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.
I think Evans is going to cost more than what you think
Friedman is already saying Evans ask is a 2nd. There is going to be multiple teams in that conversation. Good chance that gets bumped to a 1st. If that becomes the price for Evans, it would be better to directly address the scoring issues and pay the premium for Tolvanen or Bjorkstrand if Francis is making them available. That's kind of my point. I like Evans and think he would be a great fit, but the cost if it gets pushed to 1st range, its not worth it to pay that and still not address the scoring issues. Evans shooting at 20% playing 15.5 minutes a game and might get close to 20 goals this season. I don't like that high shooting percentage, it was like Coleman coming and his shooting percentage dropping but his defensive game completely made up for it. We have enough defensive forwards, we need scoring depth and I don't see Evans being that solution for scoring depth and what he will cost is going to should push us to actually address scoring. But hey, I am just dumb internet shit poster, so I could be completely wrong (most likely).
Cool, and if he does, JBB can simply move on to working on acquiring someone else. I wouldn't pay more than a 2nd+mid round pick/B prospect,/lower level roster player to balance e salary if needed, so if some team wants to trade a 1st or more for him, they can have him.
I pretty much agree. I wouldn't pay a 1st for him either. Bjorkstrand has been my too target for a while as well. I still think having players like Evans and Armia are the types that help a team push through in the playoffs (at least how they are playing now), but not players you break the bank to acquire (no more Jeannot blunders please). I'm not as worried about re-signing either, should they be acquired, as with the cap increasing, the space would be there.
Did Friedman report the decision was made last season on Sergachev? Seems like that's not how it actually played out. We only got Mcadonagh because he requested it.
I'd hire Pat Maroon just to give speeches on the team bus.
Friedman broke that Tampa had interest in Hanifin and then later that they had interest in Guenztel. It seems now with hindsight that Tampa had plans to trade Sergy as far back as that TDL when they had interest in Hanifin. Not saying they were going to trade Sergy before the TDL but just that the idea was there that he could be moved in the offseason. When they weren't able to get Hanifin they looked at other options and McDonagh who had interest in coming back to Tampa was an option.
