As much as I like hemstrom and would support him coming back as an OA. The last time the fronts did that was with grubauer I believe and it’s because that’s what (Washington?) wanted for him to stay in NA.
Hemstrom will probably jump on a SHL contract assuming he gets one. He’s good enough to play pro hockey- just not sure if he will be good enough for the NHL one day.
Chromiak just simply is not what they traded for. He was supposed to turn into something real good but he is arguably the worst defenceman (defensively) on the team- right up there with uens. I want them to get a bigger d man and right shot that won’t be a pylon in the d zone. If the fronts didn’t want him back I think some team would pick him up in the OHL for a year- but for the fronts there is better options.
100% agree. Have taken too many chances that haven’t worked out in recent years. McCarthy, pieniniemi, potentially malholtra.
Need someone that will come here, if they can’t find anyone they may run it back with Chromiak.
May be an unpopular opinion but I thought thibodeau was a lot better in the last 10-15 games of the season including playoffs. He’s a small player and right around a ppg. You have guys like Justin Poirier In the Q that lit the league up and playoffs that are rated like 3rd/4th round. Maybe Thibodeau gets a 7th round selection but I’m not convinced about that. He will get an invite to a camp though I guarantee that just like how Soto did last year with the pens.
McNamara would be a 1st liner on some of the bad teams in the league. 2nd liner on a lot of the other teams in the league. With us he may be our 3rd line centre. We’re going to have 3 good forward lines to role with- that won’t be a problem. The rest of the team is a “?” Though.
Hoping atleast one of them if not both have really good summers for developing.
think Williamson will be better to start the year but by the end of it- could be velliaris. They drafted him because he was a mobile big d man who can play the shutdown role- he can do that well, now the question is how much of an impact offensively will he have and will it get him top line minutes.
Hoping Betts can step in and be able to play about 20-25 games his rookie year here if not Betts then Salajko has to make massive improvements.
I think that there will be a decent gap between the divisional leaders and the second placed /third placed teams but after 3rd there will be a big gap
I think at the deadline they pick up atleast 1 good OA for sure
I think the same about Miedema, Chromiak and uens but I’m just saying they’re 05s currently on the roster so can’t count them out yet.