2019 Offseason Rebuild Thread, Pt. 2 - What's the Yzerplan?

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3 minutes ago, ChristopherReevesLegs said:

And Brendan Smith

Adam Fox is actually good tho.

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2 minutes ago, Dabura said:

Adam Fox is actually good tho.

for shame...

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Just now, krsmith17 said:

for shame...

Now if only more people would sign with the Leafs, then we'd finally have true Parity™.

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4 minutes ago, Dabura said:

Adam Fox is actually good tho.

SHUT UP I FORGOT HIM

Funny that Smitty has kinda become the Rags Witkowski thou

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Just now, ChristopherReevesLegs said:

SHUT UP I FORGOT HIM

Funny that Smitty has kinda become the Rags Witkowski thou

Didn't he punch one of his teammates when he was with the Rangers' AHL team?

Glad to see things have worked out for him, I guess.

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4 minutes ago, Dabura said:

Didn't he punch one of his teammates when he was with the Rangers' AHL team?

Glad to see things have worked out for him, I guess.

Yeah he supposedly showed up to training camp super fat that year too

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9 minutes ago, ChristopherReevesLegs said:

Yeah he supposedly showed up to training camp super fat that year too

All things considered, he's gotta be pretty happy with how things have turned out.

F***ing Rangers.

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Hopefully the Yzerplan doesn't include Datsyuk on the ice

[ChristopherReevesLegs 7,022]

Going into the summer we know Tampa will be in Cap Hell and we could possibly take on an old Callahan + picks

But what about the Washington Capitals? They might be in a worse cap situation.

They will enter the summer with a $70 mil cap hit. With the cap going up to $83 mil that will give them roughly $13 million in cap space to make moves.

Here are the big players they have to re-sign:

• Burakovsky - Should command at least $2
• Connolly - Should command at least $3
• Vrana - Should command at least $4
• Djoos - Should command at least $2

I think I'm being very conservative with those numbers too

They will also have around 5 other roster spots (not counting the sports from the players I listed) to fill which should constitute about another $5 mill in player contracts.

So they should have around $8 mill to re-sign those 4 players and I'm guessing at least 1 gets forced out. Could be Connolly because he's the only UFA, the other one I'm guessing it might be is Burakovsky since he had a down year by his standards.

I'm not overly interested in any of them, but maybe Yzerman could make strike a deal for one to ease their cap issues before FA.

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Another one to look at is San Jose. They still have to re-sign a lottttttttt of players. Even if Jumbo Joe retires it could get messy there.

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11 minutes ago, ChristopherReevesLegs said:

Another one to look at is San Jose. They still have to re-sign a lottttttttt of players. Even if Jumbo Joe retires it could get messy there.

We could take that Nyquist guy.

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1 hour ago, ChristopherReevesLegs said:

Going into the summer we know Tampa will be in Cap Hell and we could possibly take on an old Callahan + picks

But what about the Washington Capitals? They might be in a worse cap situation.

They will enter the summer with a $70 mil cap hit. With the cap going up to $83 mil that will give them roughly $13 million in cap space to make moves.

Here are the big players they have to re-sign:

• Burakovsky - Should command at least $2
• Connolly - Should command at least $3
• Vrana - Should command at least $4
• Djoos - Should command at least $2

I think I'm being very conservative with those numbers too

They will also have around 5 other roster spots (not counting the sports from the players I listed) to fill which should constitute about another $5 mill in player contracts.

So they should have around $8 mill to re-sign those 4 players and I'm guessing at least 1 gets forced out. Could be Connolly because he's the only UFA, the other one I'm guessing it might be is Burakovsky since he had a down year by his standards.

I'm not overly interested in any of them, but maybe Yzerman could make strike a deal for one to ease their cap issues before FA.

I think Connolly could be a good pickup. I don't like that he didn't want to go to the White House; to me, that's not being a true team player. In that regard, I think he's a dingus. But in terms of his actual hockey stuff, he could be a low-risk, high-reward addition. FWIW, Yzerman is the one who drafted him (6th overall). Dunno if that would be a factor for either party. It's possible.

