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No Excuses No Limits! The mother fucking goddamn season thread

leafman101 said:

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Would be pretty cool if they took Reaves off LTIR entirely for the purpose of putting him on waivers after he complained to the media about his lot in life.

And since you can bury $1.15M, sending him to the AHL would wipe all but $200K of his contract off our cap (god, what a stupid deal).

Ruzicka I don’t know much about, but he’s 24, has shown he can score in the AHL, is listed as a center and makes the NHL minimum. So on the face of things he doesn’t seem like a terrible choice of guy to take a flyer on (which probably means some team higher up in the waiver order will claim him).
 
Someone is likely to scoop him up well before Toronto. Worth taking a flyer on the guy if you're a shit or even bubble team at league min.
 
Durzi was really cheap. We should have grabbed him this summer. LA rushed the trade to dump his cap so they could afford super shitty PLD.
 
In full agreement with Robertson on the top line.

We all know matthews is gonna shoot, but teams can focus on him cuz marner and knies haven't been able to get the shots off.

You can see matthews actually lookin for Robertson and vice versa, but Robertson will shoot first and has a shot. And Marner can now set up two shooters with confidence.

Robertson Matthews Marner
Bertuzzi/Knies JT Willy
Knies/Bertuzzi Domi Jarnkrok
Mcmann Kampf/Ruzcika Steeves/Holmberg
 
nah Durzi would not help our problems with our d-corps much I don't think.

would maybe be a Timmins upgrade, but doubt the acquisition cost justifies it.
 
Wayward DP said:
nah Durzi would not help our problems with our d-corps much I don't think.

would maybe be a Timmins upgrade, but doubt the acquisition cost justifies it.
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Seems to be the #1 d on Zona, has above water nerdies and excellent relative numbers. Idk what kind of usage he gets or if he's protected at all (zone starts imply he doesn't get treacherous usage but isn't protected either) but he leads the team in icetime and has done quite well with those minutes. He sure looks like a quality top 4 d to me. And maybe a little more ambitious of a target than Klingberg!
 
Preston said:
Seems to be the #1 d on Zona, has above water nerdies and excellent relative numbers. Idk what kind of usage he gets or if he's protected at all (zone starts imply he doesn't get treacherous usage but isn't protected either) but he leads the team in icetime and has done quite well with those minutes. He sure looks like a quality top 4 d to me. And maybe a little more ambitious of a target than Klingberg!
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couldn't he not crack the LAK top-4? and weren't his nerdies with LA terrible?
 
25 year old top 4 d with some offensive juice at 1.7m for a 2nd rounder sure seems a lot better of a risk to me than Klingberg at 4.1. And tbh Durzi (at least on a relative nerdie basis) showed some improvement last year with LA too. So there was reason to believe there's actual upside there and to believe he can be a more permanent fixture and not a "bandaid" as Pep would put it.
 
Durzi is an offence-leaning player. but to say he wouldn't help this blueline, when there is a cliff after Rielly in terms of puck skill/movement, is kind of silly.
 
For a 2nd rounder it's hard to believe there was better risk-reward out there and I didn't need hindsight to realize that it was a no brainer move at the time. But in general I do think they should be aiming higher and grab a more all-around stud. If they can identify an undervalued one with their nerdie department as 101 suggests, even better.
 
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