Some more analysis to chew on, with the author echoing some reservations people have brought up here, if you can't tell by the title. Has some bright spots too, though.
Some more analysis to chew on, with the author echoing some reservations people have brought up here, if you can't tell by the title. Has some bright spots too, though.
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At this point I just want the season to start and see what happens. Let’s go Jackets!
Someone is airing their emotions – Jesus Christ
> Why pay to move Laine’s full cap hit and hope to get a bad contract back instead of just not paying and getting a bad conract back in the same deal?
Because Laine wouldn’t waive for anywhere but Montreal.
> Either he didn’t think K’Andre Miller was good, didn’t have the stomach for the asking price or didn’t have a prospect that NYR preferred to Scott Morrow.
K’Andre Miller is abysmal on his off side. The most important part of Provorov outside of his ability to stay healthy is how well he can play both sides. This matters for the development of Mateychuk. The Rangers also wanted Voronkov + according to their beat writers.
> Funny how trading Provorov for assets during the trade deadline would have probably yielded the ammuniation to win both or either of the Dobson and Miller trades.
Dobson wanted to go to Montreal.
> He chickened out of the trade deadline for vibes reasons, he struck out making major deals at the draft, and here he found himself July 1 negotiating the bonus structure of a player.
Excuse me chickened out? There would have been damage done to that room if he started selling off pieces when they still had a shot to make it in. Culture matters, respect for your players matters. Struck out at the draft? Like every other GM also did?
> Since Waddell didn’t have the courage or acumen to bet on finding a 4/5D replacement, we have what we have.
This is just straight up horse shit.
Edit: for the person who demanded receipts and then deleted their comment
https://www.habsfanatics.com/nhl/trades/laine-reportedly-rejected-a-trade-to-the-flyers-before-being-dealt-to-mtl-the-players-involved-are-revealed
https://www.minnesotasportsfan.com/minnesota-wild/minnesota-wild-news/minnesota-wild-news-patrik-laine-vetoed-trade-to-mn/
The Provorov deal is easier to swallow if you just think of it as 6ish a year to Provorov and 6ish a year for Fabbro. The last three years will be tough but we’ll handle it when we get there. Ideally we would just eventually land on a sturdy RHD to play with Mateychuk and we’ll have an expensive bottom pair guy that can move up in the lineup if needed. As long as we never get into cap hell Provorov and Seversons contracts will just be eye sores.
“Keeps getting it wrong” did I just imagine last year or something? In year one he: hired Evason, dumped the Laine contract, got very team-friendly deals for KJ and Marchenko, signed Monahan, signed JVR, claimed Fabbro, claimed Aston-Reese, and extended Olivier at a very low cap hit.
In ONE year Don Waddell and Dean Evason got the organization headed back in the right direction after a four year purgatory run. It feels like they’ve actually started building something again.
Analytics have a very important role in sports. But damn it’s gotta be exhausting running to spreadsheets and pivot tables to decide if someone is good at hockey or not instead of the actual results.
Why is substack home to some of the dumbest shit I’ve ever read on the internet…
My only critique would be that there seems to be a lot of assumptions being peddled as inevitabilities or facts. No one knows what information DW had or what the trade negotiations entailed. Yeah, we missed out on some trades but it was pretty obvious that for Waddell to close those deals it would be at the expense of our current group of young players. Teams wanted more from us because we had nicer assets to deal.
>Waddell is looking to upgrade the Blue Jackets at just about every position on the ice. In no particular order, he’d like:
> A right-side defenseman who could log top-four minutes to help balance the Blue Jackets’ back end
* Ivan Provorov
> A top-six or top-nine winger who could help boost one of the NHL’s top emerging forward groups
* Lundestrom
> A right-shot center for the third of fourth line who can excel at faceoffs
*Charlie Coyle
> A veteran goaltender to partner with young Jet Greaves, who will be making the leap to the NHL next season
* Elvis Merszlikins
I just dont get how no one realizes that this team was a playoff contender for everything except goaltending. Our shooting percentage was definitely high but save for Olivier the guys scoring goals were actual goal scorers.
The problem was Elvis and Daniil being the worst goalie tandem outside of Philadelphia. The solution to that problem is Jet Greaves.
On its surface, the contract looks questionable. When you take into account that the CBJ are ready to make a push for a top spot in Metro, it’s go time. Top 4 are set. You have another Vet that can be influential to the other Russian players and Matechuk. UFAs are not banging down the doors to come to Columbus. Provie eliminated a lot of question marks.