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

[Pokecheque]

It doesn't matter how impactful he is if he's only here half the time.

Give me a worse player who is actually in the lineup contributing.

Agreed. We all know what's going to happen eventually. It's either trade him now or MAYBE get a handful of games where he's his usual impactful self, a dozen other games where he's hobbling or trying to get his legs back, and then the rest of the time he's either injured...or suspended.

And once that suspension falls, not only can they not trade him, they can't terminate either. He's a giant coke-filled Russian anchor on the roster for the remainder of his contract.

So yeah, give me a player who's worse, because him being out of the lineup because of injury or suspension is simply not acceptable.

 

[JLo217]

Alright CMAC. Do something.

 

[Avs_19]

Parssinen might suck and probably does but that's one guy where I look at Bednar and say, you can't find any spot for him unless you're forced into it? Now, he has played a lot more the last two games and the results have been horrendous so that doesn't help my case but that line is just a thrown together mess. I'd like to see him next to Drury on the third line before just writing him off.

 

[BobRossColton]

 

[niwotsblessing]

Agreed. We all know what's going to happen eventually. It's either trade him now or MAYBE get a handful of games where he's his usual impactful self, a dozen other games where he's hobbling or trying to get his legs back, and then the rest of the time he's either injured...or suspended.

And once that suspension falls, not only can they not trade him, they can't terminate either. He's a giant coke-filled Russian anchor on the roster for the remainder of his contract.

So yeah, give me a player who's worse, because him being out of the lineup because of injury or suspension is simply not acceptable.

Crouse?

 

[The Merchant]

Sleepy CMac is back!!

Unreal.

 

[Pokecheque]

Crouse?

Fine by me!

Sleepy CMac is back!!

Unreal.

Meh, at this point is Valimaki any good? He was quite promising before that horrible knee injury, feels like he hasn't been the same since.

 

[twostroke2023]

I dunno. I’m a huge bednar fan and believe this is a roster issue not a coach issue, but you really have three options here:

1) fire bednar now, try to address what you can by the trade deadline and hope you get a coach bump.

2) keep bednar, address what you can at the trade deadline and reassess the coaching staff during the offseason (the most likely scenario in my mind.

3) make minor moves at the trade deadline and kick try to address the team during the offseason, effectively burning another year of Mack’s prime. This scenario almost guarantees a coaching change.

I can’t see them doing 1 or 3 personally. It’s too late in the year to fire the coaching staff and truth be told I’m not at all convinced that any other coach in the league is going to do better with these guys. I’d think the heat would be on Cmac on #3, so I can’t see them doing that either.

This is a super tough situation to be in. Val has not value because of his injuries and drug issues. Mitts garbage play is killing his trade value too. Colton and Wood are likely offseason moves. The landeskog situation

I don’t mean to be negative here, but I just don’t see a realistic way forward for this year honestly. There is just lots to overcome and not a lot out there.

 

[The Merchant]

Fine by me!


Meh, at this point is Valimaki any good? He was quite promising before that horrible knee injury, feels like he hasn't been the same since.

I mean...he cleared so maybe there's something GM's know that we don't, but his underlyings have been so good that he'd probably be better with one knee than anything we've gotten from the shitters on our bottom pairing.

 

[NOTENOUGHRYJOTHINGS]

Parssinen might suck and probably does but that's one guy where I look at Bednar and say, you can't find any spot for him unless you're forced into it? Now, he has played a lot more the last two games and the results have been horrendous so that doesn't help my case but that line is just a thrown together mess. I'd like to see him next to Drury on the third line before just writing him off.

For the record he does suck. Not as sucky as he's currently showing but he does suck.

 

[hockeyfish]

I mean...he cleared so maybe there's something GM's know that we don't, but his underlyings have been so good that he'd probably be better with one knee than anything we've gotten from the shitters on our bottom pairing.

Cap hit most likely the reason he cleared.

 

[Ararana]

Sleepy CMac is back!!

Unreal.

I don't typically pass on reasons to shit on cMac, but the entire league just passed on this guy. Perhaps he's just not good.

 

[Andrew Wiggin]

For the record he does suck. Not as sucky as he's currently showing but he does suck.

He was always a project player and is being thrust into a rough spot on that second line playing RW which isnt even one of the positions he has spent a lot of time at. He could end up not being worth a look at all but this is pretty reductive. And Bednar seems to hate him which doesnt bode well for development. He is getting the lowest average TOI of any foward right now.

