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Around the NHL 2024-25 regular season Part II

Aube-Kubel got waived by the Sabres

up to this year, he had been a pretty good 4th line forward. This year his numbers look bleak, but maybe Fitz sniffs?

edit- damn didnt realize he made $1.5
 
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I think if you’re Colorado, paying Rantanen less than Mackinnon’s AAV is a hard line, especially if you think Mackinnon is a big reason for Rantanen’s lofty totals (IMO he absolutely is, but to what degree is obv the question).

Even if that Rantanen report was right, it could still easily have been above what Colorado wanted, and sometimes you need your leverage to be more than hypothetical. And i think sometimes a GM just wants to put an agent in their place.

Obviously no GM is blowing up a contending team to spite an agent, but i think at some point your line has to be a line, especially if you’re not exactly foaming at the mouth to pay Rantanen 12m a year until he’s 36.
 
At first thought that seems like a lot but then you look at every starter getting like 8+ million lately and 6 seems pretty fair, especially if Thompson is legit.
 
He's totally got the camera backwards (I don't know what that's called, but I see a lot of people doing that and taking selfies in the passenger seat while it appears to be on the driver's side and vice versa) because those buildings are in the opposite order of where they really are. They're on the right hand side going north towards the GWB. So I was like ''Why is he pointing towards the GWB when talking about the Eagles?'' until I realized he's got it in whatever mode that's called. So I'm kind of fascinated by that.

That's in Ridgefield Park. I'm slightly old enough to remember before that office park was constructed and that was just swamp.
 
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Bleedred said:
He's totally got the camera backwards (I don't know what that's called, but I see a lot of people doing that and taking selfies in the passenger seat while it appears to be on the driver's side and vice versa) because those buildings are in the opposite order of where they really are. They're on the right hand side going north towards the GWB. So I was like ''Why is he pointing towards the GWB when talking about the Eagles?'' until I realized he's got it in whatever mode that's called. So I'm kind of fascinated by that.

That's in Ridgefield Park. I'm slightly old enough to remember before that office park was constructed and that was just swamp.
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We got Bleed explaining the mirrored camera on smart phones before we got GTA 6
 
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MasterofGrond said:
much rather have that deal than Blackwood's imo
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Ah, I meant to reply about the actual Thompson contract in regards to Blackwood.

Anyway, after Blackwood got $5 million for 5 years, I'd have to think that only helped get Thompson a million more per for one more year in term.

Between the Blackwood and Daccord extensions (Daccord has been solid this year, but was still basically coming off his rookie NHL season at 27 years old), I'd have to think someone like Thompson/Thompson's agent was arguing that if Blackwood/Daccord got $5 million per for 5 years, then he's gotta be worth 6 @ $6.

Thompson hasn't had a bad season in the NHL, while Blackwood is having his first good season in 5 years. Daccord played 19 NHL games over a several year period before finally breaking into the league full time at age 27 the year before he got his extension.
 
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Hockey Sports Fan said:
I think if you’re Colorado, paying Rantanen less than Mackinnon’s AAV is a hard line, especially if you think Mackinnon is a big reason for Rantanen’s lofty totals (IMO he absolutely is, but to what degree is obv the question).

Even if that Rantanen report was right, it could still easily have been above what Colorado wanted, and sometimes you need your leverage to be more than hypothetical. And i think sometimes a GM just wants to put an agent in their place.

Obviously no GM is blowing up a contending team to spite an agent, but i think at some point your line has to be a line, especially if you’re not exactly foaming at the mouth to pay Rantanen 12m a year until he’s 36.
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gotta love that hockey is the only sport where there are internal cap limits that teams place upon themselves.
 
Devils731 said:
The cap space Chicago retained was pretty significant as well. The space and money may be worth the pick by itself.
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Cap space is meanlessing during the season, finding teams to retain on rentals is more about how many retention spots they have left. Teams get a 5th at best for that.

It’s a bit of a shocker that Hall’s value was in the tank this much but they presumably wanted to trade him while he was still healthy.
 
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Apparently they offered to make him the highest paid winger in the league (through that would still be under MacKinnon’s 12.5.

To make a football cap analogy, this is like the tight end who wants to be compared and paid like the top receivers vs the team wanting to pay him in comparison to other tight ends. He wants to be paid in the Draisaitl and Matthews range, but they are centers and he is a winger.
 
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Billdo said:
Hockey, baseball, football. They all have teams that operate on a budget regardless of actual caps.
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I wasn’t including hockey, there are definitely poverty crying franchises here. Football it’s harder to find specific examples of teams chronically being cheap outside of the Bengals cause there’s so much money in the sport. Basketball I guess you can say there are budget teams but it’s not like an OKC could pay Kevin Durant even when they wanted to, stars want to play in big markets and warm climates and players run the NBA.
 
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