If they're getting anyone from the Leafs, I'd want it to be Kadri.
JVR is poor defensively and Bozak spends too much time injured.
Yeah but they're not trading Kadri. Bozak is something that can actually happen.
If they're getting anyone from the Leafs, I'd want it to be Kadri.
JVR is poor defensively and Bozak spends too much time injured.
If they're getting anyone from the Leafs, I'd want it to be Kadri................JVR is poor defensively and Bozak spends too much time injured.
Yeah but they're not trading Kadri. Bozak is something that can actually happen.
Chayka is not all in with analytics at all. He's a strong believer in them - even founded a company based on them - but he believes they are simply an under utilized tool but one of many different tools used to determine a players worth.
Darren Dreger's "sources" are hilariously dubious. I wouldn't put much stock at all in anything that he has to say about the inner workings of General Managers in the NHL now that Dave Nonis is gone.
His entire rolodex is essentially a handful of player agents. He's about as connected as your average beat writer so this "report" sheds almost no light on what the Canadiens are and are not doing.
Why are so many trade proposals including Shaw. He's not going anywhere for a while. We JUST signed him to a long term deal and he's doing exactly what we asked him to do. He's not going anywhere.
Why are so many trade proposals including Shaw. He's not going anywhere for a while. We JUST signed him to a long term deal and he's doing exactly what we asked him to do. He's not going anywhere.
he's projected as a playoff warrior (gritty/feisty, can be a pest, bodychecker, skilled, good skater/fast, etc,etc).
MB must get a couple of big wingers and a center IF possible.
Too bad McCarron and Matteau are not the solutions right now.
He may not be all in but he uses it extensively and made his name and career with an analytics company he started. If that's not an analytics guy, than they don't exist.
Despite your personal bias, Dreger is one of the top pundits out there. His sources are all the owners, GMs, upper management, scouts, agents, players, coaches training staff and anyone else involved directly in hockey. Maybe dubious wasn't the right word??
The guy is not psychic and he cannot report anything that's off the record either. Not sure what you expect from him or any other hockey insider.
I had an opportunity to speak with Chyaka at length and was very interested in what he had to say on Analytics. Is he a believer? Absolutely. Is it what got his foot in the door? Absolutely. But I was also amazed to discover that he feels it is just *another* way to evaluate players and he said that it is not at all like baseball where it uncovers previously unknown or under appreciated talents. He *doesn't* think that analytics will make previously undervalued players suddenly valuable. He also freely acknowledged that a lot of what analytics have told us are things we already knew. For example, it's not exactly surprising to learn that the team that has the puck most often turns out to be the team that wins a lot of games. He said you will *not* see the Coyotes making curious transactions as they try to unearth "hidden gems." He doesn't believe there is such a thing in the NHL. He also said that if he calls a team and asks about any under the radar players other General Mangers are instantly suspicious because of his reputation.
Again, I'm not in a position to prove where my "personal bias" comes from, but if you think Dreger is a pundit at all, let alone one of the "top pundits" than we can agree to disagree.
As for your (believed) list of his sources, I can only say that you would be very surprised at how inaccurate that list that you have just cited is.
I do find it quite funny that Dreger, while working for Sportsnet, had no respect at all, but suddenly, just by moving over to TSN, he suddenly, around here, became "one of the top pundits."
Clearly you are going to believe what you believe and have no reason to have my opinon sway you. But I would simply ask you to look at his track record and actually listen to what he says then re-think the notion of him being a pundit of any kind or connected in any way.
Yes I'd make that trade. That contract is ugly and he is a bit of a ghost but he still has talent. I don't see Ottawa making this trade though, not unless they really wanted to dump that contract. Ryan's a legit top six player. He'd be an expensive 2nd liner but he's still got talent.Apparently Sens fans aren't too happy with Bobby Ryan. Would you make a trade: DD + Shaw for Ryan?
Think of Pacioretty + Ryan in the same ghost line (when they wake up though, it's gonna be brutal for the other teams).
Very true. Just a hypothetical.Why are so many trade proposals including Shaw. He's not going anywhere for a while. We JUST signed him to a long term deal and he's doing exactly what we asked him to do. He's not going anywhere.
Pacioretty + Plekanec + 1st 2017 for Tavares + Ladd
Ladd is one of the worst contracts in the NHL, and will hurt NYI for a long time. Plekanec is expiring next year and is still a good shutdown C.
Also, I would either waive DD or trade him for a low pick, and I would call up McCarron.
Lehkonen – Tavares – Gallagher
Hudon – Galchenyuk – Radulov
Ladd – Danault – Shaw
Byron – Mitchell – McCarron
Emelin – Weber
Markov – Petry
Beaulieu – Redmond
Price
I had an opportunity to speak with Chyaka at length and was very interested in what he had to say on Analytics. Is he a believer? Absolutely. Is it what got his foot in the door? Absolutely. But I was also amazed to discover that he feels it is just *another* way to evaluate players and he said that it is not at all like baseball where it uncovers previously unknown or under appreciated talents. He *doesn't* think that analytics will make previously undervalued players suddenly valuable. He also freely acknowledged that a lot of what analytics have told us are things we already knew. For example, it's not exactly surprising to learn that the team that has the puck most often turns out to be the team that wins a lot of games. He said you will *not* see the Coyotes making curious transactions as they try to unearth "hidden gems." He doesn't believe there is such a thing in the NHL. He also said that if he calls a team and asks about any under the radar players other General Mangers are instantly suspicious because of his reputation.
Again, I'm not in a position to prove where my "personal bias" comes from, but if you think Dreger is a pundit at all, let alone one of the "top pundits" than we can agree to disagree.
As for your (believed) list of his sources, I can only say that you would be very surprised at how inaccurate that list that you have just cited is.
I do find it quite funny that Dreger, while working for Sportsnet, had no respect at all, but suddenly, just by moving over to TSN, he suddenly, around here, became "one of the top pundits."
Clearly you are going to believe what you believe and have no reason to have my opinon sway you. But I would simply ask you to look at his track record and actually listen to what he says then re-think the notion of him being a pundit of any kind or connected in any way.
Trade Pacioretty,Beaulieu,Pateryn and 1st round pick for Duchene and take Beauchemin's contract back,then replace Pacioretty's scoring on the wing by trading McCarron,Nygren,JDL to Detroit for Tatar or hopefully Mantha.
No way we take that awful contract of Ladd. We should ask for Strome who's in the dog house for whatever reason there. Or Beauvillier.