Despite what many would say on here he gets picked up immediately
"He’s so talented, he was taken 3rd overall" is a terribly flawed argument to make that it’s not even worth discussion. We are discussing the 2024-25 version of Dach, not the 2018-19 projected version of him.
This coming from the guy who said "it's just GMs being dumb". Now there is something not worth discussion. That's odd we are talking about Kirby today because you seem to be twisting it into Kirby has always been this bad, wanna make up your mind?
I don't think he would get claimed if he is struggling with issues from the knee injury as you suggest.
Never said he was always bad. Learn to read or stop being disingenuous.
He’d have multiple claims. I mean Oliver Wahlstrom just got claimed. Multiple teams would take a chance on Dach
You said he was an average player and shouldn't have been drafted at 3. That's just a flat out lie, stop trying to twist the past.
Are there no short-term work-arounds like conditioning/rehabing or free parking cards? Like @OldCraig71 I don’t find this waiver stuff intuitive.
Pressbox is an option but we don’t have accountability on the team
lol it may make the current roster stronger, but the kid needs to be skating somewhere whatever his ceiling/timeline is…
Well there’s two options regarding Dach:
Perhaps…
Or if they realize these things take time which they do more often than not then they definitely pick him.
There are a handful of guys who are struggling, Dach and Newhook are the two that standout......Armia, Gally, have struggled recently, Matheson has been hot garbage lately and gets played even more, so we have a ton of candidates who could sit.....take your pick.
He’s had 31 games (plus multiple preseason games) to get up to speed. He’s been skating since last February and was rumoured to wanting to play the last few games of the 2023-24 season. At some point the onus is on the player.
Wahlstrom is on a 1 year million dollar deal vs Dach at a 3.3 cap hit for this year and next. I don't think teams would be lining up to nab a player owed that type of money especially if he is not 100 percent healthy.
Be patient with him, but he needs to get out of our top 6. Let him earn his way back up to a premium spot. He doesn't deserve to play with Laine with the way he is playing. If he isn't at 100%, how does it make sense to play him at 2C?
"Recovering" He's been practicing on the ice since late May. His injury excuse 6 months after is getting ridiculous.
Anybody else playing their way up to that line? nope...you're basically just moving around the undigested berries in bear scat from one side of the pile to the other...it's still shit man
At this point, the pro-Dach people are putting the player ahead of the team. Laine should be the player we are focusing on now, and putting Dach and Newhook with him is a travesty. "Oh, who are you going to put with him?" EVANS AND HEINEMAN. Two players that have been far superior than Dach and Newhook.
Just answered that.
That was apparently reported by Mathias Brunet on the radio (probably BPM), and brought back by Anthony Marcotte & Tony Marinaro recently refered to it as well.
