Location: Fuck Putin, fire Holland, AB Joined: 07.29.2013
Jul 3 @ 12:18 AM ET
Disagree. He's balanced the roster and changed the dynamic of the team to one much more suited to the Western Conference. I won't go into detail again as I've clearly laid out my stance a number of times this past week or so, but at the end of the day, this team needed to win and to do so we needed Dmen. If you can tell me what Chiarelli should've done to acquire a young top-4 Dman with the potential Larsson has, I'd love to hear it. Give me an alternative that you think would produce better results.
The fact of the matter is Shero said what I believe every other GM in the league was thinking whenever dealing with Chiarelli and that is, "(I)f it wasn't Hall, it wasn't going to happen". - MaximumBone
Agreed. Every other GM in the league knew what we need(ed), knew what our depth is/was, and were going to charge us extra to get that piece we wanted. Yes we overpaid for a should be sure thing. There is risk involved because if Larsson does not live up to his pedigree/potential then we got severely burned. If he lives up its a slight overpay but not by much. It was a glaring hole that needed to be filled. We have to hope it is filled. If so we are a better team for it. If not it has set us back.
Agreed. Every other GM in the league knew what we need(ed), knew what our depth is/was, and were going to charge us extra to get that piece we wanted. Yes we overpaid for a should be sure thing. There is risk involved because if Larsson does not live up to his pedigree/potential then we got severely burned. If he lives up its a slight overpay but not by much. It was a glaring hole that needed to be filled. We have to hope it is filled. If so we are a better team for it. If not it has set us back. - wreckage
Location: Fuck Putin, fire Holland, AB Joined: 07.29.2013
Jul 3 @ 12:54 AM ET
If there is a free positive out of this whole thing it's that Hallfan hasn't been around and possibly he sticks to the Devils blogs with his blog length comments.
If there is a free positive out of this whole thing it's that Hallfan hasn't been around and possibly he sticks to the Devils blogs with his blog length comments. - wreckage
Disagree. He's one of the best damn posters on this site.
Larsson is a really bad skater. After watching games of new jersey for the past 3 days, he reminds me of Reinhart, you can see he processes the game at a very high level he just doesn't get places in time. I watch him stand around an just control the front of the net while Andy Greene does all the work down low against speed. its pains me to to think this guy might be a a better version of Fayne. I love lucic signing but Pete is going to get fired by next summer for this trade.
One man's garbage is another man's treasure. Won't say a bad word about the others, but the long beating of dead horses from one certain poster has grown tiresome.
Larsson is a really bad skater. After watching games of new jersey for the past 3 days, he reminds me of Reinhart, you can see he processes the game at a very high level he just doesn't get places in time. I watch him stand around an just control the front of the net while Andy Greene does all the work down low against speed. its pains me to to think this guy might be a a better version of Fayne. I love lucic signing but Pete is going to get fired by next summer for this trade. - FiretheGM
Don't know what you're watching but Larsson is a really good skater