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Vector's NHL Transaction Tracker.

Some Important Off-Season Dates

Buyout Period: 48 hours after the SCF; players without NMCs must be placed on unconditional waivers 24 hours prior (another buyout period opens if a team has a player file for arbitration)
Team-Elected Arbitration: 48 hours after the SCF
Draft Day 01: June 28th
Draft Day 02: June 29th
Qualifying Offer Date: July 1st
Free Agency Opens: July 1st, 9am PST
Summer Development Camp: July 1st-4th
Player-Elected Arbitration: July 5th
Young Stars Classic Tournament: Sep. 13th-16th

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[Jerry the great]

It's a weird UFA market for defensemen, in that there are way more RHD than LHD available, seemingly.

Bad time to need a top-four LHD. There's Skjei, who will get an enormous contract. Then you're basically at Zadorov/Dillon and....?

So we sign both those guys and then: Soucy for Marino?

 

[Nucker101]

That deal seems pretty even for both sides, IMO.

I think NJ paid a bit more than needed, but logically it makes sense for both sides.

 

[MS]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1803463918339416230

This seems to imply that they'll be like a Chicago/SJ-level team and they aren't even remotely close to that bad. Like, not even on the same planet.

They're probably not a playoff team but they aren't even a bottom-5 roster in the NHL.

 

[bossram]

Flames are in an extremely interesting situation. They have a lot of cap space (23.27m), Wolf is their only important RFA, and they have pretty much their entire team under contract for next season. They have a clear need at defence if they want to compete. Here's their NHL depth chart:

Weegar-Andersson
Bahl-Miromanov
Hanley-Pachal

No one seems to know which way the Flames will go. I'm not sure they know either.

They got Kylington in there too.

 

[Nucker101]

They got Kylington in there too.

He's a UFA I believe

(Canucks should look into him)

 

[Vector]

They got Kylington in there too.

He's UFA.

 

[Jerry the great]

He's a UFA I believe

(Canucks should look into him)

he and Tanev played really well together previously

 

[bossram]

He's UFA.

Damn, didn't realize he was already that old.

 

[brock hughes007]

Flames are in an extremely interesting situation. They have a lot of cap space (23.27m), Wolf is their only important RFA, and they have pretty much their entire team under contract for next season. They have a clear need at defence if they want to compete. Here's their NHL depth chart:

Weegar-Andersson
Bahl-Miromanov
Hanley-Pachal

No one seems to know which way the Flames will go. I'm not sure they know either.

I lmao when they hired Conroy as gm.

 

[ManVanFan]

This seems to imply that they'll be like a Chicago/SJ-level team and they aren't even remotely close to that bad. Like, not even on the same planet.

They're probably not a playoff team but they aren't even a bottom-5 roster in the NHL.

I think you would have to ask what he implies by that. He is a flames fan.

 

[Vector]

 

[MS]

I think you would have to ask what he implies by that. He is a flames fan.

I'm not having a go at you for posting it. It just seems like a weird overreaction. It's still a pretty overall middling roster even before they use up the $23 million in cap space they have.

They have, like, probably 8 players better than the best player on the 23-24 Sharks.

 

[alternate]

Holy shit it's all happening now!!

 

[Vector]

Given the flurry of action today, even the rest of the league was ready to be done with the playoffs.

 

[valkynax]

Given the flurry of action today, even the rest of the league was ready to be done with the playoffs.

NJD got the ball rolling.

The moves we made so far makes me think that Mr. Clean is cooking up something real big.

 

[Wisp]

Given the flurry of action today, even the rest of the league was ready to be done with the playoffs.

i bet bettman is mad but it's his own fault for letting the cup final drag out so long.

 

[ManVanFan]

I'm not having a go at you for posting it. It just seems like a weird overreaction. It's still a pretty overall middling roster even before they use up the $23 million in cap space they have.

They have, like, probably 8 players better than the best player on the 23-24 Sharks.

The Sharks have the 2nd worst win percentage of any team in the past decade this year. They were .06 ahead of the 16-17 Avalance that had Mackinnon, Duchene, Rantanen, Barrie, Landeskog, Girgorenko, Zadorov, Iginla, Erik Johnson. Last years Blackhawks had a higher win percentage than that team. It's very possible to have good players and an extremely bad team.

Sharangovich and Coleman had career years. They lost their #1 center, #1 goalie and their best defensive defencemen and have no really stellar prospects coming up. See what they do but it's possible, they could be very bad.

 

[MS]

i bet bettman is mad but it's his own fault for letting the cup final drag out so long.

It's so infuriating.

They do this to try and get away from the other sports to get TV ratings ... and then the TV ratings absolutely f***ing suck anyway because nobody cares about watching hockey on June 20.

 

[Wisp]

Do we think 34 year old Markstrom lasts longer as a starter than Schneider did in NJ? Schneider only had 4 seasons in NJ where he played more than half a season.

 

[Vector]

Do we think 34 year old Markstrom lasts longer as a starter than Schneider did in NJ? Schneider only had 4 seasons in NJ where he played more than half a season.

I think Markstrom will be mostly fine health-wise. They acquired Allen so they could run a tandem of old guys then when one of them inevitably breaks down they rotate one of Daws or Schmid.

 

[wonton15]

Dhaliwal mentioned that Zadorov/Milstein are being patient and willing to wait as Zadorov really wants to stay.

 

[MS]

The Sharks have the 2nd worst win percentage of any team in the past decade this year. They were .06 ahead of the 16-17 Avalance that had Mackinnon, Duchene, Rantanen, Barrie, Landeskog, Girgorenko, Zadorov, Iginla, Erik Johnson. Last years Blackhawks had a higher win percentage than that team. It's very possible to have good players and an extremely bad team.

Sharangovich and Coleman had career years. They lost their #1 center, #1 goalie and their best defensive defencemen and have no really stellar prospects coming up.

Their 1C last year was Kadri.

They still have a pretty deep top-9 up front (Kadri, Huberdeau, Mangiapane, Backlund, Zary, Sharangovich, Kuzmenko, Coleman) and two legit top-pairing defenders in Andersson and Weegar. And that's before they use up $23 million in cap space.

They're probably not a playoff team but it would be really surprising if they're a 'shocking bad' team as is being implied.

 

[alternate]

Dhaliwal mentioned that Zadorov/Milstein are being patient and willing to wait as Zadorov really wants to stay.

Then take the offer that was on the table.

 

[Wisp]

Flames really need to find a star or two in the draft, could change their dynamic.

 

[Vector]

Guentzel:
-Canucks would rather not give up the draft picks to get his negotiating rights
-Hurricanes still trying to sign him

Blueger:
-talks continue with him
-thinks the Canucks have identified him as a guy they want back with Lindholm gone

Zadorov:
-Milstein is willing to be patient and open-minded
-Zadorov really wants to come back to Vancouver
-thinks the Canucks are trying to clear up cap space to bring him back

Myers:
-a lot of work to do

Chatfield:
-knows if he hit UFA the Canucks would have been in on him

Jani Hakanpaa:
-keep an eye on him if he hits the market

Alexandre Carrier:
-another guy the Canucks are interested in