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  1. Both have their flaws. Committees take time. They don't work when quick decision making is required. Flip side is bad decisions are often caught. Not going to begin to pass judgement on Allvin and co. So far doing little actually was the correct move. But don't be surprised if a lot of action (pre-planned) occurs rapidly at points. JB was a fairly active GM - in the off season. Especially around free agents.
  2. If the idea is to pay to move OEL just to sign Miller that's like paying a bill by borrowing from the bank. There needs to be more to it. Ohlund was our number one D on his side for years and only had a couple somewhat decent offensive seasons WITH his power play time. I also think that the OEL/Myers unit insulated QHs the same way last year the Edler/Schmidt unit did, although QHs for sure was better as well. It's not capped a top four for nothing. OEL is also a bit of an insurance policy if QHs goes down. Not saying management should move either OEL or Myers, but they need to have a play in mind to follow it up - not just going after the next man available. Myers had his best year for us to date - selling high on him makes sense i suppose. But wow that's a pretty bad right side.
  3. And both Benn and Seguin too were better at a younger age...
  4. Well maybe not. But i'd let a blind person coach this team if that's what it takes. Blind with big bulging eyeballs. This could be a tactic too. As long as nobody gets hurt that is. Trotz or Bruce / good call. I only voted for Trotz because what he did in NYI was special - and feel both are more then capable. Don't lose an eye.
  5. Always go with Bruce. Unless you have another, younger, more Meme worthy option. In this case who's the badass cat? Not a Green cat at least.
  6. Toffoli was barely on the team. Horvat started out with the remnants of the last core which probably helped him become the player he is now. For sure he gets the business side too. Second contract almost done. He will stay if he wants too / go if he wants to as well. TO is going to need a C soon. OTT is also an up and coming team - feel that family (wife from personal experience) will make the biggest part of his decision in the end when it comes to mental stuff. He's had a ton of different teams over his lifetime - is a vet now - and won't make a decision based on what happened with any of these guys. I've bought into that dialogue a little trying to put myself into a 25-30 year olds shoes again and get it a little bit. Markstrom was always a stop gap between cores (know people think it should take 2-4 years to rebuild but nope not the case anymore) and Tanev was part of the core after the last core inbetween mostly as well. Horvat is now in Tanevs shoes almost but still a couple years off.
  7. I still wonder ... Ronning ... Lafayette ... as soon as we drew the Bruins i was like oh Sh!t. Wish the 94 team played the 2011 Bruins.
  8. Quenville was also extremely lucky with the teams he coached. Sure he made them better and had a pretty good mustache game - but both him and Babcock (another coach who lucked out coaching two of three good teams and petered out as soon as one wasn't so good - exactly how i predicted he would) .... Bruce at least is a aware of that fact and even made jokes about "Bruce there he goes" if he didn't come in and get his usual bump. Trotz to me coached inferior teams and got better results then Quenville did. As soon as CHI sucked (which is Toews and Kane's contracts fault as much as anything) his record slid. I'm wasn't enamoured with CHI then (watched a lot better teams win a cup) and still aren't now. That's without the scandal. Don't want him. Bruce is fine - Trotz - he'd be fine too.
  9. Trotz. Guys a freaking defensive tactician. I love Bruce and his big round head. But have to go with no neck all shoulders Trotz on this one. What he had to work with in NSH just wasn't enough and still did it (almost anyways - but did a way better job then the sum of their parts and made some really really good D's along the way)... What he managed in NYI was even more impressive. And of course he won a cup with a better lineup in WSH. Loyalty to Bruce is understandable though. Edit: BTW - Trotz came in the year Tavares was traded ... and took one of the worst defences in the entire league and made them one of the best ones. Something like a plus 50 plus differential change WITHOUT Tavares. Made Barzal a better player and really aside from him, they were nothing special. Whatever happened this year happens to all coaches eventually. Our D actually had more name presence now then theirs did back then. I'm a huge fan and pick Trotz. Nice thing too - that buy in means smaller cap hits because in that context it's usually just about points. Trotz.
  10. Certainly hope that's the case. That said i'm kind of tired of these legacy deals. Seems like GMs never learn. The few outliers that actually end up earning it i suppose makes them keep doing it (that and the fact it's virtually impossible to build a team without at least a few) The majority of the evidence points towards forwards 32 and younger and maybe 33/34 for defenseman is pretty overwhelming. NHLPA and NHL needs to butt heads again a little bit. And sort this stuff out. UFA deals are at least one year too long. I'd leave the RFA stuff alone.
  11. I'd do that. But make sure his sixth year is all normal dollars. Maybe even the last two. That way the owners at least aren't getting soaked if he falls off a cliff. 2/3 of 9. Bonus the first 4 years. Then at least there is some incentive. Edit: It's a fun topic but not sure he's going to earn that deal much past the first two years....weighing the oppurtunity costs against this sort of thing isn't easy. That of course includes what the young guys think if he's traded. Horvat to me is the most connected. I really liked the internal competition.
  12. JR would be much smarter going 5 years at 9.25 then 8.3 x 7. It fits our younger guys window. Feel IF we keep Miller, they could settle for 6. But it will be a buyout proof deal - all bonus laden, and the cap hit will be a little higher then that. Edit: The 8.3 x 7 deal would be no bonus money. Miller would have to risk losing 2/3 his salary due to a buyout the last two years. Might as well go for the 5 year deal - and make the same amount of money IF he decides to retire once it's done plus probably more due to investments. Not to mention if he's still able to play he'd get another year or two or maybe even three. Makes way more sense for the team to add a little to his cap and do a five year deal - then stretch it out. We don't need another anchor - especially after the Sedins, Burrows, Edler et all last deals. LE too lol.
