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

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RoyIsALegend said:
What's wrong with Wheeler? That bad for a buyout?

Still looked quite effective and productive whenever I saw him last season.

You also can't teach 6'5", 225 pounds, and the body/puck control he displays on the cycle and zone entry.
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As a hockey player he’s definitely got value.

Winnipeg is looking to shift the dynamic of their locker room. It looks like Wheeler was apart of that.
 
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Wheeler can be effective for another year if his minutes are limited and he’s used as a specialist on the PP.

Do not confuse his 55 points last year with him being a guy who can be our solution in the top six. His even strength minutes need to be limited and managed.

I don’t see him as a fit in the Avs system.
 
Answering my own question: seems like the NHL is very unlikely to let a franchise negotiate and pay to buyout a KHL player's contract.

However, KHL players' contracts can be mutually terminated. A Wash pick reached such an arrangement earlier this year.

Edit: I can't find great documentation, but a Eurolanche interview with Mironov back in 2017 suggests his KHL team let him leave for the NHL.
 
RoyIsALegend said:
What's wrong with Wheeler? That bad for a buyout?

Still looked quite effective and productive whenever I saw him last season.

You also can't teach 6'5", 225 pounds, and the body/puck control he displays on the cycle and zone entry.
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I’d take Wheeler over Patches easily. Throw him next to Mack and Lehky and he can float himself to 70pts.
 
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hawk30 said:
Answering my own question: seems like the NHL is very unlikely to let a franchise negotiate and pay to buyout a KHL player's contract.

However, KHL players' contracts can be mutually terminated. A Wash pick reached such an arrangement earlier this year.

Edit: I can't find great documentation, but a Eurolanche interview with Mironov back in 2017 suggests his KHL team let him leave for the NHL.
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Mironov left Dynamo Moscow, Mirosnichenko left Omsk. I have no knowledge of this, but I worry about Fedotov and Michkov being with CSKA Moscow and SKA St. Petersburg.

(In case someone doesn't know, SK stands for sports club, and then there's this one affiliated institution that starts with an A that's pretty active these days.)
 
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Also on the subject of the offseason so far.

Many here were critical of what CMac did during last off season and during the TDL. I was one of them. He and the entire hockey ops (including Joe) failed last season.

So far he's made some savvy moves this offseason. Turning a player with no path to the Top-6 (Newhook), who was going to be stuck in and miscast in a bottom 6 role into someone who is MUCH better suited for that role is a win. Getting another 1st round pick is a great bonus.

Taking a swing on RyJo for 2 years and 4M AAV is the type of ballsy move we wanted from him. It was good business because he'd have spent more than that in UFA or in a trade for a more surefire piece.

I don't fault him for making the two 1st round picks, because not a single other team made ANY moves during the 1st round. You can't make a team trade with you.

I will give a fault, and it's more an organizational thought and less a CMac fault (because Joe also didn't do this): they should always be trading away the rights to pending UFA's that they're not signing. Don't care if all you get is a 5/6/7, if you've made the decision to not keep the player, get something for them.
 
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RoyIsALegend said:
I don’t know, I’m just talking shit atm.
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RockLobster said:
Also on the subject of the offseason so far.

Many here were critical of what CMac did during last off season and during the TDL. I was one of them. He and the entire hockey ops (including Joe) failed last season.

So far he's made some savvy moves this offseason. Turning a player with no path to the Top-6 (Newhook), who was going to be stuck in and miscast in a bottom 6 role into someone who is MUCH better suited for that role is a win. Getting another 1st round pick is a great bonus.

Taking a swing on RyJo for 2 years and 4M AAV is the type of ballsy move we wanted from him. It was good business because he'd have spent more than that in UFA or in a trade for a more surefire piece.

I don't fault him for making the two 1st round picks, because not a single other team made ANY moves during the 1st round. You can't make a team trade with you.

I will give a fault, and it's more an organizational thought and less a CMac fault (because Joe also didn't do this): they should always be trading away the rights to pending UFA's that they're not signing. Don't care if all you get is a 5/6/7, if you've made the decision to not keep the player, get something for them.
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I think that last point is similar to the one about the draft, though.

The Avs can't force J.T. Compher to tell them where he is signing. I am assuming teams acquiring a player's rights have already been given permission to speak with that player with the intention of re-signing them, and that player agrees.

Maybe J.T.C wants to be wined and dined on July 1st? Who knows. But we can't force teams to accept our UFAs for picks.
 
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