siddious Posted August 28, 2021 Share Posted August 28, 2021 Still need talent down there. Outside of the defense, what offensive players do we have waiting in the wings? None because they’ve all gone directly to the nhl Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted August 28, 2021 Author Share Posted August 28, 2021 Hard to say who will be able option for Hartford until after camp, but I'd imagine names like Barron, Gauthier, and Pajuniemi are all options. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYR2711 Posted August 28, 2021 Share Posted August 28, 2021 Hard to say who will be able option for Hartford until after camp, but I'd imagine names like Barron, Gauthier, and Pajuniemi are all options. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro Wouldn’t Gauthier be required to go through waivers? I can see someone grabbing him if he does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted August 28, 2021 Author Share Posted August 28, 2021 Probably. I haven't looked. Lots of guys just like him go on waivers just before the season starts. It's a risk, but it's also Gauthier. It's not like they're waiving Kravtsov. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LindG1000 Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 The Tampa model is the gold standard - get your elite talent during your dry years and fill the gaps. That said - you can't divorce Tampa's model from the fact that they do two things very, very well that other teams just don't for whatever reason. 1 - Their AHL team is a talent nurturing machine and the Lightning have no aversion to using that team as an incubator for as long as necessary. Here's a short list of Crunch players since 2015 who have since made NHL impacts: Vladislav Namestnikov Jake Dotchin Yanni Gourde Jonathan Marchessault Anthony Cirelli Tye McGinn Daniel Walcott Slater Koekkoek Adam Erne Tony DeAngelo Luke Witkowski Connor Ingram Mitchell Stephens Erik Cernak Carter Verhaeghe Ross Colton Mathieu Joseph Cal Foote Alex Volkov Brett Howden Libor Hajek and still to come - Boris Katchouk, Alexander Barre-Boulet, Taylor Raddysh That is quite a talent pipeline for six years of work, even if some of those players are clear depth players. 2 - The Lightning are EXCEPTIONAL at scouting non-traditional talent in the mid-late rounds and beyond. Cirelli and Point were third rounders. Joseph and Colton were 4ths. Paquette, Dotchin, and Gusev were all late rounders in 2012. In 2011, they pulled Kucherov in the late 2nd and Palat in the 7th. Gourde was an undrafted NCAA add. They've got an infrastructure to nurture talent. That's what Yzerman is doing in Detroit and it's why poaching someone like Ryan Martin matters so much. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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