Second is Arizona selling. If the best deal for them was the way to save the most money, it’s possible any of their contracts with term are available.

Keller, Schmaltz, Crouse, Vehmelka could all be available.

They have 21 picks in the first 3 rounds of the next 3 drafts. It’s just stupid.

They’ll have to scrape the bottom of the barrel to hit the cap floor either way. If they’re this broke they’d probably prefer to do it with as little term as possible.

The theory earlier that the coyotes are basically a tool of the owners to manage costs, set markets, impose parity, stash franchise killing contracts, could be true.

Or their tiny arena could be a giant financial loss that’s pushing the organization to insolvency. They did miss payments this past season.

Since this would be a huge trade, it shouldn’t wait until the 11th hour.

Winter of LOU got U...

An out-of-playoffs FWD list:
Bjugstad
Schmaltz
Crouse
Keller
Roslovic
Vatrano
Comtois
Domi
Raddysh
Dvorak...

Miller
Boeser
Garland

For BUFF? (edit - probably wasn't specific in the thread; being BUFF-related).

Maybe Garland, I'll grant you that...

GMBA apparently denied a major sell off apart from the UFA crop (and Chychrun who wanted out). I think Schmaltz and his backloaded contract was definitely available, but he just left the game tonight with an "upper-body", and if they didn't want to bring money back for Chychrun, that means it was unlikely in a Schmaltz deal as well. Wouldn't expect too much back in that case, but also who can add that cap without more maneuvering? Crouse is publicly saying he wants to retire here, and he's a prototypical Armstrong player. Doubt he moves. Keller trade would be insane, even if they are rebuilding, and they will need to hit the floor somehow. Same contract/cap difficulties would exist as in a Schmaltz deal even if they did. I personally would trade Vegemite, but I think the club sees him as a feather in their proscouting-hat since rescuing him from the Czech Extraliga.

Gutierrez has already said the revenue from the Mullet is going to be low, and that they expected to run lean. Not sure I expected that meant they were going to under sell their best trade asset by avoiding taking salary back, so who knows how far they want to cut down to the bone. If someone can absorb one of the "core" players without sending contracts back, maybe they'd be available for futures, but seems unlikely.

If Perron weren’t in the same race I’d say him. Playoff experience, scores goals, is mean like Tage Thompson.

Good call - list ^ ^ def. needs playoff experience/moxie

You will take Miller and you WILL like it

Okey dokey...

I wonder if the league will help, or do something. Drop the coyotes cap floor requirement and give each team an extra million in cap to appease the nhlpa. Blame the arena situation.

It does look like the cap floor will be a challenge next season without any more trading. They lose Kanes 2.6. Ladds 5.5. I don’t see anybody due a significant raise. I take it back about trading term away probably.

The team has such a disproportionate huge chunk of the future talent in the league, and their trajectory is to have very high picks for all of their own selections.

I sympathize with the entire situation and there’s a real good chance the next great marketable talent for the NHL plays in a 5000 seat arena surrounded by a cap floor team who got there in the backs of IR contracts. That’s not good for the other 31 ownership groups, and Bettman represents them all.

Sorry, that Chychrun return pissed me off. I find it telling the typical talking heads aren’t questioning it after reporting for months the price was 2 firsts and a high quality prospect or more at times. Then Bill Armstrong today, “ To escape with no money taken back was huge for us.". I can’t even…What are you escaping from? Chychrun was a bargain for his performance. What’s Chychrun gonna do? Go play in Russia? He’s under contract. He had 0 leverage.

I am glad Ottawa landed him, especially considering they’re up for sale. I hope it works out well. That seems awfully coincidental to me.

I hope the coyotes work out well too.

A healthy league is good for all.

Definitely seems like a decision from the top down. Incredibly frustrating for a fan. Probably more so for the GM.

One angle for a silver lining is that, as you said, they still have to hit the floor somehow next year. By not taking back real money or a roster spot in this trade, they potentially have more flexibility to add bad contracts this summer for more draft capital as they did with Ghost from Philly. If you eat a contract bad or otherwise in the Chychrun deal, you may not have the cash or roster spot to hold someone over the fire in the off-season for their dump.

That and the fact that the Ottawa pick has a non-zero chance of being somewhere in the teens, that first is probably worth more in a deep draft than two picks in the late twenties from contending clubs. We'll see how the draft itself pans out.

Still incredibly frustrating after dragging it out, this is what they ended up taking as the best available deal.

Hextall really looked at Granlund and Boeser and decided "Yep, I'm going with the even worse one"

If only they could use their most important on-ice and secondary off-ice "hockey smarts" for GOOD instead of EVIL...
Per Wiki = Club Founded 1972 (WPG 1.0).

Face it: This is a club run by lawyers & accountants not GMs-Coaches-Xplayers & Hockey-minds...
such a shame, a shame, a dang shame...

Hronek = Ristolainen

They got literally like the same returns.

Risto
13th OVR
32-40th OVR


Hronek
Most likely around 13th OVR
32-40th OVR

What’s reviewable? The ref whistled, the play is dead, however unfortunate it might be, that’s pretty cut and dry

Wilson would be on pace for 52 points and 41 goals coming off an acl injury.

King of power forwards

Sheary possibly for Buffalo? Not sure if they liked his previous stint with them or not.

Probably, don't like the fit though. We need size, like Comtois or Crouse.

I swear leafsnation could be the literal dictionary entry for "bipolar"

People acting like we gotta make even more changes after last night. I see a small move because we have 9 D but nothing insane. Like cmon, a third of your lineup just changed you're gonna need more tha one practice to find some chemistry.

You need to improve your bottom 6. If you want to stand a chance against Tampa. They already have you beat massively when it comes to gold tending.

Bertuzzi to Boston.
So Dubas is going to counter with 2 more moves lol.

Lou is going to trade Dobson for parayko

Boston acquiring Canadian players isn't possible that's not something they like to do.

I believe this trade shows us how bad the injury to foligno was. Literally a carbon copy version of him.