Speculation: Roster Building Thread II (2019/2020) - DeAngelo and Lemieux Left

[LaffyTaffy]

Will Fox be going to Traverse?

 

[Trxjw]

Fox's biggest issues in adapting to the NHL are all going to be related to play in his own end and defending against the rush. He's a tremendously talented offensive player and is a wizard on the PP but he certainly has plenty of things to work on in his game.

 

[Avery16]

Ugh, so slow. What, a month until training camp and preseason?

Gorts, sign a 14F/8D we can debate for a couple weeks at least.

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

Will Fox be going to Traverse?

He should. He's a prospect still

 

[eco's bones]

Barring injury all of Fox, Shestyorkin, Rykov, Reunanen, Kravtsov and Kakko should be going to Traverse. The guys I don't expect to be there are the guys playing in European leagues and the guys who will be playing college hockey.

 

[bobbop]

Ask yourself this...why did Drury, in his role as National Team GM, take Fox to World Championships instead of D’Angelo?

 

[eco's bones]

He outscored Makar as well when you takes missing games into consideration.

Different player than Makar, who I think will be Karlsson-lite.

Fox is in the mold of a Rafalski, Ellis type of player. Who were and are very effective players.

Makar also had better support from the forward group at Amherst. He was his team's leading scorer but only by two points. A defenseman outscoring everyone on his team by 17 points in a 33 game schedule is in off the charts territory and Harvard is a good team. Pro rate that to an 80 game schedule and you have a defenseman leading his team in scoring by 40 + points.

 

[Mikos87]

Makar also had better support from the forward group at Amherst. He was his team's leading scorer but only by two points. A defenseman outscoring everyone on his team by 17 points in a 33 game schedule is in off the charts territory and Harvard is a good team.

If you go back 20 years or so in college hockey, Fox's numbers are historically elite.

Now the ECAC isn't sporting the highest level of competition as other college leagues, but the numbers are staggering.

I know of at least 1 team that had him as the best defenseman not playing in the NHL last summer.

 

[HatTrick Swayze]

I get having a belief that Fox could end up better, but how at this point could anyone claim it so definitively?

ADA has proven a lot more than Fox at this point. There were points of last season where he was arguable the best defenseman on the ice. This conversation will be a lot more interesting a year from now.

 

[DutchShamrock]

Not really sure why one player can't be liked without another player being disliked. People are creating direct conflicts and competitions between guys pulling oars in the same direction.

 

[haveandare]

If and when Fox outperforms ADA this will be a worthwhile discussion. Right now imo we're projecting and assuming an awful lot. Today, ADA is a good to very-good NHL dman and Fox hasn't played a game.

 

[Chalfdiggity3]

I get having a belief that Fox could end up better, but how at this point could anyone claim it so definitively?

ADA has proven a lot more than Fox at this point. There were points of last season where he was arguable the best defenseman on the ice. This conversation will be a lot more interesting a year from now.

The best defenseman on a team with shatty, Staal, pionk, mcquaid, Cleassen, and skjei isnt saying much at all

Not saying anything about the fox ada debate here but let's be real... ada had a solid end to the season. But just because he was the best defenseman in that group just really isnt saying much

 

[n8]

I'd be happy if Gorton just got ADA and Lemieux resigned. At least we'd know our cap situation and how we need to make adjustments.

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

Ask yourself this...why did Drury, in his role as National Team GM, take Fox to World Championships instead of D’Angelo?

Well, the US has never picked the best players, but always looks at the best team, chemistry etc.

 

[Avery16]

I'd be happy if Gorton just got ADA and Lemieux resigned. At least we'd know our cap situation and how we need to make adjustments.

We’d just go from “f***ed” to “f***ed with more certainty”

 

[Rongomania]

We’d just go from “****ed” to “****ed with more certainty”

Oh man this is good.

 

[Thirty One]

Ask yourself this...why did Drury, in his role as National Team GM, take Fox to World Championships instead of D’Angelo?

I'd assume because he wanted to see how Fox performed against higher competition and pending free agents don't normally play in the World Championships.

 

[TheDirtyH]

I'd assume because he wanted to see how Fox performed against higher competition and pending free agents don't normally play in the World Championships.

also not unusual for players not to attend when they don't have a contract for the following season (DeAngelo).

 

[SA16]

I'd assume because he wanted to see how Fox performed against higher competition and pending free agents don't normally play in the World Championships.

Please do not ruin the narrative. DeAngelo cannot play in games overseas because there is too much risk for an international incident if he starts berating the foreign officials.

 

[Thirty One]

also not unusual for players not to attend when they don't have a contract for the following season (DeAngelo).

I think you misread my post, because this is what it said.

 

[Chaels Arms]

Ask yourself this...why did Drury, in his role as National Team GM, take Fox to World Championships instead of D’Angelo?

I mean he also took Thatcher Demko and Cayden Primeau as his 2nd and 3rd goalies. I don't really think too much can be drawn from making that particular roster.

 

[TheDirtyH]

I think you misread my post, because this is what it said.

I think I missed the second part of your post; I repeated your point.

 

[Irishguy42]

Ask yourself this...why did Drury, in his role as National Team GM, take Fox to World Championships instead of D’Angelo?

That's not how it works.

But you tried.

 

[wafflepadsave]

Will Fox be going to Traverse?

And what happened to covering the tournament MSG?

 

[nyr2k2]

That's not how it works.

But you tried.

Yeah, Gorts took Pionk the year he and DeAngelo got about 30 games each. What did that tell us? Pionk ended up kind of sucking.