The Next Forsling

[Stephen]

Does Weegar fit into that category? He's slowly and steadily improved over time. Not bad for a 7th round pick at all.

Yeah he does! Definitely.

 

[frightenedinmatenum2]

Anthony Camara.

 

[Snauen]

Albert Johansson

 

[Voodoo Glow Skulls]

One of Albert Johansson, Shai Buium and William Wallinder. It's just hard to know which one.

Albert Johansson.

EDIT: Kiviharju

 

[sr edler]

I remember thinking Forsling looked pretty good in Chicago, in a somewhat limited role on a bad team, at least when I caught glimpses of him. It's not like he was bad there. I dunno why they parted ways with him, but they let many good young players go (Teräväinen, et cetera) after the mini-dynasty years, so perhaps just misguided management.

It's also not like Forsling has been a clear-cut #1D two-way horse in Florida the last two years, though he's been logging the most TOI in the playoffs, but Montour's taking most of the offensive assignments.

 

[tarheelhockey]

I remember thinking Forsling looked pretty good in Chicago, in a somewhat limited role on a bad team, at least when I caught glimpses of him. It's not like he was bad there. I dunno why they parted ways with him, but they let many good young players go (Teräväinen, et cetera) after the mini-dynasty years, so perhaps just misguided management.

Wasn’t a lot of it just a matter of cap space? I remember when the Canes traded for Teravainen, everyone understood Chicago was giving away a good player for meh picks, but they didn’t have a way to hold on to him and were just trying to get whatever they could in return.

 

[Mogo]

He's been given a chance to be the man with easy match ups and pp time on every team he has ever been on lol

He's unhealthy/injured a lot because his mind doesn't process the game fast enough and he gets smoked with hits. Like badly lol

He's never been on a good team before just like Forsling hadnt

 

[Mogo]

Was Stralman ever a #1D?

Was Stralman sculptured like a god too?

 

[Kalv]

I had hope for Gustav Lindstrom – last year he had a ridiculously good +/- for a bad Ducks team. But not sure we'll even be resigning him

 

[Laus723]

I remember thinking Forsling looked pretty good in Chicago, in a somewhat limited role on a bad team, at least when I caught glimpses of him. It's not like he was bad there. I dunno why they parted ways with him, but they let many good young players go (Teräväinen, et cetera) after the mini-dynasty years, so perhaps just misguided management.

It's also not like Forsling has been a clear-cut #1D two-way horse in Florida the last two years, though he's been logging the most TOI in the playoffs, but Montour's taking most of the offensive assignments.

What exactly are you carrying on about in the second paragraph?

 

[67 others]

He's never been on a good team before just like Forsling hadnt

I don't think the team strength is going to change his slow reaction processing time and getting smoked regularly myself.



Also, yeah Forsling was on a decent team with good people to learn from. What the Toews/Kane/Keith/Seabrook lead Blackhawks with coach Quenneville sucked like a bottom feeder to you? Lol

If a 2nd year Debrincat can score 40 goals on that team, it clearly wasn't a rookie killer type team

In any case, Forsling didn't have the same neon flags. Boqvist with 20+ injuries in 4 years is kinda concerning

 

[McFlash97]

Oilers defense is terribad, except for Ekholm, who's not getting younger. They went to the finals because McDrai, Hyman. Not because of their defense.

The lack of just pure hockey knowledge here astounding. I mean who cares about the 32 points and second highest total in hockey history by a defenseman in history.

 

[zaYG]

Jesper Boqvist is the future

He passed the eye test in Boston, had good numbers for a 4th liner. I think you're right that he'll break out in Florida.

 

[Regal]

Wasn’t a lot of it just a matter of cap space? I remember when the Canes traded for Teravainen, everyone understood Chicago was giving away a good player for meh picks, but they didn’t have a way to hold on to him and were just trying to get whatever they could in return.

He was basically the cost of dumping Bickell’s contract

 

[Fixed to Ruin]

Daniil Miromanov

 

[DJJones]

Kylington had like 40 good games playing with Tanev who had a tendency to make guys look better than they were. Could be a good #4/#5 but he looked weak last year and looks terrible this preseason.

I liked him but pretty to be whelmed.

As for my completely unbiased non-homer pick. Miromanov. I don't understand how this guy was a #7 haha

 

[tarheelhockey]

He was basically the cost of dumping Bickell’s contract

And ironically/tragically, they could’ve gotten out of that contract for free if they had just waited a few months. Of course they had no way to know that at the time.

 

[GirardSpinorama]

Changing my Avs homer vote to Sam Malinski

 

[Son of Petter]

Was trying to get rid of an annoying ad but my fat fingers posted this instead.

 

[Son of Petter]

Forsling was a case of a prospect who ended up in multiple organizations that had a lot of competition for depth spots on the blue line. Someone has to be the odd man out. If you want to find another guy like this, look at the teams with a lot of depth at a particular position and look for the 23 year old who’s just barely on the wrong side of the cut line.

Except for the astute mgmt group that drafted him. They decided to trade him for a bag of ahl pucks to short cut the “re-tool”