Little late coming back to this. I love how the Bears are run. I want championships at all levels. I just didn’t think we needed all of the 26+ or non-prospects. It sounds like Sudz was way more behind that I understood him to be.
Matthew Phillips was 2nd in goals in the AHL last season and a superior player in the AHL. Dube isn't much bigger than him. Don't get your hopes up.
Dube has blazing speed. The good parts of Phillips game aren't good enough to overcome his physical shortcomings. He certainly doesn't have the wheels Dube has.
I really like Dube at the AHL level, nothing against him but are we talking about the same Matthew Phillips? One of his biggest assets is his speed. Just as a fun exercise google Matthew Phillips Speed and there's about 15-20 pre and post draft scouting reports on him citing his speed as one of his biggest assets. If he was in Hershey this season, with that team around him, he'd probably be leading the AHL in goals and points. I don't think you'd see much improvement by switching Dube for Phillips at the NHL level.
He's a little bit bigger and heavier than Phillips, and two and a half years younger. I shouldn't have said "salvage the season", because either way the Caps are going nowhere fast this year... but we just can't score goals, so I'd like to start taking some chances to get the offense started
Just because one small player didn't pan out doesn't mean you shouldn't give a chance to another who has earned it. But yes, i'm not expecting much until i see something at the NHL-level.
Nothing against small players, love to see them do well. I'd give Ethan Frank a chance before Dube. He's earned it, been in the organization longer and made quite a push to solidify his defensive side of the game this year. Dube has a little ways to go.
I wanted to punch him at that moment so he's gonna be a good player for the Caps for quite some time
I wish, Marty was an absolute fitness freak, and built like a fire hydrant. Strong dude who could fly. it was more of an indictment of Phillips, and a desire for management to try something else. I'm all for giving some new blood an opportunity, especially if they are ++ skaters. I liked the idea of Phillips, and he flashed in the preseason, but watching him try to forecheck is just brutal. Looks like a toddler trying to get the puck from his older brother.
Tom Wilson and Ryan Leonard on the same team is going to be A+ content. Sorry @twabby but your plan to trade Tom for some magic beans or for "a better hockey player" is not an acceptable one in my mind
I played lacrosse in college with a bunch of dudes from Long Island and I played hockey with a few kids from Massachusetts and I feel like you need a dictionary to understand some of the stuff they say. The lingo specific to certain sports in certain areas is wild. Hockey players already have weird lingo and then you add in some Masshole vibes and boom, you get a new language.
