2017 NHL Off-Season

[Corco 1,236]

18 minutes ago, TheTruth said:

can't wait for the season to start so I can be disappointed more...

Which franchise can this not apply to?  

[boubabi 4,725]

the speedster that is Mark Streit is back to MTL, what can we expect from this ? @eaglesfan036 @Fire Hakstol 

[eaglesfan036 4,598]

1 hour ago, boubabi said:

the speedster that is Mark Streit is back to MTL, what can we expect from this ? @eaglesfan036 @Fire Hakstol 

https://memegenerator.net/instance/69459978/ser-meryn-trant-too-old

[Fire Tortorella 2,653]

6 hours ago, boubabi said:

the speedster that is Mark Streit is back to MTL, what can we expect from this ? @eaglesfan036 @Fire Hakstol 

 

Whatever speed he once has is now gone. Whatever strength he once had is now gone. He relies completely on his position and his smarts defensively. Offensively, still decent. Could do worse for a 7/8 defenseman. Not sure how he'd hold up across the entire season and playoffs as a number 6.

[Fire Tortorella 2,653]

Also @boubabiif you want to look up one of the worse injuries I've ever had described to me, look up Mark Streit's "pubic plate detachment"

[Quik 4,113]

7 minutes ago, Fire Hakstol said:

Also @boubabiif you want to look up one of the worse injuries I've ever had described to me, look up Mark Streit's "pubic plate detachment"

 

Don't even want to google that...

[Beaviss 4,957]

Vancouver i think had one of the best off seasons this year out of any team except ofc Vegas. Picking up quality younger players(for free agency) to keep the team semi competitive and give the prospects time to develop. Del Zotto is a great 4-5 dman that can shoot but needs more offensive freedom. Sam is a great specialty 3rd line Center or 4th line. Burmistrov could be a gem 3rd liner if developed properly. 

 

All in all great off season for the Nucks just got to sign Bo now!

[FBR 158]

I really don't understand why people think that Streit's signing means Markov is done in  Montreal. In what fucking world does a 7th defenseman signed 700K should affect our 2nd defenseman? We still have 8.5M left and we have too many defensemen right now. Davidson is probably getting dealt (if Bergevin realizes that he's done basically nothing this off-season).

[boubabi 4,725]

Fuck markov. We just have too many left handed D now. Alzner will just play markov's minutes and thats pretty much it. Davidson still has potential to become something

[boubabi 4,725]

Lets be honest, the pairing will be like so

 

A:zner - Weber

Benn  - Petry

Schlemko - Davidson

 

Streit - Jerabek

 

Could potentially see Schlemko with weber since he has a decent mobility, and put alzner petry as our shutdown D

[Kendrick 4,741]

4 hours ago, FBR said:

I really don't understand why people think that Streit's signing means Markov is done in  Montreal. In what fucking world does a 7th defenseman signed 700K should affect our 2nd defenseman? We still have 8.5M left and we have too many defensemen right now. Davidson is probably getting dealt (if Bergevin realizes that he's done basically nothing this off-season).

Markov is a 2nd defensemen? If so you're in trouble. Come to think of it, treat him as such. Other teams could use the offensive output

[Gooningitup 1,290]

1 hour ago, boubabi said:

Lets be honest, the pairing will be like so

 

A:zner - Weber

Benn  - Petry

Schlemko - Davidson

 

Streit - Jerabek

 

Could potentially see Schlemko with weber since he has a decent mobility, and put alzner petry as our shutdown D

 

Poor Habs Alzner first pairing. Yes he was as a cap for abit. But his footspeed just isnt there. It was never great but hes been degrading pretty quick. I was fine letting him walk. Hes gunna be a bottom 6 guy in a few years PK specalist

[boubabi 4,725]

Beaulieu knew how to skate, but that was pretty much it. I think the Habs heavily favored positioning D instead of mobile D. Plz, not every team needs to be built like an All-Star team, Alzner first pairing isn't optimal, but it's what we have. Pens D wasn't excellent, but just good enough, that's what we are reaching I guess 

[boubabi 4,725]

[Gooningitup 1,290]

24 minutes ago, boubabi said:

Beaulieu knew hoplay skate, but that was pretty much it. I think the Habs heavily favored positioning D instead of mobile D. Plz, not every team needs to be built like an All-Star team, Alzner first pairing isn't optimal, but it's what we have. Pens D wasn't excellent, but just good enough, that's what we are reaching I guess 

 

The Pens Defense was mobile though, thats the thing the teams going deep now a days are mobile. Nashville, Ducks, Pens, hell even to some extent Oilers. I think its held back the caps a ton our defense outside of Shattinkirk, and Carlsson arent very mobile.

 

Alzner, Orlov, Niskannen etc are all decent offense but not the greatest mobility. I mean obviously they also need to be able to play. I personally think also the Habs are gunna be burned by the Beulieu trade but thats just me

[boubabi 4,725]

ron hainsey mobile ? Euhh Schultz and Maata were, can't say that for other dudes

 

 

Beaulieu is trash, lets be honest. Supposed to be an offensive D...never was. In the end just a guy with a ton of problems in his own zone 

[eaglesfan036 4,598]

@boubabi I still got Flyers from playing that game :3

 

 

[FBR 158]

Well... This is just wrong. Markov shouldn't be in any uniform except the Habs one tbh.

[Kendrick 4,741]

4 hours ago, FBR said:

Well... This is just wrong. Markov shouldn't be in any uniform except the Habs one tbh.

Well yeah but he is on his last legs and not worth the price that its reported he wants

[boubabi 4,725]

Same thing happened when kovalev left. People will be mad for 2 days and then forget about him

[Kendrick 4,741]

Yeah, Markov was a little long in the tooth. Other teams loved going up against him

[Guest TheTruth]

On 7/26/2017 at 11:42 AM, Beaviss said:

Vancouver i think had one of the best off seasons this year out of any team except ofc Vegas. Picking up quality younger players(for free agency) to keep the team semi competitive and give the prospects time to develop. Del Zotto is a great 4-5 dman that can shoot but needs more offensive freedom. Sam is a great specialty 3rd line Center or 4th line. Burmistrov could be a gem 3rd liner if developed properly. 

 

All in all great off season for the Nucks just got to sign Bo now!

Vegas had very bad offseason i think. No one will watch, casinos much more entertaining than this lottery team 

[boubabi 4,725]

rip tho

[eaglesfan036 4,598]

Simply put, Claude Giroux barely scored during 5-on-5 situations during the 2016-17 season. He tallied just 18 points in over 1100 minutes of play, good for a painful 0.94 Points/60. That ranked him 12th among Flyers forwards, ahead of only Roman Lyubimov and Pierre-Edouard Bellemare. Yes, that’s right — even Chris VandeVelde and Dale Weise were more efficient 5v5 scorers last season than Claude Giroux.

His status relative to peers around the league was even more cringe-inducing. Giroux ranked 327th in Points/60 among NHL forwards with at least 400 minutes at 5v5. If we assume that players in the top-90 scored like first liners last year (30 teams, three players on each line), then Giroux fell into the bucket of a fourth line scorer in 2016-17, behind luminaries like Luke Glendening and Cedric Paquette.

 

 

@Devise @Fire Hakstol @boubabi Giroux is not a 1C

Edited August 2, 2017 by eaglesfan036

[boubabi 4,725]

Dont blame giroux if he plays in a shit team during a shit season

Edited August 2, 2017 by boubabi