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CorsiHockeyLeague · 09-18-2017, 01:23 PM

Demers is a legitimate top four defenseman. A good one. Jamie McGinn is no one at all.

Arizona's success or lack of success depends entirely on whether their young players can achieve their potential and make the next step to being bona fide NHLers. That hasn't changed. But every move that the team has made this summer has solidified them. They have a solid top 6 center in Derek Stepan, and a guy who could be a decent starter in Raanta. They have a high-end #1 d-man in OEL, and a solid top four with Hjalmarsson, Goligoski and Demers, as well as some depth and youth to fill out the bottom pairing (Chychrun looked quite good last year I thought).

So, yes, Domi and Crouse and Connor and Dvorak and Duclair and Strome and Keller eventually have to look like pros, not just kids, but once a few of them clear that hurdle this could be a pretty damned competitive team in short order.

09-18-2017, 01:23 PM	#10
CorsiHockeyLeague Franchise Player Join Date: Feb 2015 Exp:	Demers is a legitimate top four defenseman. A good one. Jamie McGinn is no one at all. Arizona's success or lack of success depends entirely on whether their young players can achieve their potential and make the next step to being bona fide NHLers. That hasn't changed. But every move that the team has made this summer has solidified them. They have a solid top 6 center in Derek Stepan, and a guy who could be a decent starter in Raanta. They have a high-end #1 d-man in OEL, and a solid top four with Hjalmarsson, Goligoski and Demers, as well as some depth and youth to fill out the bottom pairing (Chychrun looked quite good last year I thought). So, yes, Domi and Crouse and Connor and Dvorak and Duclair and Strome and Keller eventually have to look like pros, not just kids, but once a few of them clear that hurdle this could be a pretty damned competitive team in short order. __________________ "The great promise of the Internet was that more information would automatically yield better decisions. The great disappointment is that more information actually yields more possibilities to confirm what you already believed anyway." - Brian Eno Last edited by CorsiHockeyLeague; 09-18-2017 at 01:28 PM.