Snippit
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Debatable re: Benson and Quinn. Benson’s ceiling is through the roof and at the same age Quinn was in the CHL.
Player Discussion Tage Thompson 2
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Old Navy Goat
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Quinn is bigger, faster, much better shot. There's a reason he put up 50+ in the OHL. Using Benson making the roster as an 18yo is a weak argument, if they were the same age competing for the same spot it'd be more relevant.
TheMistyStranger
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I'd put them together and let them grow into one of the league's best 2-way forward lines.
Old Navy Goat
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That'd work but you probably want to spread the hockey IQ out
TheMistyStranger
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True...though I'd rather bring more IQ in lol
joshjull
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I get what you’re saying. But it’s not about one player. Those guys aren’t doing that by themselves. They’re producing as part of a top line or on the team’s top PP unit or both.
Tage was part of one of the top offensive lines in the NHL for almost 1 1/3 seasons. Its success was about the play of all 3 of them. It wasn’t Tage carrying them. Their play didn't drop off when Tage didn’t center them at the end of last season. Thats because 2/3rds of the line was still together and playing well.
We haven’t seen that top line this season. All three have struggled 5v5 and have been on a crappy PP. The combo of those two things has cratered ther production from last season.
Specifically about Tage production,its cratered this due to his poor 5v5 play, injury and the PP sucking.
Jim Bob
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Tage just isn’t right this year. Not scoring on the shots he makes regularly last year. Not nearly as good protecting and maintaining the puck either. No luck either really. He will rebound next year. How far, idk but there’s no way he is anything less than a 30-40 goal and assist player.
Hope he can build some confidence over these last few games to get a bounce into next year.
tsujimoto74
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I’m not worried about him going forward tbh. I think the nagging wrist injury and being a new dad sank him this season. He’ll be better next year.
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Jim Bob
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MOGlLNY
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HOOats
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Oof I hate this take from Tage (as I near NHL retirement age and begin to yell at clouds).
MOGlLNY
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I love our current jerseys but grew up with the goatheads. I think our current uniform set is perfect. It’s not a crazy take from him, I get why people love it, I just prefer to keep it how it is.
HOOats
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Our current set would be perfect to me with a white goathead alt added (and home whites overall, but that's a bigger discussion). I know the NHL is the No...Happiness(?) League when it comes to rules about this stuff though.
I'm just against the idea of permanently changing the color scheme of a franchise unless it's universally despised. Zoomers like Tage grew up with it and it holds a primacy with them, but I see the sentiment to switch to full-time red and black enough that I feel the need to push back against it (and that's coming from a 37yo who was at the goathead/Machinehead unveiling at the arena).
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