Your quote will need to be edited for the newspaper. It will be run like this:But if his balls need more time for the swelling to go down...
Looking at xGF% after 4 games tells you nothing....but I went ahead and looked anyway.
So Dahlin theoretically has played better with Joki than without. But without Dahlin, Joki is by far the worst defenseman on the team
Doesn't make ton of sense but I'm sure that isn't quite the whole picture
The problem is, Joki spends 54% of his ice time without Dalin and craters the offense during that time (it's significant).
Dahlin's best season was '22-23, when he played at Norris' level and I think he played with Samuelsson when he was healthy. It also seems to me that he often played RD back then and he himself said that it was easier for him to play RD from the point of view of creation/attack.
I'm wondering if they move on from Joki, and move Sammy up + add a good bottom pairing guy to play w/ Clifton. Dahlin was a beast with Sammy, and Sammy being the defensive d man of that pairing may allow Dahlin to roam free more.
He can sit with b2b. Zucker playing the pens is happening unless he is injured
They could trade Joker.
Rosen is in yr 2 of ELC. Drafted 21, 23/24 was yr 1.
Honestly, the team is at a point where you just play the guys that are performing. Yes, it's ok for someone else to consider it, but idgaf.
I’m wondering if Adams and Granato have us all over-rating Sammy. Ruff doesn’t seem to think he’s top-4 material…at least not yet. Ruff has sidestepped the local media’s attempts to get him to compliment Sammy when they ask about him. One of the few.
Considering Ruff doesn't like it when a defenseman plays on the wrong side, I doubt he'd want to see all left-handed defensemen in the top 4. I think Jokiharju will play there for now and they will see how it works. I doubt Adams will go and find a quality top 4 RD.
I agree, but in his defense for this specific situation, there's probably 20 teams in the league who would like to add a quality top 4 RHD. There simply aren't many of them.
Well, some other teams do it (Devils, Utah). Adams probably just isn't interested.
Maybe they got the ones we tried for. Who knows? I agree it isn't an excuse. rounding out the roster is his responsibility. Just may be a reason.
Well, I'm saying that Adams just doesn't seem interested in it (namely the top 4 RD position). I think I've been talking about a top 4 right-handed defenseman for 3-4 years in a row, and during that time there have been signings and trades of such defensemen in the league.
I agree, but even in the bottom pair there are players who look bad and have bad metrics.
What about the opposite? Are there players with bad metrics that are actually good, after correcting with the eye test?
Kulich is getting that 2C spot from Cozens unless Ostlund gets it before him.That's how I read it too. After that initial game struggle, he's fit in nicely IMO. I'm curious to see if he can pot one to get rolling and make it ever more difficult to send him down. His faceoff prowess has been an interesting sidebar to all of his time at center in the AHL - 7 of 11 so far wasn't something I expected. Granted, tiny tiny sample and I'm sure teams will look for tells on video to get a bit better on handling him if he stays in the lineup. Granted, they also have 5 guys over 50% which makes me wonder what I put in my morning coffee as I look at that this afternoon.
