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Around the League 2019-2024 Edition

Habsy said:
Horse hockey.

Cap space in an asset. If they don't want to sign a player because there isn't one available they can pick up assets for taking on a bad expiring contract with the space. There is zero excuse for a team that is consistently top 3 in revenue to be way under the cap 2 years in a row.
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It's only an asset if we actually used it. Has ownership and management actually ever showed any inclination to use the cap space to get better?
 
Another org that rushed a kid that didn't produce great numbers just because the GM and Coach were on the hotseat. Should have let him get stronger and dominate college for a couple years before the NHL.
 
zeke said:
Mittelstadt demoted.

Nice call, ME.
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Deckie007 said:
Another org that rushed a kid that didn't produce great numbers just because the GM and Coach were on the hotseat. Should have let him get stronger and dominate college for a couple years before the NHL.
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Yeah, pretty much this. The thing I thinkg I've learned from watching high end prospects for a couple of decades now is that there are kids who are ready really young and holding them back is a bad idea, you just have to live with some of the warts while they develop.

Kadri would be a good example there, he was ready for the NHL at 20-21. At 20, in 29 games Kadri had the 5th best possession numbers amongst our forwards and a better xGF% than Kessel, Bozak, Lupul, etc (yeah, usage, I know. But you can hide him from tough usage. Like I said, live with the warts). His P/60 production was in line with offensive players for us like Versteeg and Lupul. The kid was having a similar per-minute impact as decent veteran NHL players. Play him. The following year in 21 games Naz was 4th in G/60, 4th in CF%, 6th in xGF%. Instead we were giving minutes to Philippe Dupuis, Boyce, Tim Brent, Joey Crabb, etc.

Sandin is probably another example of a player like that, who is just ready for the NHL young and we're best off letting him learn the NHL game in the NHL. I don't see us dicking him around for 3-4 years before he's a full timer though.

Then there's others who need to be baked or over baked until they're really ready, that you have to just be patient with as they develop into more complete hockey players. Bringing them to the NHL to be pluggers because they're afraid to make skill plays just ruins that type of prospect. People make fun of Virtanen as a draft bust, and he is, but every time I see him play there's size, speed and some skill in there. The Canucks promoted him after a 19 point season in the AHL as a 20 yr old ffs. What does he turn into if you play the shit out of him in the AHL for a few more years? Probably more than he turns into plugging away on your 4th line in the show.

We saw it in Edmonton with a pile of guys (including Puljujarvi now), and now in Buffalo where they've rushed a guy who wasn't even a stud in the NCAA before he was expected to slot in as a top 6 centre in the show. It's just shit development.
 
Habsy said:
Horse hockey.

Cap space in an asset. If they don't want to sign a player because there isn't one available they can pick up assets for taking on a bad expiring contract with the space. There is zero excuse for a team that is consistently top 3 in revenue to be way under the cap 2 years in a row.
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They did it with the Peg to acquire Armia . Unused cap space is the least of our problems

You know exactly that horrendous drafting and development , plus terrible asset management is our problem for the last 15 years .

Your not fixing our shit core because of unused cap space , BS execuse.

Detroit or Chicago isn’t handing us a first rounder to take Nielsen or Seebrook of their hands

We could of easily overpaid Gardiner and a Ferland to eat up cap space and look like idiots this year
 
Bruins at # 15 sit at about 17.5k , with our building capacity at about 21.5

I don’t see 4,000 empty seats every night

I still think we would be top 6 with a full rebuild
 
Having been a UFA on many occasions, gotta say, its better than being the favorite son or sex.... You don't want it to stop.

And Mindz should be a high level NHL exec. Might shock him that the oil industry is a lot more evolved than the NHL though.

I am just semi pleased that every NHL player can at least fucking skate now. I grew up watching a bush league where only the top 25% could turn both ways.
 
Kovalchuk is an excellent object lesson about not reading too much into raw KHL scoring stats.

63 goals & 141 points in 113 games over his final two KHL seasons. Yet the guy flat-out can't skate at an NHL level.
 
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