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How do you feel about Seth Helgeson?


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He seems no worse than Salvador, he's a better skater at this point, more fleet of foot for sure. He's nothing great right now, but to come up to the NHL and avoid being made to look stupid is a feat in and of itself.

If he can continue sufficiently filling the role that Salvador has been as the physical, stay at home, pk specialist kind of guy, he deserves that spot next year.

Especially so given that we have the most offensively skilled blueline we've had in many years with Green, Severson, Larsson, Merrill, Gelinas and possibly even Zidlicky coming back next year.

As cliche as it sounds, he does bring that physical element that our defense otherwise lacks.

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He seems no worse than Salvador, he's a better skater at this point, more fleet of foot for sure. He's nothing great right now, but to come up to the NHL and avoid being made to look stupid is a feat in and of itself.

If he can continue sufficiently filling the role that Salvador has been as the physical, stay at home, pk specialist kind of guy, he deserves that spot next year.

That's kind of how I feel. He hasn't done anything memorable, but that includes not doing anything mind numbingly stupid. I feel like he transitioned to NHL play without much of an adjustment period. I mean he's not a top 2 guy buy he seems a solid, serviceable NHLer.

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That's kind of how I feel. He hasn't done anything memorable, but that includes not doing anything mind numbingly stupid. I feel like he transitioned to NHL play without much of an adjustment period. I mean he's not a top 2 guy buy he seems a solid, serviceable NHLer.

I'd really like to see if he can continue to improve and take on some tougher minutes later in the season or next year. It'd be great to have that prototypical shutdown defenseman we haven't had since Salvador fell off the cliff.

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To be honest.... i see him as a replacement of Salvador... so here's how i feel

 

I feel like a mother who saw her daughter going out with an unemployed-no life-drug addict-abusive boyfriend for 4 years and wouldnt do anything about it no matter how bad he was for her.

 

Then she gets another polite boyfriend who simply works at McDonalds...

 

So basically i like him like a mother would love that McDonalds kid. 

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To be honest.... i see him as a replacement of Salvador... so here's how i feel

I feel like a mother who saw her daughter going out with an unemployed-no life-drug addict-abusive boyfriend for 4 years and wouldnt do anything about it no matter how bad he was for her.

Then she gets another polite boyfriend who simply works at McDonalds...

So basically i like him like a mother would love that McDonalds kid.

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To be honest.... i see him as a replacement of Salvador... so here's how i feel

 

I feel like a mother who saw her daughter going out with an unemployed-no life-drug addict-abusive boyfriend for 4 years and wouldnt do anything about it no matter how bad he was for her.

 

Then she gets another polite boyfriend who simply works at McDonalds...

 

So basically i like him like a mother would love that McDonalds kid.

 

:o

 

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:o

 

 

You know exactly what he's saying Neb. He's so disappointed with what Salvador's been that even though Helgeson's only a passable replacement level defenseman in the same kind of role, he's swooning over him. Granted he used PK level metaphor to describe it, but you understood exactly what he was saying and I defy you to say you didn't.

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To be honest.... i see him as a replacement of Salvador... so here's how i feel

 

I feel like a mother who saw her daughter going out with an unemployed-no life-drug addict-abusive boyfriend for 4 years and wouldnt do anything about it no matter how bad he was for her.

 

Then she gets another polite boyfriend who simply works at McDonalds...

 

So basically i like him like a mother would love that McDonalds kid. 

Except you know the abusive boyfriend is WAYYY better looking so it's only a matter of months before burger flipping Bob is on the outs.

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I'll be the dissenter here - I like his game okay, and he's willing to stand up for his teammates and all that, but he's a total nothing in the offensive end and only knows to chip the puck out at every opportunity.  He can be a 7th D, I guess, but it's hard for me to expect a ton of improvement out of a guy who is 24, and I don't think he's good enough at the things he's good at to make up for all the things he can't do.

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I'll be the dissenter here - I like his game okay, and he's willing to stand up for his teammates and all that, but he's a total nothing in the offensive end and only knows to chip the puck out at every opportunity.  He can be a 7th D, I guess, but it's hard for me to expect a ton of improvement out of a guy who is 24, and I don't think he's good enough at the things he's good at to make up for all the things he can't do.

 

Exactly. He's a number 7 and I'm fine with that. Every team needs ditch diggers too.

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You know exactly what he's saying Neb. He's so disappointed with what Salvador's been that even though Helgeson's only a passable replacement level defenseman in the same kind of role, he's swooning over him. Granted he used PK level metaphor to describe it, but you understood exactly what he was saying and I defy you to say you didn't.

 

Huh? This is kind of a weird reaction. Yeah, I get his point about Salvador. I was simply poking fun at his metaphor. Which I think he, even offered somewhat in jest.

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Huh? This is kind of a weird reaction. Yeah, I get his point about Salvador. I was simply poking fun at his metaphor. Which I think he, even offered somewhat in jest.

 

Sorry, I was more just snapping because it seems to me like a lot of people go after SD for no good reason. I apologize if that wasn't your intent.

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Sorry, I was more just snapping because it seems to me like a lot of people go after SD for no good reason. I apologize if that wasn't your intent.

 

I think SD is mostly liked around here. I was on a hiatus from posting here when he ticked off some posters apparently, so I can't speak to why people are upset at him but I am not.

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