if Novak is a 50 pt ish 2nd line center and if Parssinnenn can continue the roughly .5 PPG streak then yea I agree with you
And that's a tough thing to accept too, since objectively it looked like Poile wanted to get better with the McDonagh, Niederreiter, Lankinen additions. And then there's his age and presumed looming retirement. One finds it difficult to imagine he can be so sanguine about the current situation. And yet apparently he can be.
I just feel like there is something going on, I can't imagine Poile has been that happy with how things have turned out. Maybe he has just made up his mind that he isn't going to fire coaches back to back mid season so he is just trying to do better with what is available and letting the cards ride.And that's a tough thing to accept too, since objectively it looked like Poile wanted to get better with the McDonagh, Niederreiter, Lankinen additions. And then there's his age and presumed looming retirement. One finds it difficult to imagine he can be so sanguine about the current situation. And yet apparently he can be.
Or he truly believes in Hynes for reasons that aren’t readily apparent to us.
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DeBrincat's QO next summer is $9 mil. Unless he's willing to budge on that, I would be hesitant to make a move on him, even though I think he's a great player and definitely one we could use.
duchene at Lw what ?? Also why johansen on top line hes producing as a 3rd liner
I wouldn't just be "hesitant"... it would be a complete non-starter for me to take him at $9M. He's a good player, but his impact on the game is purely measured in the goals he scores, in those few fractions of a second the puck is on his stick and then fired at the net. When he's scoring 40, that's significant. But this year he's on pace for under 30, and a couple years back he dipped to 18 also. I don't feel like he has firmly established himself as a $9M player, anyway. If he's not a GUARANTEED 40 goal scorer, then he doesn't do enough else to get that kind of money.
Hasn't he played LW the past year and a half? Also, don't get too hung up on the line order, it was just indicative.
Even if they eat that salary this year, we have zero way of fitting in his qualifying offer. Itd have to be something like fabbro + Johansen/duchene/granlund + sissons for debrincat + zaitsev. We buy out zaitsev next offseason and sign debrincat for about 10M and the combined caphit is close to 13M which is about joey/duchene (8) + sissons (2.8) + fabbro (3.25ish). Using granlund would have us in further cap issues for next season. I dont see them having any intest in something like that and im not sure if wed be much better unless it was joey going out.
Good grief; the Preds have spent their money, like it or not. They simply cannot afford him. No way!
That’s the article that I’ve based my thoughts on regarding management and coaching for the organization since it came out. This team is what it is for the remainder of this s season as well as the next two. That’s when Haslam takes over and the big contracts start expiring. I will continue to hope for the best but don’t really expect much in way of major organizational restructuring until then. I suspect Poile will remain the GM and Hynes will be his coach until Haslam takes over at which point Poile will transition to another role or retire and the new GM will name his HC and start transforming the team into what he considers a contender
