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Speculation: 2026-27 Trade/FA thread - Waiting for the SCF to be over….

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For all this talk about offer sheets we should remember that such things are extremely rare. We all want to protect our precious Ducks but Verbeek has earned the right to take the wheel here. He knows what he's doing.

Offer sheets are most likely going to middle range young players who have shown promise but might have a bigger role elsewhere. That makes guys like Zellweger more likely than a Leo ... some team might be like, "hey we can roll the dice on him, he's better than any other young D we have, so we'll pay him medium good money, and use him like a 2nd pairing guy." But the Ducks might not want to go to that price for his role here.

OTOH, a team like that may also first approach and say "hey we'll OS him if we have to, but we'd rather pay him a little less than it'd take to get you not to match, plus avoid the drama ... so let's just work a trade."

The top guys like Leo? The amount it'd take to even get him to sign would be so high, it'd reset the market for everyone. It's not like, say, Montreal can offer him 15m ... and then next year tell Demidov to ignore that and settle for like 9-10m.
 
All this talk about having to overpay for a top D doesn’t make sense.

We could bring in Makar and Slavin but if Dostal doesn’t bounce back and Husso is our backup we won’t make the playoffs.

These past playoffs showed the impact of a goalie. The defense will not save a team if your goalie leaks goals.

Getting a real backup who is a 1B is our number one priority.

John
 
All this talk about having to overpay for a top D doesn’t make sense.

We could bring in Makar and Slavin but if Dostal doesn’t bounce back and Husso is our backup we won’t make the playoffs.

These past playoffs showed the impact of a goalie. The defense will not save a team if your goalie leaks goals.

Getting a real backup who is a 1B is our number one priority.

John

The goalie that just won the Cup had a sub .900 save percentage this season and was on waivers 9 months ago. The runner up was a free agent 9 months ago. Both of the other conference finalist starters were dirt cheap. If anything this playoffs showed why you don't invest heavily in goaltending.
 
Taxes absolutely matter in the NHL.

It seems to matter less in other leagues, which makes sense because NHL players are paid less than NBA/NFL/MLB players.

We’re absolutely at a disadvantage and so are the Sharks, etc.
Taxes in pro sports are a special thing. The Jock tax is kicking in here. So the difference is not the full rate although the majority of the duty is in California and a disadvantage. But based on this Canadian teams have even a bigger one.

Small market can be both tbh. That it is more quiet can also attract but that card has Florida as well.
 
The goalie that just won the Cup had a sub .900 save percentage this season and was on waivers 9 months ago. The runner up was a free agent 9 months ago. Both of the other conference finalist starters were dirt cheap. If anything this playoffs showed why you don't invest heavily in goaltending.
There are plenty of examples against, where a star goaltender is vital.
 
There are plenty of examples against, where a star goaltender is vital.

Team defense will always be more important than who is in net. How many Cups do Hellebuyck, Shesterkin and Sorokin have between them for all their greatness? How's Vasi doing now that Hedman and Point fell off the cliff?
 
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The goalie that just won the Cup had a sub .900 save percentage this season and was on waivers 9 months ago. The runner up was a free agent 9 months ago. Both of the other conference finalist starters were dirt cheap. If anything this playoffs showed why you don't invest heavily in goaltending.
Carolina is way better than we are and Vegas beat us partly because Hart way outplayed our goalies

Id also state Florida made 3 straight finals heavily investing in their goaltending and won 2 of them and regularly smoked Carolina
 
Carolina is way better than we are and Vegas beat us partly because Hart way outplayed our goalies

Id also state Florida made 3 straight finals heavily investing in their goaltending and won 2 of them and regularly smoked Carolina

You had it right here!

Florida went to 3 straight finals because they were stacked top to bottom. Look what happened to their world class goalie this year without the guys in front of him. He proceeded to be far worse than Dostal.
 
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Trouba and Carlson are being massively overrated here due to “no vet insecurity.” Our goals against was horrible with them, do people expect them to get better with new deals in place?
 

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