It's entirely believable that Barry's like/dislike opinion turns like a weathervane and just as quickly. From the outside, it does not appear that he and his coach are on the same page. Barry re-signs guys only to see his coach decide they can't play his system of hockey. So Barry takes out his frustration by getting rid of the player at all costs because he wants to establish a culture where the head coach is the king.
That’s the exact same thing I was told as well. I’d have given up ZLH, Novak and a 3rd for Cozens without batting an eye.
Given that we will tank both ZLH’s and Svechkov’s value eventually and end up waiving them, I think that would’ve been a good deal for us.
Right, so that is TOTALLY different than Novak as the centerpiece. Novak is just a partial cap-balancing throw-in in that scenario. We talked about this at the time, and most of us were against the idea of trading ZLH or Svechkov as the centerpiece in a deal for Cozens. Because it's those guys who were the centerpiece, not Novak.
Those 3 guys should be getting 18+ minutes a game as well. In a lost season why are our young players still not getting the minutes. Someone needs to call trotz out in our media for this. He said our young will get more opportunity going forward but still only gives ZLH 10 minutes and Evangelista 13. How is that opportunity? Trotz has no idea how to run a franchise and he feeds our media bs and they eat it up without doing any kind of research. I'd even have Molendyk and gibson up as soon as their season is over. The fact we're running the same shitty lines and giving them the minutes they were getting is insane. All of young players need to be up and getting real opportunity. If they did that I'd actually be excited about watching the games again
Molendyk and Gibson's seasons will probably last longer than Nashville's.
I don't care how they are gettting the minutes as long as they are getting the minutes. As far as bringing up milwaukee guys over Molendyk and gibson I'm good with that as well but it has to be young guys which if you look at milwaukee we really don't have many of. It wouldn't hurt giving Molendyk and gibson games here for us fans to at least have a reason to watch. We're just as old in milwaukee as we are here. Which actually makes the situation were in worse. Regardless this team should have a different look going forward the rest of the season not the same old trash trash ass lines and players that have us 3rd worst in the leagueMolendyk and Gibson's seasons will probably last longer than Nashville's.
I think young D and young F are a little bit different in terms of how eager we should be to plug them in early, however. We have Stastney and other guys from Milwaukee we can play on D who are worth giving a look to ahead of junior guys.
A forward line of ZLH-Svech-Vange is just going to be too easy for Bruno to bench. I would like to seem them all get higher minutes, but I think the best way to do that is to spread them out playing with the big gun veterans.
The fact that trotz made that deal buying bunting instead of truly selling is absolutely terrible
I think the most annoying thing to me is that we are now back to a top 6 of nothing but vets and pushing all the kids onto an easily benchable line. Sissons back into the top 6 even though it hasn't really worked all season. Coaching decisions are insufferable and entirely predictable.
Maybe we have already made decisions on Del Gaizo and Livingstone, but they seem to at least be borderline close, and as I understand it are set to become Group VI UFAs this summer. Or Ufko has picked things up after a slow start offensively, so I would say anyway these 3 (plus of course Stastney) would be ahead of junior players on D.
In no world are any of these guys ahead of Molendyk and Gibson. They've been with the organization for quite some time but none of them have the potential to be first pairing guys. MDG has no business being in the league. Livingstone is what, 25 now and hasn't been able to break thru since signing with us out of college? Ufko could be a guy but certainly not top pairing. I like Stastney as he's got great wheels and is solid defensively but there hasn't been any offense to his game. None of these guys have been picked for tournaments on the world stage. The other two have and I expect to see them sooner than later.
Trotz loves Bruno and is bringing him back.
Being "ahead of" just means they are more physically developed and able to play NHL minutes right now today. It is of course no indication whatsoever of ultimate upside.
And that is why this organization will continue to flounder in mediocrity. If an organization is not willing to ice their most talented players because of their age that’s a problem.
To be fair, nowhere in the NHL is it common for defensemen to step straight out of juniors and into the NHL. Even Weber and Josi started off in the AHL. Maybe Molendyk is an exception, but I doubt very much that Gibson is.
I’d take Molendyk-Gibson over Lauzon-Barron all day everyday but that’s just me.
Nope not just you.
Outside of 315. Their box is above those seats.
I imagine Trotz is going to sign at least 1 UFA on D, probably RD. Probably some old slow stay-at-home "character" guy. (Hence my previous nomination of David Savard). So I suspect we'll see:
