And look what he's fucking left us with as a rebuild cornerstone. No first or second round pick.
And that’s why perfect time to kick bowman the lesser was when we were gifted the number 3 pick.
I'm not against trading a first round pick for a top guy like Jones, but when it's basically all we have in the draft for a team trying to rebuild it shoots yourself in the foot. If you do it to supplement a strong draft, and lots of strong picks, then it works, it's like we would have gotten Jones in the first round then had a bunch of picks to surround him with guys to try to fill out the roster with needs. When you essentially deplete your entire draft to 3 3rds and a 6th... you better hope you have a plan to rebuild it or just give the rest of it away. Only thing I can pray for is somehow whatever they ship at the deadline they use the 3rds and whoever we send to to move up
They have to get the ball rolling and get a gm in here. It shouldn’t wait until the offseason.
Disagree at this point. I wanted Strome with Cat early in the year, but I think you keep Dach there, because at this point, his ceiling is much higher than Strome's and he needs to see substantial time in the top six. Dach is playing decent too -- he's not tearing it up on the scoresheet necessarily, but he's getting his chances, going to the net, and is learning to use his body to protect the puck. Yes, faceoffs are important, but they are not the end-all be-all. It's time to see what Dach can do in the top six now, so he needs an extended look there; you can't just keep babying him by keeping him on the third line.
Honestly, the perfect point to have kicked both Stan and Q to the curb would have been after the 2018 fiasco.
I'll give you this much, Strome does look MUCH better at the dot than he has previously--much better than Dach has. I think Dach may have a higher ceiling, but unless he can get much better at the dot he's wasted there, and we might have to see how he does on wing.
It's hard to believe the NHL went this route,I buy 'center ice' every year to follow this team or that team or just catch the games I want to but I won't buy an app too. I canceled 'center ice' already after missing two Panther's games to the ESPN+/HULU exclusive shit but missing a Hawk home game is something different all together........Bill and Arthur must be smiling!
This is the problem with the sports groups whether it's B1G, NHL, SEC, NBA, NFL.... they don't care. They are selling to the highest bidder. It's not their problem. And they don't get the blow back for it so they don't care. They could have easily stipulated in negotiations when the rights deals are signed how and where these games need to be broadcast. But they don't because that would hit their wallets. If the NHL would have enforced to ESPN that they can't have streaming only games, ESPN would have said fine but we're knocking 500M off our offer then... they go, welp ok you can do what you want.
Yes, technically. But NBCSports folding really opened it up, and he just went to the highest bidder which I assume the only one at this time was ESPN.
Great and very underrated movie. Sad how many people I've come across who've never seen it
I agree with you on this, if the team was in a position to challenge for the cup, there is no doubt Dach playing with Kane and Cat would be a bad decision. The Hawks need to know what they have moving forward, the organization and scouts knew Dach wasn’t a premiere face-off guy however he made up for it with other intangibles. it time to let him sink or swim. This season is a tryout, the minute a new GM comes in, there will be some drastic changes, know one on this team is safe from being dealt including Dach if he can’t produce or play like a top 6 the Hawks drafted him to be.
