GDT: Free Agency Day 1: You're from Boston? Come on down

[Empoleon8771]

Push Puustinen for what? He out produced Beauvillier last season and he was a rookie.

And it's entirely possible that Puustinen doesn't manage to repeat that.

I guess a guy who only got 5 goals between 3 teams is a pretty good icebreaker at parties.

Puustinen had 5 goals last year as well.

 

[DesertedPenguin]

I guess a guy who only got 5 goals between 3 teams is a pretty good icebreaker at parties.

And the year before he had 18.

 

[HandshakeLine]

Wait, Beauvillier had 5 goals last year? And played on 3 separate teams?

Does anyone in that FO even care anymore?

Why would they? People will clap for anything.

 

[Borgir]

Trade Rakell, dump accari with a 3rd. Sign Duclair & someone fast that hits.

lol Duclair signed

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Trade Rakell, dump accari with a 3rd. Sign Duclair & someone fast that hits.

Who's gonna tell him?

 

[Turin]

Why. Why not increase the opportunities for Puustinen, Ponomarev, and Poulin.

If they can’t beat their undwrwhelming competition who cares?

 

[DesertedPenguin]

Beauvillier sucks is the difference.

So does Puustinen.

Ideally both are surpassed by someone like Koivunen.

 

[Ugene Magic]

Trade Rakell, dump accari with a 3rd. Sign Duclair & someone fast that hits.

Duclair's gone.

 

[orby]

Of the remaining free agents, Skinner is the obvious choice for 1LW.

 

[Gurglesons]

I'm so confused why people are acting like Beauvillier should play over Puustinen when these same people were arguing youth and hunger was the plan?

 

[Honour Over Glory]

And it's entirely possible that Puustinen doesn't manage to repeat that.



Puustinen had 5 goals last year as well.

The absolute idiocy of these comments is not worth replying to since you can't f***ing see why you're so f***ing wrong.

 

[Gurglesons]

So does Puustinen.

Ideally both are surpassed by someone like Koivunen.

How does Puustinen suck?

 

[Jacob]

Maybe he's cooked?

He was shit on the Canucks and the Hawks last season and was shit on the Isles before they cap dumped him for Horvat. Why not play Puustinen? Oh right, Sully loves his vets. He gets rock hard for this shit to play them over youth.

Puustinen is 2 years younger.

 

[Ryder71]

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So does Puustinen.

Ideally both are surpassed by someone like Koivunen.

That's what we like to hear! Just give him a little time in WB!

 

[Harvey Birdman]

I'm actually kinda getting my hopes up now that they take a swing at Laine. Pretty low risk as a bottom-third team, may right himself to be a guy we can get assets for down the line, and the added bonus of almost assuredly driving Sullivan insane so maybe he quits.

If Columbus takes Rakell and something like Pickering, and throws us Laine and like a 2nd I'm fine with that. Happy even.

I like it... Only because I could see Sullivan slamming his clipboard into the glass... After Laine scores a goal. "THATS NOT HOW YOU DO IT! JESUS CHRIST!"

 

[eXile3]

I love aggregating 2nd rounders. Kind of wish they were somewhere in the near future though.

 

[SEALBound]

Last year we nabbed Hinostranza, Zohorna, and Colin White. All three of those guys are the exact signing Beauvillier is right now. NHL experienced depth piece that you hope regains his 40pt level of play. If not, waiver fodder or a HS.

It just means so little in the grand scheme of things that it's truly hard to get upset. You don't have to be happy obviously. You can be "meh" and not become mentally irregular and unstable because of a 1 yr, low $ signing.

Good lord people.

 

[Empoleon8771]

The absolute idiocy of these comments is not worth replying to since you can't f***ing see why you're so f***ing wrong.

Amazing contribution to the discussion!

Puustinen had 5 goals and 20 points last year. Beauvillier had 5 goals and 17 points last year, while he has a track record of being able to produce in the past. It's a 1 year move that has some upside if Beauviller can bounce back, which gives them an additional guy that could be trade bait.

 

[DesertedPenguin]

I'm so confused why people are acting like Beauvillier should play over Puustinen when these same people were arguing youth and hunger was the plan?

For the record, I'm not arguing anyone should play over anyone.

I'm just pushing back against the idea that Beauvillier - or even Hayes - is going to block anyone. If Puustinen, Poulin, Ponomarev, Koivunen, et al actually seize the moment and play at a high level, they'll play. Hayes is easily scratched. Beauvillier is easily buried in the minors.

 

[Hell Yeah!!!]

I'm so confused why people are acting like Beauvillier should play over Puustinen when these same people were arguing youth and hunger was the plan?

I think they're arguing its not unreasonable to have Beauvillier and Puustinen compete for the spot.

Of course Sully destroys that assumption, but such is life lol

 

[HandshakeLine]

Anyhow, eagerly awaiting how this D+/C- offseason was really a B+ if you squint your eyes and throw out all evidence to the contrary.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

If they can’t beat their undwrwhelming competition who cares?

It's never been about that. Many players beat Harkins as their competition. Sullivan still played him anyway. The fact that beauvillier is a veteran player means no matter how much he sucks and how good Puustinen was while being f***ed around by Sullivan, the youth will not get the benefit of the doubt.

It's like some of you woke up with amnesia for what the f*** this team has been doing under Sully.

 

[HandshakeLine]

Last year we nabbed Hinostranza, Zohorna, and Colin White. All three of those guys are the exact signing Beauvillier is right now. NHL experienced depth piece that you hope regains his 40pt level of play. If not, waiver fodder or a HS.

It just means so little in the grand scheme of things that it's truly hard to get upset. You don't have to be happy obviously. You can be "meh" and not become mentally irregular and unstable because of a 1 yr, low $ signing.

Good lord people.

Again, in isolation or if it was just Beauvillier, it's an okay move. But it's pretty much all these little death-by-a-thousand-cut bad signings, just hoping that one of them will bounce back that gets my dander up. They're just the same old same old, except each year we target worse and worse players.

 

[SEALBound]

Anyhow, eagerly awaiting how this D+/C- offseason was really a B+ if you squint your eyes and throw out all evidence to the contrary.

Knowing full well that they intend to compete with Sid on the roster while collecting prospects and draft picks, tell me - what does a A offseason look like?

 

[Empoleon8771]

People here when Dubas explicitly says "this team is building for the future" and he makes "building for the future" moves: