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

[Bill Peckerskull]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1857446922094563749

 

[VikingAv]

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

Tells us how worthless that stat is.

 

[The Merchant]

Nothing quite like starting a pointless player comparison by using +/- as your main argument. An HF classic

 

[The Abusement Park]

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

Waiting for that Makar and Jacob Middleton swap any day now... His +15 would be such an insane boost to this team.

 

[SoundwaveIsCharisma]

Waiting for that Makar and Jacob Middleton swap any day now... His +15 would be such an insane boost to this team.

Can you imagine how dominant this team would be with Jacob Middleton instead of that Barrie-wannabe?

 

[The Abusement Park]

Can you imagine how dominant this team would be with Jacob Middleton instead of that Barrie-wannabe?

That's a net +20 swing in our favor!! We could have a .515 record after that trade!

 

[henchman21]

As long as empty net goals count on +/-, it is a purely useless stat.

Byram has been very good for a few weeks now though. Is this one of his typical hot streaks that he has? Or has he turned a corner?

 

[Pokecheque]

As long as empty net goals count on +/-, it is a purely useless stat.

Byram has been very good for a few weeks now though. Is this one of his typical hot streaks that he has? Or has he turned a corner?

It's also useless because it depends on goaltending. A player can give up 20 scoring chances while he's on the ice, another player can give up only one, but if the goalie for the first guy makes all the saves and the other guy is Georgiev, that results in a minus-1.

 

[henchman21]

It's also useless because it depends on goaltending. A player can give up 20 scoring chances while he's on the ice, another player can give up only one, but if the goalie for the first guy makes all the saves and the other guy is Georgiev, that results in a minus-1.

Certainly that plays a role too. Just naturally when you're playing with an empty net, the odds are much greater of giving up a goal than scoring one. I don't know where Mitts is today, but it has to be -5 or -6 with an emply net.

 

[Pokecheque]

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

The fact that you likely typed that with a straight face tells me all I need to know about your talent evaluation skills.

 

[SoundwaveIsCharisma]

The fact that you likely typed that with a straight face tells me all I need to know about your talent evaluation skills.

We should've just traded for superstar, generational Barrett Hayton!!!!!

 

[dmac7719]

Certainly that plays a role too. Just naturally when you're playing with an empty net, the odds are much greater of giving up a goal than scoring one. I don't know where Mitts is today, but it has to be -5 or -6 with an emply net.

This is league wide not by team

 

[dahrougem2]

This is league wide not by team

LOL the Avs are the top 4 in that stat

 

[Tommy Shelby]

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.

Not sure I agree, LOC was fantastic last year on the 3rd line before he got hurt

He got that surgery that usually always takes players 6-8 months to start looking "right" again once they return to the lineup. I'll start to worry if he's still looking like this come next November

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1857506594914718122

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1857125761355743287

https://x.com/i/web/status/1857139887276773852

 

[Balthazar]

Nuke's cap hit is not prorated?

Edit: We have 9M of cap space, which is Landy + Poolman on LTIR

Nuke will be using 6M of that...so Landy literally can't come back.

 

[PAZ]

Nuke's cap hit is not prorated?

Edit: We have 9M of cap space, which is Landy + Poolman on LTIR

Nuke will be using 6M of that...so Landy literally can't come back.

If Landy is healthy enough to come back we'll be doing LTIR shenanigans the rest of the year. Pretty sure Toews could use some LTIR time.

 

[Balthazar]

If Landy is healthy enough to come back we'll be doing LTIR shenanigans the rest of the year. Pretty sure Toews could use some LTIR time.

That'd require quite a bit of cap gymnastic since they'd have to constantly have 6M on LTIR. Avs just don't do that. I don't see it.

 

[hockeyfish]

Nuke's cap hit is not prorated?

Edit: We have 9M of cap space, which is Landy + Poolman on LTIR

Nuke will be using 6M of that...so Landy literally can't come back.

It’s kind of complicated. His cap hit was never going to be pro-rated, but instead the team would be able to accrue cap space while he was suspended. All the injuries and carrying a 3rd goalie cut into that. They likely accrued a bit of cap space, but not nearly what was hoped over the summer.

 

[Chiarelli]

This is why Landy had a “set back”

 

[CobraAcesS]

Nuke's cap hit is not prorated?

Edit: We have 9M of cap space, which is Landy + Poolman on LTIR

Nuke will be using 6M of that...so Landy literally can't come back.

I'm guessing Colton isn't on LTIR?

 

[hockeyfish]

I'm guessing Colton isn't on LTIR?

Correct. But it doesn’t make much of a difference.

 

[Tommy Shelby]

Landy's "setback" is gonna last until he Mark Stones it up for game 1 of the playoffs

 

[CobraAcesS]

Landy's "setback" is gonna last until he Mark Stones it up for game 1 of the playoffs

That would be convenient, but if he starts skating in practice regularly, for 5 months, the NHL might actually question that lol.