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Czechboy said:
We need some D to not suck.

Hajek, zboril, Kral and galvas all not regular NHL players is not good for us.

The next group of D is years away so it may get worse.
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I sense a bit of irony. We can't choose much, that's a fact. Unfortunately, we expected much more from those players. We have to hope for another Jiříčky et al. and that, unlike the previous group, they can do it.
 
David Rittich waived. Before this thread gets filled with more shock, anger and dissapointemnt, let me just say Rittich hasn't been any good ever since leaving Calgary, which is years ago.
 
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martygod12 said:
Lets finally send Gibson to oblivion and conquer the net in Anaheim with Dostal-Suchanek combo lol
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Turns out Gibson is blocking 2 Czechs.lol

Suchanek is now in ECHL and Dostal is backup.

Need him to leave to slot out 2 Czechs higher up.haha
 
On a good news note, rare, Hronek led all D in minutes tonight (even more than Hughes) and got 2 assists as well. They seem to really like him. I could also see Hughes being in Norris talks but he's not Czech so I don't care.lol
 
Zadina scored in game 1. He also got top 6 minutes.

Encouraging start. Hopefully he can eke out an NHL career. If he pulls this off then he is a genius who bet on himself. If he doesn't, he's a dumbass who left a lot of money on the table.lol
 
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Chainshot said:
If they keep that Panarin-Chytil-Lafrenière line together and they continue to have nights like they did last night, Chytil's going to be in the mouth of a lot of casual fans. They dominated.
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I agree... He was great on that third line with the kids. But he needs more opportunities and minutes in top 6. Hopefully he sticks up there. He should have a career year if he can stay injury free. I was pissed when they got Kane and Tarasenko last year and slotted him down.
 
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AHL is really the Extraliga now.lol All my Favs are in the AHL and it's looing bleak. Still, nice to see the guys are getting points and hopefully getting noticed.

Mysak did not make the opening night roster. He's currently cannon fodder.
 
Hronek and Hughes is a beauty pairing. 2nd game in a row they dominated my Oilers and 2nd game in a row Hronek led the D in minutes. Beauty start!

Jiricek with a goal and is the 4th Czech D to step into the NHL this season. Our D situation is brutal. Obviously, Jiricek is a comet and a star but he's not there yet. We also 'should' have a good group coming in the near future but I thought that about Galvas, Masin, Musil, Zboril, Hajek (let go off PTO) and Kral.

I looked at our esteemed Extraliga and the leading Czech Dman for points is Tichachek. The leading D scorer is 30 year old Stuart Percy who played 12 NHL games. That is how bad our D is in the Extraliga.
 
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AHL Czechs doing okay. I highlighted who I think may get an NHL game or 2 this season.

Hope I'm wrong and they all do.lol

I'm a big Klapka fan and would love to see him get some NHL action. Same with Brabenec. Ivan is on a 1 way AHL contract to my knowledge. Zboril needs to be traded. He's not great but he's not AHL. Spacek at least 1 year away but will get there. Maybe 2 years.
 


I feel terrible for him.

I think going back to Europe and playing in a Top 4 role and getting lots of minutes would've been better personally.

I do admire the fight though!
 
Ace said:
Back to back OT winners for Kulich in the AHL. This one completed a hat trick.
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You can have him after the world jrs.lol.

On a more serious note.. what is blocking him? Deep roster? His age? Is he first call up? What about rousek?
 
martygod12 said:
Lets go Kulich !! ... On the other hand, ,Kubalik looks terrible so far
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They signed him for Top 6 (where he is useful with PP time) and then signed a few more guys. Now he's bottom 6 (Ottawa has great forwards) where he is useless. He needs to be traded badly to a team that needs scoring.
 
Czechboy said:
Simek on waivers... It is going awful for Czech D.
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Look I am not very depressed about that anymore. Those guys like Zboril, Hajek, Simek are honestly not very good.

Rather then desperately clinging on keeping those at best average guys in NHL, we must rather look and root for the youngs guys, where we have multiple top4 D candidades for the years to come.

Of course looking at the state of our D in the NHL right now is depressing, but on the other hand our Ds talent pool fills mě with optimism.
 
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martygod12 said:
Look I am not very depressed about that anymore. Those guys like Zboril, Hajek, Simek are honestly not very good.

Rather then desperately clinging on keeping those at best average guys in NHL, we must rather look and root for the youngs guys, where we have multiple top4 D candidades for the years to come.

Of course looking at the state of our D in the NHL right now is depressing, but on the other hand our Ds talent pool fills mě with optimism.
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Those are players I cheered for heavily so it sucks to see them not make it. It'd be like if Svozil (3rd rounder) didn't make it or Spacek (redraft). So it sucks. I agree they aren't great and I was wrong in thinking they'd be full time NHLers. So many misses!

The state of Czech D in the NHL is infuriating. Gudas and Hronek are really all we got and Radko probably is on a retirement contract. Jiricek back to the A when Werenski returns (which I'm fine with). Rutta is more 'warm body' than anything else.

It's a strange time.. numbers are down but quality seems to be on the rise. Darkest of times and brightest of times at same time.
 
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