Out of Town Thread - New Year’s 2025 Edition

[The Last Red]

More Stutzle flopping tonight.

 

[Miller Time]

Hawks with another fleecing!!!

I dunno...

Knight has been inconsistent. Big upside but far from a guarantee. The first will likely be a late one.

Jones on the Panthers may quickly re-assert himself into the top 10-15 RD convo & if he does, he's a bargain at 7M.

Chicago did well, but Panthers are better right now.

Even if knight becomes a top 10-15 starter (far from a given), Hawks now have a major hole at 1RD. I won't be surprised in the least if this deal ages better for Fla than for Chi.

 

[Levard]

Damn Shane Wright is becoming a beast.

He looks like a faster Suzuki.

 

[the valiant effort]

I dunno...

Knight has been inconsistent. Big upside but far from a guarantee. The first will likely be a late one.

Jones on the Panthers may quickly re-assert himself into the top 10-15 RD convo & if he does, he's a bargain at 7M.

Chicago did well, but Panthers are better right now.

Even if knight becomes a top 10-15 starter (far from a given), Hawks now have a major hole at 1RD. I won't be surprised in the least if this deal ages better for Fla than for Chi.

I was just riffin’ on the “Hawks are the best pro scouts” narrative. Lol (Dach)

 

[red devil]

 

[The Great Weal]

Damn Shane Wright is becoming a beast.

He looks like a faster Suzuki.

He does look very good, he's got 20 points in 23 games so far in 2025. I thought he'd make an impact way sooner, and his stock was going down fast, but he's really made drastic improvements and seems to finally put it together now.

 

[ReHabs]

He does look very good, he's got 20 points in 23 games so far in 2025. I thought he'd make an impact way sooner, and his stock was going down fast, but he's really made drastic improvements and seems to finally put it together now.

His stock didn't go down. He wasn't at the NHL level and his team, wisely, let him cook and develop elsewhere.

I'm curious if he ever becomes a 1C. I can imagine how much it would burn me to see the 1C the Habs have always wanted to draft end up somewhere else.

 

[Hannibal]

f***ing Anaheim lost against chicago

 

[NotProkofievian]

Damn Shane Wright is becoming a beast.

He looks like a faster Suzuki.

He's made some really nice plays lately. That 2 on 1 assist last night was a beauty.

 

[OldCraig71]

Damn Shane Wright is becoming a beast.

He looks like a faster Suzuki.

He might become a number one center but oh well, the powers that be went in a different direction.

 

[NotProkofievian]

He might become a number one center but oh well, the powers that be went in a different direction.

Still a little ways to go for Shane, but he's having a good season.

 

[Miller Time]

Still a little ways to go for Shane, but he's having a good season.

13:36... that's his toi/g for the season. Seattle sits in 5th from last.

He's playing and producing well in a sheltered role on a bad team.

Long way to go.

 

[badfish]

13:36... that's his toi/g for the season. Seattle sits in 5th from last.

He's playing and producing well in a sheltered role on a bad team.

Long way to go.

There were some doubts about his ability to produce in the NHL, but there were even more doubts about his compete level, something that doesn't show up on a stat line.

 

[overlords]

He might become a number one center but oh well, the powers that be went in a different direction.

I don't think the Montreal market would have done him any favors. I think that if Shane Wright had to go through what Rein did, he'd have exploded into a fine mist.

 

[OldCraig71]

I don't think the Montreal market would have done him any favors. I think that if Shane Wright had to go through what Rein did, he'd have exploded into a fine mist.

It's hard to say, he might have excelled here but it didn't happen so, onward and upward.

13:36... that's his toi/g for the season. Seattle sits in 5th from last.

He's playing and producing well in a sheltered role on a bad team.

Long way to go.

Which is ideal for a young center.

 

[NotProkofievian]

13:36... that's his toi/g for the season. Seattle sits in 5th from last.

He's playing and producing well in a sheltered role on a bad team.

Long way to go.

True, he is still a guy with 36 points and some unsustainable underlying metrics. The plays Look nice though.

 

[Miller Time]

Which is ideal for a young center.

One that is far from ready for top 6 role?

Agreed.

