In 16-17 that same Avs team with Mackinnon, Lande, Rantanen, no Makar, but include guys like Duchene and Jarome freaking Iginla and then throw Semyon Varlamov in net. That same team ended with 48 points and was the worst team in the cap era until this years Sharks who ended at 47 points. Make it make sense.
Your post made me curious so I looked it up.
That horrible year is how they got Makar at #4.
Having a random horrible year really does pay off.
I begrudge Vegas nothing they are the only ones with big enough balls to take advantage of the league rules.
I don’t think it’s that they have the balls.
I think it’s that they have the deepest pockets to pay all of those players, playing and on the injured list.
Just because Stone and the others were off the cap, doesn’t mean they were off the payroll.
Obviously you want to finish in the bottom 10 to even have a chance at getting the #1 pick (3.5-5%)
And that’s why they should have started playing their 4th line more much earlier.
You don’t want your 7th D to be a guy that is 21 and can still get a lot of minutes in the AHL vs sitting in the press box most nights. Hunt. That’s just not how you develop.
So yeah Merril is your guy for the 7 spot. If an injury happens that is when a younger player like Hunt comes up and mixes in.
Good point, it would be nice to get an upgrade over Merrill, but it could be worse as well.
likely true although I think they would prefer to move Merrill and replace him with Hunt…
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As would I, but that still leaves the problem of how do you trade Merrill, or can they waive him and send him to Iowa.
You’re content with rolling out Merrill again? We have a few guys not signed so they will have to figure that out like Chisholm which Im sure they will sign and possibly Mermis.
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After playing Merrill and now Goose over Mermis for the last half of the season, why would Mermis not look elsewhere?
It’s time to find out who they want between Merrill, Mermis,Hunt.
I am assuming they will play Faber/Brodin, Spurgeon/Middleton, Bogosian/Chisolm.
That leaves an audition for the #7 defenseman spot.
Merrill is still under contract for next year, so they will need to move him if they want to keep someone else.
And I don’t know how they will do that.
My experience ,without aflasher, taught me to, watch the shoreline for a change in rocks or degree of steepness. That change usually ends up underwater as well and often holds fish.
I had the best luck with walleye trolling sandy shoreline bays at sunrise sunset.
Try to pay attention to speed as it can make a real difference.
On big lakes especially GPS mapping by far puts more fish in the boat.
Think back to before accurate GPS mapping fishing Mille Lacs lake.
Finding off shore structure on the big lakes is the biggest game changer.
Hopefully Gus can make a good showing the rest of the season to raise his trade value.
Try to trade him for a young right shot forward or dman.
they wouldn’t have had to trade kk to bottom out.
If you could ask Bill Guerin one question today, what would it be?
Why didn’t you use the 2 years of cap he’ll to bottom out for draft picks?
Imagine if that buddy had an old contract that gave him that land it’d be a different story.
Oh that’s right, there is an old one, and that’s why we’re here.
I’m not for it but I’m just saying there’s precedent, any other comparisons are off base imo
Not sure what contract you are referring to.
Where in any of the treaties does it say anything about land?
Speaking of court, maybe the taxpayers should file suit against the legislature for incompetence & dereliction of duty.
If i’m not mistaken they take some sort of oath to protect the citizens and taxpayers of Minnesota.
I’m not sure if the State is the same as most cities, but I know many cities need to hold open public offerings for situations like this.
Is there some type of law that they are breaking?
I wonder if I could get my state reps to right up a bill to give me that parcel for free?
The only place they should ban ffs is in high school fishing, and only because not everyone fishing in high school has it.
Another bill brought forward by metro area legislators from the metro area that has nothing to do with their districts.
So now the tribes don’t need to buy the land, we’ll just give it to them.
I guess the DNR couldn’t come up with a better use for the land, like say a new boat access.
And I guess the state has enough money that they wouldn’t want to put it up for public auction.
Yes I am, they finished 2nd in the league in 2015 16.
Followed it up with a 24th place finish for one year.
Yes they got a little luck but they also got top 10 picks.
And that 1 year set their core.
Take a look at how Colorado got Makar, very similar.
I’m not talking about doing a Chicago tank, I’m talking about taking advantage of a bad year.
Unfortunately the time to play that strategy was 15 games ago, when it was pretty clear the playoffs were going to be a giant struggle.
Too late now.
https://records.nhl.com/franchises/dallas-stars/season-by-season-record
For those who think you need to be bad for many years in a row, this is how Dallas did it, one bad year.
Flower has been the better goalie down the stretch for sure, but the last 3 he gave up yesterday were brutal….
