Rumor: 2024-2025 Trade Rumors and Free Agency Talk | Part Deux

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Not surprised. Great value for pending UFA Mikko. Rather this than nothing. I've been saying this is the return for months now.

 

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Not surprised. Great value for pending UFA Mikko. Rather this than nothing. I've been saying this is the return for months now.

Willed it into existence. Classic avs fans calling trades before they happen.
 
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I want this night to complete with Biz announcing Crosby to the Avs in a TNT interview with Sid and Nate, and then look in the camera and sign off by saying, "Buzz Kill Johnston you can suck my balls."

I'm also willing to accept tomorrow, and the next day, and the day after that.
 
Looking at the cap space right now, the Avs could technicially do Mitts + Kylington + Ivan/picks for Elias Pettersson. But you'd have to be certain Landeskog isn't coming back this year.
 
Not surprised. Great value for pending UFA Mikko. Rather this than nothing. I've been saying this is the return for months now.

Wow, good call
 
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Not surprised. Great value for pending UFA Mikko. Rather this than nothing. I've been saying this is the return for months now.

Legendary post. This is Chewey calling MBP for EJ Johnson trade decades back.
 
I'm most interested in what they're cooking for next summer now. Again, I think the cap is about to explode. I get why the Avs felt they couldn't do Mikko at $14M, but with a $95M cap they honestly probably could have made it work... As it stands we're gonna be looking at something like:


Lehky(4.5) - Mack(12.6) - Mik...Necas(6.5)
???? - Mitts(5.75) - Nuke(6.125)
Wood(2.5) - Colton(4.0) - LOC(2.5)
Kelly(0.8) - Drury(1.7) - Kivi(1.0)
Ivan(0.9)

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


Blackwood(5.25)
Wedgewood(1.5)


That group only comes in at $81.375M. That's presumably over $13M, almost $14M in space to fill in 3-4 roster spots.


I'd almost guarantee Drouin is back now, probably 3-4 years for $3-4M. I also really feel like this is a situation where Landy's return is no longer a matter of "If" he returns, but a matter of exactly "When" he's going to return.
 
When else does the team do physicals? And what else is a better indicator, than how seriously one has done summer training? And yes, Mikko has topped the team basically every year. Even with Landy and Nuke.

For the record, while a lot of people know me as this huge Mikko shill and I'm not shying away from the fact that he's my favourite player, I've never been of the mind that the Avs must re-sign him no matter what the cost, or that the Avs shouldn't explore trading him away.

I just don't really see trading him away being a realistic way to improve the team.
Mikko is nowhere near in the condition Mack is
 
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Friedman just said on NHL Network that Avs are NOT done yet, but did not say anything more than that. No word on players, time line, etc.
I wonder if all the Chicago stuff was Plan B in case that Carolina was going to take the Canucks offer.
 
I'm most interested in what they're cooking for next summer now. Again, I think the cap is about to explode. I get why the Avs felt they couldn't do Mikko at $14M, but with a $95M cap they honestly probably could have made it work... As it stands we're gonna be looking at something like:


Lehky(4.5) - Mack(12.6) - Mik...Necas(6.5)
???? - Mitts(5.75) - Nuke(6.125)
Wood(2.5) - Colton(4.0) - LOC(2.5)
Kelly(0.8) - Drury(1.7) - Kivi(1.0)
Ivan(0.9)

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


Blackwood(5.25)
Wedgewood(1.5)


That group only comes in at $81.375M. That's presumably over $13M, almost $14M in space to fill in 3-4 roster spots.


I'd almost guarantee Drouin is back now, probably 3-4 years for $3-4M. I also really feel like this is a situation where Landy's return is no longer a matter of "If" he returns, but a matter of exactly "When" he's going to return.

Here’s the plan:

Get Necas extended ASAP on July 1st.

Do not go into next season with this bullshit again.
 
Friedman just said on NHL Network that Avs are NOT done yet, but did not say anything more than that. No word on players, time line, etc.
I still think there's a very real chance Jones is going to get traded here. Only way to explain the Hawks helping facilitate this deal and scouting us for 5 straight games.

I imagine the deal couldn't get done as Carolina probably had a deadline given they were very close getting, but a Jones trade is still in the works.
 
Maybe wishful thinking that's based on nothing but I'm kinda getting my hopes up for EP. I'm sure they were willing to go double digits for Mikko and probably more than EP but just not that 14 number. Could never realistically get him with Mikko around but now?
 
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Here’s the plan:

Get Necas extended ASAP on July 1st.

Do not go into next season with this bullshit again.

Yeah definitely agree. Especially if he does end up popping off with Mack the rest of this year. With the cap expected to skyrocket, just give Necas that $9M-10M and get it done to avoid this circus again.


Also makes you wonder... At one point in like September I think(?), there was a lot of rumors around about just how close we were to signing Mikko. Have to for sure imagine that number was probably like $11.5M back then and if it weren't for the Leon deal things might have went incredibly different for us.
 
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