesn't even have negative value. There's only a handful of teams that AD would accept a trade to, and only a couple have 1st round picks. Doubtful he returns a 1st for the reasons I mentioned earlierNot really.
I think Zadina has zero or negative value currently. You have to pay a bit to get rid of him.
1st + 2nd for DeBrincat would be fair without Zadina, but Yzerman could have created that another 1st option, just to get rid of Zadina.
It's time to move on from him and look ahead, not in the past and have hopes for his hopelessness.
Without any other additions, Debrincat likely scores 30 goals for Detroit this season. With a little more help on the roster, I see him settling in as a fairly regular 35-35-70 kinda guy.For me the bottom line is to pay for what he will do and not what he has done.
On that note, I don’t think we’d be acquiring a future multi- 40 goal season guy. At 25 he will be at the tail end of his offensive peak. Still a good player but not unlikely to be a mutli 40 goal season guy moving forward.
Pay accordingly.
Chiarot is a decent skater (many other flaws, of course). Määttä's skating is definitely a weakness, though.When your smallest defenseman is 6'2'' you can afford to have smaller forwards. If Wallinder makes the team you can have a 6'4 mobile defenseman on the ice at all times.
Our defense would be 6'6'', 6'4'', 6'4'', 6'3'', 6'2'', 6'2'', and outside of Chiarot they are all good skaters.
At this point I wonder why Ottawa didn't justIt would basicly be:
Hronek + Zadina + 4th
for
DeBrincat
If the same same picks will go Ottawa, which was got for Hronek (NYI 1st + VAN 2nd)
That's also terrible value though. ADB can fetch a first and a good prospect as a rental.Zadina and a 2nd for ADB will be the deal - we aren't giving up a first for him, just don't buy it.
Don't forget Soderblom and hopefully Mazur.I'd take Debrincat in a heartbeat. We need scoring and bad. He kind of dictates where he goes no? And he wants to apparently goto Detroit. I just can't see Yzerman giving up a first rounder in this years draft but very well could be wrong.
Our core forward group looks like what then? Larkin, Raymond, Berggren, Debrincat, Ras, Kasper and this year's 9th? Is that deep enough for the next few years that the 16th can be given up?