Article: The Zeev Buium Era Should Start This Season

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[Citizen Strife]

I was saying Boo-ium

[SkolWild73]

There is a good chance Denver will be eliminated by Sunday.  If they win their first round game, it is more than likely they will have to play Boston College.  Would give him time.

Edited Monday at 07:56 PM by SkolWild73

[Will D. Ness]

Zeev "Boo Yah" Buium

If he is anything close to the hype then he should beat out Jon "Big Dippin" Merrill easily.

 

[RedLake]

12 minutes ago, Will D. Ness said:

Zeev "Boo Yah" Buium

If he is anything close to the hype then he should beat out Jon "Big Dippin" Merrill easily.

 

I wouldn't be so sure Hynes loves marching Merril out. 

[IllicitFive]

41 minutes ago, RedLake said:

I wouldn't be so sure Hynes loves marching Merril out. 

Merril has been playing much better as of late, might not want to break up what's currently working for a trial run of unknown. If offense is lacking after 2 games, then why not toss him in and see if he sparks something. 

[mnfaninnc]

The problem I see is that 2 seasons ago Merrill couldn't keep up with the speed of the Stars. What makes anyone think that Merrill can keep up with our 1st round opponent?

Buium can. In fact, just to throw it out there, wouldn't a Buium-Jiricek 3rd pairing be an interesting storyline for the playoffs? It adds a ton of offense to that 3rd pairing.

[mnfaninnc]

If we burn a year of Buium on the ELC, and I wouldn't be surprised if Buium had performance incentives in his deal, would it be worth it for 7 games in the regular season? How about 2 games?

That's pretty much the difference between getting to the Frozen 4 or not. It appears that Brodin could use some more time off. Could Buium fill in for those 7 games while Brodin heals further, or, does Brodin not even heal and needs offseason surgery?

I think Jiricek needs to be called up too and play some of those last 7 games. To me, Bogo looks like he needs a little healing time, and let's see what he's also got. It would certainly be nice to have a spot wrapped up so that we can tinker like that.

[1Brotherbill]

59 minutes ago, mnfaninnc said:

The problem I see is that 2 seasons ago Merrill couldn't keep up with the speed of the Stars. What makes anyone think that Merrill can keep up with our 1st round opponent?

Buium can. In fact, just to throw it out there, wouldn't a Buium-Jiricek 3rd pairing be an interesting storyline for the playoffs? It adds a ton of offense to that 3rd pairing.

I wouldn't mind seeing this.  However, having two offensively minded defenseman who are young on a pairing might be a problem especially on the road.  I know if I was coach and I saw those two hop over the boards I would put my number one line out on the ice every time. 

[M_Nels]

14 hours ago, IllicitFive said:

Merril has been playing much better as of late, might not want to break up what's currently working for a trial run of unknown. If offense is lacking after 2 games, then why not toss him in and see if he sparks something. 

He's outplaying Chisholm for the 3rd pair LHD right now, Merrill has looked pretty dang good the last couple weeks. He's playing better than BOGO on his pairing right now too.

As much as I want to see Buium in action I don't think Merrill comes out unless he really regresses, if Jimmy goes down again I could definitely see him in over Chisholm though.

[Up North Guy]

3 hours ago, M_Nels said:

He's outplaying Chisholm for the 3rd pair LHD right now, Merrill has looked pretty dang good the last couple weeks. He's playing better than BOGO on his pairing right now too.

As much as I want to see Buium in action I don't think Merrill comes out unless he really regresses, if Jimmy goes down again I could definitely see him in over Chisholm though.

And on cue, Chisholm went out last night.

[RedLake]

Who is Crotty? Never heard of him. No Jiricek?  If I'm Jiricek I'm asking to be traded asap.

[FredJohnson]

22 hours ago, Citizen Strife said:

I was saying Boo-ium

(from The Simpson)

[mnfaninnc]

15 hours ago, 1Brotherbill said:

I wouldn't mind seeing this.  However, having two offensively minded defenseman who are young on a pairing might be a problem especially on the road.  I know if I was coach and I saw those two hop over the boards I would put my number one line out on the ice every time. 

Baptism by fire. I think both players, while they have an offensive reputation are actually pretty decent defensively. Sometimes, injuries have a way of determining the pairings. I think Buium is supposed to be everything that Faber is defensively plus more offensive upside. Jiricek did pretty well, I thought, in the defensive zone, his biggest issue is skating backwards. But, then again, I'd have no problem going with:

• Middleton-Faber
• Buium-Spurgeon
• Brodin-Jiricek 

In that order. But why put Brodin down that low? I'm anticipating he will be at less than 100% and capping his minutes might help him. This would be tough for Merrill and Bogosian who got us here, but, they are short term guys, and I'd be playing the long game. 

[mnfaninnc]

48 minutes ago, RedLake said:

Who is Crotty? Never heard of him. No Jiricek?  If I'm Jiricek I'm asking to be traded asap.

According to LaPanta last night, Jiricek got sent down for some work in the A after practicing here for a couple of weeks. He got banged up. Crotty is an RHS seasoned mainly A player who was signed to backup for injuries. He was playing top pair with Lambos when I saw Iowa in Charlotte. In preseason, he looked like a Bogosian type of defender who probably skates worse, but similar style. He was supposed to be the 1st callup of an RHS defender before the Jiricek trade.

[RedLake]

I knew Faber would jump right into the NHL, this Buuim kid is better than Faber and have a feeling Buuim will up his compete level on NHL ice in a week or two. 

[FredJohnson]

If the crowd is chanting “Zeev! Zeev! Zeev! Zeev!“ will the goaltender get offended? Maybe confused?