GDT: Free Agency: Dr Strangedubas or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Nerd

[BrookswasHere44]

4.5 on graves?? Wow

That's not the part you should be complaining about if you MUST complain

 

[Jacob]

Ned was so bad last year the sorry Red Wings had him in the AHL for a quarter of the year.

He wasn’t statistically much worse than Husso, and played well in the AHL even though Grand Rapids wasn’t very good which tells me it was a team thing.

 

[BetterCallSaul]

Honestly, so far I like the Graves + Nieto + Nedeljkovic signing (regarding the cap hit). Acciari is solid, but absolutely hate the Jarry contract.

 

[Dennis Reynolds]

I don't want to jinx things, but we're on page 65 right now, guys...

 

[DrDangles]

We had 20M in cap space and I fail to see how we're any better on paper than we were a year ago.

Graves is definitely an upgrade over Dumo, but god damn does this feel underwhelming.

 

[Kristopher Letang]

 

[NeedleInTheHay]

Dubas really botched it, are we sure hextall isn’t still shadow GM?

 

[Lara Emily]

And still no comtois, yamamoto etc... God forbid we took a chance on a younger player yhay might out perform his contract..

Lmao those guys got dumped for a reason

 

[Pancakes]

It’s too bad TJ can’t even handle that and he’s a starter.

Historically you would be correct, but injury luck can change. We just had two injury prone players play 82 games.

Unless you're talkin like Peter Forsberg or someone literally made of human glass you never f***in know what will happen with injuries.

 

[3ladesof5teel]

That's actually pretty reasonable

It is but I hope Graves proves me wrong. I think he's overrated and id gladly be wrong about it.

Hopefully another move is coming because overall not thrilled with our overall moves

 

[Pancakes]

It is but I hope Graves proves me wrong. I think he's overrated and id gladly be wrong about it.

Hopefully another move is coming because overall not thrilled with our overall moves

I didn't love his play in the playoffs. Looked pylon-ish at times. Didn't think he was bad in the regular season though.

We shall see how it works out.

 

[The Old Master]

“Pens are too small and aren’t physical on D.”

Pens sign a physical LD

”GOD ARE THE PENS DUMB”

well we still have a coach that will try to coach it out of him.

 

[AuroraBorealis]

Graves sucks at PK'ing. Still no solution there. But he's a big ES defense upgrade on Dumoulin.

 

[LiffLaff]

Really wanted Graves, big, physical and can skate, so really happy about that signing. Dont mind Ned either, and love Acciari, but like others have said, not loving that Jarry deal.. Fingers crossed he can stay healthy, and get his head on straight if they make the playoffs..

 

[farscape1]

Do not see how this team is better than last years team.

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

I'm just glad that there has been a fair amount of change.

Perhaps not to the full extent we all wanted, but enough for me to feel like things have been shaken up a bit.

I like Graves in for Dumo, a lot. I don't think Graves is some wunderkind or anything, and his term sucks, but it'd be really hard to not improve over Dumo, the added size/physicality is great, and term doesn't matter for a team whose realistic window's been slammed closed for years.

But yeah, Jarry back is disappointing, but *entirely* expected.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

Honestly, so far I like the Graves + Nieto + Nedeljkovic signing (regarding the cap hit). Acciari is solid, but absolutely hate the Jarry contract.

Taken along with Smith... if you can do all this and somehow also make EK65 work that would be pretty cool.

And then there's Jarry. But hey they can't all be gems I guess.

 

[OnMyOwn]

Jarry is the only bad deal. I just think the options were pretty much gone. Doubt hellybuck, ullmark or swayman were possible.

 

[WickedWrister]

Wonder what CDS fetches

 

[Malkinstheman]

So they have 900k in cap left with this bottom-6:

X-Carter-Granlund
Nieto-Acciari-Nylander

Yeah, Dubas better not be done

 

[Josey Wales]

Dubas really botched it, are we sure hextall isn’t still shadow GM?

OH well You will have to follow a new Team

 

[Nakawick]

McKenzie saying we're still in on EK

Pretty sure CDS is going there. I wonder if they are trying to talk Carter into going there too, or possibly to Anaheim if they are the potential 3rd team. Also wonder if it could be those two and Rutta going out and keeping Petry.

 

[Ryder71]

So they have 900k in cap left with this bottom-6:

X-Carter-Granlund
Nieto-Acciari-Nylander

Yeah, Dubas better not be done

He's not.

 

[Pancakes]

Graves is better offensively than I thought and worse defensively than I thought.

At least if we're to take the ole FANCY CHART at face value

 

[Shrimper]

Who tf is Graves?