Around the League 47 Vancouver Collects All the Petterssons
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"Dustin Wolf has been great for the Flames. There's no comparable in history to describe his season so far." -- announcer just now
Hyperbole is dead. Long live hyperbole.
Hyperbole is dead. Long live hyperbole.
Morgan Geekie has an outside shot at 30 goals this year. Imagine telling Canes fans that in 2020.
The Canes were a cheat code with Necas. With those 3 on Colorado they should just award them the extra point and move on.
nobody out-pizza's the hut
Speaks to our drafting, pro-scouting and depth. Geekie was a draftee of ours, but we as an organization have unearthed a lot of gems from day 2 in the draft and from the AHL that have found their way to permanent NHL homes, largely on other teams. I mean it sucks to lose Geekie but he was picked by expansion draft and there's not much you can do about it.
If we were a less successful organization we would be taking other teams' Morgan Geekies to fill out our roster spots.
I’d take geekie back in a second I thought he was awesome
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Eh, it was more of a commentary that he never showed nearly that kind of scoring touch with us (nor with Seattle, for that matter)
Yup. He had a huge shot from day one. The skating was something he had to adapt to still but he played our style to a t from his first game. I wasn’t happy we let him go.
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Come on, man. He ended the 2019-2020 season at 2 points per game!
what was the alternative in that expansion draft though? I don't really remember but at the time nobody had complaints about letting him get taken. And I still don't really miss him much at all. Solid player but easily replaceable. I miss Foegele more
Bean was the one most of us expected Francis to take. Former first round pick of Francis, still young offensive D. The Canes also exposed Nino, who was a year away from UFA.
The Canes traded Bean to Columbus 2 days later.
In terms of who they should have exposed to protect Geekie? The only choice I see was Fast vs Geekie. The rest of the position players were pretty obvious choices: Aho, Svech, Trocheck, TT, Foegele, Fast, Slavin, Pesce, Skjei.
2021 NHL expansion draft - Wikipedia
Yeah so I can see an argument for protecting Geekie over Fast but even with hindsight being 20/20 I have no issues with protecting Fast. He was a pretty important piece of this team on the Staal Martinook line for a few years before his recent injury. Geekie is a fine player, but not some big missed opportunity in my view.
Fast was a great and valued team mate
I hope he was recovered from the severe neck injury and now can have a normal life without pain.
Canes with second most PP's in the League and a small drop y/yr.
RBA finally getting out of the ref penalty box and/or League refs finally recognizing the Canes control of play?
RBA finally getting out of the ref penalty box and/or League refs finally recognizing the Canes control of play?
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They know we're not a threat on those PPs so they can placate Rod without affecting the overall game.
I miss them both but Foegele I think needed the growth of moving on. With Geekie I don’t remember the details and it wasn’t about I wanted this guy taken vs that guy. I wasn’t surprised he was the one taken, I assumed we had communication with RF and they identified who they’d give up.
I don’t expect you to remember my posts from back then but I was someone that thought Geekie could have a future. I didn’t freak out that we lost him as we had to lose someone but I would’ve liked to hold on to him.
I by no means said he’d be a 30 goal scorer. He had a heavy shot, was a righty center and is a two way guy. I thought he’d have value, though the slow feet would hamper his ceiling was my assumption. I think the biggest difference between now and then is he looks lighter on his feet.
