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Never really got a shot in St. Louis because of his poor defensive play, too many mistakes like this one:
Columbus is a good place for him though, they'll excuse the mistakes due to the offence he brings, and maybe he'll round out his game once he gets more NHL experience.
He was very good defensively here. That was really the only instance of Nikitin being out of position and was mostly due to miscommunication.
For Columbus, he was quite good defensively so I don't really know what you are talking about. They wouldn't excuse poor defensive play from him and really havent had reason to.
Just ask Viqsi, she will show you how the Tyutin-Nikitin pairing was statistically similar to the Weber-Suter pairing.
The Leafs got a great surprise with Lupul's point and goals from this past season Gardiner had a great rookie season with them.
The Ducks made the Playoffs with Beauchemin in 2011 and he seems to be fan favorite down there.
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Originally Posted by Dellstrom
Raycroft for Rask.
Not much explaining to do here. Raycroft was a fantastic goalie his rookie year and Rask was ranked pretty high with goalie prospects, taken in the 1st round and all, and we swapped...
Then, y'know.
Maybe what underrated means...
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Originally Posted by CH4
pending UFA Craig Rivet
vs
Gorges + 1st (Pacioretty)
Higgins, Mcdonagh, Valentenko
vs
Gomez, Pyatt, Busto
What's underrated about this?
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Originally Posted by Broad Street Elite
Good for Philly:
ATL gets Alexei Zhitnik for Brayden Coburn
Bad for Philly:
Phi gets Steve Eminger for a 1st Rounder (John Carlson)
Everyone knows about this trade...
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Originally Posted by cowboy82nd
Doesn't this just add fuel to the fire about Atlanta's ****** owernship group. They signed off on this deal.
Honestly, Lehtonen was done in Atlanta. It was just time to part ways. At least Vish was used in a trade with Chicago to get one of Ladd or Buff(can't remember which).
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Originally Posted by theboss
Gomez for Mcd
Gainey
Missing the point again...
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Originally Posted by LEAFS FAN 4 EVER
Maybe on the Leafs boards but in my opinion it doesn't get as much talk on the National Hockey League Talk boards.
Maybe not in the last few months...
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Originally Posted by 1972
guy a couple months ago told me that the Devils lost that trade
Wow...
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Originally Posted by TNigs
Did hot-lanta ever make a good trade for themselves besides Hossa for Heatley? It seems like that got shafted in every other deal. Why do you think HFers propose a pile of garbage for star players? Because Atlanta kept accepting those kind of offers.
The Ladd and Buff deals were good. But that was finally after Waddell was promoted and we brought in Rick Dudley.
Sal's time with the Devils has had its ups and downs (and he was actually re-signed since the trade), but his play in the playoffs last year was absolutely key and all the devils gave up was a lunatic without NHL talent (who they eventually brought back anyway )
To be fair, the Rangers couldn't have known Zherdev was just plain crazy.
If we judge that trade by the same standards by which folks judge Carter-to-CBJ, then this just means that the Rangers had done even worse because any decent GM should have known well in advance that that was going to happen.
That said, I agree that if he hadn't made those crazy contract demands he'd probably still be in the NHL. Maybe still on the Rangers as well... then again, seeing as though the Rangers have built themselves based on a highly work-ethic focused team ethos, it's questionable whether or not he'd be able to stay there. I mean, it's not like he never blocks shots, but it is kind of rare.
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Never really got a shot in St. Louis because of his poor defensive play, too many mistakes like this one:
Columbus is a good place for him though, they'll excuse the mistakes due to the offence he brings, and maybe he'll round out his game once he gets more NHL experience.
The funny thing is, Tyutin is also known for occasional crazy mistakes. Yet, when the two of them are together, suddenly the crazy mistakes - for both players - abruptly go away. It's like they read eachother's minds or something, and between the two of them one can realize when the other is about to screw up. It's bizarre.
