Confirmed with Link: Shayne Gostisbehere 3x3.2m aav
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One of the best deals of the day, anywhere.
LOL even LeBrun spelled it wrong.
Tip: Gost-is-be-here. Because now that he's signed in CAR, he is be here.
A couple years ago, PHI paid ARZ two draft picks to TAKE this guy, and he was unbelievable. $3m x 3 years sounds just right. He's a downgrade from Pesce, but he's super skilled and can run one of the PP units. Good signing.
Tip: Gost-is-be-here. Because now that he's signed in CAR, he is be here.
A couple years ago, PHI paid ARZ two draft picks to TAKE this guy, and he was unbelievable. $3m x 3 years sounds just right. He's a downgrade from Pesce, but he's super skilled and can run one of the PP units. Good signing.
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He was really good in midfield for Croatia in the Euros.
Deon Thompson
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A small helpful bit here is that he already has experience with our D system, hopefully the adjustment period might could be shorter.
Svechhammer
THIS is hockey?
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bleedgreen
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I like Ghost a lot so I’m fine with this in a vacuum. As a whole I’m torn but I think that may lean to the Walker side of it. This makes sense to me.
Joe McGrath
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$3.2 million for a guy who is top 20 in defenseman scoring over the last 3 seasons is not too shabby. He played well enough defensively here to staple De Haan (who's only use is being good defensively) to the bench. Maybe the put him on PP 1 since it seemed to work better with a lefty up top than with Burns. At this stage he's probably a better option anyway.
bleedgreen
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I like this guy, glad he’s back. I think he made the play of the year with his leaping keep in here in the most intense end of a regular season game the league had this season. Shame the playoffs didn’t work out for them because of what happened in a different game.
Unsustainable
Seth Jarvis has Big Kahunas
Shayne talks about how much he loved it here and how Rod is the best coach he played for.
WreckingCrew
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I remember Ghost-Bear coming in and immediately helping us go like 7 for 9 in 2 games on the PP before he was quickly coached out of that shit lol He was a good PP QB and I remember him mostly not being awful at defense even if he wasn't great. Certainly better than TDA & Cogs. I imagine Ghost - Walker will be our default 3rd pair? Maybe he pairs with Chatty but that seems like it could get dicey defensively. Presumably Nikishin comes in next year and basically starts as 2LD?
CandyCanes
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Orlov - Chatmandu was a solid pairing to close out the regular season. I'd be surprised if they got split up.
HisIceness
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I'm fine with this. Detroit fans seemed to like his services last year and he knows this group.
cptjeff
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Reasonable term, reasonable dollars, and I liked him during his stint here. Glad to have him back. He's not Skjei, but he's not a bad option.
Brock Anton
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I'd much prefer to have him out there on PP1 over Burns, but I can't see RBA doing it.
Joe McGrath
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They will try both. He took Burns off PP1 when it mattered most last year for Sjkei who I like, but isnt half the PPQB that Ghost is.
bleedgreen
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Didn’t Ghost get a shot right off the bat with pp1 last time? I think there’s a good chance he’ll be the guy there this year. Or they rotate as they go hot and cold. I could see Walker getting some reps with injuries, an advantage of having a righty with some offense.
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I'm very happy to have Ghost back. I love that he's been here before so the adjustment should be easier. As bleed mentioned, he had that amazing play for Detroit as they were fighting for their playoff lives, and I think he had one similar in another game right around that time. I hope he gets the first shot at the first PP unit, but he'll be running one of them regardless and he's pretty good at it. He should be the lefty version of what we were hoping to get back to with TDA.
I've seen a couple of people mention this. It could be true or it could be like TDA where being away for a year still leads to a substantial reintegration period.
Could be, but I will say of every significant dman we’ve acquired over 6 seasons, he has seemed to have one of the shortest integration periods. He didn’t look great for us, but he looked pretty darn good compared to others in their first 3 months with the team. I’m excited to see what he can do once fully integrated.
TDA to me doesn’t count as a valid data point either way because of the Slavin factor.
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It's a fair point. Hopefully, the fact that Ghost didn't suck ass in between will help his cause.
bleedgreen
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He’s a great skater, high end mobility. And he’s smart, a lot of just natural sense for the game. Those two things help a guy out with our system. Burns, Orlov and TDA away from Slavin aren’t exactly rocket surgeons out there. Dougie I thought was fine defensively, it was the offense that took time. Of course being saddled with Slavin on pp2 for short minutes wasn’t going to help him out there.
