Confirmed with Link: Canucks Re-Sign Mark Friedman to a 1y/775k Contract

[StrictlyCommercial]

Wouldn't surprise me if Brisebois-Juulsen is our fourth pairing while Friedman provides veteran leadership to the farm and is our first call up.

I do not expect Brisebois to jump Friedman in the depth chart.

 

[Deeds26]

Overpaid by $25K, terrible, fire Chef Allvin

 

[alternate]

I do not expect Brisebois to jump Friedman in the depth chart.

Depends if they want to keep a LD/RD or not.

 

[wonton15]

The underlying stats don’t lie. Also it was quite hilarious how many penalties Friedman drew. He was getting high sticked every second game lol

 

[F A N]

Meh. Could use the RHD depth I guess. Any chance Woo beats him out for a spot?

 

[alternate]

Meh. Could use the RHD depth I guess. Any chance Woo beats him out for a spot?

I don't think Woo even gets qualified at this point. Don't really understand it tbh.

 

[VanillaCoke]

Good I was hoping they'd keep him and play him a tad bit more, wasn't sure he'd stay being mostly a 7th dman.

 

[vancityluongo]

timing is the only interesting part here. wonder if this is for continuity as management expects a lot of turnover in the next couple of weeks

 

[MS]

I do not expect Brisebois to jump Friedman in the depth chart.

Brisebois did not look very good in the AHL after his return from extended injury last year.

The underlying stats don’t lie. Also it was quite hilarious how many penalties Friedman drew. He was getting high sticked every second game lol

The penalties thing is accurate but the comparison of Friedman's card to Hronek's card shows just how stupid these JFresh things are.

Friedman has barely cleared 20 ESP/80 in the *AHL* for his career and comes out offensively ahead (67% to 43%) of a guy in Hronek who has averaged 32 ESP/82 in the NHL over the past 3 years.

 

[Vector]

timing is the only interesting part here. wonder if this is for continuity as management expects a lot of turnover in the next couple of weeks

They don’t really have anyone in the AHL that they think can make the jump and everyone is comfortable sitting in the press box. They thought it would be Brisebois last season but the concussions have derailed his career.

 

[SeawaterOnIce]

The penalties thing is accurate but the comparison of Friedman's card to Hronek's card shows just how stupid these JFresh things are.

Death, taxes and MS coming into a thread to diss a JFresh card.

 

[MS]

Death, taxes and MS coming into a thread to diss a JFresh card.

They're literally the dumbest f***ing things in the entire world and it's absolutely insane that people give them the slightest bit of credibility.

He's literally claiming that Mark Friedman is a better offensive defender - by a mile - than Filip Hronek. It's comical.

 

[LaVal]

I was very pleased with Juulsen and Friedman's performances as the team's depth defenders last season. Glad Friedman decided to stick around rather than pursue a bigger opportunity elsewhere.

 

[Baby Pettersson]

Solid depth signing.

 

[AlainVigneaultsGum]

Cool.

 

[tradervik]

Piece of business status: tidy

Me neither.
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Excellent except I don’t see “ran out of time”

 

[MS]

Piece of business status: tidy



Excellent except I don’t see “ran out of time”

It's indirectly there at the bottom of row G under 'Gives an new all-timer quote to meme'.

 

[Nuckles]

The penalties thing is accurate but the comparison of Friedman's card to Hronek's card shows just how stupid these JFresh things are.

Friedman has barely cleared 20 ESP/80 in the *AHL* for his career and comes out offensively ahead (67% to 43%) of a guy in Hronek who has averaged 32 ESP/82 in the NHL over the past 3 years.

The only thing I can think of is that it's based on their role listed next to TOI. So it's basing the percentages off of depth d-men for Friedman, and top pair d-men for Hronek.

 

[Bourne Endeavor]

Glad he's being given a chance to crack the bottom pair. Thought he deserved more of a look when Soucy went down but Juulsen exploded out of nowhere.

 

[MS]

The only thing I can think of is that it's based on their role listed next to TOI. So it's basing the percentages off of depth d-men for Friedman, and top pair d-men for Hronek.

It is not.

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It's relative to all forwards/defenders who have played over 200 EV minutes in a season.

It's like if some guy in his mom's basement who took a 1st year stats course and announced that 'I have created a model for valuing foods relative to cost and nutrition!' And then the model spits out that DISHWASHER DETERGENT IS A 75TH PERCENTILE MEAL CHOICE' and 'CARROTS ARE A 43RD PERCENTILE MEAL CHOICE' and clueless people all over the internet start posting this and saying 'WTF my dumbass wife made us salad instead of dishwasher detergent for dinner! What an idiot!'

It's just so, so bad and anyone with an ounce of self-awareness would be like 'this is shit!' and go back to the drawing board. But instead they just keep churning them out and people keep eating it up.

 

[Just A Bit Outside]

Better than Elliot.

 

[BimJenning]

Solid signing. Really would have rather had him in for the playoffs than Juulsen. Just seems to have better reads on the play. I wonder if he's still drawing a crazy amount of penalties? He always seemed to get a bunch

 

[F A N]

Glad Friedman decided to stick around rather than pursue a bigger opportunity elsewhere.

Well he probably looked at the Canucks' D and saw a big opportunity.

 

[God]

I'm pretty shocked he chose to stay here and not look for an actual #6 role somewhere else. Like, he could probably be the next Kyle Burroughs for the Sharks or Blackhawks. Pretty happy with this and I am continually confused as to why Juulsen ever got more playing time than him.

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

I don't think Woo even gets qualified at this point. Don't really understand it tbh.

Woo got injured at such an inopportune time this season. I still think there's an NHL player there.

Friedman's competition for the depth spot will likely be Wolanin and Brisebois (if he's healthy). I think the Canucks like Brisebois a lot, but speaking of injuries...