  13. It's debatable that if it was a one for one trade that Forsberg himself was worth it. I'd say no but it was awfully close. For a 3 year period Lindros was pretty much unstoppable. As big as the biggest enforcers ever, aside from maybe two lol....Boogeyman and Bic Mac... and the same hands/skills the best of any era had more or less a little bit. Everyone remembers the Stevens hit. Maybe even the Kasper one too. But nobody talks about Lindros playing pinball against guys who were 6'2 or 6'3 and 220lbs ... he did it all the time. One of his hits was so violent the guy literally flew 20 feet into the boards (watch Lindros greatest hits lol....it's something else especially given the era he played in, almost all the D's were big dudes)....didn't dominate the same way he did in juniors but still was a special generational talent. Edit: Agreed ... that cost was a little too high. IF PHI kept even 2 of those good supporting players, they'd have won a cup. And no way COL wins their first one at least. Probably no way they win any really. Those picks and those players kept them neck and neck with Detroit in the West. Well shouldn't say no way. IF Lindros knew Quebec was moving to COL maybe he'd have sucked it up for a little while ... although maybe that also would have been enough for Quebec to also keep their franchise as well. They knew that marketing power was something they desperately needed with salary disclosure and US dollars (rising fast) a commonality in payment. Definitely a deal that impacted the league a ton. Not as much as Gretzky going to LA aside from that deal probably the next biggest. The entire 90's and early 2000's were affected by that deal. Would be like Crosby holding out.
  14. Yes me too (six years). Am hoping for five though, or a trade that makes sense.
  15. Buy low sell low? His value has already been paid in full just by drafting him. Wonder what Allvin would use with that cap space ... pretty sure we will find out for better or worse. He's only scored 11 goals less then Pearson has in 253 or so less games ... and unlike Pearson's time here most of them weren't empty netters.
  16. Yes i've been i've also mentioned that a couple times. Bergeron has said it himself a few times he's not sure what he's going to do after this season during the season and that retirement is on the table for sure. He's also said he might need the summer to figure things out. Thing about Boston that's been a constant - is guys don't often get massive pay days. That might discourage Miller.
  17. Well not saying it doesn't happen - but no agent should be or can be talking to another team about what salaries could look like unless he's a free agent - or at least been traded at the deadline and it's a sign and trade sort of thing. Wishful thinking.
  18. No worries. I'm not sure what's wrong with his face but otherwise would be happy to have him on our team Edit: I know what it is. He reminds me of Adrian Acuion. Couldn't stand him when he was first playing ... made all sorts of errors. In the end he had a heck of a career really - and set a record Quin won't ever break. Well almost nobody has ever really. Over 1000 games. Of the two Adrian's at least Plavsic didn't get much traction he was horrible. Aucion. Turned out to be pretty good.
  19. Bouchard is killing it so far for the Oilers ... aGENT...crickets? Edit...it's only 3 games and it is against LA lol...still ... he's a RHD and decent size, can run a PP and gets his 5 x 5 points ... and that cap hit ... not this off season ... but ... maybe next one?
  20. EK at 6.5 or so wouldn't be so terrible. But better then Burns ... like i said i'd rather trade Myers so SJ can get to their rebuild started - with EK at about the same salary. EKs not all that bad at the same came hit. Scored 10 goals in 50 games on a bad team ... plus minus is ugly though .. 35 points .. that's still around 60 and 15-17 goals in a full season. But agree both aren't ideal. But given our right side is a black hole ... would be a modest gamble...he's only 31 and has had a lot of time to recover from those terrible injured he incurred in Ottawa. Still i wouldn't go there either - but would rather trade Myers straight across for EK 40-50% retained then trade our 2023 first just to add Burns lol. Edit: OEL/QHs/EK is a legit top four no matter whom you add. And it fits our window.
  21. Still no thanks. Here's what i would consider. EK 40% retained - for Myers. That's about it. No extras. And even then not so sure. Brent and EK play the right side. EK isn't happy at all about going into a rebuild which SJ is going to need now. He's Swedish. So we've got that going for us. And watching him in OTT before Cooke stomped on his ankle was the closet thing i've seen to Paul Coffey play since .,, well Paul Coffey was playing. I'd take a chance on EK. Burns no thanks.
  22. Let's just hope we are never on that list :.. not that Jim Benning is around anymore but thank you lord if he was and we are on that list...i'd rather take EK at 50% retained in a heartbeat and he hasn't been the same since Matt Cooke severed his achilles' tendon with a foot stomp.
  23. Maybe i can be corrected - but my recollection it was Bruce who was asked the question (do you have any superstars etc) . His answer was no - but right after that said QHs was close - if not already there, and at the end also said EP has it in him as well. Also refers to Demko as a franchise goalie. We don't need to get caught up in the nomenclature - but by pure definition they (IF JR said it too) they are both correct. To be a super-star you need to be a perrenial all-star - as in first or second or very close to it, year in year out. We've only ever really had two, and only one made it to the HHOF.
  24. The time to blow it up would have been before we re-signed the country club - especially the Sedins, but probably including a couple others too. Instead MG rewarded the troops and kept going. Not before we had our fun.
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