Article: Can A Healthy Wild Team Get More Out Of Vladimir Tarasenko?

[Luke Sims]

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[OldDutchChip]

what's next....i think we should waive him. hope that someone takes yet another chance on him. worst case, Leo pays for him in Iowa (if Vlady decides to stick around and not return to sunny Florida) and we free up 5MM. But also send Jiri with him so that neither is too lonely. Either to Iowa or Florida. 

[Pewterschmidt]

How many fucking PAT’s is Guerin going to KLANK of the upright before Leo has had enough?

[Dean]

On Judds pod cast Jesse was saying she knows Billy is out kicking tires on a couple players.  Not the superstars she hoped for but something to shake up team.  Then I read something about  Kyrou.  What stupid crap is Billy and his clueless pro scouts up to.  Especially after getting fleeced on jiricek and wasting cap money and roster space for vlad. Hes worthless in the top six and even more worthless in the bottom six. Our pro scouts should be fired. I get making a mistake once in awhile because you’re making educated swings at improving your team. However we’re not making educated decisions, rather ego driven ones. Vlad needs to go but he won’t due to Billy’s ego. 
   Thinking about what the heck the wild could do to salvage this wasted extortionist  upcoming decade  is to get a # 1 center quickly. To get the most out of kk before he goes the vlad direction. We don’t  have the value in players or prospects to trade for one. So we need one internally. Rossi is what he is a doesn’t have much ceiling left. He’ll get a little better but not #1c better. 
   I think Yurov is the best hope for that #1 and it should start now! You can see he has a lot more upside. You drafted him in 1st round so he better have some offensive touch. He’s already shown he’s a sponge. Growing game by game. Not year by year or never growing like Rossi and lambos.  He’s got the body length and should fill out with man strength. He can skate, has hockey I Q and shows more tenacity than pro Rossi. The kid just seems to want to get better and does. So kk should put his big boy pants on and mentor the kid by having him center top line. Quit playing games with zuc. And develop the kid into the center kk needs. Rossi is not the future center for kk. Yurov might and has more tools than Rossi. It’s time to make him 1 and force kk and zucc to mentor like Crosby. Tyler T, Jamie Ben, etc do. Give the kid a good runway to become #1. It’s better than pissing  away more assets on crap the pro scouts come up with. If it doesn’t work oh well you tried and get a good draft pick. If it does your set for a decade.  

[Citizen Strife]

It just seems that Tarasenko has one thing he is good at, on a team that needs players to do most of their own work most of the time.  Lesson learned; just make sure he isn't re-signed.

[Pewterschmidt]

17 minutes ago, Citizen Strife said:

Lesson learned; just make sure he isn't re-signed.

Guerin: “say no more…”

gives Vlad a 3X$5M with full no move thru life of contract

Edited 5 hours ago by Pewterschmidt

[Sam]

3 hours ago, Pewterschmidt said:

How many fucking PAT’s is Guerin going to KLANK of the upright before Leo has had enough?

It’s more of a double-doink.

[1Brotherbill]

5 million a year is actually 4.75 million but close enough.  Problem is he has a 8 team NTC which is fine.  I doubt anyone would want him unless they wanted the expiring contract and I doubt those teams are on the 8 team list.  

He is basically who NOJO was last year.  Someone who takes up a roster spot and is a black hole on the ice.  

The team has issues.  Top half of the lineup is decent enough to win a Cup.  Bottom half is decent enough to win the 1st overall pick.  One or two injuries on either half of the lineup will tip the scales.   I personally I hope it tips to the 1st overall pick side.  Others want to give it a good college try and get bounced in the playoffs....Again. 

 

[Burnt Toast]

2 hours ago, 1Brotherbill said:

The team has issues.

I guess that’s why the Owner and Management group said they have a Five Year Plan. The problem I have is that I have no idea what year we’re in. Is there time to develop players? I mean something must be going wrong with the plan for the team to look this bad the first year out of the buyouts. I don’t want to go full Doomerang but it appears we have the same problems every year buyouts or not. I will say getting Wally playing time is this year’s bright spot for me. Developing Yurov as Dean said makes a lot of sense as well. 

[Rohn]

I suppose Vlad has a one-way contract, so we can't send him down.  We can afford to eat his salary and sit him up in the booth.  Then bring in anyone from Iowa.  They may not score either, but they'll surely do it at higher velocity.  This is ice hockey, sure.  But it shouldn't be glacial.

[1Brotherbill]

35 minutes ago, Burnt Toast said:

I guess that’s why the Owner and Management group said they have a Five Year Plan. The problem I have is that I have no idea what year we’re in. Is there time to develop players? I mean something must be going wrong with the plan for the team to look this bad the first year out of the buyouts. I don’t want to go full Doomerang but it appears we have the same problems every year buyouts or not. I will say getting Wally playing time is this year’s bright spot for me. Developing Yurov as Dean said makes a lot of sense as well. 

The Organization wants to make the playoffs.  The fans want a Cup.  Organization thinks making the playoffs means they have a shot at the cup.  Fans know just making the playoffs means they have no shot at the cup.  Fans want the young players to be developed by getting experience at the NHL level. Organization knows playing younger players means they might not make the playoffs.

The round and round BS is getting old and it won't change unless something from the top down changes.