#26 — Vanek! with a Jurco
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Re: Hopes, wishes and dreams for 16/17
From: (Anonymous)2) Dustin Brown has a rebound season where he at least does okay
3) Toffoli and Pearson get reasonable contracts
4) Gravel and maybe Mersch and Forbort get actual, legitimate shots at playing this year and that Sutter doesn't fall back into "let's blame the rookies for everything" mode
5) Brown or Gaborik get traded
6) Michael Latta decides to become best bros with someone who is not Drew Doughty
7) this one is kind of a longshot, but whatever - Anze Kopitar finishes top 10 in points
Re: Hopes, wishes and dreams for 16/17
From: (Anonymous)2) Dustin Brown has a rebound season where he at least does okay
He's been doing okay, already. His points per 60 has been almost bizarrely consistent over the last four years. Even this year when his goal-scoring went down, his assists were way up. The problem is that he's 6th/7th on the team and playing on the third line, but he's the second highest paid forward on the team. I'd love to see him be a legit top six forward again, though.
Regarding #4, I like Gravel better than Forbort. Maybe Forbort just needs to play a lot of games at the NHL level to get game up to par (it worked for McNabb, after all), but I don't see the point in trying to bring them both along when we only need one. (Well, I take that back. If — if they are planning to protect Martinez and expose McNabb, then I could see why we need both of them.) My big concern with how Sutter treats "rookies" is actually with Tanner Pearson's usage this season.
5) I hope one of them goes to the Vegas team, and not even to help our cap situation, but because I think a) Brown would be a great captain for the Vegas team and b) Gaborik would be a great mentor for the Vegas team's first draft pick. He always gets along well with the young guys whatever team he's on, and he's uniquely qualified to understand what it's like to be the rookie among a bunch of expansion rejects.
6) I've been wondering if he starts hanging out with Alec Martinez all the time in a shippy way would Martinez/Zatkoff & Wilson/Latta shippers be disappointed or just roll with it?
7) Kopitar for Art Ross!
Re: Hopes, wishes and dreams for 16/17
From: (Anonymous)That means you've got Zatkoff playing 17+ games in the regular season, and I'm not sure that's something you want, either.
Re: Hopes, wishes and dreams for 16/17
From: (Anonymous)Last year, he gave the Pens .917 save percentage. That's really all the Kings need too.
Re: Hopes, wishes and dreams for 16/17
From: (Anonymous)Re: Hopes, wishes and dreams for 16/17
From: (Anonymous)Re: Hopes, wishes and dreams for 16/17
From: (Anonymous)He and Toffoli were on the same junior team. And he and Pearson apparently teach kids together in the summer. I am optimistic for this outlook.