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Forum: Armchair-GM7 déc. 2022 à 17 h 14
Forum: Armchair-GM7 oct. 2022 à 14 h 30
Sujet: curiosity killed the cat by fire badly
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>drambui</b></div><div>you cant win a trade if no players played a single game yet</div></div>

You absolutely can, and the Flames did just that.

Matt Tkachuk is a really good player, and is young.

But Treliving lost his best winger/player, in Gaudreau, and turned around and traded his 2nd best player for a better winger who is just as good as Gaudreau (Huberdeau), and also fleeced Zito by also getting a legitimate top-four defenseman (Weegar), and a prospect whose tracking to be another NHL player in his own right.

Then managed to sign that better top-six winger and top-four defenseman to long-term contracts.

He won the trade the second he got Huberdeau to sign long-term. He officially won it by a landslide once Weegar re-signed today.

Case closed.
Forum: Armchair-GM6 sept. 2022 à 19 h 40
Sujet: The year of an elite dcore
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>PrisonMike</b></div><div>okay say they don't sign Klingberg, that's money to pay Liljegren and Sandin. The Leafs the following season (2025-2026) have close to 25 million if the cap goes up to sign Marner, Niemela, and Tavares (which will likely be 4 million I'm guessing). That's enough to keep the core together. Liljegren is a for sure NHL player, Niemela has talent but that doesn't guarantee anything anyways, and Sandin is sort of up in the air. I'd rather pay established players. Maybe they let Sandin go for a bottom pairing dman?</div></div>

Ideally though, Sandin and Liljegren come into their own in two years time, and that they would be top 4 D-man, signing them would be much cheaper than ufas, they can probably sign them for 4-6m depending on the term and their ability at the time. If Niemela does progress nicely in his development he should be ready as well by then and wouldn't be as costly either. In your ACGM, you have like 29m allocated to defense which is pretty high, and would be fine if the Leafs were wanting to spend on their bank end a ton instead of their forwards, can't do both though. Without Klingberg, it makes things a little bit more sustainable but eventually they will have too many big ticket defenders.