Rumor: 2024-2025 Trade Rumors and Free Agency Talk | The Slow Crawl to the Season

[JoeSakic13]

Greatest player of this generation? Did you forget Matt Hunwick?

My therapist would prefer if I did.

 

[Pokecheque]

You didn’t. Just find it odd we’re dreaming about Sydney Sweeney and you bring up Kelly Clarkson.

Interesting analogy.

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1857137393595568162

 

[The Abusement Park]

Greatest player of this generation? Did you forget Matt Hunwick?

The erasure of All Star MVP John Scott is ludicrous...

 

[AvsCOL]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1857088038041485522

 

[Balthazar]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1857158190636347714

 

[Cypher]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1857158190636347714

After Landeskog gets ruled out for the year, bring in M. Pettersson at 50% retained (2m) and Jake Evans (1.7m) near the deadline.

Drouin - Mack - Nuke
Lehky - Mitts - Moose
RosCo - Evans - Kova
Wood - Kelly - LOC
Kivi

Toews - Makar
G - Manson
Petterson - Malinski
CDH/Ludvig

 

[Chiarelli]

No one wants to hear the word “plop” coming from AJ

 

[Bender]

After Landeskog gets ruled out for the year, bring in M. Pettersson at 50% retained (2m) and Jake Evans (1.7m) near the deadline.

Drouin - Mack - Nuke
Lehky - Mitts - Moose
RosCo - Evans - Kova
Wood - Kelly - LOC
Kivi

Toews - Makar
G - Manson
Petterson - Malinski
CDH/Ludvig

Those are solid moves but I think they will need to try and address the goaltending.

 

[Cousin Eddie]

Crosby and Marcus Pettersson both double retained is the new wet dream

 

[BobRossColton]

If Washington faulters by the deadline, chychrun+dowd would also be an intriguing targets

 

[expatriatedtexan]

If Washington faulters by the deadline, chychrun+dowd would also be an intriguing targets

If Washington doesn't faulter by the deadline, watch Sid go center Ovy to his record.

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

Crosby and Marcus Pettersson both double retained is the new wet dream

Dont even really need the double retention on Sid but my goodness the roster would be absurd. Even next year you could have something like this:


Drouin(2.5) - Mack(12.6) - Mikko(12.5)
Lehky(4.5) - Crosby(2.2) - Nuke(6.125)
Colton(4.0) - Mitts(5.75) - Kovalenko(2.0)
LOC(2.5) - Ivan(0.85) - Random(0.8)

Toews(7.25) - Makar(9.0)
Girard(5.0) - Manson(4.5)
Random(1.0) - Malinski(1.5)


Unknown(4.0)
Annunen(0.8)


And still have like $3M left in cap space.

 

[Chiarelli]

Dont even really need the double retention on Sid but my goodness the roster would be absurd. Even next year you could have something like this:


Drouin(2.5) - Mack(12.6) - Mikko(12.5)
Lehky(4.5) - Crosby(2.2) - Nuke(6.125)
Colton(4.0) - Mitts(5.75) - Kovalenko(2.0)
LOC(2.5) - Ivan(0.85) - Random(0.8)

Toews(7.25) - Makar(9.0)
Girard(5.0) - Manson(4.5)
Random(1.0) - Malinski(1.5)


Unknown(4.0)
Annunen(0.8)


And still have like $3M left in cap space.

Why do we pencil kovalenko in above LoC when the former just got sent to the AHL?

 

[Vaslof]

Why do we pencil kovalenko in above LoC when the former just got sent to the AHL?

Because he'll be back up for the game. It's a paper transaction to save cap space. Like they've done before.

 

[Chiarelli]

Because he'll be back up for the game. It's a paper transaction to save cap space. Like they've done before.

Paper transaction and all he’s the inferior player

 

[Alienblood]

Mitts is - 11 worst on the team.
Meanwhile Byram.is +9 which leads the Sabres and has had a great November.

 

[Vaslof]

Paper transaction and all he’s the inferior player

I'm not too sure the current LOC is better than Kovalenko, but both should be playing.

 

[dahrougem2]

Mitts is - 11 worst on the team.
Meanwhile Byram.is +9 which leads the Sabres and has had a great November.

Do you get a stiffy from plus minus?

 

[LOFIN]

Mitts is - 11 worst on the team.
Meanwhile Byram.is +9 which leads the Sabres and has had a great November.

 

[Vaslof]

Mitts is - 11 worst on the team.
Meanwhile Byram.is +9 which leads the Sabres and has had a great November.

Makar is at -5. Adding more Makars would only make it worse by -5 each. Hence, Byram is worth more than an infinite amount of Makars.
The numbers don't lie and they spell disaster for us.

 

[Gatorbait19]

Dont even really need the double retention on Sid but my goodness the roster would be absurd. Even next year you could have something like this:


Drouin(2.5) - Mack(12.6) - Mikko(12.5)
Lehky(4.5) - Crosby(2.2) - Nuke(6.125)
Colton(4.0) - Mitts(5.75) - Kovalenko(2.0)
LOC(2.5) - Ivan(0.85) - Random(0.8)

Toews(7.25) - Makar(9.0)
Girard(5.0) - Manson(4.5)
Random(1.0) - Malinski(1.5)


Unknown(4.0)
Annunen(0.8)


And still have like $3M left in cap space.

Me (and everyone else here) after finally giving up on the Crosby pipe dream…

 

[dahrougem2]

Makar is at -5. Adding more Makars would only make it worse by -5 each. Hence, Byram is worth more than an infinite amount of Makars.
The numbers don't lie and they spell disaster for us.

But does Makar have 75% chance of winning so long as he doesn't add Kurt Angle to the mix?

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

Paper transaction and all he’s the inferior player

Disagree quite frankly. And I'm a huge LOC fan

 

[Balthazar]

Kovalenko (3rd liner) has a higher ceiling than LOC (4th liner).

LOC can play on the 3rd line but he shouldn't stay there for too long. We're seeing right now the effect of too much ice time for him, he's ineffective at best.