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

[Avs_19]

It is wildly early for that extension (pun intended)... but that is likely to work out in their Faber.

 

[henchman21]

 

[LOFIN]

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1817998665882952101

 

[Balthazar]

That Necas contract is so f***ing bad it makes the Mitts contract look reasonable.

2 years straight to UFA. The GMs are losing the battle.

 

[LOFIN]

That Necas contract is so f***ing bad it makes the Mitts contract look reasonable.

2 years straight to UFA. The GMs are losing the battle.

If I'm totally honest, I don't mind that. More player movement = more excitement.

 

[Pokecheque]

Naw, they're not losing. They didn't want him long-term in the first place. But they have to keep him around a bit longer because they took too big a hit personnel-wise this offseason. Basically the divorce is still gonna happen, but Mom and Dad gotta hold off until the kids are in college. At least here there is the hope that Necas does well, helps the team and ups his trade value at the same time. Then someone else can blow their cap space on him.

 

[BobRossColton]

Supposedly mcgroarty, perfetti and a draft pick were offered for Necas..

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

Supposedly mcgroarty, perfetti and a draft pick were offered for Necas..

Why wouldn't you take that deal?

 

[BobRossColton]

Why wouldn't you take that deal?

At least, according to puckempire on IG via seravelli.

 

[Balthazar]

Naw, they're not losing. They didn't want him long-term in the first place. But they have to keep him around a bit longer because they took too big a hit personnel-wise this offseason. Basically the divorce is still gonna happen, but Mom and Dad gotta hold off until the kids are in college. At least here there is the hope that Necas does well, helps the team and ups his trade value at the same time. Then someone else can blow their cap space on him.

For good players it's a tug of war battle between agents and GM's for the early UFA years. Teams obviously want to keep control while players want to become UFA ASAP.

When a team fails to buy the early UFA years along with the RFA years the agent wins. I'm not making this up, it comes directly from Pat Brisson.

That's how Matthews f***ed the Leafs with his first contract.

 

[John Mandalorian]

Why do they call him Neci when his actual name is the same amount of syllables and only one extra letter? You can't spell Canes with N-E-C-I.

 

[Pokecheque]

For good players it's a tug of war battle between agents and GM's for the early UFA years. Teams obviously want to keep control while players want to become UFA ASAP.

When a team fails to buy the early UFA years along with the RFA years the agent wins. I'm not making this up, it comes directly from Pat Brisson.

That's how Matthews f***ed the Leafs with his first contract.

I'm aware of that, but you're applying the rule way too stringently. This buys the Canes time to (hopefully) maximize value on an asset while not having to commit $$$ and term to the guy, a guy they don't really want to keep long-term unless he actually does realize his full potential over the course of this bridge deal.

Just because a team doesn't buy UFA years doesn't mean they lose EVERY time. You treat every situation like this like it's an absolute disaster for the team, and it really isn't. If they wanted to buy those UFA years, they would've obviously had to up the $$$ part, and I don't think they did.

And the Matthews deal did not f*** the Leafs in the slightest. He was worth EVERY penny of that contract. It's the Marner deal that cost them dearly, and the next one will just be that final nail in the coffin.

 

[henchman21]

It is the 'ol ROR deal!

 

[VikingAv]

Supposedly mcgroarty, perfetti and a draft pick were offered for Necas..

What draft pick? 1st, 2nd, 6th?

Why wouldn't you take that deal?

I believe the deals the Canes were offered from teams like Winnipeg, (CBJ and BUF, iirc) which they accepted, would only happen if Necas signed a long-term contract, which he either wouldn't do or couldn't agree to terms with those specific teams.

 

[BobRossColton]

@VikingAv I think puckempire commented that it was 14th overall in the 24 draft..?

 

[Freaky Styley]

I really hope this becomes the Nurse contact, because f*** the Mild

Unfortunately the Wild have their core players signed to some pretty nice deals (outside Kaprisov) for a long time and then they are getting a butt load of cap space with already a very nice prospect pool. We are going to have to deal with some success of the WIld right when our window is closing, which is a good time to go into hockey hibernation.

 

[S E P H]

Why wouldn't you take that deal?

It's probably because they're in win-now mode, but I absolutely do that deal easily. Both players are on the verge of greatness, and their impact will be greater than a singular piece in Necas, which Brind'amour doesn't even like playing to his strengths.

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1818285435484885071

 

[Ceremony]

8 years and 68 million dollars is a lot for a guy who's played one season.

 

[Mighty Makar]

8 years and 68 million dollars is a lot for a guy who's played one season.

Didn’t they do that with Kaprizov, too?

 

[Ceremony]

Didn’t they do that with Kaprizov, too?

Don't know don't care but Kaprizov at least had several years of KHL experience.

 

[Mighty Makar]

Don't know don't care but Kaprizov at least had several years of KHL experience.

Don’t get your panties in a bunch.

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1818333167532884419

https://x.com/i/web/status/1818328894241436047

 

[Hasbro]

8 years and 68 million dollars is a lot for a guy who's played one season.

It's the Pond Scum. "Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake"- Napoleon.