Around the NHL 2024-25 regular season Part II

[Zajacs Bowl Cut]

Pettersson is a pending UFA

my god what is Vancouver doing?

shit, trade Kovacevic at this point

 

[njdevils1982]

Oh please. That’s me with my street gang “The Golden Path Players”. We are feared at golf courses all over Southern Florida - but only once the prices go down for Twilight rates.

nobody fears you....you should be fearing the reaper yourselves

 

[Monsieur Verdoux]

 

[Triumph]

Pettersson is a pending UFA

my god what is Vancouver doing?

shit, trade Kovacevic at this point

They cleared out two contracts they didn't want and got a decent forward in Drew O'Connor. Now, is it good business to be constantly signing players that you immediately get rid of, no, but I at least admire the ability to do it.

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

He's a lefty and Bastian is a righty. I do not understand the obsession with removing Bastian from the lineup. He is a perfectly fine 4th line RW.

I just don't like his foot speed come playoffs, he's not someone I want to replace at all means but if a better player is available, I wouldn't mind it.

 

[Bleedred]

This feels like one of those movies where the Villian returns to the scene of the crime to torture a victim and watch from afar.

If Kyle Beach forgives him, then I’m fine with that, but I still can’t look past that when thinking of Stan or Q.

 

[Bleedred]

I just don't like his foot speed come playoffs, he's not someone I want to replace at all means but if a better player is available, I wouldn't mind it.

With how frequently he gets hurt there’s a decent chance he won’t even be available to play.

I’m not sure how he somehow came back for the last game.

 

[Devils731]

A guy people were interested in.

 

[MadDevil]

Ceci on the move again? Shocking.

 

[youryeah]

sharks are cooking

 

[SteveCangialosi123]

Definitely not a move I’d have any interest in making. Only moving a 1st for someone with term or are very confident we’ll extend

 

[Saugus]

Ya that’s an overpayment. Granlund is good, but not 1st+ good.

 

[Forge]

Ya that’s an overpayment. Granlund is good, but not 1st+ good.

I'm not surprised. He can play some Center and with Dallas he may actually keep playing on the PP1 and putting up points in that manner. Dallas' power play hasn't been great. And then you're probably paying to get the deal down now as opposed to at the deadline.

 

[Brodeur]

Ya that’s an overpayment. Granlund is good, but not 1st+ good.

Seems like most aren't expecting this to be a deep draft. Maybe not coincidentally, now 10 of the 16 first rounders from current playoff teams have already been traded.

Reminds me a bit of the deadline deals for Palmieri/Zajac and Tarasenko/Mikkola which netted firsts. Maybe separately the Sharks could have gotten a late 2nd for Ceci, but they combine him with Granlund to get a 1st.

Bummed at this rate I won't have to take deadline day off work.

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Of the playoff teams who haven't dealt their 1sts:

CLB/OTT/etc: on the bubble
LAK: hosting the draft
CAR: owner prohibits them from dealing 1st for rental
WPG: Seems like an annual thing where they trade their 1st for a rental 2C
WSH:

 

[Richer's Ghost]

BOOOOOO.

Fitz your hands warm yet?

 

[My3Sons]

BOOOOOO.

Fitz your hands warm yet?

The cap may go up the next few years but NJ is really stuck this year. They have no easily moveable pieces and can’t really make any significant add until the deadline when they have accumulated some space. Right now they have about $1 mil according to cap wages