TampaBoltz
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- Oct 26, 2015
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I miss Gudas also. But knee microfracture surgery during the middle of the season tells the story of not expecting a long career.
He's being paired with Michael Del Zotto on Philly's top pairing, which says more about the lack of depth on Philly's D than Radko. That said, he's been better than advertised and fits very well into Hakstol's system. He skates much better than we expected and does everything hard. Hits hard, defends hard, skates hard, shoots hard, and plays the puck hard. Coburn's a much better player, but that's one advantage Gudas has over him - he's aggressive and decisive, whereas Coburn sometimes struggled with that. I'd love for him to be be a 2nd/3rd paring guy in Philly for the next 5+ years after all our D prospects are up. Could even see him sporting an A on his sweater at some point.
Agreed, Gudas sometimes gets burned on his decisions but at least he makes fast and decisive ones, Coburn like Stralman right now is taking way too long to decide what he wants to do with the puck.
http://www.broadstreethockey.com/2016/3/31/11331642/gudas-actually-good-flyers-playoffs-analysis
With the season almost over, that article has some good advanced stats and comparison for him. What do you guys still think about the trade?
I don't think that article is knocking Coburn or the trade, in fact it only mentions him once at the end, and that's only to cite the trade. So I don't get the defensiveness? I kind of agree with its conclusions. I saw some hints of the same things in Gudas when he was here. He is not just some cookie cutter defense only guy, in fact he struggles in his own zone more than you'd expect and does a lot better outside it. Good job by Philly extracting value from him. I think we've done well for ourselves as well. Coburn has been solid and we'd be even worse off depth wise without him considering the Stralman injury right now. And again he scored a series winner in that hairy first round, so maybe we never even make a deep run last year without that.