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Spurgeon is still a vg D... very smart. He has started to lose a bit of speed, but not a lot... he's still an asset when on the ice. The problem is that there are signs of him starting to break down, that he has one of the biggest cap hits on the team, and that his #1RD role has been supplanted by Faber. 7.5M is a lot to pay for a 2nd pairing D, albeit a good one.

We can live with keeping him around for another two years, but given our projected D roster in the next year or two, you would certainly have to consider moving him in exchange for a similar forward, with a similar cap situation.
 
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57special said:
Spurgeon is still a vg D... very smart. He has started to lose a bit of speed, but not a lot... he's still an asset when on the ice. The problem is that there are signs of him starting to break down, that he has one of the biggest cap hits on the team, and that his #1RD role has been supplanted by Faber. 7.5M is a lot to pay for a 2nd pairing D, albeit a good one.

We can live with keeping him around for another two years, but given our projected D roster in the next year or two, you would certainly have to consider moving him in exchange for a similar forward, with a similar cap situation.
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Pretty much summarizes exactly how I feel.
 
DigitalBoldy said:
Nah, it’s only if someone wants Spurgeon. I’d be open to retaining cap if it ups the value return.
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It seems there's a severe lack of interest. On HF anyway, I'm sure there'd be slightly more interest from real GMs.
 
Spurgeon said:
Is there a single player on our team that has had good historical playoff numbers?
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No, which is why the "Fiala doesn't show up in the playoffs" argument was always weird to me. He was exactly on par with Kaprizov and Zuccarello, ahead of just about everyone else.
 
Spurgeon said:
Is there a single player on our team that has had good historical playoff numbers?
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While their numbers are up and down (as most players who only play a single series per year are), I am quite confident in Kaprizov, JEE, Faber, and Foligno in the playoffs. The first three more than the last one, but Foligno is constant in his role, which is better than shrinking.

But yeah, it's hard for an individual to have good playoff numbers if they never advance in the playoffs, regardless of how good that individual is. The guys in NHL history who are considered "good playoff performers" are, not so coincidentally, on teams that have multiple "good playoff performers" and playing 15-20 games each year in the playoffs. In other words, good teams lead to good individual performances.
 
BagHead said:
While their numbers are up and down (as most players who only play a single series per year are), I am quite confident in Kaprizov, JEE, Faber, and Foligno in the playoffs. The first three more than the last one, but Foligno is constant in his role, which is better than shrinking.

But yeah, it's hard for an individual to have good playoff numbers if they never advance in the playoffs, regardless of how good that individual is. The guys in NHL history who are considered "good playoff performers" are, not so coincidentally, on teams that have multiple "good playoff performers" and playing 15-20 games each year in the playoffs. In other words, good teams lead to good individual performances.
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Foligno was a trainwreck in the last playoff series we played in.
 
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Kap had an amazing series against the blues, pretty sure he was injured in another and a rookie the first go around. Not worried about him if he is healthy.
 
Dr Jan Itor said:
Foligno was a trainwreck in the last playoff series we played in.
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Every player I listed except for Faber was a train wreck in that series, really. Still, I didn't say those guys aren't capable of playing poorly in the playoffs, I said they were the ones I feel confident in there. Not everyone will share that confidence, and that's fine. I still think they're the most likely to perform as expected.
 
BagHead said:
Every player I listed except for Faber was a train wreck in that series, really. Still, I didn't say those guys aren't capable of playing poorly in the playoffs, I said they were the ones I feel confident in there. Not everyone will share that confidence, and that's fine. I still think they're the most likely to perform as expected.
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I didn't really mean production. I meant penalties and generally make an ass out of himself, putting a target on him from the refs and generally being unplayable because of it. No other players followed him into that.
 
Dr Jan Itor said:
I didn't really mean production. I meant penalties and generally make an ass out of himself, putting a target on him from the refs and generally being unplayable because of it. No other players followed him into that.
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I do recall that. He seems to have tempered that under Hynes, and it wasn't really a problem during his entire time here until that season. I would be surprised if he does that again in a series.
 
Russo keeps acting like the Wild are already signing Brock Nelson next year. I wonder if it's just the "worst kept secret", or if it's just that the Wild are 100% going to be interested. He's 33 already but still playing at a high level.
 
Wild11MN said:
Russo keeps acting like the Wild are already signing Brock Nelson next year. I wonder if it's just the "worst kept secret", or if it's just that the Wild are 100% going to be interested. He's 33 already but still playing at a high level.
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I choose Rossi over Nelson, so if BG trades the kid just to have more cash to sign the other.......would NOT be cool.
 
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