Some food for thought. Going back to 2010-11, there have been ten other instances of a rookie defenseman tallying 18+ PPPts:
Quinn Hughes, Cale Makar, Moritz Seider, Zach Werenski, Shayne Gostisbehere, Rasmus Dahiln, Will Butcher, Torey Krug, Cam Fowler, and P.K. Subban
So basically only one - Butcher - who flamed out. Of course past results don't dictate future outcomes, but a 5th round pick for someone who's also on this list seems worth of rolling the dice, especially if you're San Jose of all teams.
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This is a great low cost low risk move by San Jose. I don’t fully get it from Minnesota’s standpoint.
12 team Yahoo Roto keeper (keep 3)
9 F, 6 D; roster 3 G max
G,A,PPP,SOG,BLKS,HITS - W,SO,SV%,Saves
F: B Tkachuk, Stutzle, Eriksson Ek, Necas, Konecny, Cooley, Boldy, Lehkonen, Tippett
D: Dahlin, Seider, Matheson, Durzi, Addison, Mintyukov
G: Hill, Husso
IR:
Bench: L Hughes, Merzlikins, Terry, Tuch
wonder if there is more to this then hockey move....who knows what was said behind the scenes...im not surprising they moving on, but im very surprised on what they got back.
14 Teams H2H Dynasty, 28 roster spots (8 bench), 15 minors under 100
Weekly Matchups - Daily Lineups
Skaters: G/A/Pt/PIM/SoG/STP/H+B/ToI/Corsi
Goalies: W/GAA/SVs/SV%/SHO
C: Eichel, Kadri, Mcdavid, Sodeberg, Schenn
LW: Ehlers, Landeskog, Meier, Debrusk, Foegele, Lee
RW: Pastrnak, Marner, Palmieri, Terry, D. Brown, Bailey, Granlund
D: Krug, Josi, Ekholm, Faulk, Muzzin, Karlsson, Cernak,
G: Hellebuyck, Biship, M Jones
He must have really pissed off the wrong person to get traded into Sharks purgatory, as a 23 year old, on an ELC, from a team facing a $14m in dead cap from buyouts.
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lol yeah makes no sense, that is why i think there is more to this than just hockey...
but in short term this maybe good for his owners as sharks really dont care if they give up 2 goals or 10 a game so he will play and probably QB that PP. Maybe in few years he will figure it out defensively at least enough to stay in the lineup. Offensively there is lots of talent there.
14 Teams H2H Dynasty, 28 roster spots (8 bench), 15 minors under 100
Weekly Matchups - Daily Lineups
Skaters: G/A/Pt/PIM/SoG/STP/H+B/ToI/Corsi
Goalies: W/GAA/SVs/SV%/SHO
C: Eichel, Kadri, Mcdavid, Sodeberg, Schenn
LW: Ehlers, Landeskog, Meier, Debrusk, Foegele, Lee
RW: Pastrnak, Marner, Palmieri, Terry, D. Brown, Bailey, Granlund
D: Krug, Josi, Ekholm, Faulk, Muzzin, Karlsson, Cernak,
G: Hellebuyck, Biship, M Jones
Yea I don't get this from the Minny end of it but who knows. I really like this move for the Sharks. They have all the time in the world to put him on that *cough* powerplay and see what he can do. Brian Leetch was a pretty bad defensive Dman early on in his career so let's give him a shot. (not that he will ever become half the Dman Leetch was, just saying).
Call me old one more time.
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Tony DeAngelo and Shane Gostibhere are still terrible defensive defenseman and are finding an important role on teams. It’ll be interesting to see how it goes. San Jose is so bad.
12 team Yahoo Roto keeper (keep 3)
9 F, 6 D; roster 3 G max
G,A,PPP,SOG,BLKS,HITS - W,SO,SV%,Saves
F: B Tkachuk, Stutzle, Eriksson Ek, Necas, Konecny, Cooley, Boldy, Lehkonen, Tippett
D: Dahlin, Seider, Matheson, Durzi, Addison, Mintyukov
G: Hill, Husso
IR:
Bench: L Hughes, Merzlikins, Terry, Tuch
Trade me, right ****ing now!
-Calen Addison
Hang up!
12 team Yahoo Roto keeper (keep 3)
9 F, 6 D; roster 3 G max
G,A,PPP,SOG,BLKS,HITS - W,SO,SV%,Saves
F: B Tkachuk, Stutzle, Eriksson Ek, Necas, Konecny, Cooley, Boldy, Lehkonen, Tippett
D: Dahlin, Seider, Matheson, Durzi, Addison, Mintyukov
G: Hill, Husso
IR:
Bench: L Hughes, Merzlikins, Terry, Tuch
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They need to have a full episode of Shoresy and/or Letterkenny where they just work in classic hockey movie lines.
He might. It'll be a good one to watch & re-visit.
Props to you for making your stance. I can respect that.
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I didn't like what I saw out of him last year - and that's before Evanson made a habit of healthy-scratching him.
Team #2 (or is it #3) is the "figure it out" or "bust" team for NHL prospects.
At some point - they're just Galchenyuks and it ain't gonna work anywhere.
Cholowski and Ryan Merkley... and maybe Ty Smith... and maybe Addison.
There's a very quickly growing list of average-height, solid offensively, late1st/2nd round drafted CHLers that couldn't hack the defense part of the NHL and seem slated as AHL lifers.