Baer. Posted June 24, 2015 Author Share Posted June 24, 2015 Why on earth would we want to sign a player whose stats are tilted because he played with Perry and Getzlaf? He lacks the ability to change the game on his own, and needs good linemates. Not to mention that Free Agency is the worst way to acquire talent, unless its a big name superstar, these mid-level FA's can really bust your team in the salary cap era. Bolded: That's exactly what people said about Bonino. Plus are you suggesting we never sign a "mid-level" free agent again? Why would we stave from free agency just to save a bit of cap? And when since Hossa has a superstar been on the FA market? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baer. Posted June 24, 2015 Author Share Posted June 24, 2015 If you had looked at our cap situation you'd know that we won't. We currently have $5M in cap space (without Matthias) with only 18 players on the roster. That means we still need to add 5 more players with that remaining space. Three of those will be Baertschi, Clendening and Corrado, so not likely to be league minimum level deals. That leaves two of Richardson, Vey, Weber and Stanton to fill out the remaining spots. Markstrom vs Lack factors into the cap space too, and moving Higgins' $2.5M would help, but none of that is near enough to let us sign a player for $4M+ in free agency. I think more moves are gonna be made than just shipping out one player. We will have cap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baer. Posted June 24, 2015 Author Share Posted June 24, 2015 Belesky may end up being the second coming of Dustin Penner. He also played with Getz and Perry. Then he flamed out after he joined the Oilers. We need smart hockey moves based upon a sufficient sample size. Doesn't Penner have a cup with LA? He flamed out with the Oilers cause he was a mid six forward at best trying to carry his team. He wanted out bad. That's not really a good example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baer. Posted June 24, 2015 Author Share Posted June 24, 2015 He's a good player, but I wouldn't want to lock him up for multiple years. We shouldn't be locking guys up for multiple years this off season, because next years free agency class is stacked. Even if only 25% of those players reach free agency it's still a very good class. Give the young guys a chance in the top 6 this upcoming season, and then target 1 or 2 big free agents in 2016. We will have a ridiculous amount of cap space, and can make a big splash(like Minny did with Parise/Suter). Next year is the real transition year, and if done right we could be in a great position come 2016/2017. Quality post. +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elvis15 Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 I think more moves are gonna be made than just shipping out one player. We will have cap. So we'll just find other teams to dump cap on to free up basically the $4+M it'd take to sign Belesky? That's a pretty big assumption. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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