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Llama-Herd
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Not bad. Still not sure about Ellar but he’s better then Carter.
Anyone else notice how Dubas hasn’t mentioned Carter at all in lines or who’s going to play with whom…other than to say they’re not over the cap with what they plan internally…?
What grade would you give Dubas after his first few days of free agency?
From my view, I don’t see many improvements. Smith replaces Zucker, Jarry is still the same goaltender (hopefully more starts given to a better backup leads to some positive regression), and the bottom six is better defensively but there is a lot to be worried about in terms of offensive capabilities.
The only real improvement is upgrading from Dumoulin to Graves (but yikes at that contract). Barring any consequential trades, this looks to be roughly the same roster that will once again be dependent on Sid/Geno. I’m not sold on this team yet, but I’m more confident in Dubas’ process than Hextall’s.
The Lars Eller at 3c is the craziest part for me, I’m hoping Dubas is seeing something that the metrics are missing….love the other signings, including Jarry. I think if you were to look at goalie stats over the last 3 seasons of the guys available, but leave their names out of it, you’d be surprised at how good Jarry has been for us.
Would have loved Domi over Eller
I know stats only paint one side of the picture, but off those declining defensive stats for Graves
It’s almost as if we signed the best goaltender available. You can hate the term but the term is NOT important right now. The window of opportunity is 2-3 years. Who cares who’s still playing here when the core hangs it up. Jarry was also poised to make this type of money. Personally, stability is very important to goaltenders and their mental health. This is pretty evident as goalies have openly spoken out about the mental health struggles that come with the position. I am happy for Jarry.
Also, his high danger chance percentage is **100%** attributed to how god awful this team played defensively in front of both netminders last year.
With that being said, I don’t think we *marginally* improved from last year, I think we *VASTLY* improved.
* We don’t have to worry about a potentially streaky top 6 forward going down. Reilly Smith is a steady bet
* A lot of Jarry’s injury issues are attributed to teams crashing the net. Introducing: Acciari, Eller, Graves
* Assuming we aren’t moving Desmith, we just locked down a 1A, 1B, 1AB goalie tandem.
* Our defensive blunders could almost always be attributed to shoehorning Dumo up and down the D pairings. We just acquired « Dumo from 6 years ago » and he’s bigger and stronger.
Mint free agency for the Pens.
On paper the bottom 6 certainly seems to be much better than last year, however no clue where Granlund and Carter really fit in.
Not ecstatic about Eller/Carter as our 3/4 line centers at all. More moves are absolutely coming, so we’ll see what shakes out
This bottom 6 is VERY solid in two-way play and on the PK which is exactly what we were missing last season. Too often I’d see us get blown up on a giveaway and leave Jarry hanging out to dry and we have guys that actually can play around that.
Graves I’m ecstatic about if I’m being honest. Our 1st and 2nd pairings look really solid right now and he’s a true defensive defenseman w/ a solid shot. If the EK trade actually happens he’d be the perfect pairing with Graves, w/Petterson likely moving to top pair imo.
Jarry is whatever, no one else was available in free agency and we couldn’t devote the cap space and prospects to Hellebuyck anyway; as long as he plays average to above average like we know he can, we’ll be fine. He just needs to work on making smarter plays with the puck in general imo.
Calling these pictures “advanced metrics” is generous.
They’re not really sexy moves, but having a strong defensive bottom 6 is going to be really appreciated once the season starts.
I’m a little nervous that we seem to still have a third line not capable of a ton offensively. We got really lucky w Sid and Geno’s health. If one of them go down for a prolonged period I’m not sure we quite have guys capable of stepping up.
Bottom six is vastly improved. Bit who going to score? Just shows how bad the previous bottom six was, when you can replace it with guys who are all an offensive black hole, and still be markedly better.
If this is basically the roster headed into the season, I wouldn’t be surprised if support scoring for Crosby/Malkin is still a glaring issue, and something is then done about it (as soon as it’s clearly a problem and not a trend).
I m so hyped for graves they been needing s player like that for awhile
Two many players on the wrong side of 30.