It now says, "The pick is conditional. If the Kings miss the playoffs this season, it’s a 2013 first-round pick. If they make the playoffs, the Blue Jackets can choose either the 2012 or 2013 first-round pick."
Funny how he was at a fan event when it happened. this is why u dont plan fan fests near the trade deadline. I remember in the 06-07 season Tip a King was right before the deadline. Jason Ward was on the team for like a week at that point and he was gone a week afterward at the deadline. im glad Tip A King is early in the season now
Hope you guys are excited. Jeff is a very good player who has had a combination of injuries and few memorable "chokes" weighing his reputation down in Philly.
Of the two, I definitely was for trading Jeff because of the return we got but I was never for trading Richie.
some of you guys make it sound like carter is the answer to our problem. His avg 30+ goals per season is similar to Penners and we all witnessed what happened for the past two seasons. Now I am not comparing Carter to Penner, i'm stating that I am fairly disappointed with the trade. Regardless of what you all heard on the NHLN, button may hate the kings but he does shed a few lights on what our problem is.
I agree with some of you guys that JJ will play a bigger role in columbus. We all witnessed how well he can carry the team when our star player DD is injured.
As for JJ being expandabe, i dont neccessarily agree with you. I think the most expandable person we have is J. Bernier. This team is extremely talented in the goalie closet, but the problem with Howe is I think he wanted a proven goalie. I understand JB is talented but he has yet to play more than 20+ games.
Now back to JJ and the Carter trade. I felt that Columbus has won the deal, 1st pick and a top pairing defenseman.
I would have liked it more if Stoll or Penner was traded away. Now those two players are just a waste of ice time.
I'm happy enough with the trade, Carter seems like he'll be a good addition and it doesn't cripple us with his cap hit. JJ and a 1st is a relatively expensive price to pay, but Carter has a very good goal scoring pedigree which we need more. I think we win this trade. Hopefully we can offload penner and co for picks or prospects, to keep the stream of young players going. Manchester must be looking a bit bare at the moment. Perhaps thats the logic behind our captain being supposedly offered about, to help replenish our stock of prospects but also change it up.
EV GF EV GA EV +/- EV GF/GA Ratio
Doughty without JMFJ +61 -44 +17 0.581
Doughty with JMFJ +18 -19 -1 0.486
Mitchell without JMFJ +44 -39 +5 0.530
Mitchell with JMFJ +3 -9 -6 0.250
Scuderi without JMFJ +32 -27 +5 0.542
Scuderi with JMFJ +22 -29 -7 0.431
Greene without JMFJ +29 -28 +1 0.509
Greene with JMFJ +5 -9 -4 0.357
Martinez without JMFJ +33 -25 +8 0.569
Martinez with JMFJ +4 -2 +2 0.667
Drewiske without JMFJ +13 -15 -2 0.464
Drewiske with JMFJ +2 -2 0 0.500
Harrold without JMFJ +8 -4 +4 0.667
Harrold with JMFJ +1 -2 -1 0.333
Its funny you should post that. I've always believed JJ isn't as bad defensively as people think. His biggest problem is that he isn't nearly as good offensively as people think. 5on5 JJ only has 10 pts this year and only 14 of his 42 pts last year were 5on5. The PP padded his stats much the way it did for Stoll. I personally found him as very stiff offensively and only major asset was his shot, and speed which he very rarely used.
some of you guys make it sound like carter is the answer to our problem. His avg 30+ goals per season is similar to Penners and we all witnessed what happened for the past two seasons. Now I am not comparing Carter to Penner, i'm stating that I am fairly disappointed with the trade. Regardless of what you all heard on the NHLN, button may hate the kings but he does shed a few lights on what our problem is.
I agree with some of you guys that JJ will play a bigger role in columbus. We all witnessed how well he can carry the team when our star player DD is injured.
As for JJ being expandabe, i dont neccessarily agree with you. I think the most expandable person we have is J. Bernier. This team is extremely talented in the goalie closet, but the problem with Howe is I think he wanted a proven goalie. I understand JB is talented but he has yet to play more than 20+ games.
Now back to JJ and the Carter trade. I felt that Columbus has won the deal, 1st pick and a top pairing defenseman.
I would have liked it more if Stoll or Penner was traded away. Now those two players are just a waste of ice time.
The last three seasons Carter's low is 33 goals, Penner has never hit that number in his NHL career.
As for JJ being a top pairing defenseman, well I'll just agree to disagree. I've stated numerous times my problems with his game.
Its funny you should post that. I've always believed JJ isn't as bad defensively as people think. His biggest problem is that he isn't nearly as good offensively as people think. 5on5 JJ only has 10 pts this year and only 14 of his 42 pts last year were 5on5. The PP padded his stats much the way it did for Stoll. I personally found him as very stiff offensively and only major asset was his shot, and speed which he very rarely used.
Jack's pretty damn bad defensively. Read the links I posted above. You may not buy into the advanced statistics completely, but it's pretty damning evidence when he leads (i.e., by far the worst) in all of these statistical categories for Kings' defensemen. The Kings' defense might honestly get better with Johnson gone.
Don't take this as me hating on Jack. I loved his professional work ethic and abhorrence to losing. He slowly improved every season in my opinion, but he just is not a good defensive player. The numbers in those links are pretty eye-opening.
Jeff Carter has scored 40+ goals 1 time in 7 seasons... He's a 30+ goal scorer, especially since he hasn't come close to touching 46 since that year.
Downplay it all you want. Remind us of the plethora of 30+ goal scorers the Kings have had in that time? Kopitar has hit 30+ 2 times with 34 being the highest Kings goal scorer since what......Robataille. Frolov once a couple years ago at 32. Brown once a couple years ago at 33. And pretty much nothing else. 46 would look pretty darn good even once now wouldn't it? The guy is about 60 goals up on Kopitar since they've both been in the league together and I don't see people calling him a scrub.
Jack's pretty damn bad defensively. Read the links I posted above. You may not buy into the advanced statistics completely, but it's pretty damning evidence when he leads (i.e., by far the worst) in all of these statistical categories for Kings' defensemen. The Kings' defense might honestly get better with Johnson gone.
Don't take this as me hating on Jack. I loved his professional work ethic and abhorrence to losing. He slowly improved every season in my opinion, but he just is not a good defensive player. The numbers in those links are pretty eye-opening.
I said never as bad as people say....not that he was average
His biggest thing, like they pointed out in the CNB read. Is that he doesn't really disrupt on D....he just "plays his man" so basically he can be decent positionally but never ends the opposing teams attacks thus is always defending.
Thats something alot of people don't see about DD, he reads a play and gets in the passing lane or gets to where the player is going and breaks up the play causing the change of possession. Thus reducing the amount of time he is stuck "chasing the cycle"
All this talk is crazy. We got our sniper! The one we've been trying to get for past few seasons, and we got him at a 5.2m cap hit! Be happy! As everyone says Carter isn't gonna turn us into a offensive powerhouse (honestly nobody would) but we'll be a better team tomorrow vs Chicago then we were vs Colorado
