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Forum: Armchair-GM17 août 2023 à 10 h 31
Sujet: Most Cash and Upside for AM34
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>MikeyVC97</b></div><div>I know everyone is freaked about Toronto's current cap and lack of success problem but that's NOT Matthews' fault. The Leaf's overpaid Marner and others not Matthews. To think the Hawks can't sign a top FA because they have a lot of prospects is a flawed mentality. Look at what happened when the Hawks in the early days of the last rebuild signed Campbell and Hossa those were amazing FAs to add to a crop of drafted prospects. You can never be 100% obviously, there will be mistake signings like Huet. But like I said you don't even get opportunities to sign players like Matthews every year maybe once-a-decade type FA opportunity!</div></div>

I dont have a problem signing Matthews as a UFA, quiet the opposite. I just disagreed with you saying it will be "years" before the rebuild is over.

"Help is on the way dear" - Mrs. Doubtfire
Forum: Armchair-GM17 août 2023 à 10 h 14
Sujet: Most Cash and Upside for AM34
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>AnyoneButTheBruins</b></div><div>I strongly disagree, but that's alright. I think Chicago has many years before the rebuild is over. They got lucky with Bedard but still this isn't a playoffs team even with Bedard and Matthews on it.</div></div>

Chicago should be another bottom 10 team this year, but 24-25 should be the start of their climb in the Central.

Its interesting you don't see the comparison with Chicago and Toronto's rebuild that brought them Matthews, Marner, Willy and Rielly. Toronto made the playoffs Matthews 1st year.

Chicago has high end forward prospects (Bedard, Reichel, Nazar and Moore) Depth prospects (Ludwinski, Hayes, Savoie, Greene) + the 9 other draft picks from this past year and 13 picks in the top 3 rounds in the next 3 years. Dont forget the 60 Million in cap space in 24-25

Not all of the prospects will work, but the foundation has been started.
Forum: Armchair-GM3 août 2023 à 16 h 23
Sujet: All in
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>LivingAnew</b></div><div>Hmmm... I think I'd take this deal. Yes, the Hawks have an abundance of Ds in the pipeline. However, they are overwhelmingly LD, not R. They have a paucity of RD prospects in the system, and Smith can apparently play both sides so I'd take him on.

Ds take a LONG time to mature; we could be bringing in vets on short-term deals for five years as it stands now, even if we draft a bunch of RDs in next year's draft (which is supposed to strong in Ds.) I'd rather get a few now and get started in our RD development prior to exclusively drafting 18-year olds next year.

I'm not worried about having too many good goalie prospects; that's a good problem to have. And we don't know which one (or two these days) will be the one(s) that will be the starter(s) in the future.

Hey, reasonable minds can disagree. Cheers</div></div>

Fair points, you can never have too many prospects..

I see Ty Smith is another Ian Mitchell. Id prefer to give our own guys a chance before Smith. Philips, Roos, even Nolan and Del Mastro, plus im assuming that Vlasic, Kiaser and potentially Korchinski get a chance to start the year with the team.