Kovacevic and Harris for that matter, both had to be moved........and they were both decent, and what I miss about Kovacevic was he would step in and help defend a team mate.............that said, we were a bottom feeder with him on our squad so let's not give him too much credit, we have a young inexperienced D squad with or without him, and we far from world beaters with him in the lineup.
Jordan Harris is a #7 playing 12 minutes of ice time in average per game. I think your definition of decent didn't stick for him. It isn't quite comparable with Kovacevic who's playing solid top 4 minutes in New Jersey.
Does it erase that he was good here? Sometimes a player can be a good fit somewhere and a bad fit elsewhere (see Edmundson in CAR).
It is irrelevant what minutes either are playing. Maybe Harris plays top 4 minutes if he was the one with New jersey.
I was 100% certain Hughes knew this and I thought that when HuGo said "This Team Showed us Something" meant he was going to address this.
Pining, haha, definitely not doing that.
We should be able to get a 2025 1st but I wouldn't be against a 2026 either, depending on the team owning that pick.
We have too many picks in 2025 imho. I'd try to spread the choices and avoid putting all the eggs in the same basket. Besides, Matheson has 2 years left and is slowing down.
Yeah I would be ok with both. But if we trade him at the deadline and we think we will get the Panthers 1st instead of Calgary’s, I would ask for 2025 1st so we can make a package to still draft in the early 10’s. We would have 2 X late 1st and 2 X early 2nds to make something happen.
With 33 year old, 6 point Fowler getting a 2nd with 38.5% retained, have to think Matheson can get a 1st with 50% retained.
That's very unlikely to happen. Keep the strategy to high likelihood of happening. If it feels like a lottery shot, prefer the other angles first.
Anderson is not a free agent this summer, last I checked.
You're right. He was rumored to be on the block at the start of the season. Is it because he wants out of Calgary?
No it's just because he's a good TDL target as a RD, just like Matheson on LD.
Matheson hasn't established himself as a two way force to fit the long term time line here. Anderson, I think, fits any team's timeline, young or contenders, because he's good at both ends of the ice.
The only thing that's show his how a good structured team can raise the play of a marginal player. Put him in Mtl right now and he would still be the same player he was when he played with us. If he was a LD, no one would talk about him because he's clearly not better than Matheson,Guhle,Hutson or Xhekaj.
This is it. Not that Kovy is way better, he has one huge advantage and that is smarter coaching. He has one stable D partner, so if they make mistake they can communicate and fix it. We change lines and pairings every 3rd game. Who was he paired with when he played for us? Matheson, Guhle, Struble, Harris, Xhekaj, probably all of them.
