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

[LOFIN]

That isn't awful at all... Only 2 years that would be especially rough.

And btw, if we terminate we are very likely getting hit with a penalty that ends up being very similar long term.

A buyout would easily be the best course of action if the Avs feel like they have a 2-3 year window left with this core(Which IMO the Mittelstadt deal at least hints at management thinking this way).

Cap is going up, plus the Avs are going to be dog shit by the time 2028 rolls around.

Now that Mitts is only signed for three years, it's time to roll hard on this next season before Mikko kills them.

FTR, I don't think there's a chance in hell the Avs buyout Nuke. But I would, if I couldn't offload his contract somehow.

Those four years with 3 and 5mil hits are pretty bad, considering we probably still try to contend during those years.

I would rather roll the dice with him again, if that's the alternative.

 

[Balthazar]

Those four years with 3 and 5mil hits are pretty bad, considering we probably still try to contend during those years.

I would rather roll the dice with him again, if that's the alternative.

It's getting pretty clear that he's going to play again for the Avs and they will welcome him back in November. All the alternatives suck and now that Mack said that he can't wait to play with him again we have no reason to believe that it won't be the case.

 

[Ararana]

Those four years with 3 and 5mil hits are pretty bad, considering we probably still try to contend during those years.

The 3 million cap hit isn't terrible. The 5 hurts, but by that point MacKinnon is 32, Rantanen (if we have him) is 31, Toews is dead, Landy is retired, Makar should still be mostly fine. That team very likely isn't seriously competitive.

I'd rather throw the chips in now and put your best foot forward to winning while you can. Nuke would be that, if you could trust him at all - but you can't.

But, yeah, based on MacKinnon's latest comments, I'd be shocked if the Avs don't bring Nuke back and hope he doesn't threepeat.

 

[Muffin]

The 3 million cap hit isn't terrible. The 5 hurts, but by that point MacKinnon is 32, Rantanen (if we have him) is 31, Toews is dead, Makar should still be mostly fine. That team very likely isn't seriously competitive.

I'd rather throw the chips in now and put your best foot forward to winning while you can.

But, yeah, based on MacKinnon's latest comments, I'd be shocked if the Avs don't bring Nuke back and hope he doesn't threepeat.

We better lock him in his hotel room with security guards standing outside in the playoffs.

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

Those four years with 3 and 5mil hits are pretty bad, considering we probably still try to contend during those years.

I would rather roll the dice with him again, if that's the alternative.

3M really isn't bad at all. The cap for those two years would likely be ~$96M in the first year, $100M by the second year. We're talking about a 3% cap penalty essentially. Would absolutely be manageable.

Years 5 and 6 would be the harder years to manage. But here's the thing: By year 5, Mack is 33, Cale is 30, Landy is 35, Toews is 35, Mikko is 32.

We aren't contending at that point. Hell we probably aren't even a playoff team at that point.

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

 

[Richard88]

The buyout for Nuke is awful. Just AWFUL. Not going to happen.
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Looks like a nice two year cup window with those caphits. It only really starts to hurt when it bumps to $3m and then especially $5m. Those years the team would likely be rebuilding a bit anyways

 

[Balthazar]

If I'm Buffalo I'm calling the Avs and offering Skinner at 3M retained straight up for Nuke.

 

[dahrougem2]

Also count me amongst those wanting Viktor Arvidsson as well.

 

[AvalancheSpeedsters]

If I'm Buffalo I'm calling the Avs and offering Skinner at 3M retained straight up for Nuke.

Can they trade him though if they buy him out ?

 

[Balthazar]

Can they trade him though if they buy him out ?

They didn't buy him out yet, they can still trade him

It makes a lot of sense for both teams, all they'd have to do is get the OK from Nuke (NMC) and probably the league/PA.

 

[LOFIN]

Can they trade him though if they buy him out ?

Wut? What contract would there to be trade if you buy him out? Nuke would be a free agent.

 

[Balthazar]

Wut? What contract would there to be trade if you buy him out? Nuke would be a free agent.

He was talking about Skinner.

 

[LOFIN]

He was talking about Skinner.

Well the same thing applies: no

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

BTW if the Avs bought out Nuke... They could likely afford both Drouin and Skinner. Drouin at ~$3.5M, Skinner at ~$2.5M would look like:


Drouin(3.5) - Mack(12.6) - Mikko(9.25
Lehky(4.5) - Mitts(5.75) - Skinner(2.5)
Landy(7.0) - Colton(4.0) - LOC(1.05)
Wood(2.5) - ???? - Kovalenko(0.9)
Wanger(0.8)

Toews(7.25) - Makar(9.0
Girard(5.0) - Manson(4.5)

Georgiev(3.4)
Annunen(0.85)

That group would be about ~$84.3M leaving ~$3.9M for the remaining 3 or 4 roster spots depending on how many extra skaters they wanted to carry.

 

[Pokecheque]

Also count me amongst those wanting Viktor Arvidsson as well.

Sammy G will greet him at the airport by knocking him into the wall.

 

[AslanRH]

If I'm Buffalo I'm calling the Avs and offering Skinner at 3M retained straight up for Nuke.

Buffalo ownership doesn't seem like an org that would essentially gamble around $9m a year for 3 years like that.

 

[BobRossColton]

How's Morgan geekie's defensive side of things?

 

[Chibby]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1806062669625205072

Any Avs stuff?

 

[hockeyfish]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1806062669625205072

Any Avs stuff?

No.

 

[Chiarelli]

It's getting pretty clear that he's going to play again for the Avs and they will welcome him back in November. All the alternatives suck and now that Mack said that he can't wait to play with him again we have no reason to believe that it won't be the case.

Is there a clip or quote of this? I somehow missed this completely.

 

[missionAvs]

We need to be balls on the table for the next 3 seasons and then fade away into obscurity to re-do the decade of darkness.

 

[Cousin Eddie]

I just don’t understand how Jeff Skinner does anything but ask his agent to get the most he can from Edmonton on a one year deal.

 

[Chiarelli]

I just don’t understand how Jeff Skinner does anything but ask his agent to get the most he can from Edmonton on a one year deal.

cuz he already did this to buffalo but on a long term deal and hasn't played a single playoff game.

 

[Balthazar]

Is there a clip or quote of this? I somehow missed this completely.

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