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Caps trade for Nick Jensen
« on: Friday February 22, 2019, 02:32:14 PM Eastern »
Caps acquire Nick Jensen from the Red Wings for Madison Bowey and 2nd round draft pick in 2020 draft. Jensen will be an UFA after this season.  He is a solid defensive defenseman and another good Minnesota kid.  Can’t have enough of those.  Also he is right handed shot which we need, I look for him to replace Djoos and maybe he will replace Kempy if he doesn’t quit taking stupid penalties. 
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Re: Caps trade for defenseman
« Reply #1 on: Friday February 22, 2019, 03:18:37 PM Eastern »
This is actually a grea move!  Jensen has turned into excellent all around Dman despite being known as a puck mover, and can eat a ton of minutes!


I can’t believe the Wings gave him up for that cheap

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Re: Caps trade for defenseman
« Reply #2 on: Friday February 22, 2019, 03:48:54 PM Eastern »
looks like a good move,

https://russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2019/02/22/capitals-acquire-nick-jensen-from-detroit-red-wings-for-madison-bowey/

"The 28-year-old Jensen is an unrestricted free agent on July 1 and in the final year of a two-year contract worth $1.625 million.
“Nick is a reliable modern-day defenseman who we feel can defend well and log valuable minutes for our club,” MacLellan said in a release. “At 28 years of age, we feel he is just entering his prime.”
this is assuming the Caps can sign him for a decent contract....




but part of me is hoping this isn't the only Dman they pick up
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Re: Caps trade for defenseman
« Reply #3 on: Friday February 22, 2019, 04:01:56 PM Eastern »
We'll see.  Who is sitting, though?  It'll probably be Djoos but I'd sit Orlov myself.  He's been dreadful in our own end for the most part.  Heck, I'd trade Orlov in the right deal.

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Re: Caps trade for defenseman
« Reply #4 on: Friday February 22, 2019, 04:15:54 PM Eastern »
Like the move.

So we've given up a 2nd, a 3rd, a 5th and a conditional 6th to get Hagelin who's PK skills, experience and speed can help shore up some defensive holes from our forwards, and we picked up what sounds to be a solid RHD - all with almost no cap space to work with and only losing Bowey, who was sitting anyway.
Our window is now - the core isn't getting any younger - and these deals don't mortgage the future but do address some immediate concerns.
Both Hagelin and Jensen are reportedly solid PK'ers.   Our 5v5 has been good this year.  Obviously our PK, in the bottom third of the league, needs attention, largely in part to so many dumbass penalities.
Beats the hell out the Erat-Forsberg trade, no?
Are we done?  What about Bura?  Is he sticking around?

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Re: Caps trade for defenseman
« Reply #5 on: Friday February 22, 2019, 04:21:08 PM Eastern »
From what I have been reading about Jensen this could be one of BMac’s best moves yet.  Apparently Toronto was interested in Jensen too so itis good we got him and not Toronto. 

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Re: Caps trade for defenseman
« Reply #6 on: Friday February 22, 2019, 04:22:51 PM Eastern »
From what I have been reading about Jensen this could be one of BMac’s best moves yet.  Apparently Toronto was interested in Jensen too so itis good we got him and not Toronto.
Just heard on NHL Sirius that Pittsburgh wanted Hagelin back but GMBM beat them to him - that deal just got even better.

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Re: Caps trade for defenseman
« Reply #7 on: Friday February 22, 2019, 05:01:17 PM Eastern »
Caps just signed Jensen to a 4 year, 10 million dollar extension.

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Re: Caps trade for defenseman
« Reply #8 on: Friday February 22, 2019, 05:11:16 PM Eastern »
We'll see.  Who is sitting, though?  It'll probably be Djoos but I'd sit Orlov myself.  He's been dreadful in our own end for the most part.  Heck, I'd trade Orlov in the right deal.
He’s a righty, so it’ll be interesting, to watch that happening that’s for sure.  Regardless he’s far better defensively than Carlson, and more consistent than Nisky so well see

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Re: Caps trade for Nick Jensen
« Reply #9 on: Friday February 22, 2019, 05:12:06 PM Eastern »
Yep...


https://russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2019/02/22/capitals-re-sign-nick-jensen-to-four-year-10-million-deal/#more-318671


I hope he's this good, but this also means this team is serious about improving the D corp
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Re: Caps trade for Nick Jensen
« Reply #10 on: Friday February 22, 2019, 05:22:42 PM Eastern »
There's this..


Jensen was not necessarily excited to leave Detroit when talking to reporters earlier in the week.
“This is the organization that drafted me, the team’s amazing, the staff is amazing, the fans are amazing,” Jensen said to The Detroit News after practice Thursday. “So, obviously, I love it here.”
He added, “They’re going to do what they need to do. At the same time, I have to do what I need to do, too.”


I guess doubling the paycheck wasn't all that upsetting
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Re: Caps trade for Nick Jensen
« Reply #11 on: Friday February 22, 2019, 06:12:05 PM Eastern »
This I like.

