It's nothing but wishful thinking. EJ had a healthy season, lifted the cup and makes a lot of coin next season. He isn't retiring.
Why? If Wright was a projected #1C of super star calibre then maybe yes. He's not. McKenzie has said that most scouts have his upside as a 2nd line center in the NHL. That means that he's probably not reaching that level during his ELC, let alone the first year of it at 19 years old.
So the Taylor Hall route. Still don’t know why to go through all that trouble unless it’s to have the chance to play some games closer to family and friends ?
We gotta keep the band together as much as possible. Kadri and Nuke had very big impacts on us winning the cup. Teams around the league are going to want those types of players on their team as they seen the impact those guys had. Can you believe these guys coming back for those types of injuries to have the impact in the finals like they did. Teams like the Rangers and Hurricanes are going to throw money at these guys to get them on their team. Give Kadri and Nuke what they want and win the cup again next year and maybe the year after. If we can win 2-3 cups who cares after that . Retool on the fly and hope for the best. Our time is now.
You think that’s by chance or careful planning? You’re now seeing the culmination of years of effort to carefully manage the player salaries under the cap.
I wonder if the Red Wings would give us the #8 overall pick and Cossa for Girard and Newhook?
Agreed. I have repeated many times for anyone that listens that this guy is the most overrated GM in the league for the last 30+ years. Never did anything with WSH either. Why does he have such a long leash?
If the avs don’t think they have much future in Colorado it’d be a extremely shrewd mini re-tool. Gives us a bit of cap flexibility on one. Player who we think will be replaced by byram. And newhook who some don’t have much confidence on being a center I’d take Cossack add a third team and see if sm a team like Montreal would want the pick and flip us the piece we need
If it fixes a roster spot immediately then yes. I’m not up to speed on this draft class. Is 2OA a lock for a 2C to join the team?
Yeah but this was when they decided to do a mini reset. Avs don’t need to do a reset yet.
Agree. Gretzky said during one of the playoff intermissions on TNT that he thought Cernak and McDonagh was the best defense pair in the league. He was wrong, but the fact that this could be said with a straight face tells you what kind of value he has, even at that term and caphit.
We’ve seen how Sakic and MacFarland have operated so far under the salary cap carefully managing and marshaling assets over the years, refusing to acquire big names at the TDL until now. But as the team moves to a different phase of its window of contention, I would expect to see them make occasional, unexpected moves such as this to extend their window by looking for players that are more adaptable and versatile in fitting under JB’s system. Guys like Francouz, Toews, Meyers, Sedlak exemplify this outside the box type of thinking of going elsewhere to get players that might not otherwise be acquired thru the draft but Sakic has to realize our draft board and prospect pool is pretty bare. Whatever he can do to stock up in this regard would be welcome.
I really liked that prospect his draft year. Watch TB turn him into a killorn-type player.
