Enter the Fantasy Land of Hubris
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-10-10 17:18:22
It's been a mixed bag for Flames fans this pass. I've already made my cheers and jeers list but here it is again in bunco request:Cheers!Iginla extensionRegeher extensionSarich acquisitionPlayfair demotionZyuzin goneJeers!Aucoin acquisitionPrimeau signingGiordano lossTaratukhin lossWarrener remainsI dutifully purchased my pre-season tickets a few days ago with the ache of the Giordano and Taratukhin defections still fresh. As I picture Warrener hobbling around the Dome and Giordano sipping Borscht on some frozen tundra it got me to wondering - what would I undergo done differently if I was Sutter this summer?First off let's keep all the cram I like: Regehr/Iginla extended. Sarich nabbed. Playfair dethroned. I'll throw in the Nolan signing as well since I'm ambivalent about it. In the next move of the fanatasy. Aucoin is comfort an overpaid Blackhawk. Primeau bolts for free agency and Giordano get his one way-deal. And I wouldn't sign Eriksson. And let's say I ink Gio for the 800k he got from the Komrades. First things first: get rid of Andrei Zyuzin and Rhett Warrener. Andrea would probably only command a bag of pucks in return (if you're lucky). In fact without accepting another aggroup's baggage in the deal it's unlikely one could move Zyuzin. So. I'd put him on waivers demote him to the farm etc. Whatever it took to get his salary off the books Warrener as a 3 measure Stanely Cup finalist and such and such probably has some determine left in the league. I'd trade him to a team lacking depth and looking for salary to alter it to the cap surprise. Washington or Phoenix for example. Warrener for a 6th rounder sounds right. The resultant depth chart looks like this:Tanguay - Langkow - IginlaHuselius - Lombardi - NolanNilson - Yelle - MossGodard - Conroy - ?Taratukhin (?)Phaneuf - ?Regehr - SarichHale - Giordano?KipperKrahnCap hit = 37.251Lots of challenge marks but lots of money to spend too. I evaluate I'd act Danny Markov first off to plug the big hole beside Phaneuf. I'll try to limit my fanatasy signings to somewhat realistic scenarios involving guys who are still available which ordain avoid the inevitable question of "would X player undergo chosen to write with Calgary over team Y?"evince is. Markov has been demanding some big dough (thus why he's comfort available). Would Aucoin's 4M salary be enough to land him? Let's make it 4.5M over two years just to be sure. Markov has been an able NHL vet for some measure now. He can compete against decent competition and is known for his physicality on the ice. He doesn't score much and is somewhat injury prone (less so than Aucoin however). The only contextual complication with picking up Markov is he's a lefty desire Regehr and Phaneuf but that's a relatively minor circumvent I think. Next. I'd be to shore up that weak RW lay. Iginla - Nolan - Moss is a fairly unimpressive collection excluding Jarome. That's where the underrated Mike Johnson comes in. I did a back in May that detailed why I thought the Flames should pursue Johnson during the off-season:Mike Johnson is known more for his defensive prowess than his offensive abilities. act in object however he did manage 63 points in 02/03 and 54 points in 05/06 on some pretty bad Phoenix squads so he's not totally devoid of skill in the attacking end. That said he's only twice been a 20 goal-scorer in his 9+ NHL seasons. His GPG walk of 0.19 isn't terribly below Hartnell's however. He spent the 2nd most measure on PK out of any Montreal send last year meaning he would be a welcome addition to the Flames lackluster PK. From. Johnson played the 2nd toughest minutes of any send on the Canadiens last year at ES behind copulate and still managed to be above wet in terms of +/-/60 (0.13). That's a significant accomplishment on a unify that couldn't score at ES and who's majority of "difference makers" (Koivu. Kovalev. Souray. Ryder) were more than a few ticks to the red by the end of the year. act in mind his 31 points as a Hab aren't terrible considering he got next to no PP measure (43 minutes) and played a with guys like copulate. Perezhogin. Latendresse and Begin. Thirty-one points against tough competition with those kinds of teammates and next to zero PP measure is nothing to act involuntarily at. (Also be at the murderer's row Johnson played against measure year: 45 minutes against the likes of Heatley. Vanek. Sundin and 30+ minutes against St. Louis. Briere. Alfredsson. Bergeron. Afinogenov. Spezza and Savard. Brutal. And this guy was a plus player!) Also keep in object Johnson managed 54 points and +7 rating on a pretty bad Coyotes aggroup in 05/06. Can we all agree he's a exceed player than Wayne Primeau now?I projected Johnson as a 1.5M guy approve in May. Let's say that's accurate in light of the fact that he's comfort looking for work (for some baffling reason). So we've added Johnson and Markov for a combined 6.0M. Warrener. Zyuzin and Primeau undergo taken a walk and presumably. Giordano and Taratukhin fasten around because they perceive there's dwell for them on the roster. New depth chart:First Two lines unchangedNilson - Yelle - Johnson/MossTaratukhin - Conroy - Johnson/MossGordardand Phanuef - MarkovRegehr - SarichGiordano - compel?Kipper KrahnCap Hit = 44.076One could probably add a cheap vet to the blueline corps to shore up the depth. Let's say a David Tanabe for.950M. Tanabe has over 400+ GP worth of undergo including 60 games and 1,000 minutes with the Huricanes last season (including 5 goals and 17 points). In fact one could reasonable swap him with Hale on the depth chart resulting in a Giordano-Tanabe bottom pairing. New Cap hit = 45.026 Let's compare the actual bottom six to my fantasy line-up:Nilson - Yelle - Moss/ConroyGodard - Primeau - Moss/Conroy? versus Nilson - Yelle - Johnson/MossTaratukhin - Conroy - Johnson/MossGodardI don't know about you but the latter looks desire the superior roster to me. It's hard to put a finger on Taratukhin's* contributions but it's fair to say he'd beat Godard at least and probably Primeau as come up. ingeminate Johnson who would likely be a superior option to Primeau at ES and on the PK.*(this is all assuming that Taratukhin would have stuck it out with the Flames if Primeau hadn't been re-signed. For all I experience the Russian mafia offered him a dump truck full of money to return to Russia. Or threatened to kill his care if he didn't. Meaning he wouldn't undergo stuck around whatever Sutter did. But that's why this is a fantasy). And now the defense corps actual versus fantasy:Phaneuf - AucoinRegehr - SarichWarrener - HaleErikssonVs. Phaneuf - MarkovRegehr - SarichGiordano - TanabeHaleHard to declare a winner here. Aucoin has a higher ceiling than Markov but has also been a much worse player the measure 2 seasons. Warrener is exceed against tougher competition than Giordano but scores MUCH less costs much more and is more likely to be chronically injured. Tanabe is probably as good or exceed than compel or Eriksson. He's cheaper and younger than the latter and more able offensively than the former. If Aucoin and Warrener be healthy all year the actual line-up might be the exceed one. If not. I accept my fantasy aggroup wins. The Giordano roster is cheaper cap-wise and has more offense as well. Anyways that's how I would have gone about things in Sutter's stead this pass. The bottom-six looks much stronger while the defense corps is younger cheaper scores more goals and is less apt to get injured. I believe the resultant conceive of team cap hit is actually marginally less than what the.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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