Speculation: Armchair GM - Offseason Thread (Summer Edition)

[stevo61]

Having a body builder as a conditioning coach is weird to me. Training for bodybuilding, strength and speed/power are 3 different things. Dude probably has more of a background than just the bodybuilding Im guessing

 

[VT]

Having a body builder as a conditioning coach is weird to me. Training for bodybuilding, strength and speed/power are 3 different things. Dude probably has more of a background than just the bodybuilding Im guessing

Yes. His clients include other hockey players, Kaprizov, Radulov, Kovalchuk... He was the conditioning coach of the Russian team at one EHT tournament. Just so you understand correctly, the Russians get together before the tournament and train conditioning as well, not just come, play, leave.

 

[InfiniteElement]

Wonder if there's anything recent on the Lindholm front. May be some competition with Boston and their recent need, but we could probably outbid them.

 

[CBJWerenski8]

Wonder if there's anything recent on the Lindholm front. May be some competition with Boston and their recent need, but we could probably outbid them.

I don’t see any reason why Calgary wouldn’t go into the season with him. The west is so wide open. Might as well see what team you have, and at worst trade him (and Hanifin) during the season

 

[MAHJ71]

I don’t see any reason why Calgary wouldn’t go into the season with him. The west is so wide open. Might as well see what team you have, and at worst trade him (and Hanifin) during the season

Until an injury happens..

 

[CBJWerenski8]

Until an injury happens..

I don’t think they’ve given up hope to sign him or Backlund.

Hanifin is 100% gone though

 

[VT]

Lindholm is an unnecessary waste of assets that could be put to better use in the future.

 

[MoeBartoli]

this conversation has gone on long enough. Let’s move the discussion back to the offseason, and not whether or not to believe Elvis Merzlikins wife.

Thank you!

 

[CBJWerenski8]

Blue Jackets GM Jarmo Kekalainen, who is currently in Finland, got excited text messages from his colleagues during Tuesday’s game.

Summer boost: Blue Jackets' Zach Werenski back on ice after shoulder injury

The biggest boost the Blue Jackets will get on the blue line this season will be the return to health of Werenski.

theathletic.com

It appears Jarmo is now home for vacation. Meaning nothing of substance looks to be close or in the process.

 

[cbjthrowaway]

Summer boost: Blue Jackets' Zach Werenski back on ice after shoulder injury

The biggest boost the Blue Jackets will get on the blue line this season will be the return to health of Werenski.

theathletic.com

It appears Jarmo is now home for vacation. Meaning nothing of substance looks to be close or in the process.

hedger just tweeted that jarmo's going to hlinka gretzky in person next week so i'm sure he's still doing plenty of work.

 

[614 CBJ]

he NEEDS to find a creative way to get rid of Jack

never will develop into a complete NHL player, not even close

 

[Cowumbus]

CBJ should look into signing Luca Fantilli. Good hockey player and honesty a great guy in general.

 

[CBJ goalie]

Back-up goalie with experience to play in Cleveland - what's J.F. Berube up to these days?
He played very well for CBJ a couple seasons ago - he fits this very well.

 

[Monstershockey]

Back-up goalie with experience to play in Cleveland - what's J.F. Berube up to these days?
He played very well for CBJ a couple seasons ago - he fits this very well.

Berube is without a team as far as I know. As long as he plays behind Greaves here I would be fine with it. They need to let young guys play in Cleveland and work to become good. Not having a guy to go to Columbus and be backup while a guy like Tarasov and/or Greaves keep getting time to play here, has really hurt.

 

[CBJx614]

Berube is without a team as far as I know. As long as he plays behind Greaves here I would be fine with it. They need to let young guys play in Cleveland and work to become good. Not having a guy to go to Columbus and be backup while a guy like Tarasov and/or Greaves keep getting time to play here, has really hurt.

I wouldn't be against going and grabbing a couple cheap guys. One as a backup/tweener and another for depth/competition in Cleveland.

I think a guy like Adam Scheel might be a good reclamation project, young(24) goalie who had a great NCAA career but has struggled professionally.

Departs UND as the program's career leader in GAA (1.95), second in winning percentage (.729), fifth in save percentage (.916), seventh in wins (52) and sixth in shutouts (7).

Looks like he struggled a bit in the AHL but went down to the echl and absolutely dominated. I'd love to have him sit in Cleveland for a season or two and see if we could get him to rebound. Did I mention...he's from Ohio?


Obviously this doesn't help us this year or next but could put another body with potential in the system.


