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Originally Posted by Bingo
Neither matter ... they're essentially league minimum NHL hockey players that can be assigned to the AHL team with no impact on your cap.
Simon was a pretty solid hockey player in Pittsburgh, no offence, but good up and down. He was lost in Calgary.
Any pro scouting review should focus on the bigger fish.
In order all UFA signings ...
Michael Frolik - good signing
Kris Versteeg - good signing
Chad Johnson - good signing
Troy Brouwer - bad signing
Jaromir Jagr - neutral?
James Neal - bad signing
Derek Ryan - good signing
Austin Czarnik - good signing
Tobias Rieder - good signing
Cam Talbot - good signing
I'll leave Markstrom and Tanev out of it. I think both are good signings.
You can't gloss over big mistakes with quantity, but really it's a two UFA issue in Treliving's tenure.
I think the impactful (good and bad) list would be Frolik, Brouwer, Neal, Markstrom and Tanev when it's all said and done.
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See, I don’t like the viewpoint that the little signings don’t count or are considered insignificant. To me, it all matters. That should be the standard. That everything counts and everything matters including 4th liners because all of it contributes to winning and losing. Obviously the bigger misses hit harder because of larger cap hits and etc.
But in this particular instance, the forward signings may have been league minimum signings, but those players played huge parts going into the season. The pro scouts knew who the pairs (forwards) would be going into this season, so the exercise was more so about “how well do you know your players” and based on the amount of line juggling we’ve seen this season along with the incredible lack of production, I would give their performance on that a big “F” because it’s clear they don’t know their players all that well, especially Gaudreau and Monahan. After 7 years together, this is the worst line mate set I’ve ever seen them play with and the numbers back that up.
I would go a little further and say that the biggest reason why this season has gone awry is because of that lack of chemistry from the forward group. This team to put it simply, cannot score. They’re as bad as the rebuilding Ottawa freaking Senators in terms of even strength scoring which is absolutely not ok.
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