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Billy Kvcmu
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DeBrusk is consistently better than his team in relative possession metrics, Stephenson is regularly worse. He's coming off a year with a CF% of 46.5% at ES, and a FF% of 47.2%.
Now to be fully clear, DeBrusk is coming off a year at 48%CF and 48% FF, but the year previous he was 58% CF and FF, plus it was still better than the rest of his team by 9.5%. This is actually the only year he was a negative possession player at ES while Stephenson has been trending downwards for a few years now. He's been a neutral or negative rel possession player at ES for 9 of his 11 seasons, and one of those he played 4 games.
He's had a few extremely good years in a vacuum like 2019-20 where he was 57%CF, and 54.5% FF, but that was still only 1% better than team average.
Really great depth, but still lacking one more gamebreaker up front. Not sure I'd throw Podz up there either.
Also need another PMD to transition the puck up the ice. Right now we are really lacking an RD who can do that aside from Hronek. Hopeful Carrier or even Boqvist can be scooped up.
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My take is 27/28 gives you 4-5yrs still at prime performance while CS is 2.5 yrs older and already is coming off a down season at 30. In a perfect world they get 3 seasons before he falls off a cliff where as JD should give us 5 using the same analogy. Of course staying healthy and how they mesh with linemates will detrmine the effectiveness of the contract but i will also add that after last year Seattle should be a little more long term focussed as well which further sours that deal for me.
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Erik Gustafsson to Red Wings 2 years $2M per. Their D-pairings look like...
Chiarot - Seider
Edvinsson/Gustafsson - Petry
Määttä - Holl
They're picking 13-16 next summer again, aren't they
Chiarot - Seider
Edvinsson/Gustafsson - Petry
Määttä - Holl
They're picking 13-16 next summer again, aren't they
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For what it's worth, seems like a lot of the twitter hockey talking heads seem to heavily prefer Debrusk?
I don't think a team has ever won the cup with 3 regular defenders below 6'1"
The signing we've all been waiting for 
Announce the Carrier signing already cowards
Announce the Carrier signing already cowards
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So Patera and Tolopio in Abbotsford, Silovs backing up in the bigs?
The signing we've all been waiting for
Announce the Carrier signing already cowards
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The signing we've all been waiting for
Announce the Carrier signing already cowards
Will Carrier? He signed with Carolina hours ago. 2m per x 6 yrs
Unless you're talking about Alex
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LeBrun reported yesterday that Alex Carrier and the Preds were close to a contract extension, but we haven't heard any confirmation since.
Then the Preds went buck wild today.
Could be that things broke down, or could be that they all decided to wait a little while until the dust settled before finalising matters.
Still hoping we get him for the top 4, but am guessing it probably doesn't happen. Maybe Boqvist or Kylington are more likely, though less appealing.
Then the Preds went buck wild today.
Could be that things broke down, or could be that they all decided to wait a little while until the dust settled before finalising matters.
Still hoping we get him for the top 4, but am guessing it probably doesn't happen. Maybe Boqvist or Kylington are more likely, though less appealing.
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At least the Canucks didn’t spend $7 million per on Lybushkin and Dumba today. They don’t need to get better if their competitors just choose to get worse instead.
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