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If he can get back to just being as good defensively as he was with us in his 1st season, hes gonna be PERFECT on a pair with hronek. Bear will be fine with hughes.
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I think in this draft they can honestly take BPA even if that’s a winger Adding Raty and watching him play in the limited minutes he got in Abby, he’s destined for the nhl. A top tier 3C is his floor but he’s got the offensive tools to be a great 2C. This year he will break out if he’s given a bigger role I believe. Aman is looking like our natural next 3C. Let him cook on the 4th line for a little while longer, and he needs to get better at faceoffs but he will be our 3C.
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exactly right i honestly dont know why people dont give alvin and the chipmunks more credit. They got a 40 goal scorer for free, signed him to a contract that a 25 goal scorer would ask for, and they managed to sell the absolute pico top on Horvat, convinced the world he was a 1C, and got a top-4 RHD + a top center prospect + a good 2nd line winger for him. theyre absolutely killing the game right now. they also didnt let anyone valuable walk to free agency, managed to get picks for schenn, motte, lazar, etc etc. tip top job to the hairless compadres.
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A very buyout friendly deal - we can buyout the last 2 years of his contract and only have a 1.7m cap hit. point per game is more in line with 9 million rather than 8 as well.
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Bo + 2nd for Hronek + Raty + Beauvillier + 4th was a great trade, even if Hronek ends up being a decent 2nd pair guy. From what i can tell, hes a high end 2nd pair guy/low end 1st pair guy. Management also addressed a huge positional weakness in our farm team by getting Raty. And to your point about college free agents- this management team has done an insane job of getting good players and quality prospects for free. Kuzmenko (40 goal scorer?!?!?!?!) + Bear (okay top 4 defenseman) + Hirose (looks legit) + Johansson (also looks legit) + Aman (our future 3C) and more Things were a lot more dire before JR/PA took over. People losing their minds over being up against the cap but we have so much cap falling off next year it doesnt even matter.
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Ship out Beauviller + Garland with 1m retained on each and get some draft picks in return. Beauvillier at 3 million will look good to a lot of teams, Garland at 3.9 looks good as well. After replacing them in the lineup with two ELC guys (Podkolzin and Hoglander) we're looking at 4.2m in cap space that opens up. Use the cap space to get a 3C that can kill penalties (BARBASHEV) Bring back MOTTE. Such a good penalty killer, a great 4th liner, and weirdly awesome in shootouts. #1 PK duo is now Barbashev-Motte. Mikheyev-Petey-Kuzmenko Boeser-Miller-Hoglander Podkolzin-Barbashev-Joshua Studnicka-Aman-Motte Hughes-Bear OEL-Hronek Wolanin-Myers Then next year, when Myers salary falls off, we see how OEL did. If he bounced back well enough to play on the 2nd pair, great. If not, buy him out at that point, and go after a defenseman more in the vein of Gavrikov. And use Myers savings to beef up the bottom-6 even more.
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im much more optimistic tbh minnesota is showing what you can do despite a disastrous cap situation. 12-14m of actual dead cap, and still iced a very good playoff team. This past year was not an accurate reflection of our team. It was skewed majorly by the absence of Demko, and the inability of any of our goaltenders to provide suitable backup services. Our team was/is also very top heavy, with a ton of firepower up front, lack of penalty killers, and a weak Defence. In terms of futures, we also had a major absence of good center prospects who could one day be a top-6 two way C. Bo + 2nd for Hronek + Raty (what the deal was essentially) goes a LONG way to addressing multiple issues. We still need a penalty killing 3C now, and a defensive-defenseman for our roster now, but add those two things and we'll be a playoff team next year.
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[discussion] cap clearing trade with Chicago?
eeeeergh replied to Ted Lasso's topic in Proposals and Armchair GM'ing
Yea I mean on balance salary cap is good, it levels the playing field about 80% nhl is broken because of silly loopholes (playoff LTIR manipulation) and because we have teams in markets that care so little about hockey that tanking is a viable strategy Arizona doesn’t deserve a team. And tbh with what they’ve done neither does Chicago. -
[discussion] cap clearing trade with Chicago?
eeeeergh replied to Ted Lasso's topic in Proposals and Armchair GM'ing
Supply/Demand - chicagos 40m of cap space is the most valuable commodity in the nhl theyll auction it off to the highest bidder - i.e. who can give them the most draft picks, and they'll want contracts that expire in 1yr in return -
[Proposal] Matthews walks to Anaheim via free agency
eeeeergh replied to Coconuts's topic in Proposals and Armchair GM'ing
I love that this proposal basically translates to: Proposal: Maxim screwage of Toronto I say my friend.. the best proposal i have seen on this board! -
[Signing] Canucks sign Akito Hirose
eeeeergh replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
Problem is those “cap floor” teams now possess the most valuable asset in the game: cap space. why would they use their cap space on Myers, when they could take worse cap dumps and also get back 1sts and 2nds? For example - cap floor team can choose between: myers for future considerations or Monohan AND a 1st for future considerations I’m taking Monahan -
Defenseman make the most sense to draft in the 3rd/4th rounds in large quantity because of the longer development curve investment in the development of defensemen plays a much larger role in their eventual nhl abilities, compared with forwards in my opinion. Partly because the skills themselves need more training and refinement to make the jump to the nhl, and partly because defenseman simply get more time to bake in a teams development system. 5x 3rd/4th picks this year. Take ALL defensemen. One will hit and far exceed draft position in a few years for sure.
