Rorschach
Who the f*** is Trevor Moore?
Florida fax machine > Chicago fax machine
It's mind boggling how quickly the team needs to turn around and deal with the "draft??" and free agency. Let's say they want to trade Ekblad, they'd might have to do it before the draft, which is in a few days...imagine he's celebrating with the guys and suddenly "oh by the way you are traded to Winnipeg for a McGroarty" what a bummer.Great summary; I think I’ve read something along the same lines before - DT was not the one to sew together a cup team.
Another thing you say here, which may be a bit early for many Panthers fans… but is critical… Bowman traded away the right guys after the first and second cup to keep it all going. I’m pretty sure Zito will do something similar. He knows whom he wants and will talk to Mo about it. He needs to make some key changes, some not that popular, to keep the cup engine burning.
It's mind boggling how quickly the team needs to turn around and deal with the "draft??" and free agency. Let's say they want to trade Ekblad, they'd might have to do it before the draft, which is in a few days...imagine he's celebrating with the guys and suddenly "oh by the way you are traded to Winnipeg for a McGroarty" what a bummer.
Tallon got our 1C, 1D, and Bob. And the pieces Zito used to upgrade. What ever metaphor you want to use.
Tallon stocked the cupboards, Zito baked a big ass cake.
Yup, plus showing him how his work ethic wasn't nearly good enough. He was playing video games one night in the hotel, ran into Jagr in the hallway who was on his way out to go the gym, with weights strapped to his legs.Bringing in Jagr was a key to enhancing Barkov’s possession game and cycling play.
Yup, you have to know when to listen to your scouts and which ones to listen to. Plus you know, actually hiring them. No GM scouts all players by himself, that's impossible while running an NHL franchise. That's why you have scouts. Dale's mantra of big and strong down the middle, is why we have Barkov.I mean that's silly to say. He deserves tons of credit for actually listening to his scouts in the proper way. He could have been stubborn and taken the #1 overall player (Jones was ranked above Mackinnon in final central scouting rankings) and big rugged American Defenseman. I am sure some scouts wanted Jones too. He picked the right one to listen to.
Interesting to see the reaction to Barkov being picked.
People were really high on Seth Jones. I mean, it all worked out in the end. But imagine a Jones/Ekblad pairing. Monstrous..
Which is why I had the "then got replaced by guy who was better at finishing the job."
In Chigaco it was Bowman and in Florida it was eventually Zito. I have never been fully blind to the fact that Dale isn't the guy who can take you to the finish line.
It would seem to suck for Ek but imagine if we’d lost game 7, it would suck even more, coz he’d definitely be traded then. I’d tell Ek to suck it up cupcake, but he might like that metaphor…It's mind boggling how quickly the team needs to turn around and deal with the "draft??" and free agency. Let's say they want to trade Ekblad, they'd might have to do it before the draft, which is in a few days...imagine he's celebrating with the guys and suddenly "oh by the way you are traded to Winnipeg for a McGroarty" what a bummer.