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UWSaint wrote: ↑Tue Dec 03, 2024 4:53 pm

Topper wrote: ↑Tue Dec 03, 2024 3:46 pm Back to Boudreau on Spittin' Chiclets when asked the biggest difference between AHL and NHL.

Speed. There are guys in the AHL who can skate ate NHL pace and there are guys in the AHL that can see the game at NHL pace. It is being able to do both.

My take on Hronek, the lower body injury has been nagging (why wasn't it looked after in the off season - something for Jeff Patterson to ask him) and the shoulder will take more time than anticipated so there is time to get both sorted out.

Great point by BB about seeing the game at that speed and that it is different skill than skating at the pace. Helps explain relative busts like Virtanen. You can be armed to the teeth but if you don’t recognize where the threat is in time, it is useless. It’s one of the harder things for scouts to project, I imagine. Higher or lower game IQ is noticeable at lower levels and while that likely correlates somewhat with game processing speed, I imagine every individual has a different limit.

As for Hronek, it makes all the sense in the world to take care of something nagging when you are out for other reasons. One reason you might not attend to it in the summer is that it could be something that could dissipate and it just didn’t. There are about 58 million other reasons one might want to downplay it in the summer.

Topper wrote: ↑Wed Dec 04, 2024 11:29 am I don't see Hronek listed as LTIR. Cap implications?

BoS wrote: ↑Wed Dec 04, 2024 5:27 pm If Allvin should acquire a player that would put the team over the cap, then Hronek would be placed on LTIR. But as it stands, the team is below the cap and can still bring up a replacement player (Friedman) and still be under. The more the team stays under the cap, the more cap can then be accrued.

Once Demko and Miller return in the next week or two, one goalie and one forward will then be sent to Abby to clear roster space, which will also lower the total cap hit of the team.

Topper wrote: ↑Wed Dec 04, 2024 3:25 pm I knew there was no reason for replacement purposes, but trying to understand the cap accrument implications of if he was on or off LTIR

BoS wrote: ↑Wed Dec 04, 2024 5:27 pm If Allvin should acquire a player that would put the team over the cap, then Hronek would be placed on LTIR.

BoS wrote: ↑Wed Dec 04, 2024 5:27 pm But as it stands, the team is below the cap and can still bring up a replacement player (Friedman) and still be under. The more the team stays under the cap, the more cap can then be accrued.

Once Demko and Miller return in the next week or two, one goalie and one forward will then be sent to Abby to clear roster space, which will also lower the total cap hit of the team.

theman wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2024 10:09 am Hronek now on LTIR

Letterkenny, Sasson and McWard all called up.

https://x.com/Canucks/status/1864723962523193495

Cousin Strawberry wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2024 10:21 am

theman wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2024 10:09 am Hronek now on LTIR

Letterkenny, Sasson and McWard all called up.

https://x.com/Canucks/status/1864723962523193495

They're rushing Lekkerimaki and are gonna fuck him up.

BoS wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2024 10:23 am Hah, well that interesting.

So Sass was sent down yesterday to accrue, but recalled today along with Lekk and McWard.

I wonder what the thought process is with this?