I’d like Danforth’s back for 4th line duty. He offers good 4th line offense, is effective at faceoffs, and will accept a team friendly deal.
Completely agree. We can be pretty sure they won't take another step up front like they did this year. They should still improve, but the reality (in my opinion) is the offensive ability on this team is quite good. If the GAA comes down even further next year and the offense stays at the same level or improves even slightly...that's a playoff team and one that likely can push some clubs. The defense and overall defending will need to improve and the goaltending needs to be better than average. Maybe Jet is part of the answer, but not something I am ready to hang my hat on...yet.
I'd keep Danforth and let Kuraly walk. I don't think it will be difficult to get a replacement for Kuraly. Maybe Danforth takes the 4C position and LDDB takes the 3C.
Currently I don't have a strong opinion about Chinakhov and what should be done with him, but I find it kind of funny that some young players always seem to be untradable for some fans. Yesterday we couldn't trade the guy because he's just about to heat up. Today we can't trade him because of the dropped value. I wonder what will be the reasons tomorrow.
Chinakhov has shown he could be one of the best players on the team when healthy which he displayed early in this season.
I've also seen the potential in him but I also feel like there's some kind of logical fallacy going on here if you first argue that his value is extremely low and then say he's got more potential than so many others. If a team sees potential in a player, how can their value be equal to "peanuts"?
I mean his value to other teams, they see him as an injury prone player that might have underachieved and won’t offer much. So, if Columbus decides they have to trade him no matter what, they will get said “peanuts”
It’s a similar situation with Lindstrom. I bet some folks already writing him off as a terrible pick at 4
I thought @ViD 's original post was about trading Chinakhov in general, but apparently it meant these forced trade type of scenarios where the other team is desperately trying to get rid of the player for anything. Those you typically end up losing and therefore they don't make much sense unless the player is too expensive and/or locker room problem. I guess I wasn't able to make correct interpretation of the post because I didn't see any poster suggesting that we HAVE to trade him.
Agree with subtractions and that others will have to go too.
Sickening. If all of Johnson's minutes this season were replaced by someone NHL level then I wholeheartedly believe we'd be in the playoffs. Marchenko, Werenski and Monahan deserve better, they did their part. Clock is ticking, our stars are in their primes. The window really needs to open next season.