Calgary might be another team worth looking at, as they have a surplus of defensemen and are in need of some scoring punch. Maybe see if we could get one of Rasmus Andersson, Oliver Kylington, Juuso Valimaki without giving up one of our top forwards.

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39 minutes ago, Dabura said:

I think Connolly could be a good pickup. I don't like that he didn't want to go to the White House; to me, that's not being a true team player. In that regard, I think he's a dingus. But in terms of his actual hockey stuff, he could be a low-risk, high-reward addition. FWIW, Yzerman is the one who drafted him (6th overall). Dunno if that would be a factor for either party. It's possible.

Calgary might be another team worth looking at, as they have a surplus of defensemen and are in need of some scoring punch. Maybe see if we could get one of Rasmus Andersson, Oliver Kylington, Juuso Valimaki without giving up one of our top forwards.

So Calgary is gonna have roughly $7 million to spend on re-signing Rittich, Bennett, and Tkachuk, assuming that they drop Mike Smith or re-sign him for cheap cheap. That's also assuming they fall back on Rittich and don't go goalie shopping, which would lower that $7 mill.

They might be worse off than the Caps...

I assume Rittich can prolly get at least $2 mill, Bennett $2 mill, and Tkachuk $6 mill.

I honestly don't think they'll trade a young Dman. I think they'll try to off load an older more expensive guy on their D core, or James Neal and give away picks with him. That would free them up to get their young ones under contract and also solidify the net which they really need.

 

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didn't see a 2nd round thread for SJ v. COL, so I will put this here since it has to do with off season stuff.  At first I was not hoping the Sharks advance, but while looking around I was reminded of the Nyquist trade conditions:

 

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Detroit Red Wings Acquire:

2019 2nd round pick (SJS - #60)

2020 conditional 3rd round pick* (SJS)

*Conditions: The 2020 3rd round pick will upgrade to a 2020 2nd round pick if the Sharks advance to the Stanley Cup Final or if Nyquist re-signs with the Sharks.

 

 

 

So, I now hope that SJ at least makes it to the Finals so we can get the upgraded 2nd rounder! ( I know its a 2020 pick, but didn't want to start a 2020 off season thread yet!  )

 

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1 hour ago, LeftWinger said:

didn't see a 2nd round thread for SJ v. COL, so I will put this here since it has to do with off season stuff.  At first I was not hoping the Sharks advance, but while looking around I was reminded of the Nyquist trade conditions:

 

 

 

So, I now hope that SJ at least makes it to the Finals so we can get the upgraded 2nd rounder! ( I know its a 2020 pick, but didn't want to start a 2020 off season thread yet!  )

 

Lets go Sharkies, Jumbo needs a cup

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Holland could be headed to Edmonton. Everyone's talking about it on the hockey twitter.

Probably not gonna happen, but who knows.

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1 hour ago, Dabura said:

 

I doubt Holland goes anywhere thou

[LeftWinger 4,953]

Now that the Isles have swept out, due to lack of veteran leadership, they'll be calling soon for the price of getting Nielsen back.

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Holland is still under contract. If EDM wants him, they need to give us something.

9 minutes ago, LeftWinger said:

Now that the Isles have swept out, due to lack of veteran leadership, they'll be calling soon for the price of getting Nielsen back.

Wishful thinking. Why would Nielsen want to go there?

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6 minutes ago, Neomaxizoomdweebie said:

Holland is still under contract. If EDM wants him, they need to give us something.

Wishful thinking. Why would Nielsen want to go there?

Better question is why would the Isles want him?

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55 minutes ago, Neomaxizoomdweebie said:

Holland is still under contract. If EDM wants him, they need to give us something.

Pretty sure that's not a thing anymore...

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1 hour ago, krsmith17 said:

Pretty sure that's not a thing anymore...

Oh its a thing. Its a big thing. Are we talking about hockey?

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4 minutes ago, Neomaxizoomdweebie said:

Oh its a thing. Its a big thing. Are we talking about hockey?

Think he's talking about compensation for staff. I believe they did away with it after a few weird seasons of it.

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3 minutes ago, ChristopherReevesLegs said:

Think he's talking about compensation for staff. I believe they did away with it after a few weird seasons of it.

Babcock?