Salary Cap: '25-'26 There's no cap thread so I made this low effort attempt
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I think something we can all agree on here is we like seeing the Red Wings suck and don't feel bad for their fans at all for their bad management.
Get bent losers.
Get bent losers.
Personally I think it's a huge joke that Larkin has a 3 team list and it's Minnesota, Vegas, and Florida. Talk about being a front runner lol. What a loser.
Hopefully he goes to one of those teams and just loses a bunch. It was great when Hossa pulled that and we beat him.
Hopefully he goes to one of those teams and just loses a bunch. It was great when Hossa pulled that and we beat him.
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DesertedPenguin
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You're a great case study for why old people fall for stupid shit on social media.
Come on, man. You're smarter than to believe a random social media account with no credentials and who doesn't provide a source to anything.
plaidchuck
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Oh so a tax haven sunbelt team is getting another FA/trade target? Cue Bettman chiding us for saying these teams have an advantage. Let’s just pack sixteen teams in Florida and sixteen in Nevada and call it a day. Panama City Penguins lets go!
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BlindWillyMcHurt
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Whadda ya mean? I argue more than you or anyon...
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Randy Butternubs
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I think Andy just posts anything he sees as a bit now.
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Im a little surprised the fans and media seem to be on Larkin's case more than Yzerman's. The Yzerplan has yielded nothing, and the players have asked for more aggressive moves to address scoring depth, which then then only received Faulk and Gibson. get rid of Yzerman and start using some of those young prospects and picks to improve the team.
Duffy13
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Saw Reilly's name mentioned a couple pages ago... Can't remember who mentioned him though. Whoever it was.... Please stop.
ThosePuckingPenguins
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I think people have been plenty on his case. When Larkin initially asked out, he was getting dumped on. As someone else said, I think people are just annoyed that yet again another ‘star’ player is wanting to go to the same two southern markets (as well as Minnesota). Like I truly believe if the teams Larkin reported he’d accept a trade to were Minnesota, Montreal or Colorado, there wouldn’t be this amount of uproar.
Duffy13
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Yeah that makes sense... We should be dumping all over that team anyways. O6 garbage
People keep bringing up Minnesota and their supposedly bad cap situation. Am I missing something? I see $12.75M of space with only 5 spots to fill (which includes 2 low-cost RFAs). They could dump Foligno and/or Middleton (each make ~$4M) to get cap space if need be. Otherwise, they don't seem too bad off.
I think they are shopping for all of the above and you can never have too many draft assets. And the Pens are a loooooong way away from having too many prospects. They basically have maybe 5 legit prospects right now that will no longer be prospects by the time the future draft picks are in the system. Most draft picks never make it, so worrying about "flooding the system with so many prospects" seems a little misguided.
You can also trade draft assets for the younger players you speak of (like China and Sods, but I wouldn't call late 20s "young"). Dubas can say whatever he wants at a press conference, but if a good deal comes along for a cap dump, he is taking it, and it won't matter in the slightest, just as Nurse won't matter in the slightest on the Pens' timeline.
But whether the Pens are or are not shopping for cap dumps is an entirely different discussion than if they should, which was the original discussion.
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Big swing from the Oilers, his numbers are good but very comparable to Joel Blomqvist (who has 15 NHL games compared to Cossa's 1). He's an RFA, if they lock him in for two years at close to the league minimum and he can be an average starter then they'll free up money to sign Colton Dach to an 8 year deal.
I'd argue Blomqvist has better numbers tbh.
And i would be happy with a 2nd for Blomqvist.
But Cossa is more touted and I think he gets more due to him being a "bigger" name.
They each have a 15 team no trade list which means each has 17 teams that they aren't protected from being traded to.
But back to your original point, how exactly is Minnesota "so far in the hole just trying to get cap compliant next season that there is no way for them to even fit Larkin."? Let's not get sidetracked here.
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When you have 8 forwards signed for next season and have 14MM in cap space, that is a hole.
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And even more is seeing how terrible of a GM Yzerman really is and was nothing but lucky in Tampa. He should have already been fired but hey, no complaining here, they can keep him around for much longer
