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Blueman96

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Forum: Armchair-GM16 avr. à 9 h 31
Sujet: Boring offseason commence
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>HolyJumpin81</b></div><div>I'm ok with a boring offseason. This likely is the last season that the krug and faulk contracts are unmovable, as the full NTC's end after this coming season. Stillman has never been fond of retaining bad contracts, so that seems unlikely. Keep in mind the blues are a rather small market team so retaining salary via buyout or long term contracts is rather unusual. An in house development focused offseason is for the best. It's nice to hear they have a plan and are sticking to it. I'd personally love to see if the can snag DP57 for a year or two as well. I think once these prospects start to produce, this team will see even more improvement. Realistically the only thing thats gonna hold this team back going forward are those awful deals given to krug, faulk, and schenn</div></div>

It might be as simple as incorporating kids as the older/longer term bad deals drop off one by one. This offseason Scandella/Kapanen/Vrana. Next summer Buchnevich (I love him but c'mon, we need to get assets and trade him at the deadline) and then 1 year left for Saad and Leddy, with their contracts switching from full NTC's to partials. Also 2 years left for Krug and Faulk and their contracts switch over to partials as well.

It's going to take time. This sucks. There's no 2 ways around it. I hope we stockpile enough picks and prospects that the team will be more than average once the kids get up and in.
Forum: Armchair-GM9 avr. à 12 h 51
Forum: NHL Trades19 juin 2023 à 11 h 56
Forum: NHL Trades19 juin 2023 à 11 h 54
Sujet: (ARI/VAN) - Ekman-Larsson, Garland for Beagle, Eriksson, Roussel, 1st, 2nd, 7th
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>jr400</b></div><div>This has to go down as one of the worst trades ever. Of course, hindsight is 20/20, but looking back, it seems that they should have known better. When I broke down the trade in 2021, I figured it made sense for Vancouver only if OEL at 12% retained was a neutral or positive asset, but if you look at the comments made at the time of the trade, most people thought he was a negative asset even then. Even if Vancouver thought he might return to form with a change of scenery, they should have realized that it was a huge gamble to take at his age and cap hit. I know they were desperate to get rid of the $12M 1-year cap hit, but they actually would have been better off just buying those three guys out.</div></div>

I certainly was one of the "negative asset" people. I certainly also could not fathom the price Vancouver paid. If the internet chatter was to be believed at the time, Vancouver was one of the very very few destinations that OEL would accept a trade to. Arizona had zero leverage and they walked away from this trade with the 9th overall pick? Insanity. Utter insanity, even then without the benefit of hindsight and it's even worse now.

Teams constantly letting other teams off the hook for their horrendous deals. We just saw a team lift the cup where other teams let them out of their cap dilemmas by trading with them for cap dumps, not making Vegas pay nearly enough to do so.

I was one of the ones who thought the trade was insane the moment I heard about it, I did not think OEL had much of anything left. Jim Benning was the worst.
Forum: Armchair-GM7 juin 2023 à 10 h 59
Forum: Armchair-GM7 juin 2023 à 9 h 35
Sujet: How cheaply can they do this
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>ecupirate07</b></div><div>They could get cheaper.

Get a small pick for Seabrook and Myers post signing bonus. That would be 3.4 million real dollars for 8.275 million in cap. They can trade Schmaltz for a good futures trade saving 7.5 million in real money (or 3.1 million aggregate) for an additional 3 million of cap.</div></div>

The Weber deal was a no brainer for them. $7.8 cap hit for $1 million bucks? Couldn't script it better.

Yea Seabrook maybe. The funny thing is they still have to put a team on the ice and even just as it is just re-signing their RFA's almost gets them to the floor. They don't "need" to acquire more dead money LTIR deals. Good point on Schmaltz though. One of the few/only cash-heavy contracts they still have.