Armia on Defence

[Vinny Bombatz]

Hi all,

Haven’t posted in a while but just had a flash.

Armia has all the tools we would look at in a solid defence.

- Skating
- Size
- Strong on puck (great stick work)
- Decent first pass

With our obvious lack of depth on D, specifically RD would he be worth a look on a bottom pairing?

For those who weren’t around some similar examples Frederov, Burns.

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[Chili]

To play d someone has to be able to skate very well backwards. There are few forwards capable, they just never learned. I believe Burns had a history on d before the NHL. With the speed that forwards attack the blueline now, most forwards would look like bullfighters playing d.

 

[ArtPeur]

nah

 

[Vinny Bombatz]

To play d someone has to be able to skate very well backwards. There are few forwards capable, they just never learned. I believe Burns had a history on d before the NHL. With the speed that forwards attack the blueline now, most forwards would like bullfighters playing d.

Agree.

But not buying this. Skating backwards is something 7/10 do really well. That increases exponentially when someone naturally has great edge work.

My concern would be on gap control not skating.

 

[Chili]

Agree.

But not buying this. Skating backwards is something 7/10 do really well. That increases exponentially when someone naturally has great edge work.

My concern would be on gap control not skating.

Where it was obvious that many forwards struggle skating backwards to me is the 3 on 3 overtime. Check them out next time.

 

[HuGort]

Hi all,

Haven’t posted in a while but just had a flash.

Armia has all the tools we would look at in a solid defence.

- Skating
- Size
- Strong on puck (great stick work)
- Decent first pass

With our obvious lack of depth on D, specifically RD would he be worth a look on a bottom pairing?

For those who weren’t around some similar examples Frederov, Burns.

Few can go from forward to defense. In Sens game, i thought Armia played well on Evans line. Give that line a shot at start of sesson

 

[Nicko999]

He's no Andrei Markov.

 

[Kojo]

That would have been a good idea 10 years ago.

 

[the valiant effort]

He's no Andrei Markov.

Andrei Markov was unbelievable.

 

[FerrisRox]

But not buying this. Skating backwards is something 7/10 do really well. That increases exponentially when someone naturally has great edge work.

Watch 3 on 3 overtime and pay particular attention to the forwards out there and then tell me that 7 out of 10 of them skate backwards at the level of an NHL defenseman.

 

[Hannibal]

Armia can GTFO

 

[Habs13]

Trade him right f***ing now

 

[26Mats]

Hi all,

Haven’t posted in a while but just had a flash.

Armia has all the tools we would look at in a solid defence.

- Skating
- Size
- Strong on puck (great stick work)
- Decent first pass

With our obvious lack of depth on D, specifically RD would he be worth a look on a bottom pairing?

For those who weren’t around some similar examples Frederov, Burns.

Leaf's coach said they may use Marner on defense...

I absolutely would be in favor of at least exploring whether it's worth trying. After all he's very limited offensively.

I really wanted us to try to convert DLR to a dman, with all his tools, but no offensive IQ, and I saw keeping him at forward likely leading to nothing anyways. Armia's pretty close to nothing now. So that alone means not much is being risked.

Trade him right f***ing now

For another bad contract is all we'll get.

 

[beowulf]

He's no Andrei Markov.

Leave the General out of these crazy ideas!!

 

[26Mats]

Watch 3 on 3 overtime and pay particular attention to the forwards out there and then tell me that 7 out of 10 of them skate backwards at the level of an NHL defenseman.

It would take a lot of reps for a forward to potentially become. a good dman. But that doesn't mean it can't be done, nor that someone who can't do it well today can't do it well in the future.

 

[Hins77]

He is already too old for it.

 

[Sterling Archer]

Armia can barely skate forward, much less backwards. Pass.