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Forum: Armchair-GM5 juin 2018 à 18 h 21
Forum: Armchair-GM5 juin 2018 à 9 h 34
<a href="/users/leemos27" target="_blank">@leemos27</a> Your take is ludicrous. Barzal, a player who just scored 85 points in 82 games on the first year of his ELC, might be the most valuable contract in the league right now. Please, I'll wait, find me a contract where the player's production for the next two years will be comparable to a top six center producing at a point per game clip but making under 1M.....Didn't find any? So Barzal's contract is the most valuable one in the league at the moment. Perhaps Dahlin will overtake him after the first 10 games, but we have yet to see him play an NHL game yet. Seems premature.

Rinne is a 35 year old goalie who just had an embarrassing meltdown in the playoffs, and is under contract for only one more year. The Preds also will have to give Saros a new contract this offseason which will indicate how they view the position going forward. They would be lucky to get a top 15 pick in this draft for Peks, all things considered.

Now let's address the other moves, or lack thereof. Given that this is practically the exact same team as last year, plus Kovy, Kief, and JHS, I really don't think that Lou is "saving" anyone here. If anything, it is lazy. You did nothing to address what was an awful defensive core last season except hope that a healthy de Haan will somehow transform the D group (Spoiler alert: it won't). You also failed to re-sign or trade the rights of Brock Nelson to a team with a need for a middle six C (MTL, CAR, ANA if Kesler is out, BUF if they move ROR, etc etc etc). My point is there will be suitors. Nelson, MVS, and a 2nd rounder might be enough to get Carolina to give up one of their young defensemen. That trade would upgrade this roster. Please do your RFA homework next time before posting.
Forum: Armchair-GM29 mai 2018 à 23 h 3
Forum: Armchair-GM29 mai 2018 à 22 h 54
Forum: Armchair-GM29 mai 2018 à 22 h 10
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Jfstompers</b></div><div>I dont mind an orpik deal since he has 1 year left. It would have to be a really sweet deal for detroit to take on multi year cap dump like the guys you mentioned. Its getting picks and young guys as we wait for the bad contracts we have to lessen.</div></div>
Sure but the Caps will not be doing an Orpik dump this offseason. If they were ever going to offload his salary it would have been this past offseason so they wouldn't have had to trade Johansson to NJ for peanuts. Orpik also has played well this postseason.

Detroit is stuck in no mans land until Zetterberg retires. If he follows through with his intention of 2018-2019 being his final season, the Wings will incur a cap recapture penalty of $5,083,335 for 2019-2020 AND 2020-2021. Factor in Abdelkader and Helm's bloated long term contracts for bottom six guys and there is no clear path for Detroit to contention in the next few years due to too much bad money on the books and not enough cheap talent in the pipeline.

It seems to me that the best way forward (which will never happen with Ken Holland in charge) is to adapt the Sixers' Process to the NHL. Sell off any and every resource possible for future returns. Use cap space to take on bad contracts for future returns. Give waiver claims/fringe prospects a look against NHL competition to see if there are any gems hiding in the bargain bin. After 2-3 years of fielding a non-competitive roster and amassing top picks and young talent, use assets to move on from the final years of Abdelkader/any remaining bad money and aim to contend again. Additionally, this strategy will help the Wings get through the upcoming Seattle expansion draft unscathed - and might even help them take advantage of other teams' poor strategic planning by trading for their players before Seattle poaches them for free.
Forum: Armchair-GM29 mai 2018 à 20 h 10