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The Fantastically Beautiful Joyously Superfun 22-23 Season Celebration Thread

re-jigged the lines based on evolving-wild's line tool. I think these have been the lines, with our likely lines this year:

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So the changes from last year....

Defense

Muzzin --> McCabe
Boosh ---> Schenn

Hopefully at least lateral. Possibly upgraded.

Line 1

Bunting ---> Jarnkrok

Downgrade on paper, but Bunting was injured in the playoffs and iirc not even fulltime on the top line. So hopefully at least lateral, and with the recent chemistry there potentially an upgrade from last year's playoffs bunting.

Line 3

Kampf ----> O'Reilly
Mikheyev -> Bunting
Engvall ----> Acciari

Should be an upgrade offensively and gritwise. Kind of the key change really.

Line 4

Blackwell --> Kampf
Kase ---------> Lafferty
Spezza -----> ZAR

the new 4th line isnt great, but should be an upgrade defensively and gritwise. And really, last year's 4th line was a disaster - Blackwell was not a C, and Kase and Spezza were toast.



Goalies

Campbell ---> Samsonov/Murray

Hopefully an upgrade, but Campbell wasnt actually awful in the playoffs anyways. Hopefully whoever plays is solid and Keefe picks the right one.
 
zeke said:
re-jigged the lines based on evolving-wild's line tool. I think these have been the lines, with our likely lines this year:

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Looking solely at last year for this year, x-factor for me is McCabe vs Muzzin.. If he can be as good as Jake was then there's a good chance this is a better roster overall. Up front you've basically got Jarn replacing Mikheyev and ROR replacing Kampf in the top 9. Acciari for Engvall is largely a wash. 4th line doesn't mean so much and even if they may have slightly gotten worse(?) due to Lafferty and ZAR being fairly useless, if I recall they were unplayable last playoffs anyway. D could be a wash if McCabe = Muzzin and goaltending should theoretically be better but there's too much variance to know for sure in a 7 game series.

Comparable in caliber overall. The little known secret is that Tampa has clearly worsened. Leafs should be considered clear favorites for that reason alone.
 
Last game in particular kind of got me excited about McCabe. He was doing all sorts of good things and showing a nice skillset.
 
Oh and ROR being Conn Smythe ROR is the other x-factor that would CLEARLY put this roster way beyond what they were last year. This is something I'm not really counting on, however. But maybe I should believe in it a bit more than I have.
 
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Last year 5v5

Bunting - Matthews - Marner: 61.8xgf%, 55.5gf%
Kerfoot - Tavares - Nylander: 44.3xgf%, 100.0gf%
Mikheyev - Kampf - Engvall: 43.2xgf%, 00.0gf%
Kase - Blackwell - Spezza: 32.3xgf%, 00.0gf%

Muzzin - Brodie 55.8xgf%, 50.0gf%
Giordano - Holl 57.6xgf%, 33.3gf%
Rielly - Boosh 51.4xgf%, 42.9gf%
 
Told you guys McCabe was good. When everyone is bad, you can't evaluate a guy.

But whatever he is, he still isn't going to bring the impact of a Meier. Remains to be seen if improved D is going to get us deeper than improved scoring.
 
Disagree. If McCabe is as good as he has looked recently and continues to make up one of the leagues top shutdown pairs, at $2m for 3 playoff runs, that value far exceeds anything Meier would have brought to the table.
 
Meier also has 6 points in 12 games or so...

If we gave up a tonne and only had 6 points your tune would be a little different... or not.
 
The hype on Meier did surprise me. Putting up good not great points on awful teams shouldnt get that kind of praise.
 
Preston said:
Disagree. If McCabe is as good as he has looked recently and continues to make up one of the leagues top shutdown pairs, at $2m for 3 playoff runs, that value far exceeds anything Meier would have brought to the table.
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You can shut down all you want, but if you end up losing 1-0, yip dee doo.
 
zeke said:
The hype on Meier did surprise me. Putting up good not great points on awful teams shouldnt get that kind of praise.
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Might be a bit rash to write him off like that. You don't just score 35+ because you're on a bad team.

The guy has skill seeping through his pores.
 
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