Speculation: 2024-2025 General Discussion III: 4 nations, 4th line scoring

[JTBF81]

I'd be good with either, or both if the cap worked and the acquisition cost wasn't terrible, Evans and/or Armia. Both improve the middle/bottom 6, the pk, and have a solid 2 way game. Montreal might need to retain on Armia unless Tampa was sending salary back, but if that's the route JBB chooses to go, then it seems fine. Not interested in re-acqyiring Maroon.

 

[DFC]

Sheary for Maroon

I'll bet a few teams will go after maroon.

 

[DistantThunderRep]

I'd be good with either, or both if the cap worked and the acquisition cost wasn't terrible, Evans and/or Armia. Both improve the middle/bottom 6, the pk, and have a solid 2 way game. Montreal might need to retain on Armia unless Tampa was sending salary back, but if that's the route JBB chooses to go, then it seems fine. Not interested in re-acqyiring Maroon.

This is a sideways move at best. Our PK is near the top of the league, so is our GA. Evans is rocking a 20% shooting percentage, you think that holds up? What does Armia do considering he was waived this year and then brought back up. Going for both is wasting assets as a knee jerk reaction, and I like Evans too. Friedman is saying Montreal wants a second for Evans, multiple teams are going to jack that price up from there. If that's the price, go to Francis and get Bjorkstrand or Tolvanen by paying more. Evans or Armia don't really bring much to team if there is a bidding war. In the off season, I'm all for trying to sign UFA, but trading assets now is dumb

 

[JTBF81]

This is a sideways move at best. Our PK is near the top of the league, so is our GA. Evans is rocking a 20% shooting percentage, you think that holds up? What does Armia do considering he was waived this year and then brought back up. Going for both is wasting assets as a knee jerk reaction, and I like Evans too. Friedman is saying Montreal wants a second for Evans, multiple teams are going to jack that price up from there. If that's the price, go to Francis and get Bjorkstrand or Tolvanen by paying more. Evans or Armia don't really bring much to team if there is a bidding war. In the off season, I'm all for trying to sign UFA, but trading assets now is dumb

Evans is the same kind of add as Goodrow and to a bit of a lesser degree, Coleman. Most didn't think Hagel could keep that level of play (in terms of shooting %) up either. Not saying that Evans is on the same level as Hagel, but if Tampa looks to not go for a bigger name 2RW, adding someone like Evans for a 3rd line role is not a lateral move given the dearth of offense from the bottom 2 lines. Either Paul could move to line 2, or if Goncalves continues to dp well, it would improve the 3rd line with Paul-Evans-Geekie/Chaffee/additional add.

Armia would be secondary and more of a 4th liner/depth add, but he brings more offense than anyone else in the bottom 6 other than Paul. Bjorkstrand is still my top choice, and Tolvanen would be fine as well, but either of them will cost significantly more than either Evans or Armia, and if Francis makes either of them.available, JBB won't be the only GM submitting an offer in that case either.

If Tampa has multiple moves lined up, Evans and his cheap cap hit for this season allows Tampa more flexibility to make another move (or two), while also not paying much in the way of premium assets more than likely (and if there is a large bidding war over either, then JBB can always bow out if the price is too high for him). Neither is my preferred add, but I also wouldn't complain or think the team was worse off if JBB traded for either (provided the acquisition cost wasn't outrageous).