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https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/blues-tender-offer-sheets-to-oilers-broberg-and-holloway/

There is this one as well https://capwages.com/

Aren’t you only able to extend a player when they have only 1 year remaining on their deal? Or does that not apply to an entry level deal?

This was posted on the HOF boards during our hiatus. My question is simple, if the Wings fire Blashill would you be open to bringing Babcock back?

Maybe….let them battle it out, competition doesn’t hurt anybody.

33 years old, 55 points in 76 games. I have no idea how good he is on D, but assuming he's average my guess would be he's asking for 6mil-7mil but end up settling for 5mil-6mil.

Does this place even have mods anymore?

Ok, then Holl gets send down or he's a healthy scratch. We're still fine. Side note, Shayne Gostisbehere is a Hurricane

Not really. I see Campbell going to the AHL to be in a tandem with Cossa, Lyon will be our 3rd goalie/healthy scratch), and our main tandem will be Talbot/Husso. As for D, we have Chairot/Mo, Simon/Petry, Olli/Gus with Holl as the 7th D-man/healthy scratch. If we call up a kid, we send Holl to the AHL.

Agreed. Also we only had Kane for about half a season, had we had him the entire year I imagine we are even better then 9th. Scoring was not our issue.

Talbot is old, but he’s much better than Reimer. In all honesty, I expect him to start this year over Husso and Lyon.

When did we re-sign Fischer?

Oh s*** sorry, I thought that was a typo and you meant Matt Duchene.

Agreed, but he came out a few weeks ago and and said he wanted to stay in Dallas and was willing to take take a paycut.

I know everyone wants to see the flashy move on July 1st, but most cup winning teams win via drafting/developing and/or major trades (ie. Vegas/Eichel, Florida/Tkachuk etc.) most contracts handed out today end up being anchors.

Perron to the Sens....2 years, 8 mil.

Very happy with this contract. His upside is huge, and if his hip goes there are no long term cap issues. We arent 1 point shy of the playoffs last year without him.

For a second I thought @DickieDunn was back lol

Very fair point, especially based on Det & TO. Just to play devils advocate, he did take the 03 Ducks within 1 game of winning a cup with what I believe was a very young team, Oates and Stumpy being the exceptions.

https://www.tsn.ca/chelios-leaving-red-wings-organization-1.1143010

Here are the facts: Toews is 28 years old, and is signed until 2023 (6 seasons after this year) to a cap hit of 10.5 million per year which along with Kane is the largest cap hit in the NHL. The cap-hits for the big 5 are collectively 39.4 million. Kane - $10,500,000 Toews - $10,500,000 Seabrook - $6,875,000 Keith - $5,538,462 Crawford - $6,000,000 Here is my opinion: Being swept, and losing for the second year in a row in the first round signals that this core likely cannot win a cup again unless something changes as this core is not getting any younger or any better then what they are. Now I don't think by any stretch this team is going to be bad, what I am wondering is can they win the cup keeping the team as is. This kind of reminds me of us back in 2010/2011, we were good but unless our kids broke out (ie. Nyquist, Sheahan, Tatar etc.), we were headed for a major regression. I think a re-build/tank job is stupid as they still have ALOT of talent, and with some good moves likely can win another cup. What the question becomes, is what are those moves. What is fact, is moving Toews and his 10.5mil cap-hit opens up a lot of opportunity. The closest example I can think of to this situation in that a team could get better by moving on from their star is in baseball when the Cardinals let Albert Pujols walk opposed to giving him 30mil for 10 years. At the time Pujols was elite (a much better player in MLB then Toews today in the NHL), but all signs pointed towards a regression. Long story short they let him walk to LAA and now his contract with LA is considered one of the worst in all of sports. Obviously that was a UFA situation and this would require a trade, but the point is there. Right now Toews has trade value, and like the Cardinals in 2012 they have the ability to move on from him as I would put money on it that some team out there would take on that contract. If I am a Hawks fan, I want the Hawks to be like the Cardinals of 2012, not the Angels of 2012. I think we can all agree that you don't trade Kane, as much as I despise him he is one of the best offensive players in the NHL. Keith and Seabrook are staples on D (I would love to have those 2 here), plus their cap hits combined are only about 2mil more then Toews alone. You could trade Crawford if you feel Darling is ready, but putting a kid in goal when you are a team who's objective every year is the cup can be a big risk. 60 points a year now appears to be Toews ceiling and his Selke days seem to be behind him. For the poll, I am looking at what people think is the right move, not what they want to happen. If I am telling you what I want, I want them to keep him as I think it hurts them, and there is nothing more I want then for Chicago to fall into a situation where they cannot win for a long time. What do you all think?

http://www.tsn.ca/leafs-trade-kessel-to-penguins-in-multi-player-deal-1.322900

Sorry, what I meant was who is more deserving then him that wasn't already in the HOF. So essentially Hextall, Vanbiesbrouck, Cujo, Potvin, Richter, Osgood, and Khabibulan in your opinion. My thoughts are this, I've always thought the bar for goalies is ridiculously high when it comes to the HOF. They let a ton of goalies in from the old days, but in modern hockey (lets say last last 30 years) its just Fuhr, Hasek, Roy, Belfour and Brodeur. There is no way only 5 goalies in 3 decades should get in when the bar is nowhere close to as high for skaters or the previous generation. http://hockeygoalies.org/awards/halloffame.html Is he the most deserving goalie of the goalies eligible? That's a fair question, probably not. I definitely think Cujo, Hextall, and Osgood are more deserving, I disagree with Potvin. As for Vanbiesbrouck, Richter, and Khabibulan, I don't know as I think I would have to do a deep dive. I think of all four of those guys in a similar tier.

Out of curiosity, who? I assume Cujo is one.

My statement wasn't saying he is or isn't a HOFer, it was responding to the notion that he was never a top 5 goalie in any particular season. He was.