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 Kr55
Messages: 12880
Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
6 Cups
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| Skookum Jim wrote on Tue, 25 March 2025 23:21 |
Chychrun has lost a lot of games to injury so far in his career.. that contract has possibility to not age well.. but it works for Capitals.. they don't have any young D coming up.. good to solidify one piece.
Bouchard is not $9M value IMHO.. but someone will pay him that.. so Oilers will probably be forced to give him D. Nurse money. Bouchard's defensive ability.. and over all hockey IQ is not that high.. that contract could easily become a boat anchor.. whatever he gets is not based on this year's play.. its based on the hope he learns to play defense and stops making game losing defensive blunders.
Rather have a 23 year old Holloway and Broberg right now..
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I dunno man. Bouch was playing amazing defense last playoffs, and the one before. Not just offense, but defensively too. He and Ek were playing some of the best defense we have ever seen on this team. I think Bouch is just forcing plays way too much this year. He knows what the safe option is, he just doesn't want to accept it this season. We see that with our other elite guys too, especially McDavid this season. Maybe overconfidence has lead him into stubbornness and frustration with his play, with the pressure of his contract layered on top. There is still a very elite player between those ears and we just have to hope it comes out again once the real pressure is on again.
"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013
"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015
5 x $5,000,000
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