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

[davalanche96]

Adding player like Laughton or Pageau or Crouse or DeBrusk for the third line with Wood and Ross.

That could be amazing

 

[Hasbro]

Adding player like Laughton or Pageau or Crouse or DeBrusk for the third line with Wood and Ross.

That could be amazing

There it is!

 

[UncleRisto]

Danton Heinen is still out there.
Heinen, Suter and Caleb Jones could fill the roster well enough?

Yeah, at this point I'd go with Nosek and Heinen to fill out the 4C and depth winger spots.

Defensemen all suck, but Dumba, Jones, or Foote could add some depth.

 

[Hasbro]

Yeah, at this point I'd go with Nosek and Heinen to fill out the 4C and depth winger spots.

Defensemen all suck, but Dumba, Jones, or Foote could add some depth.

Nah. Give some of the young guys a shot then reassess at the deadline.

 

[CobraAcesS]

Agree with all except goaltending. I still have reservations about Georgiev and if he can turn it all the way up for 16 wins.

Actually there were signs he could when we were being out played, but also signs he wasn't up to the task. Hopefully he improves a bit on his consistency.

I liked that he wasn't immediately going to let in a goal when we were tilting the ice and he had to make a stop being cold.

Nah. Give some of the young guys a shot then reassess at the deadline.

I'm kinda on both sides of it, but one thing is sure. There will be injuries, and chances for those guys.

If they can get another middle six forward, and a right shot D I think they should in the end.

 

[Gumballhead]

I think getting Dumba for cheap would be a coup for this team. I just can’t see it happening though.

I thought for sure when we got the Colton thing sorted we’d see a bargain signing or two. I hate the f***en off-season.

 

[UncleRisto]

Nah. Give some of the young guys a shot then reassess at the deadline.

Nah. Because if they have even one injury, they're going to have trash bags in the lineup immediately.

 

[Freaky Styley]

technically we could sign Foote, Heinen and Nosek to 800K a piece for a total of 2.4M

gives us 3 players to fill our depth holes

 

[The Moops]

Nah. Give some of the young guys a shot then reassess at the deadline.

Ahh the old 2022 playbook

 

[dahrougem2]

Girard still has more value than a 3rd line wing and a 7th d

Have you ever actually watched Ferraro?

 

[AvalancheSpeedsters]

Have you ever actually watched Ferraro?

Ray? Yeah he’s terrible

 

[CobraAcesS]

Ray? Yeah he’s terrible

Guess I wasn't the only one to have that thought lol.

 

[AvalancheSpeedsters]

Guess I wasn't the only one to have that thought lol.

Played too much EA nhl hut games . His annoying voice is burnt in my head

 

[RampoSanta]

Nah. Give some of the young guys a shot then reassess at the deadline.

I think you have to add 1 more NHL body in the bottom 6. 12-15F is too weak/unknown in my opinion. I wouldnt be surprised if that new body ends up being a PTO type guy

 

[Balthazar]

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

 

[Gumballhead]

In the current NHL financial climate, this is the best move for him.

 

[LOFIN]

In the current NHL financial climate, this is the best move for him.

Don't think it's about the financial climate TBH. He plays a skilled game, but he's not good enough to be top-6 forward in the NHL (constantly). And his frame and playstyle won't fit in the bottom-6. And this is universal, not just with the Avalanche.

 

[obZen]

The letter N is represented 26 (if ben=benjamin) times in our forward corps. We also have two names ending in IN. Three that end in ON (and Manson and Johnson on D) Three that end in NEN.

Basically the forward lines should be this:

Olofsson-Mackinnon-Colton
Lehkonen-Johansen-Rantanen
Drouin-Center with a name ending in IN-Nichushkin
Then the outcast 4th line:
Wood-Meyers-O'Conner/Cogliano

 

[CobraAcesS]

Guess Henchy was right about the money he'd get there vs here having an impact.

Enjoyed those snipes, and the malginator nick name though lol.

 

[Hasbro]

I think you have to add 1 more NHL body in the bottom 6. 12-15F is too weak/unknown in my opinion. I wouldnt be surprised if that new body ends up being a PTO type guy

Well you got a good two months to shop around.

The letter N is represented 26 (if ben=benjamin) times in our forward corps. We also have two names ending in IN. Three that end in ON (and Manson and Johnson on D) Three that end in NEN.

Basically the forward lines should be this:

Olofsson-Mackinnon-Colton
Lehkonen-Johansen-Rantanen
Drouin-Center with a name ending in IN-Nichushkin
Then the outcast 4th line:
Wood-Meyers-O'Conner/Cogliano

Ye gods! Quenville would love that pine up.

 

[BobRossColton]

Capfriendly comments on it are little more levelheaded
There was 17.5mil(not including Gabe's) next off-season according to an 87.5 cap room. All we'd have to resign Kunin, Toews, D depth

Girard+OO for Kunin+Ferraro

 

[SoundwaveIsCharisma]

Capfriendly comments on it are little more levelheaded
There was 17.5mil(not including Gabe's) next off-season according to an 87.5 cap room. All we'd have to resign Kunin, Toews, D depth

Girard+OO for Kunin+Ferraro

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Why are we downgrading from Girard to not save any cap space?

 

[expatriatedtexan]

I was waiting for Colton to be signed to do this, so here's my humble pie post.

MacFarland upgraded 2C and 3C, at the same price tag as Compher/Newhook got, and not only did he hold on to all his LHD and his first rounder he picked up another first rounder in the process and added two first round prospects to the pipline. Hell of a summer from him, I didn't think we'd have anywhere near this good of a summer coming out of his terrible first year.

There are still some things I'm crossing my fingers on, I actually have more confidence in Drouin at MacKinnon's wing than I do of RyJo at 2C. The Avs really need RyJo to work out or all of this is for nothing. Colton at 3C with Wood on his wing is going to be f***ing awesome. It's going to be nice to have proper depth again.

Also, why the f*** is McDermid on this roster? That (almost) 1 million could be really useful right now.

I used to not be upset one bit if KMac was the healthy scratch. In fact, I prefer him to be scratched and have everyone else playing either in the NHL or AHL. If you pay a guy to sit, you pay KMac. But we have better options now. Brad Hunt can also play 4th line forward or either side D and, in my opinion, do so better than KMac and the upside is he's 225K cheaper.

 

[Richard Doll]

The letter N is represented 26 (if ben=benjamin) times in our forward corps. We also have two names ending in IN. Three that end in ON (and Manson and Johnson on D) Three that end in NEN.

Basically the forward lines should be this:

Olofsson-Mackinnon-Colton
Lehkonen-Johansen-Rantanen
Drouin-Center with a name ending in IN-Nichushkin
Then the outcast 4th line:
Wood-Meyers-O'Conner/Cogliano

I think Rant will need to be second line to give Johansen a stud to run with, and to have a defensive focused player on the top line, in either Nuke or Leky.


**edit** I actually somehow managed to reply to the wrong post, there was another post that had Mac, Drouin and Rants as top line and Leky, RyJo and Nuke as the second line, that I had intended to quote..