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Speculation: Roster Building Thread: New Season Edition
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AirGut
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in a fantasy scenario it'd prob be Lundkvist+Kakko+2nd for Eklund/4th
If for whatever reason Grier would allow us to make a trade like that'd I'd take it and run, even if Eklund doesn't fit the team we've built up right now
NYRFANMANI
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What kind of f***ed up fantasy scenario is this? The entire post doesn't make any sense to me.
eco's bones
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Hunt’s a 4th liner. He forechecks well and throws his body around but he’s not a heavy hitter. He doesn’t have a history of penalty killing and when we moved him up with Panarin he was where plays went to die. Not good at finishing.
Ideally two of your 4th liners should be decent penalty killers. Since Reaves doesn’t kill them either I’d rather move on from Hunt if we can. As for Reaves he’s about 35. The main problem with him last year is we played him too much and by season’s end he was out of gas. Gallant IMO should cut him down to about 50 games—dress him for games against teams like the Isles or Caps that could be more physical.
Ideally two of your 4th liners should be decent penalty killers. Since Reaves doesn’t kill them either I’d rather move on from Hunt if we can. As for Reaves he’s about 35. The main problem with him last year is we played him too much and by season’s end he was out of gas. Gallant IMO should cut him down to about 50 games—dress him for games against teams like the Isles or Caps that could be more physical.
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Hunt feels like Chris Higgins when he played for us specifically. Motor, in the right spots, just produces little to no offense, but otherwise no complaints.
He just eats cap and TOI which I'd rather give to a young guy with potential on an ELC, which we have a few of.
TominNC
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I guess I missed something. Or I'm old, or something.
AirGut
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Not to sound argumentative but he brings absolutely nothing to the table. He’s a dime a dozen player that hasn’t “wow’d” me yet. Even something simple where you think/say “nice play” is beyond his reach.
I've seen too many players absolutely tank this team on a fourth line to call Hunt worthless or take what he brings for granted. He's a dime a dozen, but for fourth line minutes, that's all I'm looking for, and if you can have somebody reliably play those minutes to a tie or better for a minimum cap hit (Hunt), that's a good thing to have.
HatTrick Swayze
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Exactly. I’ve seen the NYR trot out some real dog shit 4th liners over the last few years.
AirGut
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I'm going to go cutthroat right now and I'm really baked so hear me out but, if I'm Drury I give Kakko 40 games this season to prove himself otherwise he's trade fodder for someone that will be more useful as a top-6 RW?
ye or no?
ye or no?
egelband
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Kakko isn’t untouchable by any means, but trading him for the sake of it because he hasn’t exploded, at what?, barely 22 at that point? Mistake. If you can get high value for him that’s one thing, if not just hold onto him and wait and see. At worst he’s a defensive ace that still gets 30-40 points per 80. You never want to be Ottawa in the Mika trade…
Allowed players from those late ‘70s Rangers teams to play big and fearless. If Shero dresses him in game 3 of the 79 finals we probably have another cup.
Would have neutralized Rick Chartraw’s shadowing of Espo.
Plus all those free pucks.
This many days until opening night:
Would have neutralized Rick Chartraw’s shadowing of Espo.
Plus all those free pucks.
This many days until opening night:
BBKers
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Just saw Prince Andrew on the TV. Guess he - if anyone - knows the true definition of what that now forbidden word on HFBoards really depicts? Cuz I do not know the meaning of this thing…and was an English teacher for a few years
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Reaves was very valuable last year. He did a lot of the Captain stuff along with Trouba and Kreider. He has a lot of experience playing the right way and has been to the playoffs many many times.
The issue for him now and I'm not advocating getting rid of him at all, is that in pretty much three of the last three seasons he's run out of gas. That's the main reason Vegas traded him.
He's a very smart dude and the second he talked about getting slimmer/faster in the offseason as his main goal, made a lot of sense. The question is, will he be able to do that at his age? That's what we'll know fairly quickly into camp.
I’m going to be honest. Never heard of that word in my life
But a person can groom his beard and be well groomed right? I recognized those, but perhaps everyone does, and also had some vauge memory of it having some new negative meaning. I also just googled "groom wedding", and it turns out that the bride groom and beard grooming words are directly related, and comes from the Swedish old word for man (gum, in swedish brud-gum / bride groom gives an obvious hint of that).
What is even worse is that these words are often used the first time in english, and then translated to other languages by some early adopter with poor language skills which can create horrible words. I just recently saw an artilce the other week about gaslågare which is a direct transalation of the established phenomen in english "gaslighter" (someone controlling his/her partner hard and only letting their partner live with a minimum amount of light/energy). Perhaps that make sense in English by the term 'gas light' including some kind of meaning of low use or whatever, but the direct transalation of gas light to Swedish doesn't -- neither in past nor present -- have that meaning at all and if anything refers to more like welding gas, a hot dangerous flame used when cooking or whatever. There is however a word directly translated to 'saving flame' which must refer to the historic phenomen that also has given rise to the use of the term "gaslight" in relationships in english. I.e. you used to put the gas light or gas heater on 'saving flame' and you can say that like a project runs on 'saving flame' as an analogy.
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pld459666
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I'm not advocating hunt on the 2nd line, but his offensive numbers are not limited to just one season.
If we had a prospect that posted 83, 116 in his last two seasons in Jr.'s, then had the kind of production he had in the AHL, we'd expect more than a dime a dozen 4th liner as well.
He has tools, but he seems resigned to playing a different way at the NHL level.
eco's bones
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what it really comes down to when someone makes those kinds of remarks here is they’re kind of tipping their own political persuasions…..an unsubtle shot at people who don’t fall under the same spell.…..politics here becoming more and more a cesspool of innuendo. It is tiresome to read such shit on a hockey forum when it’s already everywhere else.
NYRFANMANI
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Nothing to do with age, only the media you consume.
Way better proposal than your last post. As much as I adore Kaapo, I have to agree, this is the year he shows it or we have to start looking at options.
NYRFANMANI
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Imo Chytil was absolute bomb at the end of last season and will be fine. I think he found his place and pace.
I hope people don't ignore the fact, that he was a playoff performer! He delivered big time, when it mattered.
But yeah, 40 games to show it wasn't a fluke, sure.
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