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We'll go 1-5 but the one win will be against the Canes somehow....
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We'll go 1-5 but the one win will be against the Canes somehow....
An $8 million 3rd line centre?
Regardless the money wouldn't work unless a similar salaried guy was back the other way and that aint Pinto.
Well pinto +. Pinto amadio +. I don’t know. Pinto is a legit good young nhler. I would even do pinto and Greig. don’t know what the market is. JT has a massive contract as well that other teams may not want to take on.
Well yeah an 8 million third line Center FOR NOW. If Norris stays healthy this year and ends with 30th goals. Opens up some options for him for sure.
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Like any team that goes on a winning streak you need your goalie to be hot. If Ullmark plays great they can certainly do it.
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I'm personally fine with cleaning house and building around Stu and Sanderson at this point, but with a rookie GM at the helm?....
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what could go wrong.
Too much group think. We need a GM with some quality experience and we need to improve the scouting
Preds, Isles, and Ducks are very 'winnable' games.
So im' predicting they lost to each of those and somehow beat the wings and canes
SpezDispenser
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It's almost too late for changing GM, Andlauer made his decision and I don't think he's the type of guy to change his mind a year later or whatever it is. It's scary though, wish we had an assistant GM that had a firm handle on things to guide Staios.
Scouting, they can hire more people, or fire some and replace. Not sure why they don't.
In the end though, you make a trade sending Joseph and a 2nd away and signing Amadio - which is essentially what happened - and you deserve to be judged.
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I could care less about Joseph but would like to know why we had to pay a 3rd.
Too late .. well if you are going to tear it down and rebuild (cleaning house and building around Stu and Sanderson) its not too late
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Zub's injury couldn't have come at a worse time, games that are "winnable" that we need to get points from, and we're stuck playing with Hamonic on the top pair. Maybe we'd have pulled the trigger on a trade for Fabbro or just claimed him off waivers had he been hurt two weeks earlier,
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Oh, I dont care about him either, but he's a f***load better than Amadio - and, as you say, we had to pay (I thought it was a 2nd, but I see it was a 3rd).
As for too late, I all but guarantee Andlauer doesn't change GMs after a year and a bit.
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i do agree that the zub injury is at a poor time but top pairing hamonic is a choice that is being made (no idea why) and on top of that it isnt working either. I get not wanting to separate chabot-jensen but at some point winning the game needs to take priority over making the easy change
if we arent replacing hamonic in the lineup (Again not sure why) we got to insulate him as much as possible
Sanderson-Jensen
Chabot-JBD
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I wonder if we could get Ristolainen, we'll need a new whipping boy once Hamonic's contract expires, and he'd really fill the void left when Zaitsev was traded...
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He's got 4 points in 17 games and a -5 compared to Amadio with 5 in 24 and -6. He had 18 goals over the last 3 years compared to Amadio's 41. Neither guy is doing jack shit to help this team.
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and we didn't trade one for the other... its random to compare them
Even if we traded for him, he'd probably get injured and out of the line up before we could even pile on him
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tbf, Amadio has gotten a bit more opportunity than Joseph, including a bit of PP time
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Definitely.
I get annoyed. It was very predictable that if the team struggled, we'd hear all about how Joseph, Chychrun & Brannstrom were actually the solutions for this team and the GM is a dunce. Never mind them being here for previous failed years. Maybe the new guys weren't the solutions, hard to argue that atm, but I'm not going to pine for guys that were already here when the team couldn't get it done.
That is a fair point and I've seen that mentioned before, but I still think it bears out that neither guy is having a spectacular season and doing much to help their teams, and Amadio is paid a bit less.
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It's not even pining, it's that guys were brought in to help the team have flat out failed and it's f***ing annoying, especially when we paid to get rid of similar players that we brought in.
EDIT: It's also why I started by saying I'd be ok with a reset around Sanderson and Stutzle
Micklebot
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Yep, I agree.
People are assuming Jospeh would be producing similar to how he did last year, but I don't think that's fair either. He played a lot with Giroux and Stutzle, in fact those were his most common linemates,
Amadio has been playing with an ice cold Pinto, and Gregor.
There's a lot of context that gets ignored when people lament Joseph vs Amadio.
Amadio played with tkatchuk and stutzle for like 5 games. I’m sure their underlying numbers were fine but I think amadio was still 0 points.
Joseph should some chemistry.
End of the day it’s a bit of a wash. I think amadio is def better defensively
BondraTime
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Well, he was able to stick with them and do well. Amadio was given the same opportunity and stunk to high heaven with Stutzle and in the top 6.
It's not that we replaced Joseph with Amadio. I don't know why people get hung up on the specific names. These are role players and as such we should be evaluating them according to the attributes we'd like them to contribute, in a secondary role, to the lineup.
Joseph's attributes: fast (speed), quick into the forecheck (tenacious), defensively responsible (defense-first) and can help PK (contributes to special teams). So let's say it was time to move on from Joseph and forget about the fact that we paid to get rid of a guy coming off a career year.
These are elements that help your team succeed in the NHL. Why didn't we replace them with a similar set of characteristics? We know that this is a speed game and that utility players with speed who can score a bit and contribute to your special teams are worth a lot. Amadio was just not the right type of player given the kind of roster we have, which lacks in overall speed. It's not that he's not a good player (his current season notwithstanding) it's an argument of fit, which when added to the cost to move Joseph makes this all the more puzzling.
Joseph's attributes: fast (speed), quick into the forecheck (tenacious), defensively responsible (defense-first) and can help PK (contributes to special teams). So let's say it was time to move on from Joseph and forget about the fact that we paid to get rid of a guy coming off a career year.
These are elements that help your team succeed in the NHL. Why didn't we replace them with a similar set of characteristics? We know that this is a speed game and that utility players with speed who can score a bit and contribute to your special teams are worth a lot. Amadio was just not the right type of player given the kind of roster we have, which lacks in overall speed. It's not that he's not a good player (his current season notwithstanding) it's an argument of fit, which when added to the cost to move Joseph makes this all the more puzzling.
