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  1. Generally if a player is taking less to stay with a team they want assurances that they’ll have control over where they’re playing. It’s a trade off. Pay market value or get a home town discount and give a NTC. Generally you can’t have your cake and eat it too
  2. Don’t hold your breath on a compliance buyout. The owners don’t want them.
  3. First off, 2-3 years is not a long term deal. Second, do you think asking him to take 33% less a year is a reasonable ask? Re-signing for the same dollar amount as his last contract is reasonable given the volatile environment. Asking to play for 2/3rds of what he was making when he’s only 30 is over the top
  4. Exactly. It’s not taking anything away from Boeser (or anyone else).
  5. I’ll amend my initial statement. Pace isn’t meaningless. It speaks to a players potential. But I stand by saying you’re not that player until you actually put up those numbers. Not just theoretically. And yeah. Boeser is great. I’m just not willing to call him a 70 point guy until he does it. Like it or not injuries play in. What happens if he never stays healthy in a season? You have to factor that in
  6. Of course not. Lindros clearly was scoring at a better pace. But who’s to say what his 82 point goal would be? Extrapolating a final number based on the 46 games he played won’t necessarily get you anywhere near the end total. Scorers are streaky. (Boeser is no exception). He could hit a cold streak, he could hit a hot streak. So like I said. You’re not a 30/70 guy until you actually do it. Even then there’s people who will discount it until you do it consistently. I wouldn’t call Domi a 70 point guy (even though he put up 72 last season).
  7. IMO pace is meaningless. Just because that’s the pace he was on doesn’t mean he would have hit those numbers. You’re not a 30 goal/70 point guy until you’ve actually done it. Until then you just have the potential to be that guy.
  8. Sure. But the penalty structure is exactly the same. Kovalchuk only played a few years under that contract, so the cap benefit was limited. Then it was stretched over the number of years remaining in the contract. In Luongo had retired a year or two into his contract Vancouvers cap penalty would be a lot less.
  9. NJ has had a recapture penalty for Kovalchuk on the books since 2013 and will have it until 2025. The only thing the league let up on was surrendering the draft pick.
  10. Recapture penalty isn’t actual money paid to anyone. It simply just reduces the amount of cap space. And there is a reason buyouts count against the cap. If you start disregarding massive payouts you may as well scrap the salary cap altogether.
  11. Top 4 D are worth way more than top 6 wingers. Buffalo doesn’t do that straight up, let alone them retaining. Zadina likely has a lot more trade value than that, but I doubt they have any interest in moving a 20 year old former 6th overall before they really get a chance to see what they have in him
  12. It’s not impossible. But to say he was on pace to have better numbers doesn’t really track. Regardless. The point is that I doubt Buffalo sees Demko as a big upgrade on Ullmark, if at all. That takes away a lot of value from the trade proposal
  13. How do you figure? Ullmark this season posted a 2.69 ga and .915 SV% in 34 games Demko this season 3.06 GA and .905 SV% in 27 games.
  14. I do t see Stetcher or Demko having much appeal for Buffalo. Stetcher is a bottom 4 RFA who may not even be qualified (al la Hutton last year) and there’s no reason to believe Demko will be substantialy better than Ulmark right now.
  15. It’s Nesterov that’s linked to LA. Not Tryamkin.
  16. It’s actually top 15 protected this season (if you factor in the condition that Vancouver keeps the pick if they miss the playoffs). If the pick slides to next season there is no protection on that pick.
  17. Ottawa has $41m committed to only 9 players for the 20/21 season. Assuming a cap floor of $61m, that’s $20m split between 14 more players. They aren’t going to have any issue hitting the cap floor. I don’t see this as an appealing trade to Ottawa in any way
  18. Hogberg and Demko have very similar stats (with Hogberg playing on a much worse team). I doubt they’d have much interest in taking on Ericksson for 2 years for a goalie or roughly the same caliber of what they already have
  19. You need to understand how the recapture penalty works. It’s not a randomly assigned amount. It’s the amount the team benefitted from the contract divided by the years remaining. Kovalchuk and Richards both only played a couple years under the back diving contracts so the cap benefit wasn’t that much. Then it was divided by a lot more years. Luongo posted most of his contract so the amount the Canucks benefitted was divided by only a few years. The same formula applied to all three contracts.
  20. I don’t see it happening. Time will tell. But if the cap doesn’t drop I can’t see owners handing blank cheque’s to GM’s who screwed the pooch and signed bad contracts.
  21. Do you honestly believe team owners, who are already taking massive losses, are going to willingly hand 3 blank cheques per team to GM’s to compound their losses? I’d be amazed if there’s even 1 buyout if the cap stays level. If it drops you may see one per team. But 3? Not a chance in hell
  22. It’s indicative within a roster. Like if everyone on the team is a plus except one player, who is a significant- player. That would tell you something. But to just randomly look at a players +\- without that kind of context the stat becomes practically meaningless
  23. Impossible question to answer right now since there’s been no indication from the league regarding what’s happening with the draft
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