Player Discussion Linus Ullmark (G)

[Cosmix]

I would like to sign Forsberg to a one or two year deal for a couple of reasons.

Firstly he is playing very well for a backup. The second reason is that Forsberg and/or Ullmark will most likely be injured next year at some point and Merilainen could continue to grow then.

Thirdly, I have a question. If we don't sign Merilainen to a 1-way contract next year do we have him as a restricted free agent for a longer period of time?

PuckPedia says Merillainen is UFA in 2030.

 

[Cosmix]

I don't even want to save Forsberg's salary to shore up forward 4th line depth, I want to use it toward a significant improvement over Giroux on our top 6. Forsberg + Hamonic + Giroux = ??? (ideally Ehlers?)

I realize some of the payroll will go toward Greig, and we'll need some for Zetterlund, but then we also have the cap going up...

I have a spreadsheet.

 

[BonHoonLayneCornell]

No chance they keep Forsberg imo. Chance to potentially upgrade the position, while saving much needed cap.

They can surely find someone this summer for Belleville that can be a decent enough depth option.

 

[aragorn]

No chance they keep Forsberg imo. Chance to potentially upgrade the position, while saving much needed cap.

They can surely find someone this summer for Belleville that can be a decent enough depth option.

They still have Simpson & Sogaard & both Reidler & Nikutin could turn pro although signing a NHL vet like Jake Allen might work as a first callup when we have goalie injuries.

 

[JD1]

I agree on no chance they keep forsberg.

Levi looks good. Soogard is on a one way. And guys with 100 nhl starts under their belt in their 30s are going to command big money. I'd be looking at a 400k/1m ahl/nhl type option and seeing what's in that ballpark

 

[JD1]

Nah, unfortunately, I just saw a tweet about it. I’d love to see more, too, and see what defines a game as stolen or lost. He did also say:

Steal % (min. 25 starts)

Ullmark - 20.0%
Dostal - 18.2%
Gustavsson - 17.0%

Edit: it looks like steals may be when the goals saved above expected is grater than the goal differential in a game.

Found a stat for it from 8 days ago on Reddit, so these are a little outdated.

Gustavsson had 9 steals, 2 blown, +7
Dostal had 8 steals, 3 blown, +5
Helle had 6 steals, 1 blown, +5
Wolf had 5 steals, 0 blown (!!), +5

Lankinen had 2 steals, 7 blown, -5
Vasi had 4 steals, 9 blown (!!), -5
Elvis had 2 steals, 6 blown, -4
Soderblom had 3 steals, 7 blown, -4

So a steal is gsaa for a game is say 3 and we win by 2. That sounds OK I guess.

There's no question we're getting goalies stealing games this year more than blowing them and that's a huge reversal from previous years.

 

[DueDiligence]

Linus is not great every game but when he is "on" there is none better.

 

[Micklebot]

So a steal is gsaa for a game is say 3 and we win by 2. That sounds OK I guess.

There's no question we're getting goalies stealing games this year more than blowing them and that's a huge reversal from previous years.

If Mike Kelly was tweeting it, it's likely based off sportlogiq data which could be using different metrics than those that are publically available either way l I doubt they are using GSAA, which is just SV% rel to league average expressed in goals, I'd guess they'd be using an expected goals model to account for shot quality.