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Forum: Armchair-GM8 mars à 17 h 1
Sujet: Questions Answered More Questions
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Logicalicesports</b></div><div>Bad decisions made at this deadline. Should have pushed for younger talent that is semi-established. Instead we got a handful of EH picks. I would have been happy with a first rounder but instead we got pick 64 this year and some more later picks.

Didn't do anything that will really help us unless by some miracle we get lucky drafting which very rarely happens outside of the first round and early second.</div></div>

What young, semi-established talent did you see moving at this deadline? The only ones I can think of were Byram and Middlestadt, who were traded for each other. Trades like the one BMac pulled off for Sandin last year are incredibly rare at the trade deadline. They can always try to flip those picks for young players this summer when more guys will be on the market.
Forum: Armchair-GM25 janv. à 17 h 41
Sujet: Selling At or Before Deadline
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>NoVaSpartan</b></div><div>I've been a big believer in Stevenson since before he got signed, but I imagine he'll get a longer look in the AHL for a couple reasons. In the past, Caps goalies have looked good in Hershey but if team defense takes a drop the goalie's numbers fall off the cliff. I don't see this in Stevenson but it has happened to Copley and Fucale over the last couple years so worthy of noting. Also, I expect them to really try to make Shepard work before they go to Stevenson, even though Stevenson has a better ceiling (and potentially floor). Shepard's gotten the call over Stevenson the last couple times and the organization seems to really want to make him work before they go to Stevenson. Most importantly though, the Caps don't want to potentially rush him up, and since he'd likely get backup starts behind Kuemper they may not want to bring him up early and ruin his confidence since he alone won't make or break the team.</div></div>

Clay's gonna be 25 by the end of this season, I don't know how much more slowly they can play this. I don't see the similarity to Copley or Fucale either.

Copley had his great (but still well shy of Clay) AHL season in 16-17 at the same age as Clay, and then the Caps didn't give him a single appearance at the NHL level the next season and he fell back to earth. The Caps brought him up to be the backup after his very meh 17-18 season when he was 26 and already looked like his development had stalled.

Fucale never actually had a good AHL season. He got called up a couple times due to injuries during a very pedestrian AHL season, had a couple good games that got the fans hyped, then went back down to the AHL and kept on being mediocre.

I think you might as well give Clay the backup role and start trying to ease him into the NHL. Shepard's 28 and pretty much a finished product. Clay's the guy with a shot a figuring into the team's long term plans, so let's see what we've really got.
Forum: Armchair-GM27 juin 2023 à 15 h 16
Sujet: Wilson Update
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>JeffW</b></div><div>They debunked that rumour over a week ago.. people on here just do what they want, for instance they think Nylander for Byram or toews is a good deal... it's horrible</div></div>

The one over a week ago was that the Kings were interested in him, which is probably true, but then Friedman asked the Caps about it and they said he's not going anywhere. Then a day or two ago a Sens podcaster said he'd heard the Caps wanted to trade Wilson to the Sens, and that's the one LeBrun asked MacLellan about and was told it was bull****. I can't wait for the Caps to extend him so the constant rumors and proposals can finally end.

Oh, who am I kidding, we'll still be getting Wilson to the Leafs proposals even after they give him an 8 year extension.
Forum: Armchair-GM27 juin 2023 à 15 h 9
Forum: Armchair-GM26 juin 2023 à 16 h 32
Sujet: Trades
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>westleysnipez</b></div><div>These are all bad.

Boeser isn't being dealt, Detroit doesn't need a scoring winger.

Colorado isn't trading Girard for two RFA rights, one of which the Canucks are going to let walk anyway. Canucks don't need another undersized offensive-minded LHD.

Canucks aren't trading Garland for Mantha and getting Kuznetsov, the entire point of moving Garland was to clear cap space, not get more of it. <strong>Capitals are going to have to pay to move Kuznetsov if the rumors are true. </strong>

It would cost more for the Sabres to move up from 13 to 11. In 2019 the Flyers traded picks 14 and 45 to move up to pick 11. I think it would be reasonable to ask the same from Buffalo given they're at PIck 13.</div></div>

What rumors? If Hall with 2x6M remaining coming off a 36 point season didn't cost anything for the Bruins to dump when they're absolutely over a barrel in regards to the cap, I don't see how Kuznetsov with 2x7.8M remaining coming off a 55 point season is a negative value.
Forum: Armchair-GM25 juin 2023 à 15 h 11
Sujet: Kuznetsov as a cheap PLD alternative
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Kuzbackov</b></div><div>The Capitals aren’t going to retain that much for
Two seasons for two players they don’t really need. Arvidsson and Iafallo aren’t much incentive for Washington to do this. Turn Iafallo and Arvidsson into Draft Picks and the Capitals are far more likely to consider and the Picks will have to be pretty good too if the Caps are retaining.</div></div>

As I said in the description, the Caps do some of the retention and a third team does the rest on a pass-through like the Wild did for Orlov.

With the Avs trading for Johansen, the options to get decent value in picks for Kuznetsov are really limited. I can't think of another team that needs a center, has the cap room to add a guy like Kuzy without sending salary back in return, and isn't likely to be on Kuznetsov's no-trade list.

I like the fit of Iafallo with McMichael to form a strong two-way line in the middle six, and Arvidsson's a better, Swedish version of Sheary, so I like his fit with Backstrom. If they don't work out they can easily be traded for picks at the deadline.

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>IconicHawk</b></div><div>Passing on a Dubois trade for ****ing Kuznetzov is like if Pittsburgh passed on Sidney Crosby for Bobby Ryan, fine player but come on</div></div>

This might get the award for the most tortured analogy I've ever seen on this site. Comparing it to draft picks implies they'd cost the same, but Kuznetsov would cost less in assets to acquire and would come at a significantly lower cap hit than PLD's expected extension, leaving the Kings with more room for goaltending. Comparing PLD coming off a career-high 63 point season to Crosby and Kuzy coming off a down year that was all of 8 points below PLD's career best to Bobby Ryan is hilarious. PLD's a career 0.70 PPG player, Kuzy's a career 0.81 PPG player and deserved the Conn Smythe the year the Caps won the Cup. The disrespect he gets here is really getting out of hand.

I swear, if PLD was Pytor-Luka Dubov from Chelyabisnk and EK was Eugene Kouchner from Ste-Agathe-Des-Monts their valuations on this site would be damn near flipped.