Hughes this Hughes that… as reported last week all players discussions w other teams are had with Gorton.
I want them to be better than last year, especially the post-rebuild draftees players and the pieces specifically acquired by Hughes. Progress.
But he's so good at protecting the puck while entering the neutral and offensive zone. I don't see anything comparable to Ovechkin except on the powerplay.
We could have kept them both. Reinbacher had no business making the team this year.
You're probably right, it just stings a little to see Kova so solid this year, and his size could have been an asset for the next few years, Savard will be traded this season most likely.
Yeah, that guy, “any” — he’s been signing with other teams esp if he’s a premium asset.
Yeah, that guy, “any” — he’s been signing with other teams esp if he’s a premium asset.
I don’t know that Hughes will do better than his predecessors on that front. We’ll find out soon enough.
Outside of Newhook they are better than last year.
I was alluding to signing UFAs after the rebuild, not now. Regardless, we’re not a destination market so I’m not sure how Hughes sells it to a targeted UFA, whoever that might be.
In your opinion Dach, Barron, Matheson are better than ever, I guess.
Hindsight is 20/20. Last year, Primeau and Montembeault seemed capable of handling the goalie position in the short term. Neither was/is Carey Price, but they showed they could hold the fort; no one expected them to shit the bed as badly as they are. Trading Allen made sense because given his age, he wasn’t part of the long-term plans. Everybody cheered when the trade was announced - no more 3-goalie system and a return of a 3rd round pick or better to boot, even if salary had to be retained - woooohhhhoooo!
Is your point that the players we gave up for any of those guys better?
No friend, I commented my thoughts clearly: the regression from the players HuGo specifically acquired is (1) not good in general and (2) gives me cause to be sceptical of their judgement and ability.
Hage came in the Baron trade as well btw. I'd say we did fine there.
It's not Hindsight when we've been bitching about the lack of size and goalie depth, and we trade the 2 pieces we needed for the rebuild. We have enough draft picks in the 2-7 rounds.
The Barron deal I think will work out for us if for no other reason than we also got Hage out of it.
The round 2 pick that we sent to LA to move up (along with our first round pick) was acquired from Colorado when we traded them Lehkonen (i.e. we got back Barron and the round 2 pick).
Matheson was acquired as a cap dump in a trade for another cap dump. I mean him being bad doean't matter he was never suppoed to be good.
Barron did have some use!
They brought him in as a 'local boy' and they were counting on him to be good.
Yes we used that pick to move up and draft Hage. It was our only 2nd round pick as our own 2nd round pick was traded in the Dvorak trade. Without that pick we probably can't move up and i doubt Hage is available at 26th.
No they just wanted to trade Petry away that was the point of the trade and nobody wanted to touch Petry's contract with a 100 feet pole. Let's not rewrite history please. It was a cap dump for a cap dump trade. Nobody wanted to touch those contracts.
