I don't think that's the punishment you think it is.
I know it is one 10s video, but he looked not good in this
Any medical tea leaf readers want to speculate, given his interview answers and his video here? I thought he looked good except for a bit labored on the straightaway at the end. I heard someone say sports hernia, but maybe it's another hip injury.
not teams with Crosby and Malkin, both of whom are highly unlikely to get dealt to another team and are lifelong players.
Well this is a teal glasses take.
His play right now is a 2C on a #1 PP of a bad team. His value to a playoff team at the deadline will be for a middle six winger most likely. I don't think anyone that's competing right now would want Granlund as anything more than a 3C or a 2W. With his extra year, I don't believe his value is all that much knowing that the Sharks would be unlikely to retain on him if he was dealt now tying up all their retention slots for this and next season. Under that scenario, that's probably a 4th round pick return...maybe.
Issue is Colorado is not accruing any cap space. So the $3.35M they have now is the same they'll have at the TDL because they're using LTIR on Landeskog. They also have no cap space for next year either so it's tough to see a deal come together there with their cap situation.
MacFarland has really done a piss poor job since taking over. Johansen, Wood and Tatar are basically a waste of $8 million.
Johansen at 4 wasn’t a bad gamble at all considering it cost them nothing. But expecting him to be a second line center was asking too much.
Johansen has been cooked for years. 4 million for 1 year might have been a justifiable gamble (IMO still much better ways to spend that cap space) but they're stuck with him for another season after this one. Nashville should have paid them a pick to take him even at 50% retention tbh.
I'd take that and run. We might be able to retain another 50% and flip RyJo for a 3rd or 4th or something at the 2025 deadline too. Also RyJo doesn't appear to have any trade protection so he can't even block it.
The cost isn’t just for Granlund but also for moving RyJo and his 4 a year off the books.
No matter how well Granlund does this season, I have a feeling trading him will be hampered by not only his additional contract year, but also how poorly he did last year after being traded to the Pens. Teams might look at him and think he's bad at adjusting to new systems or situations, especially mid-season. But we'll see...it only takes one.
That is valid. He also was a pretty big non factor when he was traded from Minnesota to Nashville mid-season.
We have like $37 million in cap space with nobody significant to re-sign, it doesn't really matter. Pavs is still a point per game scorer and deserves the money more than anyone else. It would be like that year DW gave Thornton $8 million because he had nothing else to spend it on.
It'll also be harder to move even with max retention. 6 Million should and would be the most we can reasonably give him, which is far more than he's made the last two years.
Double retention exists. Teams will pay for it to get Pavs for a playoff run.
Pavs won’t come back to the Sharks. And I wouldn’t if I were him either. Sharks completely dishonored him.
