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Forum: Armchair-GM13 minutes ago
Forum: Armchair-GM1 hour ago
Thread: playoff tough ready
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>draft_em_sign_em_trade_em</b></div><div>No it is, every playoff team matchup is different, one style of hockey can beat one team but completely fail against another.

Tunnel vision is a reason.

A good coach can adapt, but obviously Keefe is not one.</div></div>

that isn't really true.

people played the "tough" hockey game against the penguins and they blew past it 2 straight years for a cup. They went through a Torts CBJ and WSH to get there.
Those were heavy hitting teams.

The problem for TOR is they don't know how to play their brand of hockey and try to get into the sewer with rats. Well when you get into a sewer with rats they drown you.
That's why you don't do that and play your brand of hockey.
But mentally they just can't figure that out and play through it.
Bad teams can't maintain their identity. That's what it boils down to. The goal isn't to mirror your opponent.
It's to keep your identity and play through it and make them adjust to you. They are incapable of doing that.
A team plays "tough" against them and they act like it's a slight to their manhood and they must get "tough" back.
Instead of staying focused and scoring goals.
Forum: Armchair-GM1 hour ago
Thread: CAR DET Swap
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Caniac2000</b></div><div>He is a very strong defensive player! Feel free to look at his underlying numbers from any other year, because as I admitted, he had a down year this year, but supplimented it with great chance creation. He's a 30-40 point producer with a VERY strong defensive game. Just because you're a good 5-on-5 defender doesn't mean you'd be a good 5-on-4 defender! If that's your criteria for good defensively, please watch more hockey because you have a lot to learn</div></div>

yeah actually when you are a good 5v5 defender you are a trusted 4v5 defender as well..... that's how guys earn minutes on the PK. If you can't trust them 5v5 you are never going to trust them 4v5.

He's not a 30-40 point guy. His 5v5 play he's never cracked 30 points for the cains.
His production is so poor, he doesn't deserve to be on the PP, so he's a 20pt guy.
That's the reality of it.
CAR has 4 better forwards to put on the PP. Taking up all those minutes. Which means he won't be able to ride others in a premium spot to collect again.
You really will try to defend that contract, it's awful.
Forum: Armchair-GM6 hours ago
Thread: CAR DET Swap
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Caniac2000</b></div><div>What are you talking about? He doesn't play PK because the Canes had the #1 PK in the league anyway. Why try to fix something that isn't broken? Have an elite PK and want to change it? Jesus stop it.

His OZone start rate wasn't for him, for the most part. It was because he started with Svechnikov and Necas a ton. This is the issue with OZone start times, Carolin start 65% of play tie in the offensive zone, but that conveniently gets left out. There's no reason to move him. He's going to bounce back and anyone that has watched him can see it. a 3.1 xGF/60 is a sign of strong offensive development. He's not a problem contract, and I don't need some Penguins fan that has seen him play maybe what 10 games all season try to argue this because you're just wrong.</div></div>

dude, you are the one who said he was an elite defensive player. Saying, oh but the canes have the #1 pk anyway, doesn't mean it's true.
If he was an elite defensive player, he'd be playing. It's also like saying, the Ozone starts aren't for him... dude, that is so pointless on every level. It's not changing the fact that he did nothing with them.
And for an Elite defensive player it wasn't more balanced in the defensive direction.

Look don't get me wrong, you are more than welcome to keep that almost 5 mil contract for 6 years on a guy who puts up roughly 20 points a year all you want. But don't come telling me a hockey trade to move him out for shorter term isn't in CAR interest it is.
He is not worth that cap hit. It was an over pay the day it was signed. The 5v5 production just isn't there and it never has been and when the PP time is gone, it really shows.