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Forum: NHL Trades7 mars à 23 h 31
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Forum: NHL Trades3 juill. 2023 à 0 h 41
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The price is higher when you're talking about an $800k player who is an upcoming RFA. Tampa will either re-sign him or they will recover assets by trading him elsewhere since he would then have to sign with the receiving team. With someone like Meier, for example, the Devils could theoretically lose him for nothing. We also had to give more picks than anyone else because our 1st is in three years, which is less valuable than a 1st right away especially when we're asking for top ten protection. Most rebuilding GMs want pieces that will help them be good in a couple of years, whereas this pick going to Nashville will start to benefit them in like 5-6 years in all likelihood especially since it's top ten protected so it likely won't be used for an immediately ready NHL player. So it makes sense that we had to pay a lot, and also, GMs at this point probably just know if BriseBois calls you at the deadline, you can ask for anything and he'll pay the price because he's identified that whatever player is the best to fix whatever hole he sees and he'll pay any amount of futures. This is what BriseBois does every year, and I always think it's a ridiculous overpay, and then we always benefit. This is probably the most extreme one yet, especially since Jeannot is underperforming offensively and has bad defensive analytics so I don't know what the front office sees in him. But... they have yet to miss on any of these deadline moves.

Losing Foote sucks though. He's young, cheap, and better than Fleury or Myers.
Forum: NHL Trades19 mars 2022 à 16 h 31
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>sensonfire</b></div><div>Tampa spent less on Ryan McDonagh and JT Miller.

Sweet Jesus :tearsofjoy</div></div>

McDonagh or J.T. Miller signed for 3x$1.5m would have cost more than two late 1sts.

Admittedly, I didn't know who Hagel was at first and I saw this return and thought JBB was out of his mind, but looking at the contract, Hagel's age, and the way he plays, I completely understand. He doesn't expect Palat to take like the 80% discount he would need to stay in Tampa, and we don't have a prospect who is primed to replace him immediately, so if we don't want our window to shut a little more, then we just needed to get one and we needed it now. I'm stunned that he couldn't negotiate it further down, but I'm confident that he tried, Chicago wasn't budging because they didn't have to, and then ultimately did what he had to do and it's certainly better than leaving the table. This deal covers until the end of the Stamkos deal and the 2nd last year of the Hedman deal. Both deals end when the players are 34. So I think even though they're both on discounted contracts right now, if they want to stay in Tampa, that number is going down, not up. The cap will also start increasing again by then. So all that gives us the flexibility to re-sign Hagel and maybe get some UFAs to fill our holes and go for a couple of last runs before Point/Kucherov/Vasilevskiy age out too. If we don't do this deal, we would be left with some gaping holes and by the time the draft picks developed to fill those holes—if they did at all—we'd be right around the end of Stamkos/Hedman's deals when we might not be as desperate for the cheap contracts. We got someone we really needed to push us through the flat-cap era and by the time the losses come back to bite, we'll be in a position to fix that, with maybe some more Cups too. It's a win-win.
Forum: NHL Trades30 juill. 2021 à 12 h 30
Forum: NHL Signings28 juill. 2021 à 17 h 58