Speculation: 2025-2026 Offseason Thread 4 - all these trades and all we got was this lousy thread!

[Todd1a]

Mcdonagh and Hedman are about 70 years old. If you can get the Norris winner you don’t think about any stupid shit like how he fits with our washed players.

lol you guys will only get John Carlson at 9 AAV

 

[CupsOverCash]

They had an offense that went cold, not an offense that is bad. More help from lines 3 and 4 as well may have helped take pressure off of the top lines. This is still more likely as to where JBB can add given space and potential assets, although a top 6 C such as Trocheck is still possible imo. The team had success before Raddysh had 60 good games, and they are certainly capable of being a top 5 to 10 defensive unit again after him.

The team is already very good and capable if contending. Good management doesn't start a re-build while still having a window to win because some fans have some belief that deep runs are guaranteed every year. JBB may make another big move next summer depending on how this season goes, but he's been re-tooling over the last 2-3 years, and while every move didn't work out in hindsight, the team still seems in a better place now than it was after either Florida loss. He has cap space to use, however he sees fit, and one way or the other, the team will have added to an already good group.

The re-build will happen eventually, but it's still a few years away imo. Many fans I talk to outside this board still enjoy watching the team all year, not just caring about the playoffs. As long as the team fills the seats,, make a lot of money for ownership, and putting a team on the ice that is good and, while no longer some massive favorite to win the cup perhaps, still capable of doing so, I find it very doubtful that management/ownership pull the plug and hope that it only takes 5 years in the cellar before Benchmark sees more than 50% attendance again and they might compete for anything.

I think theyre capable of better too that's why I'm not loud on the rebuild or retool bus but it's not like it was just that series. The last few series we've played in, our offense isn't getting it done and the "run it back" people are rightfully upset in that we keep trying the same things but are unsuccessful. I feel like we need to do something big to jolt this team. I'm just not trying to trade our team I want to add to it. But what? It feels like we're limited.

 

[DistantThunderRep]

Jtb parrot and distant thunder talk too much nonsense stick to your middle six forwards and clutching your pearls of our advanced stats and expected goals that haven’t mattered for f*** all two post seasons in a row. Clowns

Still posting? Man, the disappointment you must bring to everyone around you. "Don't worry, I'll do that for you." Ends up not doing shit and pretending like you never said it.

How about you do what a grown up does, and actually do what they say they're going to do?

 

[atlanticobserver]

Point's play reminded me so much of Stamkos after he broke his leg. looked scared and limited himself instead of doing what made him successful

To be fair that’s kind of an awful comparison. Stamkos destroyed both legs and still ripped 35 goals in a bad year

 

[JTBF81]

It's all a pipe dream, but i think you'd move Moser for 2 years of Werenski (with hopes of longer), because that's probably what we've got left of Kucherov's prime and the window.

Yeah, most likely. And yeah, extension or not, you move Moser+++ for Werenski easily if a deal was out there.

 

[JTBF81]

Aw, poor plain bagel, did they let you out of the salt mines (since you know, you're their best contributor) long enough to make another worthless post? Your miserable day must be complete!

 

[JTBF81]

I think theyre capable of better too that's why I'm not loud on the rebuild or retool bus but it's not like it was just that series. The last few series we've played in, our offense isn't getting it done and the "run it back" people are rightfully upset in that we keep trying the same things but are unsuccessful. I feel like we need to do something big to jolt this team. I'm just not trying to trade our team I want to add to it. But what? It feels like we're limited.

A big move could still happen, but given Tampa's current assets, if JBB is seriously going to go after a Larkin, Werenski, McTavish etc, the fan base should be prepared to see a good deal of the remaining top prospects/young players and at least their next 1st go out the door. It would likely be seen as an all-in type move, which, at least in terms of higher value prospects, hasn't necessarily been JBB's style. The trade prices have also been ridiculous in this market, so I don't know if JBB is really looking in that direction. It will be interesting over the next week to be sure.

 

[Antiramie]

I don't think the difference between Werenski and Moser is worth the short and long term contract/cap implications.

Pass.

 

[RSchmitz]

It's all a pipe dream, but i think you'd move Moser for 2 years of Werenski (with hopes of longer), because that's probably what we've got left of Kucherov's prime and the window.

If that were truly the plan than we need to be considerably more all in, because we are truly toast once the wheels fall off and we check underneath the hood. Only way we are coming back would be a true deep breath before the plunge kinda change in direction

 

[Todd1a]

Yeah, most likely. And yeah, extension or not, you move Moser+++ for Werenski easily if a deal was out there.

I’d try and keep moser and get werebski id give picks prospects we would be 100 times better with both of them on the blue line

 

[Stammertime91]

I don't think the difference between Werenski and Moser is worth the short and long term contract/cap implications.

Pass.

Is this forreal?

Yeah, not much difference between Cernak and Makar either. Definitely pass on Makar, we have Cernak at home.

 

[JoVel]

Zerenski is a top 3 defenseman in the league, who's the only reason Columbus hasn't been a lottery team these past couple of years. If they had made the playoffs, he should've been contending for the Hart alongside Kucherov. Yes the difference between him and Moser is a lot.