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  1. Silly would be ignoring that the club just executed its biggest buyout in franchise history, topping Keith Ballard’s buyout by 4 more years in length and 11.5 mill above what that cost. Club went from being over cap (not including LTIR candidates) to having flexibility and mgmt is still expecting to trade out of a position of wealth. That is exactly “major surgery”. Playoffs just ended and now every team is finally open for business. I’m well aware of recent happenings across the league and imho, any Nux armchair GM impatient enough to claim that major surgery isn’t already underway is talking out of their ass.
  2. You do realize the playoffs just ended and offseason’s just beginning? We also just created some real flexibility and are obviously about to make major adjustments. Do you expect major surgery while the playoffs are underway? Projecting/speculating next season’s “outcomes” based on the current roster of this club is an unfair and premature critique, imho
  3. Calm down, haha. FFS we just bought out OEL. Mgmt isn’t doing anything? Smoke a doob and enjoy the anxiety, hah
  4. Anybody willing to do this? Not sure MTL does though. MTL trades: 5th overall Radek Dvorak Arber Xhekaj VAN trades: 11th overall 2024 1st round pick 2025 2nd round pick Connor Garland Jack Rathbone On our end is it overpayment to move up 6 spots? MTL ditches Dvorak’s contract now that he’s a 4th line C. We get an ideal RD in Wifi whom MTL would obviously be reluctant to give up. But, It addresses need and gets us into another potential franchise C drafting territory. Or, we turn around and trade that #5 tomorrow.
  5. Totally agree, just familiar territory for them. Reality though is this is what you get with coaches like Sutter or Torts. Their style is confining and polarizing. if I was a Lames fan I would be despondent over the entire scale of the (for lack of a better word) meltdown. It’s a colossal amount of carnage in only two years time. Scary thing is that it seems to only be endemic in Canadian markets. That worries me. Gravy Batman needs to address this asap in terms of parity for CDN dollar/legislation and any other transitions in the foreseeable future.
  6. He at least has earned more reps, imho. Pretty consistent/defensively sound. Proved he is best suited to be groomed further as a defensive defenseman who can be counted on for solid PK work at very least. He’s mobile. He just needs more time and proved that thus far he shouldn’t yet be paired for in a two way capacity. He’s smallish for it, but I think he could parlay a career as a solid #6 on most teams if given more time to refine his NHL skill set/game. Adam Foote could potentially mold part of Burroughs’ game quite well I would think. Maybe I’m just hopeful, but those kind of guys that give you heart and soul and a consistent level of compete, all for pretty damn cheap, that becomes solid depth come playoffs. I’d keep him but would try to force a 2-way deal for 1 year at a marginal increase and see if he bites. If he agreed, depending on changes this offseason, I’d roster him as a 7th D that Tocchet can rotate in as and when needed, and see how he responds. Sure it will likely involve a few new faces to integrate with, but he will already have the benefit of previously been coached under this regime. I think it’s in his best interest to sign with us because Tocchet likes his prototype of character. That could garner him more trust and if he can capitalize on that he will have cut a line into a permanent NHL career player. It’s mutually beneficial he plays for the home team.
  7. That ride you mention I think is called the mouse trap…ironically we may be setting our own trap for ourselves if we dole out too much cheese to UFAs. Need to maintain cap space for other potential roster adjustments/opportunities. I like Soucy’s game for us, but if we’re gonna spend 3+ on a UFA Dman, Graves is a better option considering he can play anywhere amongst the 3 D lines if absolutely required to. Soucy is not capable of that. I have a feeling Soucy might get into the 3.5+ range because of his physicality. We’ll see. At very least we should try to find guys who can play up comfortably and with previous experience if/when need be, but form a balanced pairing with anyone they slot in with. We’ve had too many Dmen of the same ilk playing alongside each other and not building chemistry because one can’t offset the other’s faults. Graves, to me, is a solid option that way. Just expensive, and sometimes prone to Myers-like gaffes. That’s one thing to be aware of for any Nux fan. I’d obviously like us to consider adding to our depleted D, but also leave a line in the water in case we can move a Boeser/Garland even for perhaps an overpriced 3C for the short term that might also include some value in that trade package. Not that I condone it but could see a Garland to MTL for Dvorak type deal. Dvorak has two years left on his contract at 4.45. Whatever the case, sure hope we don’t spend to cap too early. There will be some favourable deals to be had this offseason.
