[Rumour] Friedman: Flames a finalist for UFA D Jakub Nakladal

[sureLoss]

Elliotte Friedman @FriedgeHNIC
Hearing Czech D Jakub Nakladal close to finalizing an NHL deal. Among finalists are the three Cs -- CAL, CAR, CHI

http://www.eliteprospects.com/player.php?player=22769

27 year old 6'2'' right shooting d-man

[kn]

27 year old, right-handed D with decent size - could be a good fit considering there isn't much on the free agent market

[getbak]

Played this season for the team that Kipper is part-owner of in Finland.

[RyZ]

The guy has 0g, 7a in his last 70 KHL games. Doesnt scream "upgrade" on a Schlemko or Diaz at all to me. Must be a mind blowing defender.

[sureLoss]

Here is a goal he scored to tie a game with 35 seconds left:

[mrdonkey]

27 years old, stats are nothing to write home about. Fills an organizational need, though.

Seems like a replacement for Potter or Cundari, if anything.

[sureLoss]

edit: nvm misread his birthdate.. will be a 1 year ELC

[Ashasx]

piss off chicago

[GranteedEV]

Originally Posted by RyZ

The guy has 0g, 7a in his last 70 KHL games. Doesnt scream "upgrade" on a Schlemko or Diaz at all to me. Must be a mind blowing defender.

He seems to have done a good job for the Czech National Team in the World Championship:

Jakub Nakladal leads all defencemen in time on ice with over 21 minutes per game. Nakladal has also contributed five assists in nine games.

http://www.iihfworlds2015.com/en/new...-medal-battle/

[JohnnySkittles]

Eh, whatever. If we get him cool, if not then whatever. Doesn't appear to be anything special.

[Caged Great]

Couldn't hurt. Would have to see him in action in order to be able to say more. Looks like a filler depth guy.

[btimbit]

Can't hurt to try. Likely nothing more than an possible upgrade on Potter

[The Original FFIV]

Seeing as how we signed the best G and C not in the NHL, makes sense we should go after the best D not in the NHL. The circle will be complete!

[Gaudreau]

Originally Posted by The Original FFIV

Seeing as how we signed the best G and C not in the NHL, makes sense we should go after the best D not in the NHL. The circle will be complete!

Pretty sure I have the best D not in the NHL.

[Finger Cookin]

Originally Posted by Gaudreau

Pretty sure I have the best D not in the NHL.

[OzSome]

Originally Posted by RyZ

The guy has 0g, 7a in his last 70 KHL games. Doesnt scream "upgrade" on a Schlemko or Diaz at all to me. Must be a mind blowing defender.

Maybe he is a defensive defenseman. That's because his stat is not that good, it doesn't mean he is a not a good D. He is 6'2 RHD and he can probably skate very well and very good defensively. I have never seen him play yet but you cannot gauge the guy's talent because of goals and assists stat.

[TorqueDog]

Last time I got excited about us getting a player out of the KHL that other teams were trying to get in on, we got a year of Roman Červenka who -- over an 82 game season playing with Hudler -- would have been on pace to get one point more than we got out of Lance Bouma this year.

Enthusiasm curbed until we see what this guy can actually do in the NHL.

[boogerz]

Originally Posted by RyZ

The guy has 0g, 7a in his last 70 KHL games. Doesnt scream "upgrade" on a Schlemko or Diaz at all to me. Must be a mind blowing defender.

Those stats are incorrect. At worst he has 1g 7a in his last 48 games in the KHL. EliteProspects is showing 1g 11a in his last two KHL seasons (85 games).

Either way it doesn't matter and we have minimal context as to why or why he wasn't putting up points.

If the Flames sign him and he turns into our version of Alexei Yemelin, that would be awesome. Perfect replacement for Smid

[heep223]

We don't need more offensive d-men, we need 2-way d-men who have size and play like it. As such, I for one am not concerned about his low point totals. Hope we land him - we need all the d help we can get and he's on the right side of 30. RH also.

[PeteMoss]

Originally Posted by heep223

We don't need more offensive d-men, we need 2-way d-men who have size and play like it. As such, I for one am not concerned about his low point totals. Hope we land him - we need all the d help we can get and he's on the right side of 30. RH also.

If he's a top defensive d-man you'd get points just by virtue of being on the ice a lot. Now KHL may be a super low scoring league... but even Robyn Regehr was putting up 20+ points in his prime years.