I don’t really have one, my allegiance was please not NYR as of the conference finals

Might as well root for Florida then since we eliminated the Rangers.

Thinking we’re in the timeframe where a bigger hockey trade could occur. Like now til draft.

I’m thinking Carolina is the most likely to trade early: they have so many expiries and 1 year terms:

19 of their active roster is either a ufa, rfa at expiry or has 1 year left.

A whole lot of impact players. They’re facing so many decisions.

To add a bit to this, I think all the x-factors are on Edmonton's side. Which Stuart Skinner are we getting? Will Edmonton's defence stay good? Will Edmonton's depth show up? The usual questions are why I have Florida winning, because Edmonton will need the best of the players not named McDavid, Draisaitl, Hyman, Bouchard, Ekholm and I can't guarantee they will

Should also have added the Bennett effect

AKA that mans gonna knock someone out for a while on the IR

Like man FLA just has that ability to get under a teams skin and it can cause issues fast. How VGK got through it is a football team on the backend and playing the exact same game to them or arguably surpassing it lul

Oil in 6

Not 100% confirmed but cap may actually go higher thanks to bigger playoff revenues

So instead of 87.7m it could be 88m

What's with these rumors about Carolina shopping Guentzels UFA rights??? They'd be morons to not bring him back

Its up to him though if we wants to go back or not and you know that organizations stance on big deals

Aho be the one exception rn

As Guentzel already has his rings now its time for that last big payday lul

They probably have a pretty good feel he doesn't wanna sign there... Or is at least gonna test the market...

He may want wayyyy too much money, the Canes have so many players on expiring deals, Guentzel maybe has priced himself out of Carolina

fun fact :

At this time, the only NHL defenceman under contract next year for Utah is Shea Weber

It's crazy how divergent teams end up at this time.

Philly, for example, are an Egor Zamula extension away from having an entire NHL roster set for next year (not saying they won't make trades or explore free agents also); but they would have 14-15 Forwards under contract; 6 defenseman (+2 tweeners), and 3-4 goalies.

Yep as if you think about it hes got his rings why take a discount

Honestly I could see him go to CHI on a big payday

Cap ceiling in 2024 25 will be 88m per CJ

He wants more than Aho is making currently and that isn’t happening here

Depends on how much more but that sounds about right, I wouldn't give Guentzel more than 10mil

Trying to make sure this is right

With the cap going to 88m for 2024-2025 whats the max buriable amount now with no cap hit on the team

As when it was 83.5m the max buriable was 1.15m

So with it going up to 88m is the new buriable gonna be 1.35m or remain the same

Cody Ceci can't read.

Yep and funny enough

One of the only thing TOR and OTT fans agree upon

Man's only accomplishment was missed by a mile meme

Anyone else think the Conn Smythe goes to the winner of the McBark-off?

Its either Barkov or Bob IMO

Bob's got to be one of the craziest rebound stories in NHL history

He was the #3 in FLA 2 years ago at 10m, then last playoffs seemed to have figured everything out and not look back

FLA forecheck is just scary

Speak of the devil

Looks like the Oilers know how they wanna deal with it. Just gotta execute.