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Forum: Armchair-GM24 avr. 2019 à 15 h 16
Sujet: 2 huge additions
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>russ02</b></div><div>Yea lets kill our cap space when we will need to sign Barrie, Landy, Rants, Makar and Girad, in the coming years. Maybe take 1 high end UFA.</div></div>

Well, Rantanen is already locked up in this scenario, Landeskog still has two years and Cole will come off the books then as well. Girard and Makar will be on their second contracts so they shouldn't be too expensive, and if they are, that's a good problem to have because it means they're highly productive. Barrie would probably have to be traded for futures in this scenario, but if you're adding two top end free agents you could live with it. I agree taking 1 if you can would probably be the better move, but the Avs have a lot of cap flexibility in the coming years, mostly because MacKinnon's contract is the most valuable in the league.
Forum: Armchair-GM23 avr. 2019 à 15 h 25
Forum: Armchair-GM22 avr. 2019 à 18 h 2
Sujet: Bynam and Boston Trade
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>russ02</b></div><div>See I just fundamentally disagree. If we ax my Barrie trade, my guess is that he is gone in UFA next year, to my dismay. The avs have top end guys as we know, but my thinking was that EJ is getting older and will likely regress, especially if he doesn’t stay healthy (bad history), and with Barrie gone, who will replace him? People will say Makar, but why not both? Go have the best defensive pair in the league in how ever many years. I think what a lot of people forget is avs have a decent amount of forward prospects already, maybe not high end, but we have those already. Forward prospects: Jost, Kerfoot, Kaut,, Bowers. All those guys have the potential to be #2 centers. The avs also have another first round pick to grab a forward. That's my thinking, go out and grab the best Defenseman in the draft, because we have prospects in place already.</div></div>

I agree on the EJ thing, but the defensive prospects are also there with Timmins, Meloche, &amp; Graves. Obviously there'll be a big dropoff from Byram to whatever D they could draft at 16, but there also seems to be a big dropoff after the top 10 forwards in this draft too. If they can sign a top 6 forward in UFA (crossing my fingers for Panarin even though I don't think it'll happen) and trade Barrie for like a Nylander, RNH, or Huberdeau type, things might be different, but right now, I'm a big Jost fan but the organization clearly isn't comfortable with him rn, Kerfoot is already 25, he kind of is what he is at this point, and Kaut should be good but there's a big difference in potential between the 16th pick and the 4th pick. Bowers had a so-so year and even if he reaches his potential he's gonna be a Soderberg type, which is great, but ideally you'd like that to be your 3C. At 4, you can get a forward that will either anchor your second line for years to come or move up to the top line and push Landy or Rantanen down to anchor the second line. Also, from a lot of what I've read, the reason Byram is gonna be drafted as high as he is has more to do with the separation between him and the second best defensive prospect than where he ranks among these forward prospects.
Forum: Armchair-GM16 avr. 2019 à 18 h 40
Sujet: Bread Man
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>adamkaz23</b></div><div>I think Francouz will cost less. At least on a 1 year prove it deal around 1m. He played well in his first year in the AHL but I'd wanna see what he can do for a whole season as an NHL back up before he gets that kind of money.

It would be fun to watch panarin and MacKinnon together but I think it would cause a lot of cap problems in the next few years with Landeskog and grubauer needing extensions. Not to mention MacKinnon shortly after. It would be sweet if we could just get him for 2 years at 11m per.</div></div>

You’re probably right about Francouz but an extra million won’t make a big deal with the cap, plus they shouldn’t have unmanageable cap problems. Soderberg will walk after next year and you’ll have Bowers on an elc to replace him, then Cole leaves the year after that. If down the line you have to lose a Kerfoot or Compher oh well, that core would still be cup caliber and you still have multiple waves of young talent coming
Forum: Armchair-GM14 avr. 2019 à 20 h 36