Rumor: 2023-2024 Trade Rumors and Free Agency: Off-season is in full swing

[Balthazar]

Did we trade all our 2023 picks + Girard for Clayton Keller yet?

 

[UncleRisto]

Newhook gone, Compher about to be re-signed, Johansen in... What a great week this has been

 

[LOFIN]

It's really not bad since you get him from age 25 to 33 and the cap should go up significantly in the next 8 years.

He turned 25 a couple of days ago...that's very different than signing an 8 year deal with a 29 or 30 yo. That's similar to Matthew Tkachuk last year.

I mean PLD vs Bo Horvat? It's the same contract.

Yeah...

 

[The Abusement Park]

Blackwood the Sharks for a 6th.

 

[Ararana]

Did we trade all our 2023 picks + Girard for Clayton Keller yet?

Girard + 27OA for Lundell.

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

 

[redacted]

@henchman21 you’re slipping my friend. JK

Well, that’s better value than most people predicted in here.

Curious to see if CMac is giving his scouting teams some work, or possibly flipping 1 or both of these picks for something.

Accurate, happy to see it though!

 

[AvalancheSpeedsters]

Welcome to jersey Hellebuyck

 

[BobRossColton]

27+31 for Dawson Mercer+

 

[AvalancheSpeedsters]

Girard + 27OA for Lundell.

Oh man please please please

 

[Balthazar]

Welcome to jersey Hellebuyck

Probably explains why the Devils are working on a Sharangovich sign and trade. Jets want a player on a long term contract.

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

Another factor in the Newhook trade that I didn't think about before now.... The 3C spot actually is wide open as of right now.


Does JTC re-sign or is that the next trade we make?


Imagine if CMac went and got Laughton for #27 + #37 AND got Sharangovich + #58 for #31?

 

[The Abusement Park]

27+31 for Dawson Mercer+

That plus would still be on the Avs side.

 

[The Moops]

Another factor in the Newhook trade that I didn't think about before now.... The 3C spot actually is wide open as of right now.


Does JTC re-sign or is that the next trade we make?


Imagine if CMac went and got Laughton for #27 + #37 AND got Sharangovich + #58 for #31?

Would you sign ERod @4M to be the 3C?

 

[NOTENOUGHRYJOTHINGS]

That's Alex New New Jost to you, sir!

Newerjost

Another factor in the Newhook trade that I didn't think about before now.... The 3C spot actually is wide open as of right now.


Does JTC re-sign or is that the next trade we make?


Imagine if CMac went and got Laughton for #27 + #37 AND got Sharangovich + #58 for #31?

8 x 4.5m

 

[BobRossColton]

Imagine if CMac went and got Laughton for #27 + #37 AND got Sharangovich + #58 for #31?

Wonder how much room that would leave us?

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

Would you sign ERod @4M to be the 3C?

No. But I would sign JTC


I like Compher quite a bit more then ERod.

Wonder how much room that would leave us?

Still a decent bit. Assuming Shara gets a ~$3M deal. If the plan really is to sign Drouin for cheap yo play on Macks wing, I think it's easily doable. Cheap being like $1M.

 

[Sea Eagles]

My honest and fair expectation is that they chip in here and there. Too many games last year the Avs lost because no one other than MacKinnon/Makar/Rantanen didn't show up. I said it to several other teams' fans heading in to the playoffs that the book was out on them: You shut down those three, you're likely winning the game and series.

And that's what happened.

It's fine to love the team and the players we have, but at some point you have to look at what was constructed last season and realize that it wasn't good. We lost too much depth and there just wasn't much of anything to help the Big Guys out.

You also need to look at more than just points. Malgin probably isn't a great bottom 6 player, neither is Newhook (who is now gone), etc. You need players to fill specific roles and the Avs just didn't have those players last season.

More over, I want the team to win, irrespective of whoever puts on the jersey.

Fair enough.

I want to answer respectfully, but I'm honestly too heartbroken about Alex Newhook right now.

I don't get it. He was an improving 16th overall

 

[The Moops]

I like Compher quite a bit more then ERod.

I do too, but we aren't going to get JTC <= 4M

I don't get it. He was an improving 16th overall

He literally regressed this last season

 

[RockLobster]

Fair enough.

I want to answer respectfully, but I'm honestly too heartbroken about Alex Newhook right now.

I don't get it. He was an improving 16th overall

HOW was he improving? Seriously, how? I'd argue that he plateaued at the very least if not outright had some regression.

Look--I get it, he seems like a nice guy and all that. I want him to succeed in the NHL, but he didn't fit on this club anymore. NOW, he gets an opportunity to go out and earn a nice paycheck and have a longer career, but he was going to be sorely miscast as a bottom-6 player on this team.

 

[Raucherhusten]

Still no legit 2C. But he certainly has the assets to change that now.

RyJo is as close as you get with our cap situation.

 

[Ararana]

RyJo is as close as you get with our cap situation.

They're one LHD trade away from that not being the case.

 

[Balthazar]

Still no legit 2C. But he certainly has the assets to change that now.

They aren't spending 4M on RyJo to be their 3C if that's what you're hoping for.

 

[PAZ]

Another factor in the Newhook trade that I didn't think about before now.... The 3C spot actually is wide open as of right now.


Does JTC re-sign or is that the next trade we make?


Imagine if CMac went and got Laughton for #27 + #37 AND got Sharangovich + #58 for #31?

Given the current trades... I don't think either of those players will cost that much.

It's an odd offseason where it's a buyers market by a significant margin. Quite a few teams are tearing it down (Philly, Nashville), re-tooling (Calgary, Winnipeg), accepted that they aren't contenders anymore (Washington, Boston)... there aren't many buyers out there for these depth players.

Most teams are already at the cap. There are obviously some rebuilding teams looking to get better (Ottawa, Columbus, Detroit, etc.) but the Avs have the opportunity to find some very, very good deals.

 

[Muffin]

Hey I was right

Rumor: - 2023-2024 Trade Rumors and Free Agency: Offseason Edition

for a 29-year-old guy that has never topped 18 goals and 43 points in any one season? I mean, if someone offered me that for JTC I'd take it. It's the contract... down the same path as Hagel, Goodrow, and Coleman.

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