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Monahammer · 07-27-2022, 09:50 AM

There has been a lot of talk among the signing and trade threads about D pairs now that Weegar has arrived, and whether the team should investigate trading a d man to bolster the front. In light of this, I thought it was time to bust out a separate conversation on the future D-core.

Hanifin-Weegar -- transition minutes
Zadorov-Tanev -- Hardest defensive minutes
Kylington-Andersson -- offensive minutes

balance them all pretty evenly/depending on who's playing well each evening. Gives each pair a LHD and RHD, and rather than targeting certain styles of player for each pair, it more groups specific playstyles with eachother to then deploy as a styled unit. Hanifin and Weegar both play a strong skating puck movement game. Zadorov and Tanev are a WAY, way better version of our twin towers last year (tanev >>> Gud, and Zadorov just got better as time under sutter increased.) Andersson and Kylington have a history playing together, and could feast on less skilled opponents.
I came to these pairings when looking at the available d men, I thought to myself: Sutter likes playing the two biggest guys together, seemingly does it often. In that approach this is the result.

PP1: Weegar-Huberdeau : these guys played point on the PP in florida and it was way better than ours. Why reinvent a wheel here?
pp2: Kylington-Andersson

pk1: Zadorov-Tanev
pk2: Hanifin-Andersson

7th D: between Meloche, Gilbert, Mackey or Stone

So for me, I am trading Valimaki immediately. I don't see any future path for him with this club today. I would target other 2017 first rounders (forwards) who havent marked it in the NHL yet: Glass, Patrick, Lias Andersson, Frost, Kostin. Maybe a 2018 (if we add we could potentially look at Hayton or Zadina for example...) point here is that there are forward prospects of the same ilk who are in similar situations: Injuries/ covid years stealing development path and other players slotting ahead of them. Valimaki was still very recently a top performer in the finnish league, so his value shouldnt be cratered yet.

07-27-2022, 09:50 AM	#1
Monahammer Franchise Player Join Date: Jan 2018 Location: Alberta Exp:	D Pairings next season There has been a lot of talk among the signing and trade threads about D pairs now that Weegar has arrived, and whether the team should investigate trading a d man to bolster the front. In light of this, I thought it was time to bust out a separate conversation on the future D-core. Hanifin-Weegar -- transition minutes Zadorov-Tanev -- Hardest defensive minutes Kylington-Andersson -- offensive minutes balance them all pretty evenly/depending on who's playing well each evening. Gives each pair a LHD and RHD, and rather than targeting certain styles of player for each pair, it more groups specific playstyles with eachother to then deploy as a styled unit. Hanifin and Weegar both play a strong skating puck movement game. Zadorov and Tanev are a WAY, way better version of our twin towers last year (tanev >>> Gud, and Zadorov just got better as time under sutter increased.) Andersson and Kylington have a history playing together, and could feast on less skilled opponents. I came to these pairings when looking at the available d men, I thought to myself: Sutter likes playing the two biggest guys together, seemingly does it often. In that approach this is the result. PP1: Weegar-Huberdeau : these guys played point on the PP in florida and it was way better than ours. Why reinvent a wheel here? pp2: Kylington-Andersson pk1: Zadorov-Tanev pk2: Hanifin-Andersson 7th D: between Meloche, Gilbert, Mackey or Stone So for me, I am trading Valimaki immediately. I don't see any future path for him with this club today. I would target other 2017 first rounders (forwards) who havent marked it in the NHL yet: Glass, Patrick, Lias Andersson, Frost, Kostin. Maybe a 2018 (if we add we could potentially look at Hayton or Zadina for example...) point here is that there are forward prospects of the same ilk who are in similar situations: Injuries/ covid years stealing development path and other players slotting ahead of them. Valimaki was still very recently a top performer in the finnish league, so his value shouldnt be cratered yet.