Nothing like the Ehrhoff trade. Ehrhoff was coming off an atrocious year and The Sharks wanted to get rid of him for being a give-away machine - their fans rejoiced at the trade. Ehrhoff turned his game around in Vancouver and turned into a great dman for us. Schmidt is a great dman already and we gave up pretty much nothing to acquire him.
Yea I don't get it... Vancouver was looking screwed and then Vegas just sent them a lifeline... It's like they don't even consider us a threat at all... and we weren't until they just shipped over Nate Schmidt, really.
Tampa will match that instantly I think if it's a 1st and 3rd they might consider letting him go or maybe they target Sergachev and offer him 5.5M... Tampa can not afford that.
You need a 2021 3rd pick if you offersheet someone over 4.36m. It leaves the possibility to send out a pretty big offer sheet to like Cernak which Tampa would not really be able to match.
Nothing is happening. The price to dump salaries was too high for Benning and this is the cost of it. You want to give up a 1st or 2nd rounder to keep Toffoli? I don't.
JB was pretty mum about Demko immediately after the playoffs and he said something like he was going to talk to Ian Clarke about the goaltending situation next year and then 3-4 days later after talking to Clarke he made it clear Demko was the future... To me that says that Ian Clarke made it clear that Demko was the goalie to go forward with. If Ian Clarke wanted Demko over Markstrom that tells you all you need to know.
He still has a lot of potential to turn his game around. I'd rather take a chance on Holtby finding his form again than have signed Markstrom to 6m+ for 5+ years.