Or, 4 of them in the lineup is ok if you are fully rebuilding/tanking and there are literally no prospects in your system yet who are even close to the NHL. You are just filling out a lineup card while you tank. Ok. But we had Parssinen, Tomasino, and Afanaseyev in Milwaukee at the same time.
I get your point and agree to it for most part, but they have decent numbers for 4th liners. Jankowski actually had 15 points in 32 GP. That's two more points than Glass had in more (41) GP and not far from Tomasino's 20 in 41.
Everything you say is conditional. They're production for 4th liners isn't too bad. Our 1st line production isn't bad considering.
The problem is there just has never really been much of a trade market for premium goalies. Most teams (rightly or wrongly) seem to prefer giving up lesser assets for a lesser goalie versus giving up top assets for a top goalie. So while Saros may be way better than Markstrom the return probably doesn't scale equally.
1st line had a great year. Outside of Forsberg, would you consider ROR or Gus top 3 talents? They had career years and two of them won’t be able to repeat it.
I'm afraid if you put your Tomasinos on defensive roles do they ever develop into the scorers we hope for? Would they end up like Tolvanen, confused about their role in the lineup? If you have your Watsons or Afanasievs who could potentially be scoring line power forwards you want to give them the opportunity to play that role and if they don't have what it takes to do that on NHL level they may end up being your Smiths and McCarrons, but they need to be given the chance to play more than 10-12 minutes a night on a defensive role. That's why you have your 4th liners on a 4th liner pay.
What ? WHAT IS IT? What are you hearing??? Spill it!!
Saros is also 5 years younger than Markstrom. Saros' "down year" is better than all but 1 season Markstrom has had in the last 4. Of course we wouldnt consider that a haul. The value of a goalie already at the age where goalies tend to fall off a cliff who only has 1 season in the past 4 where he was considered a top 10 starter (the other 3 - 2 in the bottom 10, 1 at the bottom of the middle 10) should be much less than one that has several prime years left with 3 of the last 4 seasons being top 10 and 1 in the middle 10.
I haven't heard anything imminent
Yes. I closed with "they punched above their weight". But the opening point was they produced as well as any other #1 line last season. The numbers are the numbers.
Sure. We'd be better off if we had 1 or 3 more great players. Is anyone saying otherwise?
Our top players are exiting their primes at this point. No question. Management also hasn't telegraphed (1 year) what they're going to do as yet. (I'll judge actions over talking.) Last season didn't answer enough questions on our pipeline [Ed: or maybe it did and our pipeline is trash] and I'm in agreement that flooding the zone with marginal NHL talent isn't a great plan.
Yep. It will be interesting for sure.
My prediction: Saros to Toronto for the rights to claim the 1950 Stanley Cup. Your Nashville Predators are now OFFICIALLY Stanley Cup Champions, hang the banner!
"Over the Air" - i.e., on a channel that you can pick up with an HD antenna rather than any streaming/cable service
Having chatted with those voices... hon, they're completely batshit insane and you need to tell them to STFU.
I think it's all the stuff we already know.
Waddell has already committed to keeping Elvis up here for the next year and trying to get him back into proper form.