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I mean it was an unusual situation caused by escrow debt/remaining effects of Covid and reduced nhl team revenue. if you don’t you literally won’t have any good players on your team over the age of 25. All will walk to other teams because the net difference they can earn will be 10 million dollars +++. It’s not feasible to avoid these contracts. what’s wrong with buyouts if they aren’t crippling? I don’t think any of us would bat an eye at the OEL contract right now if the cap hit was 1.5 million for a couple years. Seems silly to write off all buyouts as bad when they can be a very useful tool to help you structure your contracts to give players max $ (what they want) and yourself the ability to have max cap flexibility (what you want)
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We’re not gonna be crippled by miller look around the league you MUST lock up top players who are pending ufas to age 38 or so. Miller also outperforms and is underpaid compared to his most similar comparables. Millers contract is also very buyout friendly. we can buy out his 3 remaining seasons in 2027 and our annual cap hit will be 1.7m. Salary cap will be over 100m at that point, making it a cap hit equivalent to under 1.5 million in today dollars. not crippling at all.
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[Speculation] NY Rangers looking to shake things up
eeeeergh replied to Elias Pettersson's topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
At very least we owe it to ourselves to see what he can do with good coaching + fully healthy + a good partner he hasn’t had all 3 of those together since pretty early in his Arizona career Breaking down the stats is actually kinda interesting too. OEL-Myers pairing was brutal last year, but OEL with any other player was actually pretty good. Myers unfortunately was bad with everyone last year. I think it’s fair to suggest that Myers was the real problem on that pairing. one thing though is I’d like to see us get a better penalty killing defenseman for the third pairing. I really didn’t like OEL killing penalties -
[Speculation] NY Rangers looking to shake things up
eeeeergh replied to Elias Pettersson's topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
Give OEL a reliable defensive partner too, it’ll make a big difference i actually remember liking him with Bear -
Exactly right. People talk about Garlands junior offence as well, but QMJHL is a very high scoring league. Garland didn’t have anywhere near the tools Benson does, hence why Garland ended up in the 5th round
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[Rumour] Canucks getting calls on Conor Garland
eeeeergh replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
Yeah he wouldn’t have made the Hronek trade unless he had something lined up he would have forced Detroit to take back some cap -
Aman at 3C is a problem in my opinion. Unless he takes huge strides, he cant be relied on in that role. We need a 3C who also doubles as an elite penalty killer + faceoff specialist. Also - wheres Beauvillier? Karlsson doesnt make sense to me as a 4C, my understanding is he's been playing the wing in abbotsford. Bains and Raty are not NHL ready, and should not be our callups in the event of injury. Poolman was god awful when he played for us - offence died on his stick. Wolanin is good enough for a bottom pair NHL i think. One of Garland or Boeser basically has to be moved, its a virtual certainty. Unless they move Beauvillier which I doubt, given his chemistry with Petey. If they move Garland and buy out OEL they can ice a good team next year.
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Garland Trade Options (Discussion/Proposal)
eeeeergh replied to KKnight's topic in Proposals and Armchair GM'ing
doable if SJ actually wants to be better i suspect they wanna tank for 1 more year -
I mean.. that sort of implies that failing to make the playoffs was somehow the fault of these guys? Tampa did make the playoffs, and Point has been a playoff stud for them since 2017 The stat is also a bit misleading because most NHL players are 6 feet or taller. Tampa for example only has 3 players below 6 feet, 2 of which are Point and Kucherov who both are playoff dominant. If you surround your small skilled guy with some cheaper size, thats the move in my opinion. But it seems way too much value is put on players that are over 6'2 and 200lbs as 18 year olds
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Its true thats the big risk on him its one of the most fixable things though, and his puck handling, hockey iq, shot are all elite
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I really hope someone takes Dvorsky before us. Imagine squandering one of the most elite drafts in recent history to make a "safe" pick My opinion is smaller guys are the really mispriced commodity. The NHL is getting smaller, faster, more skilled. A guy like Benson is an elite talent who gets punished because hes short. Look at so many of the huge steals in recent history - DeBrincat, Caufield, Point, etc. all small guys with elite talent who got passed over because "muhhh small".
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[PROPOSAL] Conor Garland to Calgary Flames
eeeeergh replied to Elias Pettersson's topic in Proposals and Armchair GM'ing
Hate to say it but as good as Garland is i just dont see teams wanting him, even the ones with cap space At this moment, cap space is a valuable asset you can weaponize to acquire way more draft capital than at any point in nhl history so if youve got cap space, you use it to take real cap dumps and try to get the highest picks you can so if Calgary is gonna move Tanev out, they'll do it for a team that needs a year or two of strong defensive RHD performance, and keep the cap space. Then they weaponize the cap space to get another 1st rounder -
[PROPOSAL] Conor Garland to Calgary Flames
eeeeergh replied to Elias Pettersson's topic in Proposals and Armchair GM'ing
"If you see a saltine cracker on the ground DO NOT BEND OVER TO PICK IT UP, I REPEAT DO NOT PICK IT UP"