We’re not talking about sending players out for future picks. This would be adding a potentially useful player for a future pick. Never hurts to keep the cupboard full when it comes to draft picks. Any team that has the space should be considering this, rebuilding or not.
Yep it’s not like we’re using any of the cap space… might as well continue to stockpile assets and use them to address teams needs
I haven't looked at the numbers too deeply and my first reaction to Ceci was the same as yours, but I was surprised to see he was their top PKer on a team that Shut down Florida's PP in the finals. He actually has some decent size too. Not saying we should get him but I'd be curious enough to do a deeper dive if I had the time.
I mean if you could snag a 26 1st from ceci for 1 of those dmen.
Scorched Earth rebuilds take a long time to come out of, it's just the way it goes. There's also some luck involved, and when you don't hit on the consensus elite guys like MacKinnon/Bedard/McDavid then you just have to trust your scouts and hope they're picking the best of the rest.
You can actually, you just only get enough coverage to be cap compliant. Say a player makes 5 mill but a team is only 3 over. They out the 5 mill player on LTIR but only get 3 mill of relief rather than the 5 mill.
Hah that's fair. Didn't even notice as I wasn't really watching the finals.
Do we really think he will be "potentially useful?" I'm actually asking, because I don't feel like he would be. The defense is a mess, with 3-5 second pairing guys and the rest bottom pairings. To me this clogs things up even more.
Maybe he’ll be useful. Maybe he won’t. But just for argument’s sake, let’s say you can get him and a ‘26 1st for Vaaks. I don’t even know if you even need to do that. But if that happens, is there really a big difference? If Ceci sucks, big deal, as long as there’s no understanding that he needs to play every night.
STL doesn't have the young RFAs offersheets like this might screw upnin the future. Brilliant move by them. Really not sure there is a good target from Edm for us that may actually happen.
Catching up with hockey news…. damn, Cody Glass would have been a decent flyer… receive picks for a high pedigree center with size and right shot? Why not? Much better than taking on a Laine type of contract…
You want to us to pay 8.7M or even a discounted cap to take that multiyear gamble, for a soft one dimensional player who is mentally fragile? I’d only make that move if we can offload Gibson and also receive some type of adder, like a decent physical RD prospect.
What does the cap hit concern us for? We're well below and likely below budget and have few contract extensions we actually have to worry about in those 2 years. On the flip side Laine was nearly a PPG forward just 2 seasons ago. Has historicslly been a top 6 producer. I see him as far more likely to do so again rsthan take a flyer on a player that has never been able to establish himself and really would probably be 10th forward even on our depth chart. Here is how I see it, Laine is a gamble that if it pays off has a good chance of providing what we actually need while Glass is likely just another middle 6 forward that might put up 40 pts. We already got a player like that this summer in Fabbri.
Maybe not UFAs, but hockey trades of talent for talent are always a possibility. And if they don’t materialize then you’re right, we have to go with what we got. I just have no interest in spending another year getting my excitement from TDL day rumors, salivating over ways to acquire the Cody Cecis of the world, watching tankathon daily and reading up on all the draft eligible prospects after the WJCs. Not to mention having to put up with the garbage rumors started by hacks who make a living generating clicks.