 

[Jasenr]

Mittelstadt was working really well for a while. I agree he's not the best fit for the system, but the problem feels like it's deeper than that right now. He loses so many puck battles and his decision-making has been terrible lately. I remember a couple egregious turnovers from yesterday's game alone, but that's not to say this is a new issue that's just popping up.

If there is a disconnect between Bednar and MacFarland, the thing I don't understand is why. The Avs were the best team in the league and one Erik Johnson clause waive away from running things back in 2023 with Kadri, a very similar lineup sans some auxiliary pieces (Burakovsky, NAK, Sturm, etc.). Instead, CMac started adding poor stylistic fits (i.e. Eller, Johansen, Mittelstadt) and everything has culminated to this point. If CMac's goal really was to reshape the Avalanche, that feels like a solution looking for a problem.

The more and more I have watched this season's games the Avs game is looking like a mess compared to most teams.

At the start of the season when everyone else was figuring out their game it somehow worked with Mack,Rants and Makar pulling them out even with Georgiev.

No they are totally gassed for the push at the start and the total mess off a gameplan is so obviously a disaster.

Since Avs consist of low skilled player they need a more rigid gameplan to easily excecute.

In a freeflow game with 0 defence from both teams Avs can win because Mack,Necas and Makar, but against lowly teams who play defence they struggle.

Bednar needs to be sacked now if he doesnt adapt to his roster.

 

[CobraAcesS]

Wtf do you mean Parssinen failed??

I only include him because I'm pretty sure he was acquired to be tried at center. Which Bednar has not done except for a completely brief stint at 2C which was just Bednar's attempt to wake Mitts up before moving him back.

 

[Cousin Eddie]

I only include him because I'm pretty sure he was acquired to be tried at center. Which Bednar has not done except for a completely brief stint at 2C which was just Bednar's attempt to wake Mitts up before moving him back.

I think Cmac even went as far as to say he envisioned him as a 2C lol.

 

[DrunkTurtle]

I think Cmac even went as far as to say he envisioned him as a 2C lol.

CMac also said he believes in Georgiev after the trade. Just pr nonsense.

 

[CobraAcesS]

I think Cmac even went as far as to say he envisioned him as a 2C lol.

Yeah there was something about his upside lol.

 

[expatriatedtexan]

I think Cmac has just been taking long shots, due to cap restraints and it's not working. Too many players who were not at the time what you expected them to turn into failing.

Cotton, Mitts, RyJo, Parssinen all brought in and failed.

Newhook at 2C? Lol

It's hilarious, and Drury brought in to be the 3C is practically the 2C.

At some point trying to get the deal, ends up with your house chalk full of trash.

I just 100% disagree. When you look at the TOI, you have to realize just how severly Bednar has tied our chances on the top 5 playing 30+ minutes a night. The reason being, they are the only 5 players in the world capable of playing his system and they can't even play it as well as they did 3 years ago. *Danger, Will Robinson!*

Now all you have to do is realize the reason Bednar tied his wagon so strongly to the first unit... Because when they are on, that is the only way he knows how to beat another team. He's never adjusted in game well, probably because he doesn't know how else to tell them to play. You keep looking at our bottom nine and saying they suck. I look at them and say that most NHL coaches could find a use for them. Expecially Casey, Jusso, and Ross. In fact, if Bednar wasn't so gung-ho on trying to get his 3rd and 4th lines to play like his 1st and allowed them to play the body like they are supposed to and like CMac brought them in to do, they'd be not only playing much better but actually able to contribute since they would playing to their strengths.

Pefect example is CMac giving an interview the day he traded Mikko and he said that he brought Drury in to be that 3C we needed. What does Bednar do? Sticks him on the 4th line for several games.

I love Bednar. I will never not get emotional watching his speech at the end of the parade. But I really, really do not enjoy seeing him squirm like this with no answers.

The more and more I have watched this season's games the Avs game is looking like a mess compared to most teams.

At the start of the season when everyone else was figuring out their game it somehow worked with Mack,Rants and Makar pulling them out even with Georgiev.

No they are totally gassed for the push at the start and the total mess off a gameplan is so obviously a disaster.

Since Avs consist of low skilled player they need a more rigid gameplan to easily excecute.

In a freeflow game with 0 defence from both teams Avs can win because Mack,Necas and Makar, but against lowly teams who play defence they struggle.

Bednar needs to be sacked now if he doesnt adapt to his roster.

THIS!

My god, all I can see is a petulant child who refuses to give up on trying to bash square pegs into round holes and vice versa. CMac needs to take the hammer away from Bednar and mechanically agitate his head with it.