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Yup.wow this guy had so much HF value 3 years ago, how times change huh
The next “great” prospect that wasnt so great after all.
Yup.wow this guy had so much HF value 3 years ago, how times change huh
The next “great” prospect that wasnt so great after all.
Probably because numbers dont tell the whole story, thats why.He was AHL Defenseman of the year 2017-2018, the kid was dynamite. Sometimes things just don't turn out.
Probably because numbers dont tell the whole story, thats why.
Being excited no problem but it was worse than that.I feel like being awarded the Eddie Shore Award for best AHL defenseman is a pretty decent accomplishment and is a fair reason to be excited about a prospect.
If you saw any of his games/highlights from that season they were great. I feel like there was good reason to be excited about Sami Niku, regardless of what hindsight now offers us.
This being said, there are TONS of players who received the Eddie Shore Award who never made or stuck with the NHL.
A defender with 80p in 114gp in AHL. I doubt he goes overseas. Someone will take him as a reclamation project.
I'm not saying this as any form of speculation or implication about Niku personally.
But from what I know, he seems like he's an above replacement level defenseman with a decent pedigree who is still young and on a league minimum contract.
So that brings up the question; wonder if this is because he is not compliant with team vaccination policies, and is too far down the lineup for the Jets to consider accomodating him. It would also explain the mutual termination angle.
I'm not saying this as any form of speculation or implication about Niku personally.
But from what I know, he seems like he's an above replacement level defenseman with a decent pedigree who is still young and on a league minimum contract.
So that brings up the question; wonder if this is because he is not compliant with team vaccination policies, and is too far down the lineup for the Jets to consider accomodating him. It would also explain the mutual termination angle.
That seems like a stretch. I think he just isn't in the Jets plans and they offered to terminate his contract instead of putting him on waivers so he can decide for himself where he goes.
So that brings up the question; wonder if this is because he is not compliant with team vaccination policies, and is too far down the lineup for the Jets to consider accomodating him. It would also explain the mutual termination angle.
Josh Morrissey hinted that everyone in the Jets organization will be vaccinated by the start of the season. this was from last week.That's definitely the more likely conclusion lol
But that could very easily be something that we start to encounter, and given that we know 2% of players are not vaccinated, lots of people have speculated that it could happen... Just curious if this is the first instance of it is all.
Weird, why didn't we just trade him
A Finnish Dman seems like he checks at least two boxes for Carolina's scouts...
I guess you've never heard of T.J. Brennan?