Injury Report: 2024-2025 Injury thread | HF’s Longest Thread Just Got Longer

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Drouin actually has north of +$35M of career earnings.

How do you equate giving Rantanen a $3M raise to "losing, LOC + Drouin + Mitts + Lehky"???
The math really isn't that hard. Each of those 4 are / will be underpaid when their UFA year arrives (next year for LOC and Drouin.) With Mikko's raise, there is not room to give either Drouin or LOC even a $1M AAV raise next year. Mitts and Lehky will be impacted by Makar's future raise the season following their UFA year. Even with the cap increases, there will not be room for raises for Mitts and Lehky. Remembeer that both Georgie and Ritchie also expire in this interval as well.

Obviously, any of this depends on the situations with Landy and Nuke. If neither return that generates about $4M AAV after replacement players.
 
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The math really isn't that hard. Each of those 4 are / will be underpaid when their UFA year arrives (next year for LOC and Drouin.) With Mikko's raise, there is not room to give either Drouin or LOC even a $1M AAV raise next year. Mitts and Lehky will be impacted by Makar's future raise the season following their UFA year. Even with the cap increases, there will not be room for raises for Mitts and Lehky. Remembeer that both Georgie and Ritchie also expire in this interval as well.

Obviously, any of this depends on the situations with Landy and Nuke. If neither return that generates about $4M AAV after replacement players.
So there are 12 variables involved in this equation, not 2. So its not Rantanen' raise will make us lose 4 players. I'm not saying his raise will not hinder the ability to keep everyone, you are absolutely correct that there will be repercussions. Its the drastic direct correlation of "will lose 4 players" that makes me cringe...
 
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We have a fairly easy schedule in October so we should be able to get by without Landy, Lehky and Val
 

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Immigration issues with Kyllington apparently, should be good to go tomorrow.
 
How is he trolling?

I tend to agree with @the_fan , the Avs should be able to get by with those 3 missing. They definitely won’t be racking up points, but should be good enough to survive and stay within fighting distance
I was just kidding. Last time a poster (forgot who it was) posted that the Avs had a soft schedule to start the season, he got challenged and it turned into a 2 pages debate...
 
I think they'll get by to start but if they don't get significant contributions from one of Landeskog/Nichushkin by December, IMO they'll be in trouble. The key is to do whatever it takes to keep the top guys from getting completely burned out.

It also comes down to goaltending. The best thing Georgie can do to keep his team from having to work so hard for wins is to not make it so they have to f***ing score four goals every night in order to have a chance. Bednar could maybe make for a better PK as well...but I've been banging that drum for years.
 

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