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Re: Caps trade for Nick Jensen
« Reply #12 on: Friday February 22, 2019, 07:27:13 PM Eastern »

OK - I was ready to trash the trade. Just another GMBM rental dman that would disappoint and we gave up Bowey, who I like and think he will develop into a top four guy in a couple years.  Then I heard how other teams wanted Jensen - remember how other teams wanted Shattypants and GMBM panicked into overpaying?


However, since they signed him to a 4 year deal that changes everything.  It went from being an expensive rental to a relatively cheap longer term deal.  Now he just needs to play well.

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Re: Caps trade for Nick Jensen
« Reply #13 on: Friday February 22, 2019, 07:41:40 PM Eastern »
Sounds like a decent play for the Caps.  $2.5 mil seams cheap for a guy in his "prime".  Surprised they got him to four year deal at that dollar figure.  Kind of puts him in a bad spot at age 32 with no contract....usually why guys at his age want longer deals.
AND if he is a bust or just doesn't fit....that contract could be moved pretty easily I think.
What did we give up besides Bowey?  (nevermind - 2nd round pick is a bit much, but okay)  We desperately need the D NOW.


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Re: Caps trade for Nick Jensen
« Reply #14 on: Friday February 22, 2019, 08:34:35 PM Eastern »
Honestly, really solid move. This plus the Hagelin move make me pretty excited to see how things go from here. Overall I've been pretty damn pleased with GMBM's work dating back to a few years ago. Say what you will about the players' performances/contracts, but I feel like Niskanen, Orpik, Oshie, Williams, Kempny, Eller were solid moves made by him. Even the Shattenkirk deal, even if it ended up sucking, I liked the fact that he had the balls to grab the most sought after trade deadline guy. BMac has also done some addition by subtraction, dumping guys like Laich and Brouwer, and also his move of getting Orpik, realizing the contract wasn't right, trading him to COL, and then picking him back up again at a much cheaper price. I give his overall management of the team's roster an A- so far, perhaps dropping down to a B+ if he keeps that loser Burakovsky for too long.

That said, I still have SERIOUS doubts about Reirden and still think he should have been fired a while ago. Reirden's been given a solid roster to work with, improved with the past couple of moves. It's his job to make the roster perform to the best of its ability, and he's utterly failed there. I mean, you see what is being accomplished with Trotz in Long Island this year, and last year in Vegas, and you wonder why we can't take a more talented roster and perform better than those teams. I mean yes I felt like our roster had some weaknesses here and there, but primarily my rage at the Capitals this season were due primarily to coaching. Even if certain players were being complete retards over and over again, I still blamed coaching for not addressing those issues. I still don't have any faith in TR.

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Re: Caps trade for Nick Jensen
« Reply #15 on: Friday February 22, 2019, 08:51:54 PM Eastern »
Zerofox, you do realize that after 61 games this season we have the identical number of points and record as we did last year.  I respectfully disagree with your assessment of Rierden, IMO he has done a good job so far this season.  That is not to say I agree with all his decisions, sometimes his line matchups have me scratching my head but I am not convinced that our record would be any better if Trotz was the coach. 

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Re: Caps trade for Nick Jensen
« Reply #16 on: Friday February 22, 2019, 09:28:44 PM Eastern »
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Sounds like he's not oo happy to be here though....... :-|
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Re: Caps trade for Nick Jensen
« Reply #17 on: Friday February 22, 2019, 09:30:22 PM Eastern »
OK - I was ready to trash the trade. Just another GMBM rental dman that would disappoint and we gave up Bowey, who I like and think he will develop into a top four guy in a couple years.  Then I heard how other teams wanted Jensen - remember how other teams wanted Shattypants and GMBM panicked into overpaying?


However, since they signed him to a 4 year deal that changes everything.  It went from being an expensive rental to a relatively cheap longer term deal.  Now he just needs to play well.




I suspect that a major reason for acquiring Jensen specifically is to take some of the burden off Carlson.  It gives the Caps a third legitimate NHL RHD (which apparently they didn't feel they had with Bowey at this point), and apparently a good PK defenseman to boot, so it would seem that his minutes are specifically designed to eat into some of Carlson's minutes.


For all the talk about sitting Burakovsky out and him being in the doghouse, Bowey was given the really dismissive treatment.  I don't know why it was that he was benched never to return (yeah he made mistakes; so have a lot of guys), but he got salted away and they didn't even attempt to showcase him in recent weeks.


The thing we still haven't tried to address is the face-off situation.   

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Re: Caps trade for Nick Jensen
« Reply #18 on: Friday February 22, 2019, 09:40:15 PM Eastern »
His name is Jensen.  What's not to like.    :wackysmile:
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Re: Caps trade for Nick Jensen
« Reply #19 on: Friday February 22, 2019, 09:44:35 PM Eastern »



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The thing we still haven't tried to address is the face-off situation.
 

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There is that.............
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