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AJgoal

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  1. I actually see this as a good thing. If Patrick was worried about whether he'd play this coming season, he'd be more apt to go for maybe a two year deal. By just signing his QO, it tells me he thinks he'll play and play well enough to earn a bigger contract after next season.
  2. Patrick signed his QO. Just leaves Myers. https://www.nhl.com/flyers/news/flyers-center-nolan-patrick-accepts-qualifying-offer/c-319470032
  3. If Winnipeg turned down Pesce and Necas plus #13 this year like @OccamsRazor mentioned, I'm not sure the Flyers can match that with Ghost as part of the deal. While I like Ghost almost as much as Pesce, I doubt other GMs are going to let Fletcher get the same value, even if they feel the same. So that means you have to offer a better forward than Necas. With Patrick's future uncertain and Frost an unproven commodity, that leaves Konecny or Lindblom, and neither helps Winnipeg at center where they really need it. And that's good, because I want nothing to do with Laine.
  4. I got nothing. If you hate Ghost, you just signed a worse version of him. If you like him, where does this guy fit?
  5. Winnipeg should have taken that and ran.
  6. Theodore is a lefty though, which doesn't really fit the mold of what AV seems to really want, LH/RH on each pair. Otherwise you can just move Sanheim, Ghost, or Hagg to the right side without making a trade. Plus, I'd expect Vegas wants no salary coming back, which would make things dicey on the cap in this direction. And for those that worry about these things (I don't), Theodore's contract extends past next season, so that means you now have Provorov/Sanheim/Myers/Ghost/Theodore that you need to decide amongst for expansion. I'd be interested to see if St. Louis is open to dealing Parayko in order to get under the cap. Had a bit of a down year last year, but is a righty, makes $5.5 million for the next two years. But St. Louis could take some money back, so if you send them a Hagg/Raffl/Laughton the other way to make the money work on this end it will work for them too.
  7. If we're looking at 4C, I'd strongly consider Linus Wallmark. Florida didn't qualify him, but he's got consistently good defensive numbers. You could deploy him like Thompson but actually expect him to be effective. Wennberg is interesting, as well. Generally good possession metrics, not a big goal scorer, but put up some really good point totals early in his career. Koivu's not terrible as a 1 year defensive guy, either, but there's no potential for upside there anymore. Manson from Anaheim is a guy I'd like to kick the tires on, see if they'd make him available.
  8. @flyercanuck Watch Foerster a lot? Thoughts?
  9. The other part of this trade that gets ignored is the fact that it leaves Calgary with $10 million to sign four forwards, two defensemen, and a goalie. In order to balance it out, the rumor has been that Lucic would be attached as a cap dump. Ha has three more years at 5.25 million remaining.
  10. Man, Svechnikov leaves with an ankle injury that looked BAD.
  11. Apparently he'd always been ambivalent about the whole thing. The other day he said it didn't feel like the playoffs to him. It just seems like he doesn't have the mentality for the bubble. And that's perfectly fine.
  12. I find it hard to blame Rask. If anything, he tried to put his concerns aside to help his teammates, and it just got to be too much. Not everyone is built for the life the players are leading right now. 100% ok with this choice.
  13. Well, the Leafs series should give some idea of how the Jackets approach things. That game 4 collapse would have killed a lot of teams. Jackets only came out and pitched a shutout. It wasn't what you would call an exclamation point win, but it was still a pretty impressive effort. I expected them to bounce back well in this one.
  14. Jake to the 3rd line with Grant and NAK, Farabee stays on L1. Ghost stays in. As optimal as you can make the lineup without moving Laughton off the wing IMO.
  15. What about if you pro-rate Mathews' season?
  16. Will he score 60 goals though?
  17. Let me rephrase: There's no way the Leafs can make a trade that makes sense. There are three teams that can absorb Marner's hit next year: New Jersey, LA, and Ottawa. None of those have pieces that should interest the Leafs in exchange for Marner. That means that they're going to have to take back salary, and that makes their life much more difficult.
  18. Nobody is picking up Marner at his cap hit in a flat cap world.
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