Board 8 > Board 8 NHL Playoffs Topic: 2 down, 2 to go

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Sooo tell me about this Derrick Pouliot guy... is he legit? He better be. I'mma miss Staal :(

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From: ExThaNemesis | #451

Sooo tell me about this Derrick Pouliot guy... is he legit? He better be. I'mma miss Staal :(

Brandon Sutter was the main piece in that deal. He's a great 3rd line centre and is still very young. Time will tell if Pouliot is any good, although it was a bit of a reach for the Pens to take him at #8.

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I'm happy with the Sens grabbing Ceci.

Overall, not the most exciting draft, though.

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Avs re-signed Duchene for 2 years, $7 million.

Leafs traded the rights to Gustavsson to the Jets for a conditional 7th rounder next year.

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Devils draft Ben Johnson in the 3rd round.
Devils draft Ben Thomson in the 4th round.

wtf confusing

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The Toronto Maple Leafs have traded defenceman Luke Schenn to the Philadelphia Flyers for forward James Van RiemsDyk.

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I always thought JVR had a lot of promise. Too bad his career is now on indefinite hiatus!

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very good trade by Toronto.

They have a pile of D and very few forwards worth anything.

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So this will be what, the THIRD very young and hyper-talented forward that Philly has traded away in the past two years?

I guess they assume Giroux can literally score ALL the goals.

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Philly has crazy depth at the forward position.

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They USED to. Now they have Giroux and Briere and what else exactly? Hartnell?

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Giroux
Briere
Hartnell
Simmonds
Voracek
Read
Couturier
Schenn
Talbot

That's a pretty solid top 9.

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It's not bad, but I'd say that everyone below Hartnell is still very much resting on "potential" rather than proven results. Except maybe Talbot, who is a solid second/third liner but we already know is never really going to be a superstar.

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I don't know if it's all potential, most of those guys had 40-50 points and around 20 goals last season.

http://www.nhl.com/ice/playerstats.htm?season=20112012&gameType=2&team=PHI&position=S&country=&status=&viewName=summary

Jagr might be in the mix too.

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