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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Does Shore have more long-term upside than Derek Ryan? He is younger, sure, but has only scored a career high of 6 goals and 14 points in 77 games. Ryan has played only two full seasons in the NHL and has clipped along at a consistent 0.5 pts/gp. I seriously doubt Shore will ever get to that level at any point in his career.
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Don’t get me wrong, I think Ryan is a valuable upgrade in the bottom six. My concern is more about term, $, ice time and utilization. I think like many UFA deals it will be more term and $ than I’d like and that will force increased role ala Brouwer.
I think he is what we need in our bottom six. More scoring, great face offs and good for special teams. My concern is he’s 31 and we’ve seen players trail off quickly at these ages.
Shore is 25/26 and should be able to be signed relatively cheaply for 2 ish years. Shore had generally only played 12 ish minutes with limited opportunities with LA.
That said, I think Shore fits differently and should be moved to the wing as an alternate face off guy.
By comparison, Ryan should play C but as was said he really becomes 4C with special teams play in my head. Monahan, Backlund, Jankowski, Ryan. How much term and $ becomes the big question for me.