Confirmed with Link: Bunting to Nashville

[PensandCaps]

What the hell is dubas' kink with underachieving Nashville players?

Jesus dubas' version of roster building.... It's like a kid who can't walk past a dairy queen without spending 1.99 on a kids cup of vanilla soft serve.

Honestly i don't get the love for Novak. Hes a soft, pass first, center with average foot speed who "can" play wing but doesn't seem to produce much from the wing.

He's basically Jan effing hrdina 2.0

So what, are we going to shift Geno to wing full time and run Geno/novak/Tomasino second line?

It's the only way adding Novak makes sense. He's not an ideal 3rd line center, since he's not physical enough or defensively minded to lead a shut down 3rd line and he's not talented enough to be the man on a more offensive 3rd line. (Not that we have any talent to build an offensive 3rd line)

And he doesn't have the foot speed or the shot to be an effective top six winger...

so yeah he's basically Jan hrdina out there slow playing the puck before passing to past his prime Geno.

Anyone know what kip Miller is up to these days?

Novak's 5v5 goals per 60 is 1.2 this year, and 1.1 the year before.

Calling him pass first is wrong.

Along with his 2.0 points per 60 for his career, I see why people like him. Play him top 6 minutes and he's going to produce well.

 

[Empoleon8771]

IMO another major appeal with bringing in Novak is that it allows you to slide Malkin to LW and not worry about who is playing 2C. If they’d give trade Rakell and don’t bring back anyone to replace him, I think you slide Malkin to L1 and make it Malkin-Crosby-Rust and put Novak as the 2C. If Koivunen and McGroarty progress fast enough, you could have this top-6 going forward:

Malkin-Crosby-Rust
McGroarty-Novak-Koivunen

Novak is obviously not a solution for their rebuild, but he at least gives them a 2C to play the role and produce once Malkin is no longer the 2C (whether it be by retirement or being moved to LW). His contract runs through the end of Crosby’s deal, so you at least have your top-6 centers figured out for the next 3 years. At least in theory, we’ll have to see how Novak plays here.

 

[Pens1566]

Dis mfer from Toronto shows up to answer this lol

Be nice, they don't have any Stanley Cup highlight videos to watch.

 

[Ulf5]

Novak's 5v5 goals per 60 is 1.2 this year, and 1.1 the year before.

Calling him pass first is wrong.

Along with his 2.0 points per 60 for his career, I see why people like him. Play him top 6 minutes and he's going to produce well.

Still not convinced he's staying. Evans was taken off the market. St. Louis might or might not trade Schenn. Supposedly 8 teams are looking at Laughton. A lot of teams are after Cs.

 

[Duffy13]

Still not convinced he's staying. Evans was taken off the market. St. Louis might or might not trade Schenn. Supposedly 8 teams are looking at Laughton. A lot of teams are after Cs.

I think they actually plan to keep Novak and Schenn, they don't want to bring too many up from WBS right now, and supposedly will be trying to trade guys like Beau, Rakell, Acciari, Grz, and whoever else. So will need some NHL experienced players to fill the lineup without disrupting WBS too much from them having a successful season.

And next year the trade list would include Hayes, Schenn, possibly Novak hard to guess on that too much depending on how the summer goes.

Going to be an enormous amount of moving parts from now until trade deadline next season that's for sure.

 

[Empoleon8771]

Still not convinced he's staying. Evans was taken off the market. St. Louis might or might not trade Schenn. Supposedly 8 teams are looking at Laughton. A lot of teams are after Cs.

Not sure why they wouldn't keep him. They have no one that can fill the 2C role once Malkin retires or is moved to the wing. He'd likely have higher value in the future by playing a full season as a 2C rather than where he's at right now.

 

[Lust for Life]

Don't mind this deal at all, Novak is younger, cheaper and probably(?) better than Bunting, Schenn is whatever, can probably flip some point in the future.

And I mean they can flip Novak too...

 

[JTG]

Novak is a good player who I think would mesh well with Malkin.

Don't mind this deal at all, Novak is younger, cheaper and probably(?) better than Bunting, Schenn is whatever, can probably flip some point in the future.

And I mean they can flip Novak too...

He's signed at a good number for a couple more years too. I could see him getting flipped even next year. Maybe he can catch fire here

 

[pistolpete11]

Don't really get these moves. Don't think it makes the team better and doesn't do anything for the rebuild. I'm not raging out or anything, but what's the point? Guess we'll see what else Dubas has up his sleeve.