Poach 1 Depth Player from a Division Rival

[1989]

No stars or star prospects, only career third/fourth liners, bottom-pairing defenders, or clear backup goalies.

Choose one and tell us why it makes your favourite team's lineup better.

For Calgary I might take Rittich (just was a fun guy on the Flames) but better answers are probably Yanni Gourde or Teddy Blueger, or Zach Whitecloud.

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[Team_Spirit]

Spencer Knight most likely

Best backup with upside in the division

 

[Suntouchable13]

I’d love Xhekaj on the Leafs. I just think he would make the Leafs D meaner, tougher. I love his moxie.

 

[MNRube]

Probably would take Parssinen from Nashville or Faksa from Dallas. Unless Samberg counts as a depth player, but I think Jets fans would dispute that. He’s one of the best #4D in the NHL

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

Shane Pinto , although I think he's better than a third liner but that's where he plays

 

[SolidusAKA]

Probably would take Parssinen from Nashville or Faksa from Dallas. Unless Samberg counts as a depth player, but I think Jets fans would dispute that. He’s one of the best #4D in the NHL

Faksa is on the Blues now, same division tho!

 

[Edgelord]

Either Jackeye or Cousins to the Leafs

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

Prob Jeanott from kings…. Under the idea that we get rid of Johnston right after

 

[tmg]

Devils take Rempe, just to remove him from circulation. Not to dress him but to no longer have to dress someone useless because of him.

 

[MNRube]

Shane Pinto , although I think he's better than a third liner but that's where he plays

I don’t think someone like Pinto qualifies

 

[jetsforever]

Maybe Andreas Athanasiou from CHI

 

[Carl Hungus]

Dont know if he qualifies at 3C but Lundell

 

[Crow]

Maybe Andreas Athanasiou from CHI

Ewww take him. He is fast though so that can be cool.

Question for you - who would you hate to lose that fits the bill on this topic currently on your team?

 

[Took a pill in Sbisa]

Probably Dakota Joshua or Nicolas Roy to Edmonton

 

[biturbo19]

In terms of depth players, i'd probably be looking to poach a defenceman for Vancouver. Depth at Forward doesn't really do much, as they already have some of the better "depth" of Bottom-6 Forwards in the league, much less the division.

Not that a bottom-pairing type defenceman would do a lot, as there's some clutter of those types as well, and a real Top-4D is what is actually needed. But it probably wouldn't hurt, if it's the right depth guy.


I'd probably steal Zach Whitecloud from Vegas. Not sure there's a lot of other bottom-pairing D in the division who aren't young/prospects that would really be worth stealing though. Lots of bad depth D all around. Unless we're counting say...Brandt Clarke from LAK due to icetime being fairly bottom-pairingish. He probably falls more under the "young/prospects" umbrella though, making him off limits for this exercise.

 

[Eegs]

Is Poitras a depth player in Boston? If so, give me one of those.

 

[Breakers]

Depth from a pacific team

I’ll go Blake Coleman

 

[DJJones]

First name to come to mind was Appleton. Feels like hes burned us for years.

From Pacific, not sure. Does Danault count? Gudas maybe?

 

[Clint Eastwood]

Eetu Luostarinen. Nice swiss army knife that has decent enough scoring touch for a 3rd liner. Very good defensively and plays hard.

Luostarinen - Frederic - Geekie looks like a good 3rd line to me.

 

[MOGlLNY]

Auston Matthews

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

Ostapchuk if he counts.

If not Kastelic/Frederic

 

[benfranklin]

Is Seguin a depth player now? lll take him

 

[LeonDraisaitl]

Pospisil easily

 

[The Devilish Buffoon]

My Criteria:
- Must be 25+ OR have 250+ NHL games played
- Must average no more than 15m/game as a FWD or 18m/game as a D
- If, in my estimation, they will end the season with more minutes per game than outlined above, I will disqualify them

From Boston - Trent Frederic
From Buffalo - Jason Zucker
From Detroit - Michael Rasmussen (imo Copp will avg 15+ mins by end of year)
From Florida - Nate Schmidt
From MTL - Jake Evans (Newhook imo will avg 15+ mins by end of year)
From TB - Zemgus Girgensons
From Toronto - Timothy Liljegren

For Ottawa, I take Liljegren. His fanboys overrate him but he would add a lot of stability to our 3rd pair. Evans would fill a big hole on the 4th line, too.

Realistically, though, I just want a good backup. How has Korpi been in Boston?

 

[Derailed75]

Get Stephan Noesan back from the Debbils.