GDT: Off-season/July 1st Free Agent frenzy thread-Is Joey Crabb still available?
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batting1k
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He obviously hasn’t seen Hellebuyck in the playoffs when the pressure is greater. Not to mention no Barkov and shit if you need clutch you need Verhaeghe. But overall his list makes me
What amazes me is Canadian and original 6 teams always love to say "you don't know puck' to Panthers fans. Then judge every player based solely on points.
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That’s why he’s on the 4th line
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There is only one right answer
Verhaeghe - Barkov - Reinhart
Rodrigues - Bennett - Tkachuk
Luostarinen - Lundell - Tarasenko
Lomberg - Stenlund - Okposo
Forsling - Ekblad
Mikkola - Montour
Ekman-Larsson - Kulikov
Bobrovsky
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Draisaitl, Nylander, Robertson, Matthews, Panarin… I didn’t even bothered to watch the defensemen or the goalies after that terrible forwards-list ! Those five guys must be the five most boring f***ing losers… I wouldn’t even take them for a street-hockey game with my nephews…
OP is just suicidal and want this universe to vanish.
A Rangers fan not picking Igor ? Okay, why did we bother bringing that stupid tweet again ??
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I think Batting put it up there so us unknowledgeable southern fans could “LEARN HOCKEY” he’s always looking out for us.
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ScottyMascotty
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Shesterkin is literally the best goaltender in the last 3 playoffs combined. If I have a team that is very good 5v5 unlike the current Rangers and still has a lot of cap space, I could imagine even giving him 12M$ solely because of that
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No Barkov? I thought he was FINALLY going to leave the most underrated category? LOL
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It’s funny in every sport during the playoffs defense matters the most. In baseball its pitching, football, basketball, hockey you see the high scoring teams become very ineffective when the come up against a team that plays great defense. But for some reason every year everybody falls in love with the high scoring teams. Look at the Panthers when they won the presidents trophy. As soon as they ran into Vasy and the Lightning defense they were done. I’d rather have the 80-90 point guy that plays like Barkov than the guy who scores 120 and then becomes invisible in the playoffs. Unlike in the regular season over a 7 game series the other team can focus on shutting down those high scoring guys. It’s weird how it happens almost every year.
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Players who can produce a lot of points in the regular season are valuable no matter what. They get your team into the playoffs. It's true that the game tightens up considerably in the postseason -- guys are just plain trying harder -- but you still need talented guys who can create points. That'll always be very valuable.
Especially for teams that are not serious contenders, having those extra 30-40 points in the regular season can be huge. Obviously, the ideal for a team like the Panthers is to find guys who can still produce some points when things tighten up in the postseason while being able to provide that strong two-way game, but for a team like Minnesota, Kaprizov producing 96 points with tomato cans for teammates is the only thing keeping your team watchable.
I think one of the most telling comments I saw all season was that interview with some Penguins player about which team he hates the most, and he responded that it was the Panthers. He said it sucked to play a regular season game in November against guys who were out there actually hustling and hitting the shit out of him.
And that's the difference between regular season hockey and playoff hockey. Fringe guys try hard for 82 games, the rest of 'em don't.
Especially for teams that are not serious contenders, having those extra 30-40 points in the regular season can be huge. Obviously, the ideal for a team like the Panthers is to find guys who can still produce some points when things tighten up in the postseason while being able to provide that strong two-way game, but for a team like Minnesota, Kaprizov producing 96 points with tomato cans for teammates is the only thing keeping your team watchable.
I think one of the most telling comments I saw all season was that interview with some Penguins player about which team he hates the most, and he responded that it was the Panthers. He said it sucked to play a regular season game in November against guys who were out there actually hustling and hitting the shit out of him.
And that's the difference between regular season hockey and playoff hockey. Fringe guys try hard for 82 games, the rest of 'em don't.
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Defense wins champions is a cliche FOR A REASON! Couldn't agree more with your statement. I'm big on this sentiment in general, drives me nuts that all the major leagues are doing everything they can to up scoring in hopes of driving viewership. For me a low scoring game is just as exciting.
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Man, Carolina looks rough. They are gonna win games and still make the playoffs based solely on Brind'Amour's beat the f*** out of you attitude.
Man, Carolina looks rough. They are gonna win games and still make the playoffs based solely on Brind'Amour's beat the f*** out of you attitude.
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Also their strength is that they’ve never lost 4 in a row.
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I don't think there's much chance Carolina misses the playoffs, but they really look like they're on the decline right now. We'll see, not counting them out just yet.
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I mean, I get his point. Why would you want the #1 defenseman on a Stanley Cup winning team, a team that was also #1 in both the regular season and playoffs in defensive metrics. Nvm. I don't get his point at all.
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Other than this guy being a complete Edmontonian idiot (excuse the redundancy) regarding Forsling’s play level, his numbers are also totally f***ed up. Fors was signed for $46M/8yrs, $5.75M AAV. Also he just turned 28. Seems to be a good deal, cheap for the Panthers the first 4-5 years, about right the next 1-2 years, perhaps a bit much the last 1-2 years (but who cares then or even now we already got the Cup while this idiot’s team didn’t).
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I’m in Japan right now, from now on anytime I see an Edmonton fan lose it I’ll just tell them to speed dial this for help
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In case of emergency, dial Niko Mikkola
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