Correct although he’ll probably just get a bridge deal no matter where he goes. Anywhere from 2.5 to 4.5m is realistic.
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Correct although he’ll probably just get a bridge deal no matter where he goes. Anywhere from 2.5 to 4.5m is realistic.
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Would much rather have thrown assets at Pinto who is actually at center, is better defensively, and more physical. Than throw assets at Mercer who is not a great fit because we have a lot of wingers, and he is not a sure fire top six winger which is what we need. Not the type of player we should be wasting assets on. Also any trade with Willander+ for Mercer is so bad.
Mercer really isn’t much of a center. Doesn’t have size, not good at face-offs, and not physical at all. Good complementary player and all young centers tend to be bad at face offs but the asset cost would be greater than what you get out of him and his cap hit.
Hoglander out produced him last season. So unless you fully believe that last season was a mirage, I don’t see the benefit.
Hoglander out produced him last season. So unless you fully believe that last season was a mirage, I don’t see the benefit.
Mercer’s WOWY’s are pretty ugly - pretty much everyone gets worse results with him than away from him - and not sure there is a coach in the league that would play a guy with a ~40 FO% at centre. He’s fine but not really a player the team should be sending its few good assets after in my view.
You post the exact same thing as me but sound so much smarter. Frustrating!
Also WOWY is a terrible acronym because I am pronouncing phonetically and that’s just silly.
WOWIE! Like that’s the amount of “wow” moments the player makes.
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I think they'd prefer a RS centre, but I think they just generally need another RS forward that can play in the top nine.
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Sucks that we had Green as coach here, Dowd turned out to be a great 4C for the Caps.
You lost me at Willander...he is the key to us stepping up a level in a year or two if he hits. You don't trade that for a forward of Mercers quality, plus throw in Hogs on top of it
I fully believe last season was a mirage
Willing to bet Lekkerimaki on it?
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people put too much weight on prospects like willander, lekkerimaki, raty, etc
i'm not saying they'll bust but go look at how few rookies/sophomores make meaningful contributions to their teams and then look at their ages and/or where they are drafted. the kinds of guys who come in on an elc and play big minutes for contenders are either top 5 picks or come out of nowhere
the closest thing the panthers had last year or the year before to a meaningful rookie contributor was lundell in his age 20/21 seasons (after making the league fulltime in his age 19). vegas had nobody. edmonton had nobody unless you count broberg in his age 22 season or mcleod in his age 23 season. colorado had byram and newhook both in their age 20 season but newhook barely contributed and byram was the 4th overall. the lightning had sergachev at age 21 but he was in his 3rd season at that point. the lightning also had cirelli and cernak but both barely played at age 22 before being more important at 23
if willander is an important canuck going forward it probably won't be for another two or three seasons. if you can move him now for someone who helps for those seasons and can still be around after that you have to at least consider it
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