Rejoint: oct. 2019
Messages: 63
Mentions "j'aime": 17
This is pretty reasonable in all honesty, I can nit pick a couple of things just from my knowledge of sakic/Avs internal structures.
1st one being that this past season was an outlier in regards to Grubauer, he's not getting paid starter money from a weird injured season from Francouz, for the simple fact that next season he'll be right back in a 1A 1B role. While Gru is great and has had a couple stellar seasons the past couple for us, I think he'll have no issues signing 2-4 years @ 4.5-5 mill knowing his role is split, which is already 1+ mill raise.
2nd is probably my biggest nit pick, which only slightly effects your overall picture and thats in regards to Makar, Avs will not sign him to a max contract this year, Because then they lose his RFA status during that contract and when it ends he would be a UFA. He's 22 now so the most the Avs will sign Makar to is 4-5 years this off season, so he remains an RFA for his next contract, which will be his big money contract. He's going to get one of the newer hybrid bridge contracts where he gets some money now but mostly waiting to pay him his big money during his UFA years.
I like the Debrusk addition a lot, that adds some flexibility, even if its not him specifically it makes sense but to me Saad will be coming back, He was too clutch in the playoffs to not bring back.
I would like to note that I think the off season goal will be to upgrade 3C to someone who can comfortably play 2C minutes, IF/when Kadri gets made an example of again it doesn't need to be a hole in the roster.
and well, you know my feelings on replacing Girard, which isn't that I hate him as a hockey player, To me he is just the obvious odd man out having Makar, Byram, Timmins, Graves, Macdonald, Barron, Its nothing more than we have an embarrassment of riches, to allow a single dimensional forward pretend to play defence for 5 mill on the cap. Remember what i'm saying, every time Girard steps on the ice from now on going forward, its going to stand out how literally it is every shift he's on the ice he's giving the puck and his lane away to the other teams fore checkers so he can chase them instead of him being chased. You're gonna think of me haha <-- Its great in the regular season when Refs actually call penalties.