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Around the League 2019-2024 Edition

CH1 said:
In the second half of the 2023-2024 regular season, Alexis Lafrenière made significant contributions to the New York Rangers. His performance saw an improvement under the new coaching strategies, especially when placed on a line with Vincent Trocheck and Artemi Panarin, which greatly benefited his offensive output. Also, his name roughly translates to “penis roach”.
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You missed a part.
 
It’s kind of crazy that the Leafs are so good at finding and developing wingers (Robertson, Knies, Marchment, Moore, Brown, McMann, Holmberg, Engvall, Hyman etc) but they can’t develop a C or D to save their lives.
 
leafman101 said:
It’s crazy how good forsling is consider he was waiver fodder 3 years ago?

He was shit in Chicago too. Who knows what the hell they saw in him. Can we do that?
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i'm scared we're going to overpay montour because we think he's their #1D when Forsling is easily and by far their #1D.
 
leafman101 said:
Montour isn’t forsling but he’s eating big minutes on long playoff runs in all situations two years in a row. You could do worse.
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but even the minutes are deceiving - he's getting MASSIVE PP minutes, while being the clear #3 at evens (and never playing PK).
 
leafman101 said:
It’s crazy how good forsling is consider he was waiver fodder 3 years ago?

He was shit in Chicago too. Who knows what the hell they saw in him. Can we do that?
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For whatever reason, he thrived under Quenneville in Chicago. Once Q was fired, Forsling's development seemed to stall badly. Then he was dealt to the Canes (who had a pretty deep blueline). Couldn't crack that lineup & was put on waivers. Florida claims him (where oddly enough, Quenneville was the head coach there)....and the rest is history (Forsling progressed to a point that even when Quenneville was axed, it didn't seem to effect him too much).

edit: And the Canucks were the team that first drafted him but Jim Benning dealt him for an AHL defenseman who could barely skate that level of hockey.
 
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leafman101 said:
Montour isn’t forsling but he’s eating big minutes on long playoff runs in all situations two years in a row. You could do worse.
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His likely contract isn't really #1 money anymore either. I've seen 7.7 thrown around and that would have ranked him 25th among defencemen in cap hit this season. Going forward he's going to be into #2 money as early as the 1st season of the contract, which isn't bad.
 
zeke said:
but even the minutes are deceiving - he's getting MASSIVE PP minutes, while being the clear #3 at evens (and never playing PK).
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He still gets a ton of ES minutes. 15th overall and 33nd per game.

They don’t play Forsling as much as other teams play their top D ES.
 
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