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Speculation: Armchair GM Thread

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predfan24 said:
To be fair to Trotz there is probably a calculus between ruthless emotionless business decisions and making an organization feel safe and welcoming so players will be more likely to consider playing for a franchsie.

Looking at recent situations of big name vets with big contracts like Trouba we can see there was a pushback on how he was treated by players.

I think moving ROR could potentially be a great move. He's still a good player and his contract is extremely team friendly. Two more years after this season at 4.5 million. He is the exact type of player contending teams would fight over. I could see a bidding war and overpayment.
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I agree. Would have been great for us to be able to plug a physical, big-bodied centerman in his place to mitigate the loss, but where could we find one of those?
 
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predfan24 said:
To be fair to Trotz there is probably a calculus between ruthless emotionless business decisions and making an organization feel safe and welcoming so players will be more likely to consider playing for a franchsie.

Looking at recent situations of big name vets with big contracts like Trouba we can see there was a pushback on how he was treated by players.

I think moving ROR could potentially be a great move. He's still a good player and his contract is extremely team friendly. Two more years after this season at 4.5 million. He is the exact type of player contending teams would fight over. I could see a bidding war and overpayment.
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Do players have a problem signing and playing for Vegas?
 
Trotz thinking about "next year" is both minor progress and such a great example of why he's a bad GM for us right now. Our players are all past their prime. Next year will be worse. We should be planning for a competitive window opening in 2029, not scheming to miss the playoffs by as few points as possible next year.
 
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I don't think Trotz is dumb enough to think this year is exactly salvageable but I definitely get the feeling he thinks it's a blip and his serial winners will turn it around next year. Doesn't seem to grasp that Father Time is working against his roster.
 
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Since this is the armchair thread, what I'd do is not trade for anyone over 23-25 and focus mainly on more prospects. Can't have enough in my opinion. We already have vets that can help guide the young'ins. The more high-end prospects and/or young RFA's, the better.
 
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Im all for taking an expiring contract to help facilitate another teams trade to get some additional draft capital. 2 years on contract max if it is a dumb bottom pairing/bottom 6/capdump contract that our young guys should be able to leap over and we dont mind scratching more often then not.
 
What's a fair contract for Nyquist anyway? Last year's 75 pts was obviously a major aberration, you can't pay him based on that, right? He's more like the sort of Jarnkrok-vanilla guy we've seen this season. Is that worth $3.5M per? 2x$3.5M? That's my prediction.
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Porter Stoutheart said:
What's a fair contract for Nyquist anyway? Last year's 75 pts was obviously a major aberration, you can't pay him based on that, right? He's more like the sort of Jarnkrok-vanilla guy we've seen this season. Is that worth $3.5M per? 2x$3.5M? That's my prediction.
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I think that's in the ballpark of what gets it done. Given that we've traded away most of our forward youth, I'm not opposed to signing him to a 2-year deal, but I wouldn't go beyond that.

If I'm Trotz, since we are accumulating a glut of LHD, I would start looking for opportunities to either bolster our RHD depth or find a promising forward prospect (in order to trade him away, obviously) using one of our young LHD pieces.
 
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No way I'm bringing Nyquist back. I don't care if I gotta play the zamboni driver I'm not giving another old guy a contract.
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He's only 35. You sign him for 2 more years, he's only going to be 36 and 37 those years, we'll have lots of guys going past those spring-chicken ages in the next several seasons. And that's only a little term, so it won't block any of our young players from getting a chance either. :sarcasm:
 
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