The Mother-fucking goddamn Off-season Thread

[Wayward DP]

Anything attached to Seravalli is click bait at this point. Glad Micah put him in his place

heh, I read that as 'dick' bait.

 

[LeafOfFaith]

And quickly clicked on it?

 

[zeke]

This might be the year to use Matthews on the PK tho.

 

[Wayward DP]

And quickly clicked on it?

dicked on it*

 

[LeafOfFaith]

Pricked on it.

 

[thehabhater]

This might be the year to use Matthews on the PK tho.

As long as he doesn't block shots

 

[Wayward DP]

Can we take a moment to once again appreciate presto’s “Matthews has a wonky release” hot take?

 

[zeke]

As long as he doesn't block shots

He already blocked more shots than any forward in hockey last year.

 

[Wayward DP]

I haven’t looked at a statistical comparison but I want to say Matty has reached Datsyukian levels of defensive prowess.

 

[Hoss]

I would love to see Matthews and marner for the final 30 seconds or so of every pk.

I loved when mats and mogilny did that.
That was a deadly combo that could be replicated

 

[CH1]

Play the 4th line more

 

[MindzEye]

I haven’t looked at a statistical comparison but I want to say Matty has reached Datsyukian levels of defensive prowess.

Patrice Bergeron, over the last few years, was a standard deviation better than any other forward in the league defensively. Auston Matthews is in the small pile up fighting over 2nd best.

 

[soco22]

This might be the year to use Matthews on the PK tho.

For a while have wanted him on the 3 v 5 to win draws vs how we always seem to use wingers

 

[Killer93]

HUGE!!!!!

 

[MindzEye]

That probably puts any chance of a Holmberg at 3C tryout to rest. Keefe is going to pick one of Gregor or Gambrell as his 4C security blanket and wedge Kampf into the 3C role

 

[zeke]

Gregor has averaged less than one face-off per game in his career with a 30.8% success rate. I don't think he's actually a center.

 

[leafman101]

Terrible impact numbers but toughish usage and decent offense. Opposite ZAR.

 

[zeke]

Q

 

[LeafOfFaith]

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Terrible impact numbers but toughish usage and decent offense. Opposite ZAR.

This is a year outdated?

The numbers are interesting fourth liner stuff. Still young. Wonder why he’s sitting around unsigned this whole time.

 

[CH1]

This is a year outdated?

The numbers are interesting fourth liner stuff. Still young. Wonder why he’s sitting around unsigned this whole time.

not a lot of jobs out there