  8. Luke Fox apparently has cred through Sportsnet: https://www.sportsnet.ca/author/luke-fox/ May be just clickbait. Regardless, posting for discussion/thoughts on what CDC thinks might be acceptable terms IF we were to take a flyer on the guy.
  9. Never a big fan of his, but him alone on even a decent PP can make the difference between playoff hopeful and contender. Dude can still play, even if it’s only in 1 dimension. That contract is atrocious though. Be interesting to see what it costs SJS in retention.
  10. He doesn’t have to prove anything. He was bought out because his previous salary wasnt commensurate with his output, but his current output when healthy is within the range of a 3.5 mill Dman, provided he’s tasked with less TOI than he was here. People making him out to be such dead weight are reaching. He’s still a very sound positioning 2 way Dman with decent speed and a good eye and shot on the PP. The question is can he continue to tolerate wear and tear. I’d add him at 3 - 3.5 simply to hedge a bet that he’s also an LTIR candidate which could prove very beneficial if required to parlay into legal cap circumvention.
  11. Guess we’ll see. I think another GM will still try to mine him for value and might just get it depending on the existing makeup of their D corps. Avs do have an O-minded back end which seems to really integrate seamlessly with their F corps. If Girard is moved for assets that don’t include a replacement D, they will also shed 5mill off their back end. OEL might have a few suitors and after a few other UFA are off the board, he may command more on term and dollar than some would expect, imho
  12. Not yet. but their current 3rd pairing LD is either Brad Hunt or Kurtis MacDermid. Landeskog LTIR saves them 7 mill. Maybe they won't spend as much on a player like OEL, but he could provide good insurance for a 2nd pairing if/when Byram goes down at any point.
  13. Could be a few one for one disgruntled player for disgruntled player deals too.
  14. While the Vancouver Canucks made the decision not to pay Oliver Ekman-Larsson to play for them moving forward, it seems other teams on the open market will be more than happy to add the 902-game veteran to their lineup. TSN’s Darren Dreger reports on Insider Trading that Ekman-Larsson’s next contract “could be one year or as many as four years” in term, and won’t come at a bargain-bin rate simply because Ekman-Larsson is already owed money from Vancouver. Dreger adds that Ekman-Larsson would like to sign with a contending team, and he could be eyeing a trip to the free agent market similar to Ryan Suter‘s in 2021, when Suter landed a four-year $3.65MM AAV deal from the Dallas Stars. if OEL lands a 4 year term at around 3.5 from someone, he will officially be the biggest pimp playing in the NHL.
  15. Until we have EP extended I wouldn’t laugh at the Lames too much. Definitely a lot, but not too much
  16. Chris Johnston of NorthStar Bets is reportingthat the NHL and NHLPA will not be negotiating a higher increase to the 2023-24 NHL salary cap meaning that it appears the cap will be set at $83.5MM. The $1MM increase will be a disappointment to a lot of teams that are pressed up against the cap, while teams with ample room under it will have an opportunity to weaponize their space and acquire assets for bad contracts. Two weeks ago, Joe Smith of The Athletic laid out the case for a larger cap increase this offseason but it appears the NHL and the players association have opted for one more season with a modest increase. The players are expected to pay off the debt they incurred from the 2020-21 and with that there are a lot of people in the hockey community who believe that the cap could increase by more than $4MM for the 2024-25 season, which would be an absolute boon for players hitting free agency 12 months from now.
  17. Don’t forget we may have Pearson back this season, even possibly ready for camp.That’s 3.25 against the cap, unless he’s traded. any way you slice it the OEL buyout was a necessary evil.
  18. Seems fitting, they told King what to do back when so might as well continue the trend
  19. It doesn’t appear defenseman Oliver Ekman-Larsson will be without a home for long. After getting bought out by the Vancouver Canucks last week, Ekman-Larsson’s agent, Kevin Epp, tell’s CHEK’s Rick Dhaliwal that upwards of 10 teams have shown interest in bringing him on, including some contending teams. One team that immediately jumps out as a natural fit for a veteran defenseman on a cheap deal needing some reduced minutes to be successful is the Tampa Bay Lightning. He’d sit on the third pairing behind Victor Hedmanand Mikhail Sergachev on their depth chart, and Ekman-Larsson’s situation isn’t all too dissimilar to that of Kevin Shattenkirk a few seasons ago.
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