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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
I am not saying the top line gets back to career numbers. Gaudreau the last 3 years: 84, 99, 58 points. Monahan: 64, 82, 58.
They don't need to get back to their highs (and likely won't). But they were WAY off normal numbers last year, and a rebound of some sort seems pretty reasonable.
Agree to disagree on the defense. They will be better than last year. Probably by a fair margin. Even if Hanifin is what he is (unlikely for a 24 yer old defenseman), he is nonetheless significantly better with Andersson than with Hamonic. That is a fact, and that alone makes him better than last year.
And the 3rd pair, Valimaki-Nestorov, is also an improvement.
As for Giordano and Tanev, they will be used for shut-down and PK. Andersson is being slotted in for the PP. That will allow Gio to do what he does bet.
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Originally Posted by stang
Yeah I guess if everything goes right. But that’s what I mean their wheels can fall off too.
I don’t see the depth. Right now your projected 3rd pairing d is a kid who has played like 24 games and a dman who can’t stick for a full season in the NHL.
You guys make fun of other fans when they are this positive about there team.
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Apparently you don't know what "if everything goes right means". Not a single thing in my post requires things to go right. It was all just 'reasonable' case.
The only significant 'if' that I brought up was the 3rd pair. Last year, the Flames used Hamonic, Kylington, Stone, Gustafsson and Forbort (7 games each for the last 2).
All we are asking of Valimaki and Nestorov (and Kylington and Mackey) is that they not be worse than what we had last year. That should not be a problem. Of all the defensemen listed, Valimaki is the most talented. Sure, he only has 24 NHL games on his resume, but if that were the bottom line on analysis, well, I guess we could all be Oiler fans.
You are one of the few tolerable Oiler fans on this site, but it is absolutely hilarious that you would (so incorrectly) use the phrase 'if everything goes right' when your team is coming off a record PP season with several guys having crazy shooting percentages, while I am talking about guys being somewhere in between their best and worst seasons.
But you do you.