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

[Vaslof]

So…any Black Friday deals on goalies?

Gibson's 50% off, but comes without warranty.

 

[RoyIsALegend]

So…any Black Friday deals on goalies?

80% off a 39 year old, washed up, former Ontario Provincial Junior A goaltender from Canada.

He will accept 20% of Georgiev's salary + a cooler of ice cold beer(Canadian, not American piss) after each game.

Team needs to be okay with an average of 5-7 PIM per game + smoke breaks between periods.

 

[SoundwaveIsCharisma]

80% off a 39 year old, washed up, former Ontario Provincial Junior A goaltender from Canada.

He will accept 20% of Georgiev's salary + a cooler of ice cold beer(Canadian, not American piss) after each game.

Team needs to be okay with an average of 5-7 PIM per game + smoke breaks between periods.

If we allow for smoke breaks between periods and during commercial breaks can we decrease the acceptable PIMs to 2-5/game?

 

[RoyIsALegend]

If we allow for smoke breaks between periods and during commercial breaks can we decrease the acceptable PIMs to 2-5/game?

Suuuuuuuuure, he promises.

 

[SoundwaveIsCharisma]

Suuuuuuuuure, he promises.

Good enough for me, haha

 

[Alienblood]

The problem is we don't know how stupid how agent is trying to be. Is he saying we are going to get 14M per on the open market and we didn't care about an extra year we want 14M per from you or we walk.

Is the agent factoring in the extra year like normal people would, which would put it in 12.25 range. Or is he being an ass and saying for the extra year we'll bring it down to 13.5.

It's tough to say but clearly there is a gap somewhere or it would be done by now. My take is if he's looking for more than 12.25 he needs to be traded tomorrow. That's pretty fair market value. If someone wants to pay him 14M let it be some other team. Just make sure you get something, can't let him walk for free.

Or use him as our own rental and use the 12 plus mil on free agents and other players

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

 

[Chiarelli]

I don’t doubt Rants can get 14M on the open market but he is not worth it. Draisaitl is better than him and a center and he’s barely worth that coin. Plus he gets a markup by staying in Edmonton.

7 x 14 =98.
Drop that down to 96 (his jersey number) for a team discount and divide it by 8 = 12.0

Or they do 98/8 = 12.25 that’s as high as I see the Avs going. He’ll accept.

 

[LOFIN]

I don’t doubt Rants can get 14M on the open market but he is not worth it. Draisaitl is better than him and a center and he’s barely worth that coin. Plus he gets a markup by staying in Edmonton.

The equivalent of Draisaitl contract on the open market would've been 16 million. 14M for Rantanen on the open market = 12.25 with the Avs.

When we are talking about these long term deals, always look at the total value first. That's what the agents are going for, not the AAV. 8 years vs 7 years.

 

[Balthazar]

Something fishy (as usual with that player)

- JT Miller, the Canucks' best forward, is taking a "leave of absence" and won't say why publicly.
- Elias Pettersson immediately starts producing again
- Another team "inquires" about Miller and Staple thinks it's big enough to make a story about it
- ???

I imagine Zibanejad and one of Trouba or Kreider would go the other way.