And did you notice Brown was trusted for :57 PK minutes in a 1-0 game. This was a playoff style game. A good gage of how Knoblauch views his d-corp. Knoblauch has consistently rolled a top 4 d with toi and to manage critical situations. They're going to add a substantial top 4 d-man with the question of handed-ness and player type: puck mover or cycle breaker, home plate goal suppressor.
Glad to see Knoblauch actually has common sense. I don't think he will enjoy a John Klingberg signing. He likes his defence to be decent on defence and offence if they want to play top 4 minutes
Klingberg was actually good during his time in Dallas and be fine here as a #6. The issue is he would be taking minutes from Emberson and Emberson shouldn't be playing higher up. Not yet at least
Knoblauch's been pretty consistent in managing his d-corp deployment moving off Emberson early out of a 2 RD responsibility. They signed Dermot and played him on his off-shooting side over Stetcher to start the year - clearly see him as a #7 for a playoff d-roster. Still interesting to see them deploy a big, physical cycle breaker Brown in last night's game with confidence to give him more PK toi than Nurse (1 second haha).
Wouldn't it be Coffey deploying the d pairs?
Wow, that tells you that we have faith in neither guy but that we are sold on our top 5.
were onto year 6 or 7 of nurse having to play with a #6-7 on his pair
Value would've been irrelevant the same way it was in the Georgiev deal. Blackwood was the 'upgrade' that predicated the trade. If the Oilers were making that deal, it would have been Skinner going to San Jose, who they would have no interest in.
Interesting player. I don't see the Islanders trading off a big trade acquisition young d-man who they likely see among a cornerstone of guys with their team stuck in the Twilight Zone. Trim around the edges with older D and future UFA guy Brock Nelson.
These types of business can be run from anywhere and quite frankly i doubt the McDavids will be involved in the day to day operation of the restaurants.
He's just a dip shit, he's trying to be the Skip bayliss of hockey, which just makes him a tool anyway, I'm glad Sportsnet turfed him
A writer for ESPN says enough. Their website has never known much about Hockey. I very much doubt this guy is following McDavid's career, his pressers, what he's said about the market, etc etc. He read the Draisaitl situaiton all wrong, and now he's doubling down on being a moron.
I’m not the biggest Skinner fan in the world. But this is just wrong. Skinner would have way more value that Georgiev. Georgiev is a cap dump with negative value. Skinner is a young goalie who has seen certain levels of success in his young career and has played or outplayed his current cap-hit. These two players are not the same at all.
