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  1. This is the off-season to really try to get better. We have a decent core and need to supplement them while they are still young and cheap. Get the best Quality players who will agree to come here. You are almost always better off going for the top guys rather than overplay for mediocre ones. Top end talent tends to stay top end, they also push other guys down the roster and make them better by facing lesser opposition and having more manageable minutes.
  2. I think a perfect enough fit to blow a late 2020 pick to get his negotiating rights early. Say a 7th round pick that turns into a 5th round pick if we manage to sign him prior to July 1.
  3. He is playing the best we could have hoped. a 2 year deal to be our 3rd pairing LD seems reasonable.
  4. Still not signed to a deal and reports are that the team isn’t willing to give him long term. Still a great fit for us I think. I wonder what the deal for him will look like $6.5 to 7.5 x5-6 years maybe?
  5. If this hadn’t been preceded by years of insanity, then maybe he could get credit. The truth is that he doesn’t want to spend money and every time it comes to pay his top players, he sells them off or fails to sign them. Players want to sign on a team trying to win. Melnuk wants to sign them to under market value while pocketing the difference and not putting it towards other good players. If any of his new young players turn into stars, they won’t be around long enough to have success.
  6. Player trying harder because he is on a new team headed for the playoffs. i reserve judgement until there is a big sample size. He already moved down in minutes as other guys have gotten healthy.
  7. I would rather sign Panarin and then make a trade for a young top 4 RD. 2020 draft picks (lottery protected) plus roster players like Virtanen should be on the table as having a guy ready to help us on the upswing is more important than a pick that would likely be a few years away. Maybe teams will look at the Gudbranson fit on the Penguins and think some of our other players will blossom if plucked off our team.
  8. That is basically the threat. It did sound like they are going to decide what to do with him at the end of the season and that it is coming to a head. Not only is he not effective, he has zero intensity. He has three hits in 70 games (it was 2 until the last couple games). It is literally almost impossible to avoid even accidentally running into an opposing player more often than that. 3 hits from a player on your 4th line who is supposed to be checking and playing a defensive role... yikes. He chose a buyout proof contract, so the only choice is to waive him, and when no one picks him up... basically tell him that he can retire or get demoted. If he has anything going for him back home he will probably retire.
  9. I wonder what the cap implications would be if he retired after getting his bonus money this year. Not sure if he is a guy that wants to move back to Sweden at the end of his career, but walking away and getting to go home, vs. only $3 million per year in salary might not be inconceivable.
  10. Yep, probably a better target than Panarin really in my opinion. More complementary to our top line and probably only $6.5-7.5 million vs. $10-11 million. ... of course Lee for the Petterson line AND Panarin for the Horvat line would be pretty perfect Dare to dream... Lee-Petterson-Boeser Panarin-Horvat-Leivo Roussel-Gaudette-Virtanen Motte-Beagle-MacEwan Edler-Stecher Hughes-Myers Hutton-Tanev Everyone missing being shipped out for picks and prospects.
  11. No one that I have seen has talked about Anders Lee as a potential signing. For some reason he hasn't extended yet for the Islanders, there are recent rumours that an extension is close... but until that comes out, he is a really prime target for us. Huge body, first liner, experience playing with high end skill guys as he patrolled the wing for Tavares. A little under the radar compared with a guy like Panarin that everyone is talking about. (I am sure as soon as I post this a story will come out that he has signed with NYI).
  12. You LITERALLY just cherry picked a statistic from a tiny sample size to say that it was a moment of weakness for the Canucks management and proceeded to get into an argument with yet another poster based on your cherry picked statistic. You entirely ignored the context of the fact he went to a team filled with multiple Stanley Cup winners who were (as usual for this time of year) turning on the jets to be ready for the playoffs. Also, that the Penguins are playing him in those spots because of a slew of injuries to their D, giving them few options.
  13. ... and yet when Gudbranson was here, and those exact statistics you are happy to quote now, showed him to be just God awful... your position was that those stats were meaningless and had blind belief that he was a great defenceman anyways because of “intangibles”. i hope he continues to do well, but it is far more likely that he reverts to being The Gudbranson we saw. The sample is just too small right now to suggest otherwise. I know you like to dig up old posts of mine, come find this by the end of next season and we can see if he is still playing 23 minutes a game or has dropped down the lineup.
  14. The redeeming part of TSN are their guest hits. Ferraro, Paterson, Gilman, Gillis, Mackenzie, Pierre McGuire
  15. I don’t remember it that way at all. I remember almost everyone saying that he finally shied away from the safest (highest floor/lowest ceiling) bet and went with the most skilled player.
  16. The other way to look at it is a 60-70 point guy. He has always been in the 60-65 point range. Being a PPG doesn’t count for your team if you miss a quarter of the season every year. They don’t get to pro-rate the AAV.
  17. @mitchmarner .... $12 million seems light for you at the moment
  18. Yikes, that is a big chunk of change to drop on a great (but not elite) player. NMC for the entire duration of the contract should have cost him some AAV. He will be 35 before it expires and it could be pretty bad by then.
  19. It is suddenly looking like bridge contract territory. Just have to make sure he still has a year or two of RFA when it expires. It sure would be nice to get him under contract for $6 million or less, and then have him bounce back once we have another scorer or two to take all the focus off of him.
  20. It is probably playoffs next season or Benning gets fired. Fair or not, he has been given a pretty long rope with no improvement beyond a much better prospect pool. His biggest failing to me has been the inability to make any trades of note. He talks about hockey trades, but has never moved out anyone from the top half of our roster aside from Kessler who he was forced to. This summer can he manage to trade for or sign a top 6 scoring winger and a top 4 offensive RD? Those are glaring holes, and no bringing in 3rd and 4th liners will solve that.
  21. -1 in one game with the Penguins. I wish him the best, but it is fairly likely that his new team is going to realize what he is pretty quickly. They soured on Jack Johnson, and now they have two of them.
  22. I wouldn’t be crying if not a single D returned to the team honestly. Stecher I would miss the most as he is the right age group and we would miss him more than any return we could get for him. Ideally he is a 3r pairing guy who can move higher to cover for injuries... and not slotted in to play 28 minutes a night.
  23. Don’t actually care how Pearson or Gudbranson do going forward. I wish them all the best of luck and hope it works out for everyone. I was desperate to have Gudbranson be my favourite player when he came here, I was hoping for another Willie Mitchell. It was about dozens of posters here getting called out and called stupid repeatedly for a long time because they didn’t happen to like this player’s performance. Then the disappearing act by those doing the calling out when even the player even says they played badly.
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