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  1. He has genuinely earned all the criticism. Our team has been terrible for a long time…. Excuses about a thin prospect pool run out after about 4 years into a tenure, not a (new) 9 year plan. After last offseason being a debacle, that was his last life for me. Now he has to prove any moves by wins and losses on the ice before I will give him much credit.
  2. No… I was just hoping that they didn’t move a D the other way in the upgrade deal, leaving Myers as fodder for a follow up move to us.
  3. …or some folks actually understand that our roster is bad enough that we need to add difference makers? Tinkering around the bottom of the roster is fine and always needs to be done. Not exactly very aggressive or likely to move the needle on wins and losses. We are still in wait and see mode to see if we end up better or worse from last season’s roster.
  4. Wow good move by both teams. Philly gets their defence upgrade. I was hoping that Myers or Hagg were going to shake out as targets for us pre-expansion.
  5. I genuinely have no idea who Dickinson is. Google makes it seem like an OK deal. Not sure he is a huge upgrade on a guy like Boyd… but maybe worth a shot. You have to factor in the possible loss of Lind vs. Gadjovich in the mix A 3rd round pick isn’t too big a price to be paid for an every day bottom end player.
  6. Well Klingbeeg for Roussel and a (not 1st round) pick would be an awesome deal. Roussel back to Dallas where he had success could be attractive .
  7. My expectations bar is fairly low, so mixed fear and excitement waiting to hear what this is.
  8. As much as the chatter has been about forwards it would be great to have a D in place. We are currently in a bad negotiating spot with other teams and free agents as we have half our defence to sign… and can’t go into the season without serious adds. Puts them on the drivers seat .
  9. Last minute probably means a small deal like the Appleton one.
  10. Maybe his “aggressive offseason plans” are about his training regimen for how many dogs he can throw down at a time to prepare for his next career on the World Championship Eating contest circuit?
  11. No… trade freeze at noon Pacific. Protected lists to the league by 2pm
  12. Dare I say he might “run out of time”…? I can only assume if no moves it will be the generic “we didn’t like the prices” etc even though players would have moved for decent prices and we have a ton of holes to fill. We should be picking up a player or two pre-expansion fo leverage our extra protection slots, then be shopping on value deals for RFAs that aren’t qualified and veterans who are left on the market after the initial free agent frenzy.
  13. It seems like a deal which would have too many moving parts to be done last minute. We would have to sign a goalie for expansion, we would have to take equivalent salary back from them as they are in a cap crunch and there could be NTC issue to work out… Would be nice if true, but probably not the case.
  14. No idea… I don’t think we would have to pay more. He isn’t in division so it shouldn’t be much of an issue at all. I would expect a decent prospect that is exempt from expansion plus some decent pick.
  15. Well there is a pretty ideal target for us… we wouldn’t be alone chasing him though. our advantage is that we have an extra expansion slot to do it now.
  16. Well just a over an hour until the roster freeze… I hope Benning doesn’t run out of time for making a deal. There should be some sort of pre-expansion move made, we are in too good of a protection spot to not weaponize that. There aren’t many benefits to having a thin roster full of guys no one wants… today is one of the few days that will ever be an advantage.
  17. A magic sky wizard told me that we are trading Schmidt, Eriksson, and our 9OA for Reinhart and Ristolainen…. So your source can’t be accurate…
  18. Something along those lines but the qualifying offer rules have changed so they can’t play around with it that way. If Heiskenen is $8.45 for 8 years… that would make Hughes worth about a million less on the same term… if you scale that back to 2-3 year bridge, you “should” be looking at a sub $6 million number.
  19. I don’t really see any trade market for Schmidt before expansion at all. They would have to figure in the player they have to expose in expansion if they take him on. After expansion maybe…
  20. Absolutely! If the rumours are true that they would rather leave him exposed than take a return like that which requires eating a bit is salary… that is really bad news about the market and how no one wants to take cap even on decent players. It makes Schmidt’s value negligible as kind of a comparable mid tier level player like Domi. On the positive side, if things are still that tight we might be able to find really solid unqualified young RFA’s where teams are scared of the possible arb awards. Maybe being able to play a bigger role on a crappy team like ours would be attractive to those sorts of guys on a 1 year deal to bet on themselves inflating their next contract by getting lots of minutes.
  21. You can buy out Holtby after leaving him exposed if he isn’t picked up. There may even be a trade market (with little return except the cap space) for him once teams have lost back ups to Seattle. On the D trade front, whether it is the Philly guys or not… we should be picking up 1-2 D upgrades before the roster freeze even if it is a gentleman’s agreement to just store them for a few days on our protected list and trading them back after expansion… I don’t think there were any rules around stopping that. Would a team that wants to keep their #4 D be willing to give us a 2nd round pick to protect him and then turn around and get him back for a 7th round pick? I don’t know that our front office has that sort of creative thinking or the capacity to have that as a back up plan late if they can’t pull the trigger on a guy that we can keep.
  22. It could show how difficult moving money could be again. They probably only have offers that involve retaining or taking money back and don’t want to pull the trigger on that. Like we would have to move someone like Roussel the other way to make it work.
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