Armchair GM Thread

[Porter Stoutheart]

Wouldn't surprise me that over the next few years Vegas' lack of prospects due to all of the trading doesn't start showing up. Trading like they have is great, as long as they end up being good trades and you don't start losing those guys to injuries, age, etc.

I could be completely wrong, but I expect them to be a 1st/2nd round exit team for several years until they either get some picks/prospects back or they just decide they need to completely reload.

Being aggressive/borderline-insane on handling players/Bold Trades/Cap/LTIR/UFA has certainly been something that worked for them in the past. I'm not sure that will hold up, since now more teams have more Cap, so the UFA market will diminish, and "hijinx" types of moves might become more difficult since everybody has more flexibility? I don't know, but anyway, still -very grudgingly- "kudos to them" I guess for making it work while it lasted. And f-them at the same time.

If they have to keep signing their 3rd pair guys like Hague for $5M, I guess that could help hasten their demise. I'm all for that too. Plus some of the big guys they went after are getting older. Stone, Pietrangelo, Hertl are just going to keep drifting to the right on the age scale, it's not always going to be the same on those big gets as it was in the early days.