Habsfan89
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On 10/23/2019 at 5:33 PM, tomh009 said:
Currently we are a bubble team, no more and no less. With today's players we may be able to play at a somewhat higher level and become a solid wildcard team. I can't see getting beyond that this year, unless there is a significant trade.
Sorry to inform you but the last 4 years we've been a bubble team.
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45 minutes ago, alfredoh2009 said:
I would trade Tatar and put Domi on the wing instead, on Tatar's spot. That would be my first line until Kotkaniemi becomes a 1st line center. Then:
Kotkaniemi
Danault
Poehling
Evans
Man its good to have this problem and depth at center for a change in hab land lol
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18 minutes ago, tomh009 said:
This is what baffles me, too. Maybe we didn't get a D upgrade, but we didn't get a downgrade, either. It shouldn't have dropped off the cliff like this.
Don't forget the league now knows these guys too and can put game plans in place for them. Too me it was a weak D last year and a weak D this year. They get caught out of place to many times.
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27 minutes ago, xXx..CK..xXx said:
@JoeLassister
“In a perfect world, Danault would be our 2nd or enven 3rd C, playing with Lehkonen and Armia.”That’s the issue. It’s an odd thought to say that we should trade someone simply because he’s playing out of position. It’s not really his fault, and technically we could just call the Domi line our first line and the Danault’s line our second line but then we could go into configurations of lines and who they are playing with and the talk would lead to the coaching staff.
Gallagher is a legitimate first line winger at this point and I would prefer him and Tatar to play with a number one caliber center. Truthfully, there is no perfect model though because if we were the Dallas Stars, our first line would be:
Drouin-Domi-Gallagher (Benn-Seguin-Pavelski)
and the Stars are doing terribly this year.
The modern NHL has teams rolling four lines more and so I think it can vary from team to team where you’ll find a player. On one team, Eric Staal or Philip Danault are second line or third line centers, on another team they’re your first line center. It’s not even only about depth. In addition, On some nights your “third line” could be your offensive catalyst and your “first line” your shut down line. These are things that happened less often two decades ago.
My mindset, however, is a combination of:
1) I’d rather see Danault play his defensive role on another line.
2) Because Danault has been our first line center and is really a 2nd or 3rd line caliber Center, his perceived value may be higher than it should be
If my thought process is wrong on the second point and other GMs view him like I do and his value isn’t that high, you don’t trade him.
You don't trade him because he's playing out of position. You trade him because we now have depth at center and we have a big hole on LD. Kotkaniemi or Poehling could be that two way guy you use like you would Danault.
I feel theirs more upside to Poehling and Suzuki so I am keeping the both of them.
Domi has more offense so I am keeping him over danault. so if the price for a top LD is danault I am doing the trade.
In 2-3 years centers should be
Domi
Kotkaniemi
Suzuki
Poehling
Which could be pretty damn good.
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1 hour ago, JoeLassister said:
Who shadows McDavid while your brand new LD is busy with Draisaitl ?
Yeah like Danault is the only guy that can do that . Like I said it all comes down to who we get back.
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On 10/23/2019 at 1:29 PM, Commandant said:
I don't see this team moving Danault. He's necessary.
Domi is not good enough in his own zone to go against other team's top lines. His offensive contributions are that of a first liner though.
KK is very good defensively in his matchups, but he's 19 years old and in his second year. He may eventually become an elite two way centre, but he's not there yet.
Danault provides ~50 points of offence and gets selke votes for his defensive contributions. He's absolutely necessary on this current squad to play that role. As much as Plekanec was necessary from 2008-2017 or so to play that same role.
You can't look at his offensive numbers. His role is to be the #1 C defensively and #2 C offensively.... And he's excelled in that role.
It depends on who we get back in a trade, that player could do all the things Danault does. If we are getting back a top LD does the things Danault does its a plus since it fills a need.
For instance Danault + Byron in a trade could net us a really good top LD.
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Why break up that 4th line that's been doing so good? I would put Byron on Domi's line and try and get him scoring again. Byron could be good trade bait down the line, Love the guy but I think his becoming the odd man out.
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2 minutes ago, IN THE HEARTS OF MEN said:
maybe we need a D to play with our current #1D.... Jeff Petry
He has been more reliable ever since Weber went down last year and he became the #1 guy.
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On 10/21/2019 at 12:12 PM, Habber31 said:
I only read the part where you said Mete is holding back Weber; you cant be serious. Weber looked OK last game, but that guy is not a #1 D-man anymore. He has has cement in his skates these days.
You're not actually watching these games, man
At this point mete isn't the one who is a number one D. The kid still needs to develop. Weber has to cover a lot of his mistakes. If Weber had a reliable #1 on his Left side he could just worry about his own game. This is why this should of been the number one priority in the off season, either through trade of free agency.
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17 minutes ago, DON said:
habs play thurs/sat then not till next wed? (WTH, Trying to stretch season out some more?)
Yeah not a fan of bye weeks in NHL. This isn't football. Maybe they should take a week out of preseason and start the season earlier. Its almost like today's sports athletes are to pampered.
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3 minutes ago, dlbalr said:
Something like this is an option. A smaller version of this is available as an option and does not carry a +1/-1 option. I'm a little hesitant to try that at this point though as that could ultimately yield a similar result; posters will use that for the wrong reasons like they did the -1.
First, welcome aboard. Were you able to get the confirmation email quickly? I ask as I know some people have had issues getting one.
Second, we actually have a system like this in place. If you look below your username below your post above, you'll see Initiation. That title will increase as your post frequency does. (And I think when you get to the top ranking, you're able to customize what your title is.) That's one of the things that was set up back in 2003 that we've carried over as we've made changes/upgrades over the years.
Title Minimum Content Items Preview Initiation 0 Novice 50 Atom 100 Peewee 150 Bantam 200 Midget 250 CHL Rookie 300 CHL Star 350 NHL Draft Eligible 400 AHL Tryout 450 AHL Leader 500 NHL Injury Call-up 550 NHL Role Player 600 NHL Regular 650 NHL Power Play 700 NHL Franchise Player 750 NHL All-Star Team 800 NHL Veteran 850 NHL Idol 900 NHL Legend 950 NHL Stanley Cup 1000 NHL Yearbook Cover 1050 NHL Hall of Fame 1100 No email took long to get. I was using Yahoo mail never got a email but when I switch to my outlook one I use for work i got the email.
Oh ok never noticed it. But maybe you should show that progress instead of the voting system. I have noticed some people make some really good post but got downvote because it was a negative toward management. Also noticed only popular posters got a like on their post more times then others.
Just some outside prospective for you.
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Hi all even though this is my first post I always look in and read some post from time to time. Thought I would finally sign up.
If you're looking for a new system how about the more you post the more you level up. And you show the persons level up instead of how many it times their post have been liked. This way gets more people posting more often and it doesn't become a popularity contest.
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2019-20 NHL Discussion Thread
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Its sad isn't it we were a goal scorer away from making the Stanley cup finals and maybe even wining a cup to becoming a bubble team every year.