Prospect Info: 12th Overall 2024 Draft, LHD Zeev Buium

[P10p]

Im over being upset. Just hope for a W tonight and go from there.

Question though, if the wild win does the outrage disappear? I mean it's easy to say "you ice the best team" to throw shade but none of us know if zeev is part of the best team we can ice at this moment. He just played some grueling hockey and is really only 19 years old. We will see in the next few weeks how it shakes out I guess.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

Nothing is stopping you from offering a contract after year 2 and before year 3.

Correct. And there's nothing stopping Buium from saying "nah, I'll play out the 3rd year and see if I can't do better".

 

[AKL]

I don’t disagree with what your saying. The best teams do tend to get tons of value from ELCs. Most of the surplus value in the NHL each year is coming from ELCs. Rossi, Boldy, Faber, and Kaprizov’s ELCs single-handedly kept us competetive during the buyouts. But what I would also say is that good cap health in general is imprtant, regardless of the contract type. We need players on good value deals there’s a chance making him sign his second contract well before his theoretical prime kicks in is really advantageous for us in terms of getting out in front of a potential superstar breakout.

I'm just not as convinced that we're gonna time it that well and the difference will be 8 vs 13, as I am convinced that having that third ELC year will be more impactful.

Assuming he doesn't play in the playoffs of course. If he does play I have no problem burning it.

 

[DigitalBoldy]

Correct. And there's nothing stopping Buium from saying "nah, I'll play out the 3rd year and see if I can't do better".

If he wants to risk it, that's on him. A 3rd year breakout isn't a guarantee.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

If he wants to risk it, that's on him. A 3rd year breakout isn't a guarantee.

Neither is a 3rd year regression. Could just be that whatever contract is there after year 2 would probably still be there after year 3, so might as well take a chance on a jump.

It's not that rare to go to the end of the ELC. Makar did it, Q. Hughes did it, Seider did it.

 

[NHL1674]

Im over being upset. Just hope for a W tonight and go from there.

Question though, if the wild win does the outrage disappear? I mean it's easy to say "you ice the best team" to throw shade but none of us know if zeev is part of the best team we can ice at this moment. He just played some grueling hockey and is really only 19 years old. We will see in the next few weeks how it shakes out I guess.

If the Wild win, the question will become does he get time in the playoffs? I keep going back to Boldy being held out when he could have made a big difference against Vegas. I think it was Vegas....or was it Vancouver? My mind is mush right now.

 

[57special]

If the Wild win, the question will become does he get time in the playoffs? I keep going back to Boldy being held out when he could have made a big difference against Vegas. I think it was Vegas....or was it Vancouver? My mind is mush right now.

I would guess no, unless there are a ton of injuries.

 

[AKL]

If the Wild win, the question will become does he get time in the playoffs? I keep going back to Boldy being held out when he could have made a big difference against Vegas. I think it was Vegas....or was it Vancouver? My mind is mush right now.

If the Wild win the question is which star is Jon Merrill at the end of the night?

The Wild should win this game, and Jon Merrill figures to be a tiny part of the success. Better to know what you have in Buium so you don't have to wonder in the playoffs.

So if the Wild win I imagine the answer to your question is no.

Was Vegas btw.

 

[Wabit]

lol very close! I actually am playing a rogue, and we have a bag of holding.

Bags of holding are useful and fun.

Here's a neat trick; that will work only once if the DM is good. Slight of hand check for a rouge (as example) to get the bag over the head of the enemy (2' diameter to work with) then destroy the bag (tear it, pierce it, put another bag of holding over it, etc.).

Downside everything that was inside the bag is now lost (scattered across some astral plane). Upside is there is still a body left to loot.

 

[Al Lagoon]

Some of you guys have a very pessimistic outlook. He doesn't play as a 19 year old with 1 practice under his belt in a pivotal end of season game, and now he's gonna want to leave ASAP?