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

[Ceremony]

Don’t get your panties in a bunch.

Sorry that was not caring what the green filth do with their contracts, not aimed at you.

 

[Mighty Makar]

Sorry that was not caring what the green filth do with their contracts, not aimed at you.

All good.

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

 

[AvsCOL]

These GMs never learn. Paying these young defensemen $8+mil long term is just so unnecessary. Even if he plays like a 1D for the next couple of seasons, you pay him about the same, maybe a bit more. Taking a huge risk to save $1-2mil a year? Silly.

Sens did it with Chabot, and Oilers did it with Nurse.

 

[Balthazar]

These GMs never learn. Paying these young defensemen $8+mil long term is just so unnecessary. Even if he plays like a 1D for the next couple of seasons, you pay him about the same, maybe a bit more. Taking a huge risk to save $1-2mil a year? Silly.

Sens did it with Chabot, and Oilers did it with Nurse.

It's not just the savings, it's also preventing them to go elsewhere... Especially for a team like Columbus.

 

[henchman21]

These GMs never learn. Paying these young defensemen $8+mil long term is just so unnecessary. Even if he plays like a 1D for the next couple of seasons, you pay him about the same, maybe a bit more. Taking a huge risk to save $1-2mil a year? Silly.

Sens did it with Chabot, and Oilers did it with Nurse.

Yeah like Makar...

 

[The Abusement Park]

These GMs never learn. Paying these young defensemen $8+mil long term is just so unnecessary. Even if he plays like a 1D for the next couple of seasons, you pay him about the same, maybe a bit more. Taking a huge risk to save $1-2mil a year? Silly.

Sens did it with Chabot, and Oilers did it with Nurse.

It’s just the trend now. Locking up young guys early to try and get a discount. And with most of the guys getting it, it makes sense because their contention lives and dies by these guys.

 

[PAZ]

These GMs never learn. Paying these young defensemen $8+mil long term is just so unnecessary. Even if he plays like a 1D for the next couple of seasons, you pay him about the same, maybe a bit more. Taking a huge risk to save $1-2mil a year? Silly.

Sens did it with Chabot, and Oilers did it with Nurse.

It would be close to $3-6 mil more in a few years with the cap going up and comparables.

 

[Ceremony]

It’s just the trend now. Locking up young guys early to try and get a discount. And with most of the guys getting it, it makes sense because their contention lives and dies by these guys.

Yeah but we did that with Girard, and it ended up being a (mostly) fair price for him. The level of play for whatever Girard makes being fair is a lot different than 8.5 for 8 years.

 

[The Abusement Park]

Yeah but we did that with Girard, and it ended up being a (mostly) fair price for him. The level of play for whatever Girard makes being fair is a lot different than 8.5 for 8 years.

I mean Faber had significantly higher upside than Girard had/has.

 

[Chiarelli]

sucks they turned a complete bum into a top pair d man and a 1st round pick

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

 

[SoundwaveIsCharisma]

sucks they turned a complete bum into a top pair d man and a 1st round pick

They really came out on top with both of those Fiala deals. They got him at lower value, bumped up his value and sold high.

 

[henchman21]

sucks they turned a complete bum into a top pair d man and a 1st round pick

Death, taxes, @Chiarelli 's pure hatred of Fiala.

 

[AvsCOL]

Yeah like Makar...

Makar got $500k more and was a point per game defenseman.

 

[The Abusement Park]

Makar got $500k more and was a point per game defenseman.

Makars was 2% more of the cap than Fabers will be though.

Idk I don’t really see the issue in locking him up long term. He put up 47pts and is capable of playing all situations at a pretty high level.

 

[Ceremony]

Idk I don’t really see the issue in locking him up long term.

Because it'll be really funny if it doesn't work out

 

[henchman21]

Makar got $500k more and was a point per game defenseman.

Joke





You

 

[The Abusement Park]

Because it'll be really funny if it doesn't work out

Like when we signed Nuke long term

 

[Balthazar]

Makar got $500k more and was a point per game defenseman.

Bought 1 UFA year (Makar) vs 4 UFA years (Faber). This shit matters a lot.

Plus the cap is significantly higher now than back then.

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1818633356663238805

 

[Pokecheque]

Time will tell if they jumped the gun with Faber but I’m reasonably confident that long-term deal will work out much better than the one Buffalo did with Owen Power.

 

[Ceremony]

Like when we signed Nuke long term

That has turned out to be extremely unfunny, actually.

 

[UncleRisto]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1818633356663238805

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[Alienblood]

On a scale of 1 to 5 yikeses how many yikeses is this?

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