The score would have been 3-0 after the first period if weren’t for Fleury.
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The Wild could have tanked for just this year when it became clear that they were not a playoff team at the halfway point.
The injuries and cap have crippled the Wild this year.
They could have spent more time cycling players up from Iowa, sending players that need surgery, playing 4 lines more evenly, trading away dead weight.
Take a look at Dallas, how do you think they got Robertson, they had a bad year.They got Robertson because they have good scouts… He was a 2nd rounder.
Dallas has been drafting gems for the past 4-5 years, I believe their highest pick was Hieskanan at #3 (Cale Maker went the next pick)
The Wild missed out on that great draft class by Fletcher trading away our 1st & 2nd round picks for trade deadline pickups Martin Hanzel and Chris Stewart… makes you want to cry, but you can understand WHY he made the trades, but his player choices were terrible…
Yea, my bad, they took Robertson with the 8th pick in the 2nd round..
In the first round they took Miro Heiskanen #3 overall and Jake Oettinger at #26.
So yea having a bad year will never help your draft success.
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They could have spent more time cycling players up from Iowa, sending players that need surgery, playing 4 lines more evenly, trading away dead weight.Cycling players up from Iowa: have you seen the 4th line?
Players getting surgery: where’s the captain?
playing 4 lines: coaches don’t tank
trading dead weight: They’ve traded 4 roster players for picks/prospectsAgain, what more could they do?
Hold players out who have those minor injuries, bring up guys like Walker, play Hunt, pretty much give everyone a tryout.
The difference between where they are now, just missing the playoffs and drafting #16, and drafting top 6 is really only about 10 losses.
The idea that the Wild are not a playoff team is a hard one to swallow, but they are not a playoff team.
It’s time to except the reality.
The Wild could have tanked for just this year when it became clear that they were not a playoff team at the halfway point.
The injuries and cap have crippled the Wild this year.
They could have spent more time cycling players up from Iowa, sending players that need surgery, playing 4 lines more evenly, trading away dead weight.
Take a look at Dallas, how do you think they got Robertson, they had a bad year.
You can’t honestly say you’d rather see your team tank and finish at or near the bottom of the league for years on end, would you? I’m not really sure where that strategy ever came from because even though it “can” work (Penguins, Blackhawks), most of the time it fails. Then you end up with a crappy team for a decade followed by an over rated team with over paid players.
The NHL has pretty good parity. Lower seeded teams beat higher seeded ones all the time in the playoffs. The Wild just haven’t been able to do that. Simply making the playoffs every season for a long period of time is an indication of long term consistency.
Put me in the camp of being competitive on a consistent basis over being terrible for a decade with the remote chance of improving.
If you look back at all of the top teams in the league 80% were bad enough to have the number 1 overall pick in the last 6 years.
Yes tanking can work.
The Wild are too small. When a bigger man of equal talent goes up against a smaller man, the big man wins.
You don’t draft talented big men with the 14th pick , you get talented smaller men. The smaller players need to be far more talented.
All this talk of the red lake band needing money is forgetting 1 thing.
Right now they are the largest seller of legal Marijuana in the state.
They have their income source figured out.
The State and the tribes had agreed to a reasonable allotment for the tribes but PERM sued in Federal court. Ultimately the case went to the US Supreme Court and they ruled the 1837 treaty was in effect and the bands had exclusive fishing rights to the lake. The bands have total control and whatever fishing we are allowed to do is due to their choice. We may not like it. But there is really nothing the DNR can do.
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I don’t think you read the court opinion correctly. As I read it the court didn’t declare that the bands have “EXCLUSIVE rights” to the lake
They declared that the bands can hunt, fish and gather completely outside of State regulation.
Meaning the bands could do whatever they wanted.
Then they came up with this comanagement feasco.
It’s also time to start sending Marat and Rossi out for the PK
There is no way they truly believe the info they are providing us. It’s time for them to admit the DNR doesn’t agree with the tribes and if the tribes won’t cooperate take it to mediation.
I think the only problem with this is the DNR is run by the commissioner, who is appointed by a Governor who is bought and paid for by the tribes and the teacher’s union.
I would still like to hear the DNR explain how there could be as much fish taken this winter, when there was hardly anyone fishing.
The Red Door never put a fish house on the lake. Terry’s boat harbor didn’t even have a road.
The only area that had any where near normal conditions was Isle bay.
Their lake assessment doesn’t add up.
If there are not enough baitfish to feed the gamefish shouldn’t we be reducing the number of baitfish, not trying to maintain the number of gamefish?