That, by the way, was a mixup between Nikitin and John Moore, who had far more screwups as he simply wasn't ready for NHL play. Yet, thanks to blueline injuries, we were obliged to play him anyways... more than any other single blueliner, in fact.
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Originally Posted by Crede777
He was very good defensively here. That was really the only instance of Nikitin being out of position and was mostly due to miscommunication.
For Columbus, he was quite good defensively so I don't really know what you are talking about. They wouldn't excuse poor defensive play from him and really havent had reason to.
Just ask Viqsi, she will show you how the Tyutin-Nikitin pairing was statistically similar to the Weber-Suter pairing.
Oh crud. Now I'm going to get flamed and/or laughed at even more...
The comparison is primarily in advanced stats. They had a similar effect w/r/t driving the play up the ice and were comparable defensively overall, in the same situations. They didn't score at nearly the same level, though, and Curtis Sanford ain't no Pekka Rinne. So I generally stop short of saying "they were right up there with Weber-Suter!!!!!!111one".
Oh, and to get back on the thread topic, and while we're talking blueliners and the Blue Jackets... we traded Adam McQuaid to Boston for a 5th round pick, because it looked like he wasn't going to sign here.
For additional bonus mind****, that 5th was in 2007, and was later one of the three traded to Dallas in 2007. They used it to select Jamie Benn.
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Sal's time with the Devils has had its ups and downs (and he was actually re-signed since the trade), but his play in the playoffs last year was absolutely key and all the devils gave up was a lunatic without NHL talent (who they eventually brought back anyway )
Smid, Lupul, conditional first if ducks won the cup- thank god (Eberle)
This trade looked horrible for the Oilers when it was made. But 2 of 3 form a critical core for the Oil
Trading Pronger looks like it worked out for us, too.
Pronger
for
Lupul(traded for Beauchemin), Luca Sbisa, two firsts(Palmieri and Etem), and I think we traded back one of those firsts for the pick we used on Mat Clark. It's looking like a pretty good haul.
Trading Pronger looks like it worked out for us, too.
Pronger
for
Lupul(traded for Beauchemin), Luca Sbisa, two firsts(Palmieri and Etem), and I think we traded back one of those firsts for the pick we used on Mat Clark. It's looking like a pretty good haul.
1. Anaheim acquires J.S. Giguere for a 2nd round pick in 2000 (who ended up being Matt Pettinger)
2. Boston trades Sammy Pahlsson to Anaheim for Patrick Traverse and Andrei Nazarov
3. Anaheim trades Mike Commodore and J.F. Damphousse to Calgary for Rob Niedermayer (helped both clubs for the two years before the lockout, and later on more so for Anaheim)
1. Anaheim acquires J.S. Giguere for a 2nd round pick in 2000 (who ended up being Matt Pettinger)
2. Boston trades Sammy Pahlsson to Anaheim for Patrick Traverse and Andrei Nazarov
3. Anaheim trades Mike Commodore and J.F. Damphousse to Calgary for Rob Niedermayer (helped both clubs for the two years before the lockout, and later on more so for Anaheim)
You can add to that Niedermayer trade Scott as well. Devils were lobbying to get Rob just to keep Scott. Whoever won the Rob Niedermayer sweepstakes also won the Scott Niedermayer sweepstakes.
The Flames Traded 1990 first round pick (#20-Martin Brodeur), 1990 second round pick (#24-David Harlock), 1990 second round pick (#29-Chris Gotziaman) to Devils for 1990 first round pick (#11-Trevor Kidd), 1990 second round pick (#32-Vesa Viitakoski).
Obviously trading draft pick can be a roll of the dice sometimes but I just find it funny the Flames thought so highly of Kidd that they traded up for him and the Devils ended up with the (much) better goalie.
the heatly/san jose trade was ironic, when he was traded people figured he may be get 50 goals again playing with Joe Thorton..................2 years later he has slowed down drastically and was traded to the wild
