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EichHart said:
I don't think I remember a Sabre with a better shot than Tage. Even Oloffsons shot isn't as good.
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Tage has great skill to stick handle to get in position to use his great shot. Olofsson has a quick release and great accuracy.

I was watching EP for Canucks last night on the PP. He was in the same spot Oloffson plays. I just thought, wow other great players just can't pull off what Olofsson can.
 
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dire wolf said:
On the one hand, I sort of expect Tage to backslide a little next year. That's pretty natural. This year just seems too good to be true. OTOH, he should be more comfortable at center, more comfortable in the league, more comfortable with his body AND will have a full year of playing with Tuch. Also, the whole team should be better, which should help him. So who knows.
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I just want to see him continue to iron out those mental lapses. I've been very impressed with his 200 ft game lately. If he can reel in the defensive side of the game a bit more- he'll be a BEAST.
 
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Dingo44 said:
But that's not really your point. People are saying we should be able to expect Skinner to be at least 25+ based on his track record when he's not coached by an idiot. It could be 25, or it could be 40 again with a full season with improved players and a center who isn't in his first year playing center in a professional league. With your glass-half-empty (you'd call it realistic but you'd be wrong) view, what do you expect out of Skinner next year? Sure, everything could go wrong, but that would have to be the case for him to not pot 25+ based on his past performance.
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I am expecting 20-25 goals from Skinner next year if he continues his up and down trend.

The acting like that isn't a trend is funny since that was one of the things that loads of fans worried about when he was traded here.

Maybe Granato is the Skinner & Thompson whisperer and they take another step next year and Skinner hits 40 goals again and so does Thompson. I just wouldn't bet a mortgage payment that it happens, is all.

Given that Skinner has failed to score 25 goals in 6 of his 12 NHL seasons, I don't know how expecting 20-25 goals from him if he has a down year next year is unrealistic.

He has also had a Shooting% under 10% in 6 of his 12 NHL seasons. And those are all of his sub-25 seasons.

If you look at Shooting% data over the years, it is really random.
 
Skinner has had a variability to his scoring totals for most of his career. It's awesome that this is an up year. It would be great if next season is similar but given his history, falling back seems like the logical projection. Same with Tage. We don't know if he's going to be able to replicate this until he does. Maybe he, with a full year of Skinner and Tuch, just keeps whipping things past tenders at this season's rate. That would be awesome but until he does it... it's possible to plan for him to have less next year.
 
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Jim Bob said:
I am expecting 20-25 goals from Skinner next year if he continues his up and down trend.

The acting like that isn't a trend is funny since that was one of the things that loads of fans worried about when he was traded here.

Maybe Granato is the Skinner & Thompson whisperer and they take another step next year and Skinner hits 40 goals again and so does Thompson. I just wouldn't bet a mortgage payment that it happens, is all.

Given that Skinner has failed to score 25 goals in 6 of his 12 NHL seasons, I don't know how expecting 20-25 goals from him if he has a down year next year is unrealistic.

He has also had a Shooting% under 10% in 6 of his 12 NHL seasons. And those are all of his sub-25 seasons.

If you look at Shooting% data over the years, it is really random.
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His up and down trend already stopped the past two seasons. He was down (19 goals pace) and then even farther down (11 goal pace).
 
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I think when you get the right three guys together, the individual production will fluctuate, but not the overall line production. If defenses start targeting Tage in the middle, then Skinner and Tuch will have more opportunities. They are an 80 goal top six scoring line. Thier biggest improvement could come from playing better defense to increase their goal differential.

Skinner 30 - Tage 30 - Tuch 20

Mix it any way you like.

Skinner 33 - Tage 26 - Tuch 21

Skinner 22 - Tage 34 - Tuch 23

Book your 80 goals and focus on finding the right chemistry on lines 2 and 3 to increase the team goal total. Get better goaltending to decrease goals against. BOOM!
 
I feel like Tage still has a lot of room to grow, another summer of getting bigger and stronger, I wouldn't be surprised if next year he shatters his previous highs especially with the team improving.
 
MarkusKetterer said:
If it was possible, yes. Unfortunately he has two years left on his contract after this season. So he can only get an extension next summer
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Tage only has 1 year left on his deal after this season. He will be RFA with arbitration rights in summer 2023.
 
joshjull said:
His up and down trend already stopped the past two seasons. He was down (19 goals pace) and then even farther down (11 goal pace).
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He was kruegerized, so you can't really count those years, he probally would have delivered his normal production with an at least average coach.
 
MarkusKetterer said:
I thought he was a FA the same time Dahlin and Mitts were. Which is two years from now
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Nope.

Here are the upcoming RFAs as of right now:

Summer 2022: VO, Bryson, UPL, R2, Biro, Murray
Summer 2023: Bjork, Thompson, Cozens, Asplund, Samuelsson, Fitzgerald, Weissbach, Rousek, Pekar, Laaksonen
Summer 2024: Mitts, Krebs, Dahlin, Joker, Power
Summer 2025: Quinn & JJP (with their contracts sliding this season)
 
BritSabre said:
She actually presents weather in the UK now
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Obviously, she is qualified as a forecaster to forecast the likelihood of giraffe-inflicted injuries.

That likelihood asymptotically approaches 100% in the vicinity of Tage Thompson.
 
debaser66 said:
He was kruegerized, so you can't really count those years, he probally would have delivered his normal production with an at least average coach.
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The point is he’s basing skinner dropping off next year on his up and down trend pre-Krueger. Essentially saying if he has two good years in a row it breaks skinner’s trend. But the trend already broke the last two years.
 
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