What This Means for You:
Our team is working with Xenforo Cloud to recover data using backups, sitemaps, and other available resources. We know this is frustrating, and we deeply regret the impact on our community. We are taking steps with Xenforo Cloud to ensure this never happens again. This is work in progress. Thank you for your patience and support as we work through this.
In the meantime, feel free to join our Discord Server
I can name 2 reasons:
And if you had a child as short as Girard, you’d leave him in the wilderness for the wolves.
If Lindgren is willing to take 3.5m then this whole discussion is moot.
Lindgren's replacement, in the short term, is Middleton or another league minimum guy. You'd still have Girard and Manson to play second pair, and Malinski to step up when there are injuries. Without Lindgren, we just need a #6 LD with grit and PK ability.
Hear me out. What if Vesey has a goal or two in the next few weeks? Would it be a good idea to give Vesey 6 year deal and trade Lehky for a draft pick?
I think their preferred combination was Jones + Coyle/Nelson + #3C, but once Florida got Jones they pivoted and looked at Nelson + Coyle + Carlo, and ultimately settled for Nelson + Coyle + EJ.
Capspace would be tight but as I posted earlier it's possible to make things work with Lindgren on the right to have enough to sign a 3LHD for up to $2m, which would presumably be someone better than your typical league minimum vets.
GM's fall over themselves to throw money at Dmen on July 1st. When guys like Kovacevic and Borgen are getting 4-5 years at $4m+ then there will definitely be a GM out there willing to throw at least a $4m x 4 at Lindgren who plays that physical brand and also has top pairing and playoff experience.
This is the hard part, although I don't think the replacement needs to be right shot. Like I said a while back Arber Xhekaj is a young Manson, and would be perfect as our #6, and he's making 1.3m next season. Montreal needs to make room for Reinbacher and Mailloux, so something needs to give there. Maybe Montreal would want Colton.
He will be ours year from now, thats why we let Mikko go, you know it! :-P
Matheson is a guy I'd look at from the Habs, although there would be many suitors. With Hutson and Guhle on the left side he's the guy that will be shipped out.
| CF% | SF% | GF% | xGF% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girard-Manson | 52.6 | 50.1 | 38.1 | 49.2 |
| Girard w/o Manson | 53.3 | 53.4 | 56.5 | 50.9 |
| Manson w/o Girard | 53.1 | 51.8 | 52.4 | 45.3 |
| Girard-Johnson (small sample) | 60.5 | 62.2 | n/a | 59.1 |
Ya'll keep mentioning Perbix as if he'd be easy to sign. Why wouldn't he just re-sign in Tampa where the weather is good and the taxes are low?
If you don't care about handedness when finding a Manson replacement, why not just sign Lindgren? He does everything Manson does except he's not as tall (though he's built stocky).
$4.875m seems a little bit too high for a 3LHD given the Avs cap situation. I guess you could get a bit of retention though since it's just 1 year remaining. That would probably be more expensive than it would be worth though.
Agreed, though I suspect Lindgren will get much more than $3.8M per, regardless of how the Avs do in the playoffs.
The problem with trading Lehky, is that we would be well and truly F'd should Val go off the rails (um, pardon the expression.) Also Landy's health still isn't fully resolved. If Landy comes back this spring and plays up to a second line level and Val continues to keep things in control... yeah, maybe I could see Lehky being the offset. Also, Lehky isn't exactly the most stout of players. He only managed 16 regular season games for us in 21/22.
But in 22/23 he missed 18 games, in 23/24 he missed 37 games and he's missed 12 so far this season. That would be the only drawback Lehky has in my opinion. Wait... people actually want Perbix? I just thought this was board chatter about a fun name to say and type.
