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Didn’t really get goalied. Oettinger was better than Georgiev but not by much. The games were one or two goal difference in the whole series.
Rumor: 2024-2025 Trade Rumors and Free Agency - Offseason Edition
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Girard Manson is a perfectly adequate second pair for under 10 millions cap.
It's really a shame EJ made so much while being at best a #4 during the contention window. Without that boat anchor of a contract I wonder what could have been.
If they can stay healthy and consistent that Colton Wood LOC line as a third line is actually ok too.
It's really a shame EJ made so much while being at best a #4 during the contention window. Without that boat anchor of a contract I wonder what could have been.
If they can stay healthy and consistent that Colton Wood LOC line as a third line is actually ok too.
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Even if true, how do we resign Ullmark in a year when his contract is up? Avs didn’t want to give Kuemper 5 mill, are they willing to give Ullmark 7 or 8 mill? I don’t see it
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The problem is while we all know Nuke is gone. For league purposes he can't be gone until he's out of chances. Which means they have to keep his cap hit over the summer.
Makes life trickier for Cmac. Not impossible but just another kick in the balls from Nuke as he's walking out the door.
Oh he was definitely better by a fair margin, but Dallas was still the better team.
Nah, 2,5M contracts don't kill a team. It's not optimal, but if it was like 750k less annually no one would have any complaints.
Nichushkin esque foolishness or giving 13M+ for Mikko are things that cost teams.
He does not currently count against the cap. And will not count until he's reinstated.
But, more than that, he'll be terminated or moved before he ever plays a game again.
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Wishful thought for the day. November 13th, Nuke is activated and traded to Utah for Crouse. We get Nuke out of the locker-room for a reasonably priced big bodied forward. Utah gets a pretty massive upgrade at wing but takes on risk. Would Ryan Smith as a new owner have an appetite for that kind of risk in Utah even if it meant a massive upgrade in talent? They did just cut ties with Adam Ruzicka and I doubt Smith would've stood for drafting Mitch Miller, but one can still hope.
Ya there's no chance we get any sort of value for Nuke at this point.
Honestly I think if the Avs could us the 2024 1st to dump Nuke right now, they'd probably take that.
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If he's not counting against the cap until he's terminated that's a big relief.
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Get Varly. He’s actually making less than Georgiev and you don’t have to give up a lot to get him. He is 36 though. He’ll still be an upgrade over Georgiev for another year or two
Once Girard was back we got better at once.
And If we had, say Annunen, Alnefelt and Larmi or Genoni chances are good we'd get good goaltending from one of them. Takes a few picks, though. But Georgiev is fine for one more season. Maybe a cheap signing after that as well, our friend George.
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You said "improve". I'm sorry, but if you want to improve the position, that means no half measures who may or may not be slightly better than Georgiev. It's Markström, Ullmark, or Saros. Otherwise you keep Georgiev.
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We just can’t afford any of those goalies you mentioned. Avs aren’t gonna trade Mikko to make room for a goalie who they gonna pay 8 mill. Goaltending is such a weird position, paying that much money for one is a mistake
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So you keep rolling with Georgiev. After all, he was the least of our problems vs Stars.
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No real relief if you don't know if he can be terminated or how much is the cap penalty for doing it. Those things don't just evaporate.
Just last year Perry had a 4M cap hit and the Hawks got a 1.99M cap penalty for terminating his contract.
Yeah. He doesn't count at all until he gets reinstated, and when he does get reinstated it's only for the prorated cap hit for the remained of the season. Assuming it's exactly 6 months after he was placed in the program, that would be November 14th which is ~30/180 days into the season or 1/6th of the way. So only 5/6ths of his contract would count for this year. Basically $5M.
So they have his entire $6.125M to work with this summer. And quite frankly we know he isn't coming back at all. Whether it's contract termination or trade or whatever direction, he's played his last game for the Avs.
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I have a feeling they would rather have an undermanned roster by telling him to just stay away, if they can't work out a trade or a termination immediately. But he's not coming back.
I hope the Avs make a deal with Nuke. Stay away till the playoffs. Try to stay clean for just one run and then get "injured" at some point and then LTIRetire.
He gets his bag. One last chance to go out on a high note with the team that gave him a second chance and the guys in the locker room that believed in him.
If not and his contract gets terminated or bought out I assume he'd lose money.
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I don’t mind keeping Georgiev. He only has one more year on his contract. After game 1 vs the Jets, I thought he was fine
