drummer4now
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Why does it seem like this team has regressed this year? We have virtually no cap with key players leaving and hard/crippling money spent on the bottom 6.
Will we even make the playoffs this year?
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It might be a step back, but we'll also be only 1 yr from dumping all excess, toxic-sludge contracts.
Everything is up in the air(society & pro sport), so it's pretty early to be too concerned.
As for Jacob & CT, glad they could cash in with nice deals. Hope they play well, but not vs Van.
I'm pretty excited to see more of our youth shuffled into the deck.
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You know, Nate Schmidt could have a major impact on the back end. Not JT level maybe but enough of an impact that he really helps the team. And perhaps JB perhaps JB is making the right call letting a bunch of young players push for spots. The opportunity is there-maybe we see some of them seize it. Team might actually improve all around if goaltending can hold its own.
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ya if we kept markstrom wed lose demko to expansion going younger us key we upgraded tanev with schmidt and juolevi is bigger and has better outlet passes than a small stecher ever had. We couldnt get out of our zone in playoffs versus vegas time to let hoglander juolevi macewen rafferty
push the vets out. Sutter baertchi spooner edler benn pearson off books next yr im sure they will ask edler back on a 1-2 mill comtract frees up 20-21 mill for hughes pettersson contracts and hoglander and podzolkin will be on team as well our cup windows open next 5-10 yrs
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It is nice that players actually want come here unlike years past where we would have to overpay them. I hope we can land a decent FA.
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Elliotte Friedman stated the Canucks are frontrunners for OEL.. How do we afford him? and do we need him?
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We only really afford him if say say goodbye to substantial UFAs/RFAs. It makes sense that if we get OEL, we say goodbye to Tanev, so there's one, but we'd likely have to also consider holding off on others that need to be paid like Stecher, Gaudette, Leivo, Fantenberg, and Motte. Not all of those maybe and none of those are huge money, but added up, that could be $5M - $8M possibly. We already know Toffoli isn't staying (probably), but that was almost already a result of the existing cap issues. Virtanen would be possible if he was already qualified, which means we're stuck with him unless we trade him.
Aside from that, they would need to take on cap in return, which would make it a little easier.
Personally, I don't think it's worth it, even if they take a little bit of cap in return, but I'm willing to be wrong.
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