*This is 100% stat watching while on break, please inform me if I'm missing something*

 

[VT]

 

[Monstershockey]

I wouldn't be against going and grabbing a couple cheap guys. One as a backup/tweener and another for depth/competition in Cleveland.

I think a guy like Adam Scheel might be a good reclamation project, young(24) goalie who had a great NCAA career but has struggled professionally.



Looks like he struggled a bit in the AHL but went down to the echl and absolutely dominated. I'd love to have him sit in Cleveland for a season or two and see if we could get him to rebound. Did I mention...he's from Ohio?


Obviously this doesn't help us this year or next but could put another body with potential in the system.


*This is 100% stat watching while on break, please inform me if I'm missing something*

I looked up Scheel at AHL website and his last two appearances were something. His first game early in the season he gave up 3 goals in the first 4 minutes and didn't play in the AHL until March. The only reason he got in that game is because the starting goalie got in a fight and was ejected for being a secondary altercation. Scheel came in and gave up 2 goals in the last 5 minutes. LOL. His first two AHL seasons weren't awful, not sure what his issues are.

 

[Youngguns1380]

NHL contract efficiency, 2023 edition: Which teams spend their money most wisely?

Here’s how each NHL team stacks up with regard to the efficiency of all the skater contracts they currently have signed.

theathletic.com

Dom doing his annual Columbus sucks and everyone else rocks ranks us 30th. While some of his article has some validity, I can think of many organizations that are much worse.

 

[Xoggz22]

NHL contract efficiency, 2023 edition: Which teams spend their money most wisely?

Here’s how each NHL team stacks up with regard to the efficiency of all the skater contracts they currently have signed.

theathletic.com

Dom doing his annual Columbus sucks and everyone else rocks ranks us 30th. While some of his article has some validity, I can think of many organizations that are much worse.

I've stopped reading his articles. Not because what they say about CBJ but more that I think they are too myopic and narrow to conclude what he tends to conclude. Most seem like in a vacuum type articles with either nothing considered or something fairly obscure to determine an overall "performance" metric. They just make me more annoyed than something to ponder... That's just me though.

 

[CBJx614]

I looked up Scheel at AHL website and his last two appearances were something. His first game early in the season he gave up 3 goals in the first 4 minutes and didn't play in the AHL until March. The only reason he got in that game is because the starting goalie got in a fight and was ejected for being a secondary altercation. Scheel came in and gave up 2 goals in the last 5 minutes. LOL. His first two AHL seasons weren't awful, not sure what his issues are.

He's definitely an interesting case and not someone I would rely on but it could make for an interesting reclamation project. I wonder if there's off ice issues or something going on

 

[Viqsi]

I've stopped reading his articles. Not because what they say about CBJ but more that I think they are too myopic and narrow to conclude what he tends to conclude. Most seem like in a vacuum type articles with either nothing considered or something fairly obscure to determine an overall "performance" metric. They just make me more annoyed than something to ponder... That's just me though.

I'm at the point where I don't know whether to pity or hate him. If he has any sense whatsoever of pride in his work it's got to be killing him at this point.

 

[JacketsDavid]

NHL contract efficiency, 2023 edition: Which teams spend their money most wisely?

Here’s how each NHL team stacks up with regard to the efficiency of all the skater contracts they currently have signed.

theathletic.com

Dom doing his annual Columbus sucks and everyone else rocks ranks us 30th. While some of his article has some validity, I can think of many organizations that are much worse.

Yeah that Dom guy is a real idiot.
He says the CBJ will suck each year and well look at our record...

 

[squashmaple]

I'm at the point where I don't know whether to pity or hate him. If he has any sense whatsoever of pride in his work it's got to be killing him at this point.

He’s much too smug and self-assured. It’s his critics who are wrong. He’s a genius.

Yeah, a genius who makes the entire Athletic NHL apparatus weaker when other writers collaborate with him or use his myopic stats and poor analysis for arguments. Everything he produces boils down to “bad team bad!! good team good!! no nuances!!”

 

[Viqsi]

Yeah that Dom guy is a real idiot.
He says the CBJ will suck each year and well look at our record...

This board is made a better place thanks to insightful, reasoned, and well-thought-out analysis like this.

(disclaimer: the above sentence may or may not have been a pack of outrageous lies)

 

[CBJWerenski8]

His stuff is interesting to read but it’s just his opinion surrounding his own numbers. I think he had Boston as a bad team last year. He has hits and misses like everyone else.