rypper
21-12-05 it's finally over.
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Another part of the Yzerplan is to be a major grump ass and be difficult in trades.
This is exactly it. He fell in love with what he thought a few high-floor middle-six forwards could do on his team and once they were there they did nothing they hadn't done already other than get old.Yzerman right now is Benning-lite with better marketing, giving excessive money to third liners instead of fourth liners.
So you feel when a team has control in an offensive zone, and they pass the puck around continuously with no shots, or minimal it's because of lack of options offensively? Or is it because of shot selection? I guess the answer could be up for debate, I'm of the mindframe that this team chose to have less shots trying to pick perfect shots.
I dunno, you can get good young RHD out of him fairly easily!Another part of the Yzerplan is to be a major grump ass and be difficult in trades.
At least, the big OEL penalty lines up with Willander and Lekkerimaki's timelines.Sure would have been nice if Mikheyev would have went to SJ and we didn’t need to retain. Next year is going to suck with the peak OEL and the retention.
We still have enough to add a solid player to the line up, I don’t think they go on for to long without drafting in the first two rounds so let’s hope they find some solid college players or reclamation projects that pan out.
Tyson Barrie or Justin Schultz on a Forbort-type deal? $1M AAV would be better, since you could then sign Silovs and paper guys down to still be really close to the cap, but probably still under LTIR.
f*** I hate Dim Jim.At least, the big OEL penalty lines up with Willander and Lekkerimaki's timelines.
Tyson Barrie or Justin Schultz on a Forbort-type deal? $1M AAV would be better, since you could then sign Silovs and paper guys down to still be really close to the cap, but probably still under LTIR.
f*** I hate Dim Jim.
Yep. The lengths Wings fans will go to still defend Yzerman's management is something to behold. Mass delusion.
He's built a team gunked up with mid, overpaid FAs, capped the ceiling of the team to basically "hope for wildcard", and has no premium talent coming that could plausibly be expected to raise the ceiling of the team to another level.
He's done a bad job for years and everyone with eyes could see it. But hey, #trust the Yzerplan.
I don't see these guys as solutions here. If they were left side Dmen to supplant Forbort, maybe. As is, I think they'll give Desharnais, Juulsen and Friedman some runway here and there's just not going to be any time for further vets on the right side.
Mahura may have been an interesting gamble. As would Roslovic up front, but they're signed now.
Schultz is more interesting to me than Barrie since he actually had one bad year, but was quite good for Seattle the year before, so you have some argument for a bit of a rebound and he's still generating some offense. Barrie is purely a part-time player like he was in Nashville and you'd be carrying him mostly as a #7 insurance policy you can possibly insert from time-to-time for some help on PP2 etc.
It would somewhat interest me to carry one of these guys as #7 and send Friedman/Juulsen down since those two are similar in profile to Forbort/Desharnais. You'd roughly offset the cap, and probably be able to sign Silovs by waiving one of PDG/Aman.
would rather hold off to add at the deadline vs adding a stop gap, non-material upgrade like schultz. depending on what side needs additional reinforcements, i like the idea of one or both of matt grzelcyk and adam larsson. really wish we could have just signed the former over forbort, tbh.
hughes - hronek
soucy - larsson
grzelcyk - desharnais
myers
depending on if grzelcyk returns to form and everyone else holds up, that could be the best defense in the league.
And he's got all the connections.I expect many to regret not targeting Nuke while likely available.
Not only is he exactly what this team needs, (on ice at least) but he's also exactly the player to torch us in a playoff matchup.
It's a 2 player swing.
Ouch why you gotta be so dark man.....that would be catastrophicLiterally the only reason to sign Tyson Barrie would be if Quinn Hughes blows his ACL in training camp and is out for the season, and we need a PP QB.
We have no reason whatsoever to carry a tiny defensive liability PP specialist who wouldn't even play on PP1 for us.
Making a "critical mistake" and then compounding that mistake does not sound like good GMing to me.He's made one critical error: Pull up from the rebuild too quickly. The other mid-level signings just compound that first mistake.
I think what you're seeing is not specific to Yzerman, but most GMs that don't keep their team at the bottom long enough, and then can't execute the big swing to save themselves from missing talent while at the bottom.
Compare it to Allvin where you could say the best player they lost was Horvat and the best they brought in was maybe Hronek (is he better than Horvat?). It's really difficult acquiring talent at the top.
he's a sociopathic junkie with absolutely no moral compass. I wouldn't want him anywhere near this team and would be quite shocked if anyone was willing to roll the dice on him.I expect many to regret not targeting Nuke while likely available.
Not only is he exactly what this team needs, (on ice at least) but he's also exactly the player to torch us in a playoff matchup.
It's a 2 player swing.
Provorov Ekblad Theodore Larsson Borgen Gavrikov someone out of Buffalo as they will have to pay Jokiharju now and Byram next summer. May want to shift money to forwards by then.
Stay patient we dont need 3rd pair guys we need a #2/3 guy
this is pretty much the Yzerman situation in a quick easy sentence.Making a "critical mistake" and then compounding that mistake does not sound like good GMing to me.