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2021 Trade Deadline and Roster Moves
Chaos43:
--- Quote from: alta on Tuesday April 13, 2021, 07:02:07 PM Eastern ---
If it were me, I'd get rid of Carlsons contract. He doesn't bring anything that can't easily be replaced defensively, and we've had guys fill in at PP1 QB that did just as well there to. Keeping Seigs would've been that answer, at least for a year or two until a couple guys in Hershey are ready.
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Carlson can't be replaced. I don't understand why you think he could be easily replaced.
Maybe you haven't been watching this team the past few weeks because our dcore has been brutal defensively. Carlson has been as good or better defensively than any of our other dmen. Chara and Dillon have been very bad. Schultz hasn't been very good either but you would expect that from him.
Carlson is better defensively than you give him credit for.
alta:
Carlson can be replaced, and for a lot less money
Chaos43:
--- Quote from: alta on Tuesday April 13, 2021, 09:26:32 PM Eastern ---Carlson can be replaced, and for a lot less money
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We could could get a guy for alot less money but there is no way in hell the guy is replacing Carlson. Like I said you aren't giving him enough credit.
BlackIce:
The traditional way that contending teams try to improve themselves for the playoffs is to acquire players who shore up the team's perceived weaknesses. Most of the deadline acquisitions have adhered to this model.
But there is another way to attempt playoff success. And that is to try to take a perceived strength and strengthen it even further, to try to create a tipping point where one aspect of your game becomes so unstoppable that you can bend games to your will with that one aspect, no matter how other aspects of the games play out.
I don't know if the Caps deliberately tried to follow this latter path, or if the Mantha acquisition simply fell into their laps, for both now and the future, partially because of Vrana's unhappiness. But the Caps' major weaknesses this season would seem to be (1) Defensive acumen; (2) lack of face-off prowess; and (3) no playoff experience in net. And the moves the Caps made addressed NONE of these. Instead, they have become tougher and more powerful on offense, which has been their calling card. Watching the highlights of the Philly game tonight, it looked as if the Philly team defense was repeatedly forced back to their net and out of position by the forward impetus of the Caps' attack. They simply couldn't handle the strength of the Caps.
It is going to be fascinating to watch how the Caps try to ride this strength and offset their team weaknesses throughout the playoffs.
alta:
I think the trades they made were forced by the Vrana situation. But Lavi seems happy with the D pairings despite what we see at times. His refusal to play Siegs and TVR show this. I'm ok with the goalie situation. This team gets plenty of pressure because of the expectations with OV on board, I don't think the playoffs will be much different in that respect.
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