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

[LOFIN]

The sad part is cMac has pretty much lost all leverage in negotiations with Rantanen's camp in waiting this long. The guy is 8 months away from 32 teams clawing over themselves to offer him as much money as possible.

Any contract Mikko accepts with the Avs now is going to horrible for the Avs.

What specific leverage CMac and the Avs ever had? He has put up elite numbers consistently for the last few years.

 

[LOFIN]

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

 

[henchman21]

I was told Ullmark wouldn’t re-sign in Ottawa.

We’re in the midst of a solid resetting of the goalie market. After the resetting for the center market. Naturally wings and defensemen will follow.

 

[EdAVSfan]

The sad part is cMac has pretty much lost all leverage in negotiations with Rantanen's camp in waiting this long. The guy is 8 months away from 32 teams clawing over themselves to offer him as much money as possible.

Any contract Mikko accepts with the Avs now is going to horrible for the Avs.

I don’t believe he ever had any to begin with.

Rantanen was always one year from UFA. Whether that’s 10 months from UFA, or 8, don’t see any difference.

 

[Vaslof]

The sad part is cMac has pretty much lost all leverage in negotiations with Rantanen's camp in waiting this long. The guy is 8 months away from 32 teams clawing over themselves to offer him as much money as possible.

Any contract Mikko accepts with the Avs now is going to horrible for the Avs.

Eh I think he still has as much as he had to begin with. If it drags out to summer, that's when he loses leverage, because he needs to know how the Rants situation goes before building the rest of the team.

 

[Mooserton]

I don’t believe he ever had any to begin with.

Rantanen was always one year from UFA. Whether that’s 10 months from UFA, or 8, don’t see any difference.

The difference in your example is 2 months. I hope that helps!

 

[chet1926]

The sad part is cMac has pretty much lost all leverage in negotiations with Rantanen's camp in waiting this long. The guy is 8 months away from 32 teams clawing over themselves to offer him as much money as possible.

Any contract Mikko accepts with the Avs now is going to horrible for the Avs.

Unless he does us a favor, which I don't see Rantanen or his agent doing.

At this point with no extension in place, I'd prefer to seek a trade as that contract is going to be ugly.

They've had plenty of time this summer to get something hammered out. This tells me that they really aren't very close.

Could be wrong but I don't envision this ending up positively for the Avs.

Ugh, that's a hideous contact.

 

[LOFIN]

They've had plenty of time this summer to get something hammered out. This tells me that they really aren't very close.

Could be wrong but I don't envision this ending up positively for the Avs.

I don't really get the panic on this. His contract might end up looking expensive, but lets remember that MacKinnon signed his extension 1 day before the training camp. The captain of this team was ONE DAY away from UFA when they re-signed him. Pastrnak and Nylander got their extensions after new year.

 

[Balthazar]

Ugh, that's a hideous contact.

That’s a great contract. The fear was him asking for 6+ years. It’s tough to get shorter contracts on older UFA’s that are still good. They want to maximize their career earnings while they still have some leverage . The Sens core is already signed for many more years so Ullmark getting 4 years at a higher AAV doesn’t hurt them

 

[henchman21]

I think people are less worried about Rantanen's contract getting done and more worried about what it will look like. It clearly is a situation where it isn't an 'easy' contract. IE if Rants was willing for 10m for 8 years, this was done July 1. How far he is willing to push it is the real question... we're seeing a continual resetting of amounts. It wouldn't be unreasonable for Rantanen to seek that for himself.