Rumor: 2024-2025 Trade Rumors and Free Agency - Offseason Edition

[Alienblood]

Is that a rumor or some fan proposition?

some stupid rumor site

 

[Perratrooper]

With regards to Drouin, I think the Avs would be missing out on a massive asset if they let him walk. Drouin had a much more significant impact than Colton and I think there’s a chance he accepts less than him too. If you can get Drouin on a contract of $4m or less you move pieces to make it work.

 

[Balthazar]

With regards to Drouin, I think the Avs would be missing out on a massive asset if they let him walk. Drouin had a much more significant impact than Colton and I think there’s a chance he accepts less than him too. If you can get Drouin on a contract of $4m or less you move pieces to make it work.

I agree. At 4M Drouin would easily overplay his contract and that's exactly what contenders need. You move guys that don't overplay their contracts to make room for players that do.

Girard, Manson, Colton...all of them are useful but none of them overplay their contract.

You need as many guys that are under market value as possible.

 

[NOTENOUGHRYJOTHINGS]

I agree. At 4M Drouin would easily overplay his contract and that's exactly what contenders need. You move guys that don't overplay their contracts to make room for players that do.

Girard, Manson, Colton...all of them are useful but none of them overplay their contract.

You need as many guys that are under market value as possible.

The most damn ing thing is giving up a first rounder and signing Colton to an at market contract who doesn't even fill a role that well.

 

[Perratrooper]

I agree. At 4M Drouin would easily overplay his contract and that's exactly what contenders need. You move guys that don't overplay their contracts to make room for players that do.

Girard, Manson, Colton...all of them are useful but none of them overplay their contract.

You need as many guys that are under market value as possible.

Exactly, it is a massive assumption that Drouin would take $4m or less just given the fact that he could probably go to Chicago and get $5-6m, but hopefully the mental health side of it makes the payout worth it for him.

I’m probably in the minority, but I thought Girard was consistently our best defender in the playoffs and out played his contract. With that being said, Manson did a lot of small things to help Girard play that way. While they might be at their contract value, I think it’s better to hold on to that pairing.

Colton and Wood on the other hand played at or below their contracts. I felt that both were pretty unnoticeable during playoffs and I think we could get cheaper players to have a similar impact. Particularly in Wood’s case (shocker).

 

[chet1926]

With regards to Drouin, I think the Avs would be missing out on a massive asset if they let him walk. Drouin had a much more significant impact than Colton and I think there’s a chance he accepts less than him too. If you can get Drouin on a contract of $4m or less you move pieces to make it work.

It would be a huge mistake to let him walk. He proved that he is a capable top 6 player, we are super thin on that with the Nuke uncertainty, the Landy health and even Lehk will be out some to start next year.

Basically once again it's going to be do we want Girard or Drouin. Last time it was basically Kadri or Girard.

My take is Drouin due to the absolute lack of offensive depth or prospects.

 

[Perratrooper]

It would be a huge mistake to let him walk. He proved that he is a capable top 6 player, we are super thin on that with the Nuke uncertainty, the Landy health and even Lehk will be out some to start next year.

Basically once again it's going to be do we want Girard or Drouin. Last time it was basically Kadri or Girard.

My take is Drouin due to the absolute lack of offensive depth or prospects.

I see it more as Colton/Wood or Drouin. Girard in my opinion has proven he has more worth than both Colton and Wood combined.

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

I would take Ullmark here quite easily. He is very clearly an upgrade on George, but also, he has shown in Boston to be quite fine with being used in a tandem role. He would be the perfect 1A that could allow us to get Annunen more starts and more opportunities next year to see of he's at all capable of being a 1A himself. You won't be able to do that with George.

 

[the_fan]

I would take Ullmark here quite easily. He is very clearly an upgrade on George, but also, he has shown in Boston to be quite fine with being used in a tandem role. He would be the perfect 1A that could allow us to get Annunen more starts and more opportunities next year to see of he's at all capable of being a 1A himself. You won't be able to do that with George.

Then how do the Avs resign Ullmark? He won’t take anything less than 6 or 7 mill if not more

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

Then how do the Avs resign Ullmark? He won’t take anything less than 6 or 7 mill if not more

Cross that bridge next year.


But just to be clear, if you're right(Which we have no clue btw what Ullmark wants), and he wants $6M as a UFA in July 2025, that's only a $1M raise to what he'd make this year. We absolutely no question can find $1M if we wanted to re-sign him.

 

[BobRossColton]

I would take Ullmark here quite easily. He is very clearly an upgrade on George, but also, he has shown in Boston to be quite fine with being used in a tandem role. He would be the perfect 1A that could allow us to get Annunen more starts and more opportunities next year to see of he's at all capable of being a 1A himself. You won't be able to do that with George.

How do we accomplish ullmark though?

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

How do we accomplish ullmark though?

Same way you accomplish any other trade. Give Boston something they want in return.

 

[the_fan]

Cross that bridge next year.


But just to be clear, if you're right(Which we have no clue btw what Ullmark wants), and he wants $6M as a UFA in July 2025, that's only a $1M raise to what he'd make this year. We absolutely no question can find $1M if we wanted to re-sign him.

I mean if we trade for him in this offseason, it will have to be with retention. We need to trade Georgiev and get Ullmark with retention so he’s making the same 3.5 mill as George for next year.

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

I mean if we trade for him in this offseason, it will have to be with retention. We need to trade Georgiev and get Ullmark with retention so he’s making the same 3.5 mill as George for next year.

No we don't.

 

[the_fan]

No we don't.

We don’t have a lot of cap space. CMac was talking about finding players with minimum contracts, ELCs next year. He’s not gonna change Georgiev with a goalie who’s making more.

 

[the_fan]

And on 2nd thought, I don’t think Ullmark is gonna make anything less than 8 mill on his next contract. He’s a recent Vezina winner. He’s gonna get a Hellebuyck contract

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

We don’t have a lot of cap space. CMac was talking about finding players with minimum contracts, ELCs next year. He’s not gonna change Georgiev with a goalie who’s making more.

It can absolutely be done.

 

[the_fan]

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It can absolutely be done.

I don’t think Drouin will take 3.5, but if you get Ullmark with 1.5 retention and give Drouin 4.5, that might work, but again, unless they trade Mikko, no way they can afford to resign Ullmark for 8 mill AAV

 

[hockeyfish]

Ullmark has never played more than 50 games a season. I don't want to find out if he is the same dominate goaltender when asked to start 60 games.

 

[the_fan]

We don’t even know what’s gonna happen with Landy and Val. If they both back during the regular season, that’s 13 mill added to the cap

 

[the_fan]

I don’t think Avs are stupid enough to pay a goalie a lot of money after what we did to Vezina winner Hellebuyck who’s making 8.5 mill. I’d like Ullmark but he’s gonna make too much money on his next contract. So pass

 

[Perratrooper]

I know it’s been said, but man Wood’s contract is gonna f***ing cost us.

 

[SoundwaveIsCharisma]

I don’t think Avs are stupid enough to pay a goalie a lot of money after what we did to Vezina winner Hellebuyck who’s making 8.5 mill. I’d like Ullmark but he’s gonna make too much money on his next contract. So pass

We got goalied pretty good by Oettinger, so we saw both sides of that argument

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

We don’t even know what’s gonna happen with Landy and Val. If they both back during the regular season, that’s 13 mill added to the cap

Landy is a part of the team above. Nichushkin will not be back with this team.

 

[Balthazar]

Same way you accomplish any other trade. Give Boston something they want in return.

Which is a proven top 6 center.

Landy is a part of the team above. Nichushkin will not be back with this team.

and his cap hit will magically disappear