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Forum: Trade Machine Proposals5 févr. à 17 h 58
Sujet: Leafs get their Playoff Dman
As a Kraken fan you have my attention just by putting a suggestion through the trade machine, for whatever reason no fans ever seem to want our players!
Timmins is nice but then the RHD don't slot right and we'll be left looking for an upgrade in UFA, which is a fools errand for a top pairing guy.
Voit sounds like he's shown flashes, but he's also injured so he's difficult to assess on a limited body of work.
I think you change Timmins for Liljegren, or Voit for Cowan (who played to a high clip with Kraken prospect Winterton last year), and things get a lot more interesting and I also think it balances the trade better given the Kraken would need to carry the retained $2M cap hit ALL of next year too.
In fact, the value of replacing McCabe as your top RHD for a $3M cap saving as Matthews and Nylanders deals kick in is huge for the Leafs. And arbitration eligible Liljegren is due a raise too...
More I think on it more I think it should be the 1st, Liljegren and Cowan. Hmmmm....

And yet for all that a 1st, a roster player and a prospect is intriguing, I believe Larsson is one player Seattle won't move. He's too important to our D-corps especially given the chemistry he and Dunn have formed since expansion. I fully expect them to re-sign him next Summer for around 3x$5M too, an overpay perhaps, but when a D-pair clicks right it's worth paying them both!
FWIW the 5th for Bellemare is fair, if not generous.
Forum: Armchair-GM28 juin 2023 à 6 h 21
Sujet: Reeling in a Giant Cat-fish
Good work making it fit, but I think both Dunn's and DeBrincat's deals will be bigger and that creates an issue.
I also don't think the Kraken can afford to be rolling a $5M player on the 4th line and Schwartz was good in the playoffs. If DeBrincat (or any other high-level forward, my choice would be Konecny) is brought in then I think a current member of the Top9 heads out to make space. The player who makes most business sense is Eberle, but given his leadership role I can't see that happening. To me that leaves Tolvanen as the tradeable piece, the rest either consist of those we want to keep or those with NMC/NTC.
I also think Francis covets his 1st round pick, so he's not trading one away without getting another somewhere. In fact I think it more likely he uses some of those 2nds to move up the draft.
Forum: Armchair-GM27 juin 2023 à 4 h 52
Sujet: Reeling in a Giant Shark
I appreciate what you've managed to do here in getting Karlsson in the roster without breaking up the team, and still getting the major RFAs under contract too.
However, that 4x$9M is going to cause some issues next Summer when Beniers and Tolvanen need new deals and Ebs and Wenny expire. I think it's still a bit rich and a huge risk if he reverts to the seasons he was having of late before the 100pt campaign. Francis has been big on having cap space being one of the advantages of being an expansion team in this period and I don't see him throwing it away now to handcuff himself the next couple of seasons.
And money issues aside there's a whiff of locker room trouble about Karlsson and bringing such a big ego and paycheck into a very tight squad could upset some of what made the magic in Seattle this last season.
All things considered I'd pass on Karlsson.
Forum: Armchair-GM17 mai 2023 à 8 h 51
Sujet: Kraken Year3
Thanks for the feedback <a href="/users/KrakenTheCode" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@KrakenTheCode</a> and <a href="/users/GMBL" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@GMBL</a>!
I appreciate it's an unlikely deal and maybe something more significant moves the other way from the Kraken roster, but I thought it an interesting addition to ponder if we were in the mix at all.
This year's playoff run was ahead of schedule and I believe Francis will stay the course to build around a long-term future rather than try to augment the current veterans in order to take a tilt with this roster. As such I don't think we trade for Toews as he wouldn't fit the age profile we'd be in the market for, despite being an upgrade on almost all of our current D.
And there's no way Francis hamstrings himself with the Karlsson contract given how he talks about valuing cap space and flexibility, to say nothing of the imbalance that would create in the squad, and the reported disquiet that EK65 supposedly brings to a locker room.
There's movement happening in the forward corps next offseason with Beniers and Tolvanen needing new deals and Eberle and Wennberg reaching UFA, but the Top9 is pretty set this year.
Far more likely this Summer is moves on the back end; Dunn, Borgen, Fleury all need new deals, Schultz has just 1 year left on his, and whilst we've acquired some decent forward prospects in the franchise's early years our pipeline for D is very thin and so a move to get younger that provides in both the short and long term is something I can see us doing.