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

[The Abusement Park]

Cap space is precious

Not saying it isn’t. But the reasoning for expending Colton is because he’s useless.

 

[Balthazar]

Not saying it isn’t. But the reasoning for expending Colton is because he’s useless.

Is it? Anyone with a brain knows that we're going to downgrade 3C thanks to the Landy and Nuke situations.

 

[The Abusement Park]

Is it? Anyone with a brain knows that we're going to downgrade 3C thanks to the Landy and Nuke situations.

I mean CMac wouldn’t be doing his job if he wasn’t exploring every option. Just think it’d be very unlike a GM to fix his C position finally and immediately upend it.

 

[Pacman33]

Obviously our 3rd line grinder will make his triumphant return and finally fulfill his destiny while replacing colton

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

Its just gonna be really funny around here if we don't end up moving Colton. Lots of egg on faces.

 

[AslanRH]

So we're going Tyson Jost as 3C right!?!

 

[SoundwaveIsCharisma]

So we're going Tyson Jost as 3C right!?!

He will be the most dominant leader and Selke winner the league has ever seen

 

[NOTENOUGHRYJOTHINGS]

We have less money because some players take more money though.

The Avs have 2 gamebreakers in Mack and Makar. I'm OK with paying those 2 superstar money but in order to keep good depth to surround them I don't think we should be paying any winger or any other dman over 5M (with the current cap).

That means that Rants, Landy, Nuke and Toews are bad contracts to us (not at an individual level but at a team structure level).

Assuming Nuke plays you're getting a top winger at both ends of the ice who can play huge minutes and scores from the dirty areas. You absolutely take 6 million for that.

In the real world Nuke is unreliable and absent when it matters. But in theory if you can a 9 million player for 6 million you have to take it.

Rants Toews and Landy will never out play their contracts so agree with you there.

Realistically next season LOC may be the only guy in the top 9F or top 4D who provide any excess value. And that's mainly because for some reason LOC turns our 4 million dollar 3C and 2.5 million dollar 4LW into a competent line.

 

[EdAVSfan]

Its just gonna be really funny around here if we don't end up moving Colton. Lots of egg on faces.

I think a majority of people that are ok with moving Colton, was because we were under the premise that a medium sized contract HAD to be moved out this summer.

If cap space weren’t as bad an issue, i don’t think anyone would really want to move him.

But as it stands, of all the bigger contracts we have, Colton, at least to me, feels like the guy who’s the logical because he’s the only one that really isn’t ideal for his position. Hes played at 3C more out of necessity than idealistically.

Every other bigger contract is slotted in the perfect spot roster wise and is more ideal for their spot they’re occupying.

 

[Freaky Styley]

A few Leafs fans have offered Robertson + Holmberg or Jarnkrok / Liljegren for Colton. I know they aren't Treliving but we seem to make good trading partners and some combination of those assets would be nice. McMann is another guy potentially available.

I think Liljegren would be a great Walker/Byram replacement on the bottom pair who could spot duty up in the lineup, and allow us to keep Malinski as our #7. I'd want us to sign a pretty rough and tumble LHD to partner him with (i.e. Kulikov). But he seems like a guy who would thrive on the Avs.

 

[Gumballhead]

I wonder if we kick the tires on Giordano if JMFJ isn’t back for some reason or as a Caleb Jones/nachos vet.

 

[dahrougem2]

I wonder if we kick the tires on Giordano if JMFJ isn’t back for some reason or as a Caleb Jones/nachos vet.

Giordano is god awful these days. He should not occupy an NHL roster spot.

 

[AslanRH]

I think I'd prefer EJ over Gio and I only want EJ back if he's working with Cogs

 

[RockLobster]

JTC sucked partially because he was sitting on the wrong chair and now he's grossly overpaid. I don't miss him one bit.


It's right here

Easier, and cheaper, to replace a Top6 wing than it is a 3C, or possibly even a 4C if some are wanting to trade a 1st for Dowd.


So no, your link still doesn’t make sense

 

[the_fan]

Have we traded Colton yet?

 

[Anders Cain]

I think I'd prefer EJ over Gio and I only want EJ back if he's working with Cogs

I'd love to have EJ back as the league minimum vet. I know it's purely nostalgia and not much to do with his abilities but man I hate seeing him on another team . Lol

 

[dahrougem2]

Easier, and cheaper, to replace a Top6 wing than it is a 3C, or possibly even a 4C if some are wanting to trade a 1st for Dowd.


So no, your link still doesn’t make sense

If the 3C plays his role properly, sure.

Colton is not what the Avs need.

Anyone wanting to trade a 1st for Dowd is truly out of their mind.

 

[Eltuna]

I could see the Avs trading Colton but I doubt that Ritchie alone would be the plan. My out there long shot guess would be Toews as 3C for cheap

 

[hockeyfish]

I heard a rumor that when Ross Colton pays for dinner at a restaurant, he fill out the tip line with "get a real job."

 

[Mighty Makar]

I could see the Avs trading Colton but I doubt that Ritchie alone would be the plan. My out there long shot guess would be Toews as 3C for cheap

Toews and Kane reunion in Denver?

 

[Balthazar]

I heard a rumor that when Ross Colton pays for dinner at a restaurant, he fill out the tip line with "get a real job."

Where did you hear that?

 

[hockeyfish]

Where did you hear that?

I can't tell you. But it gets worse. I heard that Ross Colton, when he meets a new dog, he calls it a bad dog, even if the dog has been good,

 

[expatriatedtexan]

Toews and Kane reunion in Denver?

It's amazing how little respect I have for those two now.

 

[AllAboutAvs]

If we put the right guys on Ritchie's wings I think he will be fine...at least until the deadline.

Land/Lehky - Ritchie - LOC IMO has very good potential.

 

[EscapedGoat]

Where did you hear that?

Your response is a joke right? Did you actually think he was serious? If true.. Jesus...