Can you imagine how much flak and complaining we'd be seeing if we had picked a 1OA forward still not able to handle top 6 minutes in his D3 season... Lol

 

[OldCraig71]

One that is far from ready for top 6 role?

Agreed.

Can you imagine how much flak and complaining we'd be seeing if we had picked a 1OA forward still not able to handle top 6 minutes in his D3 season... Lol

Center is a very tough position to play; as we have seen with some of our experiments, it doesn't always work out. Yes, I agree there would have been complaining and some of it would have come from me no doubt.

 

[Miller Time]

Center is a very tough position to play; as we have seen with some of our experiments, it doesn't always work out. Yes, I agree there would have been complaining and some of it would have come from me no doubt.

No doubt. Will be interesting to see if he puts it all together or not.

Oddly, from their draft profile/projections, Cooley rather than Wright seemed like the top of the draft C who might produce early but take longer to handle the full responsibilities of an NHL top 6C. That Wright hasn't been able to translate his two-way game effectively yet is curious and may well be linked to the character/attitude flags that saw him drop.

 

[ReHabs]

I don't think the Montreal market would have done him any favors. I think that if Shane Wright had to go through what Rein did, he'd have exploded into a fine mist.

The MTL market's been perfectly docile with the big mule. What makes you think anyone would dare criticise a player when "he's only 18/19/20/21/22/..."?

Latendresse, Kostitsyn, Galchenyuk, Drouin, and Kotkaniemi all had die hard support from the majority of the fans until the very last moment.

 

[OldCraig71]

No doubt. Will be interesting to see if he puts it all together or not.

Oddly, from their draft profile/projections, Cooley rather than Wright seemed like the top of the draft C who might produce early but take longer to handle the full responsibilities of an NHL top 6C. That Wright hasn't been able to translate his two-way game effectively yet is curious and may well be linked to the character/attitude flags that saw him drop.

What did he do that suggested his attitude was poor? Are you referring to the claim that he should have been drafted first overall or the glare in the Habs direction at the draft?

He's just a kid and not all of them say or do the right things at 18 years old, they aren't machines.

Nick Suzuki played on the lower lines for us as a young player and look at him now.

 

[The Great Weal]

His stock didn't go down.

He didn't have a good D+1 at all, and really the only intriguing part of his D+2 was his playoff performance. He was playing on a stacked offensive AHL team. At the start of his draft year, most were convinced he'd be a solid NHLer from the get go and his stock definitely fell to where he was no longer the unanimous #1 pick.

 

[ReHabs]

He didn't have a good D+1 at all, and really the only intriguing part of his D+2 was his playoff performance. He was playing on a stacked offensive AHL team. At the start of his draft year, most were convinced he'd be a solid NHLer from the get go and his stock definitely fell to where he was no longer the unanimous #1 pick.

We could say the same about our 2022 drafted too.

Awful D+1, underwhelming D+2 until a hot finish (playing shot gun next to our best players).

Did his stock go down in Montreal? Not really, he was given a mega jumbo contract a year ahead of time.

Wright is effectively a rookie, I think Seattle is perfectly happy with his production as a rookie and must be relieved to see him look like he belongs. The next step is for him to take on big boy matchups and so on.

 

[habdynasty]

There a hole in that Woll.

 

[The Great Weal]

We could say the same about our 2022 drafted too.

Awful D+1, underwhelming D+2 until a hot finish (playing shot gun next to our best players).

Did his stock go down in Montreal? Not really, he was given a mega jumbo contract a year ahead of time.

Wright is effectively a rookie, I think Seattle is perfectly happy with his production as a rookie and must be relieved to see him look like he belongs. The next step is for him to take on big boy matchups and so on.

Not even close to the same thing. Wright looked so much worse in his 8 game stint in the NHL, was a complete non factor in the OHL playoff, and looked horrible in the AHL playoffs. Slaf looked better in a league that is 100 times harder. Slafkosvky was rising during his draft year while Wright was falling.

Slafkosvky was a driver just like Suzuki on the top line which was the best line in the NHL for half a season while Wright was the one riding shotgun next to better players than him in the AHL.

They definitely weren't perfectly happy with him, and as mentioned, his stock definitely fell from the days he was the unanimous #1 pick that would be an effective NHLer in his D+1 season.