NHL: Around the League 53

[Crow]

Those 4 million dollar players are probably going to be 5 or 6 million dollar players now with everyone having a bunch of cap space coming.

Age and term are the important things.

 

[Hawkaholic]

So more of the same level of players that they already have will improve the team? If you say so!

lol, yes, no difference between TT/Bertuzzi level players and Maroon, Reichel, and Kurashev. Like, do you actually believe the stuff you say?

 

[Clownish]

lol, yes, no difference between TT/Bertuzzi level players and Maroon, Reichel, and Kurashev. Like, do you actually believe the stuff you say?

That's a clever way of twisting the fact that "more of the same players" obviously means more of TT/Bertuzzi since they are already here, yet good job trying to focus on players who won't be here next season. You're watching games this year and thinking that the way for the Blackhawks to improve is by acquiring more of the players getting outshot 20-2 through half the game? Do you actually believe the stuff you say?

 

[Hawkaholic]

That's a clever way of twisting the fact that "more of the same players" obviously means more of TT/Bertuzzi since they are already here, yet good job trying to focus on players who won't be here next season. You're watching games this year and thinking that the way for the Blackhawks to improve is by acquiring more of the players getting outshot 20-2 through half the game? Do you actually believe the stuff you say?

Its not twisting anything. The team will definitely improve if you replace the 3 worst players on the team, with 3 much better players. Of course I'm focusing on the players that the new players would replace lol. that's how it works.

 

[statswatcher]

That's a clever way of twisting the fact that "more of the same players" obviously means more of TT/Bertuzzi since they are already here, yet good job trying to focus on players who won't be here next season. You're watching games this year and thinking that the way for the Blackhawks to improve is by acquiring more of the players getting outshot 20-2 through half the game? Do you actually believe the stuff you say?

if you replace kurashev/reichel and maroon with carbon copies of bertuzzi and tt, you probably end up with a better team. put another way you might find less controversial, if a player with 4 goals and a player with 2 goals are replaced by a player with 17 goals and a player with 11 goals at ~50 games through the season, you've improved the goal scoring from those two players by more than four times.

edit: to be more precise they would gain +22 net goals for, which would place them in the top 10 offenses in the nhl right now. obviously you don't realistically expect that kind of leap for all kinds of reasons if they were to only sign two $4-6 million guys in the offseason. it just goes to show that good depth goes a long way.

 

[Clownish]

Its not twisting anything. The team will definitely improve if you replace the 3 worst players on the team, with 3 much better players. Of course I'm focusing on the players that the new players would replace lol. that's how it works.

You're talking about removing a 4th liner and someone who has been scratched most of the past month. Those guys aren't the reason why the Hawks have been getting outshot by absurd margins and showing little offensive pressure. Players like Bertuzzi and TT are exactly the reason why the shot disparity keeps happening. Adding more of those players that have been getting caved means the Hawks no longer get caved?! Sure.

 

[Hawkaholic]

You're talking about removing a 4th liner and someone who has been scratched most of the past month. Those guys aren't the reason why the Hawks have been getting outshot by absurd margins and showing little offensive pressure. Players like Bertuzzi and TT are exactly the reason why the shot disparity keeps happening. Adding more of those players that have been getting caved means the Hawks no longer get caved?! Sure.

Kurashev has played 3/5ths of the Hawks games.

Having those level of players is exactly why we are getting caved in every night. No depth, more pressure on the top 9 players to perform, having 4th liners in top 9 roles because they lack depth. I'm talking about adding top 9 players, instead of having 4th liners/AHLers in our top 9, and you don't think the team would be better for it, lol, it's pretty laughable.

Jason Dickenson in a 4th line role? He would fare much better than the role he is in now, same goes for Foligno, and Mikheyev who are being asked to do way more than they should be. The fact they have played 1 minute next to Bedard tells you all you need to know.

Your plan of just adding one great player helps them not get caved in, how exactly? 1 player is suddenly going to make the 3 other lines not get caved in? lol You make little sense.

 

[Hattrick Kane]

Would you look at that. A Seth Jones amount of money just opened up on the Stars.

 

[Clownish]

Kurashev has played 3/5ths of the Hawks games.

Having those level of players is exactly why we are getting caved in every night. No depth, more pressure on the top 9 players to perform, having 4th liners in top 9 roles because they lack depth. I'm talking about adding top 9 players, instead of having 4th liners/AHLers in our top 9, and you don't think the team would be better for it, lol, it's pretty laughable.

Jason Dickenson in a 4th line role? He would fare much better than the role he is in now, same goes for Foligno, and Mikheyev who are being asked to do way more than they should be. The fact they have played 1 minute next to Bedard tells you all you need to know.

Your plan of just adding one great player helps them not get caved in, how exactly? 1 player is suddenly going to make the 3 other lines not get caved in? lol You make little sense.

It goes back to my first post on this #1289. The Hawks need better players, not just more of the same. Their current roster is full of players who can play bottom six--so many that they overflow to the top line. There's only so much room for improvement by simply shuffling lineups and churning the roster with decent players yet that's what you suggest they do--keep shuffling lineups with mid level talent. One player isn't going to turn the entire team around, but since money has to be spent it might as well be on someone who does something better than status quo. Puck possession, faceoffs, scoring--pick a category and spend with a purpose on solving something rather than bargain shopping in an effort to flip that player for a 3rd round pick.

 

[statswatcher]

The Hawks need better players, not just more of the same.

if you replace maroon with a bertuzzi level player, you will have a better player, not the same player.