Speculation: 2024-25 - Free Agency/Trade Thread

[JAHV]

We need to be able to draft absolute studs that have no veteran presence on the team to guide them. Zegras is good and all but we aren't winning anything with 60-point players. Can we reliably develop a superstar from the very bottom of the league with no proper veteran presence? I still think this team is suffering badly from Getzlaf hanging them up a bit early.

Vatrano, Strome, Killorn, and Gudas aren't veteran presence?

I would have loved Getzlaf to stick around as well, but it was clear he didn't have anything left to give. That wouldn't have been a good model for the kids.

 

[Son of Gib]

What sucks though about going the trade route is that other teams know we HAVE to do something to get to the cap floor.

 

[NWWisconsinDuck]

Youre acting like this team is in Year 1 of the rebuild

Picks and prospects are the last thing this team should be trading right now.

 

[Smirnov2Chistov]

I am mildly concerned what consistently bottoming out is doing to our young guys who have eaten a lot of it. Terry and Zegras specifically. Hopefully the new blood can take big steps this year.

When you’ve been a losing club for 6/7 years development will stall.

Time will tell, but not even adding players who have been around a winning mentality speaks volumes.

Stamkos and Marchessault would’ve helped. But again, we will run it back with the same group of players.

 

[Son of Gib]

Picks and prospects are the last thing this team should be trading right now.

Why? We are practically stocked to the brim with young guys and prospects.

 

[mightyquack]

Picks and prospects are the last thing this team should be trading right now.

We definitely have room to move some prospects for young NHL proven talent.

 

[Beckett]

I'll take a Trouba, Pinto off season to be honest. Kind of scared to see what Pinto costs though...

 

[Hockey Duckie]

Lol so let’s recap here..

No big top-6 forward was signed, no top-6 RHD defender.

Looks like it’s another bottom 5 finish for us boys.

I dunno about finishing bottom-5. We had a lot of youths and rookies playing last year. I expect many of them to take another step forward. We're going to be adding more rookies in LW Cutter and RD Luneau this year. It would be nice to acquire a top-6 RW and top-4RD, but to pull us out of the bottom is going to be dependent on our youths and health.

With that said, I am sadden that we missed out on RD Roy.

 

[The Duck Knight]

Gonna guess Hakanpaa 2x4 and Laine.

 

[JAHV]

Picks and prospects are the last thing this team should be trading right now.

Why? If the team shouldn't be trading picks and prospects (i.e. players who won't contribute for three to five years), why should they be signing veterans to deals that will be awful in three to five years?

I have zero problem with getting guys through trade who might be squeezed out by some of these gigantic deals, and using non-immediate assets to do it.

 

[WhatTheDuck]

I dunno about finishing bottom-5. We had a lot of youths and rookies playing last year. I expect many of them to take another step forward. We're going to be adding more rookies in LW Cutter and RD Luneau this year. It would be nice to acquire a top-6 RW and top-4RD, but to pull us out of the bottom is going to be dependent on our youths and health.

With that said, I am sadden that we missed out on RD Roy.

We were looking alright until the kids started playing a game of musical IR stints

 

[Beckett]

Kind of hoping they bring Perry back to end his career

 

[Son of Gib]

Is Ekblad a trade target or is he washed?

 

[WhatTheDuck]

Gonna guess Hakanpaa 2x4 and Laine.

Stars fans make it sound like Hak is done due to knee problems

 

[DavidBL]

Is Ekblad a trade target or is he washed?

Most think he's washed and they no longer have to move him letting Monty walk I would think.

 

[ohcomeonref]

Vatrano, Strome, Killorn, and Gudas aren't veteran presence?

I would have loved Getzlaf to stick around as well, but it was clear he didn't have anything left to give. That wouldn't have been a good model for the kids.

They're vets but I'm talking winners who drove the bus. Not secondary guys

 

[Terry Yake]

guess we'll get a redux of last offseason aka overpay for a couple vets to get to the cap floor

 

[tomd]

The picks and prospects that will return a good top 4D or top 6F are exactly the ones you won’t want to give up.

 

[Talec]

Man all the extra cap space this year seems to make it impossible for us to get anyone except to over pay or over year or both. There is just still so much cap space available

 

[tomd]

Pinto for zegras and watch all your heads explode.

 

[JAHV]

They're vets but I'm talking winners who drove the bus. Not secondary guys

How many of those guys signed today? One (Stamkos), by my count, and, based on the reporting, that's the guy we were in on the most heavily. You could argue Marchessault. Killorn and Strome and Gudas are just as much veteran leaders as anyone else who signed today.

 

[190Octane]

Wow… if only young players improved instead of staying exactly the same as their 1st or 2nd year, this team could get better.

It’s July 1st, so many chicken littles and drama queens here.

 

[Terry Yake]

bruins sure love our sloppy seconds

 

[WhatTheDuck]

Would rather give up minor assets for cap dumps who are decent players on slightly inflated short term deals - compared to giving a similar player a ridiculous long term deal. There was very little that happened today that I feel envious of

 

[Beckett]

Pinto for zegras and watch all your heads explode.

I can see this happening