Around the League 39: Will Kessel Sign in Winnipeg? The World Waits with Dogged Breath!

[chaz4hockey]

Fine by me.

Reason(s).

 

[Navin R Slavin]

Reason(s).

There's other FAs still, there's trades that could be made, there's months before the season, Tank is good but not great and has his question marks, I trust the front office, the team is already better on paper than last year, the most important deal got done. *shrug*

Your mileage may vary.

 

[CanesUltimate11]

Tarasenko to the Sens 1 yr $5M

Isn’t that basically the deal he fired his agent over?

 

[chaz4hockey]

Isn’t that basically the deal he fired his agent over?

Maybe he just didn’t want barbecue?

 

[A Star is Burns]

I would have like him but I agree it's not a big deal. We'll still be looking elsewhere I'd imagine.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Isn’t that basically the deal he fired his agent over?

It’s (supposedly) worse than what he fired his agent over. Which makes it sound like he fired his agent because he thought he was going to get better offers, and then quickly found out that he wasn’t.

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

Ottawa got someone on LTIR? cuz pinto out there just begging to be offer sheeted at this point

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

Ottawa got someone on LTIR? cuz pinto out there just begging to be offer sheeted at this point

Ineligible for offer sheet.

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

Ineligible for offer sheet.

Ah of course

 

[Svechhammer]

Yeah sounds like there's bad blood there with our front office to him

 

[TheReelChuckFletcher]

Cue the Wheel of Fortune bankrupt whistle for the Tarasenko camp.

 

[TheReelChuckFletcher]

Anyways, the Canes always find a way to pivot. It's what they do. They'll either get an impact forward another way or they'll own-rental Skjei and/or Pesce and run the best defensive group of the decade. They're a flexible bunch.

 

[Svechhammer]

Canes always find a way to pivot. It's what they do. They'll either get an impact forward another way or they'll the deepest defensive group of the decade.

We need some help up front. It's a yearly broken record, but at this point it's silly that we have such an overloaded defense while we've largely neglected getting Aho the scoring winger he needs.

Crazy thing is, we can afford to make a trade for a top 6 scoring winger using someone from the defense as a centerpiece and still arguably have one of the deepest defensive cores of the cap era going into the season.

That being said, I was never really convinced Tank was that kind of player. He would have helped, but I think he's living off his reputation, and not his current level of play, and the metrics kind of back it up.

 

[TheReelChuckFletcher]

We need some help up front. It's a yearly broken record, but at this point it's silly that we have such an overloaded defense while we've largely neglected getting Aho the scoring winger he needs.

Crazy thing is, we can afford to make a trade for a top 6 scoring winger using someone from the defense as a centerpiece and still arguably have one of the deepest defensive cores of the cap era going into the season.

The Canes don't even need to do that. They can accumulate enough deadline cap space with Kochetkov optioned to the AHL to buy an impact goalscorer (with term) at the Trade Deadline, without giving up ANY of our defensemen.

Personally, Kuzmenko would be my guy, but that Vancouver brass is still delusional that they can make the playoffs, so that likely will not happen until the trade deadline. If a team like Washington decays even more, who knows, maybe Ovechkin can come in and be the forward version of Burns for us until 2026 (I know, I'm a dreamer).

 

[tarheelhockey]

Ineligible for offer sheet.

So? ****ing do it anyway. What now?

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

So? ****ing do it anyway. What now?

You’re right. You think Bettman could actually take Waddell bare knuckle? Let’s do it.

 

[TheReelChuckFletcher]

The Sens are so cap-starved that Pinto will only likely get a 1 year deal. Canes can offer-sheet him next offseason.

 

[tarheelhockey]

You’re right. You think Bettman could actually take Waddell bare knuckle? Let’s do it.

It wouldn't even get that far. Don would just give him the staredown and that would be the end of that.

 

[Chrispy]

We need some help up front. It's a yearly broken record, but at this point it's silly that we have such an overloaded defense while we've largely neglected getting Aho the scoring winger he needs.

Crazy thing is, we can afford to make a trade for a top 6 scoring winger using someone from the defense as a centerpiece and still arguably have one of the deepest defensive cores of the cap era going into the season.

That being said, I was never really convinced Tank was that kind of player. He would have helped, but I think he's living off his reputation, and not his current level of play, and the metrics kind of back it up.

I wouldn’t say living off reputation as his recent reputation was “injured”.

But if he’s making a living off the rush as that tweet states, that’s a bad fit with this team as they played last year. Maybe TDA and Orlov can create more transition offense, but I think we still see a lot of dump and forecheck. That’s not Tarasenko’s game.

 

[3CanesInTheBox]

I'm not losing sleep over VT, but I am concerned about our offensive firepower as per usual. Of course, maybe our D will just score 1 million goals this season, who knows.

 

[Lempo]

I'm not losing sleep over VT, but I am concerned about our offensive firepower as per usual. Of course, maybe our D will just score 1 million goals this season, who knows.

For a moment there I was slightly confused, when did re-threading Vincent Trocheck become a thing?

 

[chaz4hockey]

I wouldn’t say living off reputation as his recent reputation was “injured”.

But if he’s making a living off the rush as that tweet states, that’s a bad fit with this team as they played last year. Maybe TDA and Orlov can create more transition offense, but I think we still see a lot of dump and forecheck. That’s not Tarasenko’s game.

“but I think we still see a lot of dump and forecheck. That’s not Tarasenko’s game.”

Besides for food, perhaps a reason why he may not have preferred to come to NC.

 

[AD Skinner]

For a moment there I was slightly confused, when did re-threading Vincent Trocheck become a thing?

I was concerned about Vermont

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

I'm not losing sleep over VT, but I am concerned about our offensive firepower as per usual. Of course, maybe our D will just score 1 million goals this season, who knows.

I would still like to see an upgrade at F, but TT (rebound to normal) and Jarvis (step forward in development) should provide more offense than last year. KK may also take another step and Bunting should be a much needed presence around the net potting 20 or so goals. Lastly, hopefully we have a healthy Svech for the playoffs.

It’s certainly a glass half full view, but this team should be able to score a lot of goals regardless of adding another forward.

 

[hblueridgegal]

“but I think we still see a lot of dump and forecheck. That’s not Tarasenko’s game.”

Besides for food, perhaps a reason why he may not have preferred to come to NC.

And maybe a few others as well. I suspect some players like seeing their names on the various top scoring lists and the cash that comes with it - warranted or not.