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Five PP assists in his first game incoming. Having a better forward group will definitely make his numbers improve.
Confirmed with Link: Jiricek, 2025 5th to Minnesota for Hunt, conditional 2025 1st, 2026 3rd and 4th, 2027 2nd
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We've scored more goals than Minnesota this year, in less games too.
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Was pretty disappointed with this whole situation. Jiricek is the sort of piece that you must hit a homerun on at both the pick and development level. The fact that the Jarmo organization failed to do so and in the process managed to torch the relationship resulting in this sub par package more than justifies his termination. Kudos to DW for salvaging what he could and honestly if the team is able to keep this up and progress those picks could end up giving us ammunition to acquire a legitimate upgrade.
Does that matter if hes still -1 at the end of the game? Unless they are going to shelter him with nothing but ozone and PP time
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It's all quite possible that Jiricek can be a good NHL'er and also not a good fit for this team.
Those 2 things don't have to be tied together and that's OK. If we can start winning games consistently I don't give a f*ck who is on the roster.
By all accounts, we are off to a pretty good start with what we've got right now.
Those 2 things don't have to be tied together and that's OK. If we can start winning games consistently I don't give a f*ck who is on the roster.
By all accounts, we are off to a pretty good start with what we've got right now.
So we traded Jiricek for a pile of magic beans. Okay. But why do so many people feel bad about that? Jiricek is a magic bean at this point. He has a lower floor than Hunt. The same people complaining about the return were often low on Jiricek to begin with. I think people got a little greedy expecting us to get a sure thing in return for a very sketchy prospect. Scouts have eyes, they know his skating is horrible.
As far as pick value, I saw the post earlier that put the value of the picks together (the 1st+2nd+3rd+4th) at an 8th OA. That is somewhat high, because that calculation assumed mid-round draft position and the Wild will finish higher. So let's say the picks added together are worth something like a 12th-15th OA, and Hunt added in makes it worth something like 8th-10th OA. That's really not a bad return for a recent 6th OA that isn't developing well.
I'm upset that you left Christiansen off in favor of Somebody.
Christiansen - Severson was a good pairing!
I agree that the draft pick was rather obvious for us at #6, unless they were more ahead of the curve on Mintyukov or maybe Conor Geekie. It's not a great draft. Jiricek just needed to make moderate progress on his skating and strength and he would have had a decent NHL floor under him. That he would make nearly zero progress in those areas is not something scouts can foresee.
The one area of mismanagement I see is that he was called up way too early. Just hope plays from Jarmo. The kid would have better off without the callups, which took him off a reasonable timeline for his development, given where he was with his underlying fundamentals like the skating.
I don't think the miscommunication about the place last Fall was really what determined anything. It was a nasty public flashpoint but it wasn't why his skating didn't develop or why he didn't get stronger. He was already at that point getting long callups and having his expectations thrown off.
Absolutely. Forwards need a few good moves, D need to be able to handle every forwards few good moves. It requires more versatility in the skating. And obviously Jiricek is very vulnerable in that regard.
I have no real strong opinion on Waddell one way or the other.
He gets a lot of credit for the team looking good right now and some of it is a bit much.
He picked the right coach, but seemingly tried not to - it took him late into the summer to agree to hire Evason, who was my strongly preferred guy - seemingly not wanting to hire him or maybe preferring other hires that fell through.
Guys like Werenski and KJ took monster steps in their physical preparedness and that was going to help regardless of GM. Monahan was signing here regardless of which new GM we hired. And our Russian forwards were ready to pop regardless.
I thought he made the right moves with the D, letting go of Bean and Boqvist, promoting Christiansen, and claiming Fabbro. All good so far. Up front I think he cut too much of our forward depth and it's been a knife's edge at times to get acceptable play from our bottom three lines. There's nothing really to evaluate yet, we'll have to look back on the trades and picks in a few years.
If I thought he was probably going to eventually develop into a very good NHLer, then I would have held on to Jiricek long term, kept him in the AHL, and just ignored him and his agent for a couple more years.
I don't know if this is Waddell not being able to handle that long term approach. I think the trade might have been more about two teams making bets on the skating. Our club didn't think he was going to improve it enough and Guerin thought his skating coach could maybe make more progress with him.
As far as pick value, I saw the post earlier that put the value of the picks together (the 1st+2nd+3rd+4th) at an 8th OA. That is somewhat high, because that calculation assumed mid-round draft position and the Wild will finish higher. So let's say the picks added together are worth something like a 12th-15th OA, and Hunt added in makes it worth something like 8th-10th OA. That's really not a bad return for a recent 6th OA that isn't developing well.
I'm upset that you left Christiansen off in favor of Somebody.
Christiansen - Severson was a good pairing!
I agree that the draft pick was rather obvious for us at #6, unless they were more ahead of the curve on Mintyukov or maybe Conor Geekie. It's not a great draft. Jiricek just needed to make moderate progress on his skating and strength and he would have had a decent NHL floor under him. That he would make nearly zero progress in those areas is not something scouts can foresee.
The one area of mismanagement I see is that he was called up way too early. Just hope plays from Jarmo. The kid would have better off without the callups, which took him off a reasonable timeline for his development, given where he was with his underlying fundamentals like the skating.
I don't think the miscommunication about the place last Fall was really what determined anything. It was a nasty public flashpoint but it wasn't why his skating didn't develop or why he didn't get stronger. He was already at that point getting long callups and having his expectations thrown off.
Absolutely. Forwards need a few good moves, D need to be able to handle every forwards few good moves. It requires more versatility in the skating. And obviously Jiricek is very vulnerable in that regard.
I have no real strong opinion on Waddell one way or the other.
He gets a lot of credit for the team looking good right now and some of it is a bit much.
He picked the right coach, but seemingly tried not to - it took him late into the summer to agree to hire Evason, who was my strongly preferred guy - seemingly not wanting to hire him or maybe preferring other hires that fell through.
Guys like Werenski and KJ took monster steps in their physical preparedness and that was going to help regardless of GM. Monahan was signing here regardless of which new GM we hired. And our Russian forwards were ready to pop regardless.
I thought he made the right moves with the D, letting go of Bean and Boqvist, promoting Christiansen, and claiming Fabbro. All good so far. Up front I think he cut too much of our forward depth and it's been a knife's edge at times to get acceptable play from our bottom three lines. There's nothing really to evaluate yet, we'll have to look back on the trades and picks in a few years.
If I thought he was probably going to eventually develop into a very good NHLer, then I would have held on to Jiricek long term, kept him in the AHL, and just ignored him and his agent for a couple more years.
I don't know if this is Waddell not being able to handle that long term approach. I think the trade might have been more about two teams making bets on the skating. Our club didn't think he was going to improve it enough and Guerin thought his skating coach could maybe make more progress with him.
