Rumor: 2026 Trade Rumors and Free Agency: Offseason Edition

[AvsWraith]

Gee thanks Nuke, ya jerk.

Like you could turn down hookers and coke. Get off your high horse.

 

[The AntiBob]

Did you guys see that capwages has Lehky's extension basically 5x8.7m

 

[AvsWraith]

Did you guys see that capwages has Lehky's extension basically 5x8.7m

Does he like Columbus?

 

[hockeyfish]

Like you could turn down hookers and coke. Get off your high horse.

Did someone say high?

 

[The AntiBob]

Does he like Columbus?

It's got to be wrong, I'm guessing because it's still a year away.

 

[NOTENOUGHRYJOTHINGS]

Really hard to say. The projections Ive seen have him around $4.5M. But given the lack of Dmen he could certainly end up higher.

Cap wages has Shea at $4.4M and Kulak at $4.0M.

I'd take both of them at those numbers, and then I think we'd have just enough space for a 7D at league minimum type deal:



Lehky - Mack - Necas
Landy - Nelson - Hughes/Brindley
Roy - Kadri - L'Heureux
LOC - Svechkov - Kelly
Brindley/Hughes

Toews - Makar
Kulak - Malinski
Shea - Manson
Gagne/Aamodt


Would be a very solid roster for October IMO. That defense would honestly be pretty deep, everyone essentially at a #5D level or higher.


And we wouldn't use any of our draft picks to make that happen, so we'd still have some good ammo to make moves at next year's deadline to fix the edges(Probably would want 1 Top 9F, and maybe a better 6/7D).

Put Brindley with MacK. Force MacK to stop being a perimeter guy and take the puck into scoring areas. Hopefully Necas and Nelson can find their inner not suck during the playoffs. If it exists.

But I like the lineup overall.

 

[AvsWraith]

It's got to be wrong, I'm guessing because it's still a year away.

Love me some Lehky, but 8.7M is a little steep for someone that is getting older and more injured with each passing season.

 

[The Abusement Park]

Did you guys see that capwages has Lehky's extension basically 5x8.7m

Hard pass imo.

 

[hockeyfish]

Does he like Columbus?

That’s a funny way of spelling Nashville.

 

[AvsWraith]

Bobby McMann tonight: "Wait... we can turn down Seattle?"

 

[Foppa2118]

Like you could turn down hookers and coke. Get off your high horse.

Did someone say high?

Did someone say, "Get off your high whores?"

No? Sorry, I guess this text to speech technology still has a ways to go.

 

[Pokecheque]

So Robertson is a f***ing idiot…

Or he just doesn’t want to play in Seattle for the next 8 years.

 

[Balthazar]

 

[Foppa2118]

Or he just doesn’t want to play in Seattle for the next 8 years.

Since Seattle is toward the bottom of the league in who you'd bet to win the Cup any time soon, and there's a pretty good chance he can get that money elsewhere in this market, it kinda makes sense IMO.

Decent bet the next offers will be for similar money from a team with a better chance to win.

 

[RoyIsALegend]

$15m per season… 8 years…

…$120,000,000…

…TAX FREE.

Wild by J-Rob.

 

[Foppa2118]

I think it's been clear the "no tax" status doesn't matter too much for vet players unless you're a good team since about 2000 or so, when the Panthers were having trouble drawing as a bad team.

But what also seems clear is that once players are choosing between contending teams, the "no tax" status matters a lot. Which makes plenty of sense. Why wouldn't it if most everything else is roughly equal?

 

[Avs_19]

$15m per season… 8 years…

…$120,000,000…

…TAX FREE.

Wild by J-Rob.

 

[Bender]

That's like saying - we want major league franchises but we want them to suck ass... weird choice.

 

[Balthazar]

The Ron Francis Special

 

[AvalancheSpeedsters]

The Ron Francis Special

Yep. At the time of the draft when I saw the names being chosen ..I knew this was going to be mediocrity city

 

[Pokecheque]

Yeah, the Panthers had the whole tax advantage thing for years and years too and it didn’t matter one bit when they had nothing going for them.

 

[Avs_19]

 

[Balthazar]

Yet @Pokecheque thinks the Blues have a clear direction.

 

[Avs_19]

Seattle might as well go the Knies route at this point as Fat Frank mentioned earlier. 7th overall+ for him. He’s only 23 years old, is signed long term, has no trade protection, and is awesome.

 

[BaconNater]

Really hope the Stars fans are losing their minds about this Robertson saga