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Speculation: Caps General Discussion (Coaching/FAs/Cap/Lines etc) - 2021 Off-Season Pt. 2
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Corby78
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All the divisions had crappy teams, shoot the entire Canadian division was garbage outside Toronto. NYR have not gotten better nor has Pitt or phili IMO.
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NYR subtracting Quinn alone will make them a better team. As will another year in their young players development (Fox, Miller, Laf, Kakko, Chytil). Drury’a first couple moves are definitely a bit of wtf, but it looks like he’s angling towards making a run at Eichel, so we’ll see what they look like at the end of the off season.
More to the point tho, it seems people don’t appreciate how much of the Caps success was beating up on bottom feeders, and how drastically different next seasons schedule is. Buffalo was historically bad, and NJ finished with the 3rd worst record in the league. So no, other divisions didn’t have a combination of *two* utter punching bags like them. Moreover, 37.6% of the Caps total points came against Buffalo or New Jersey. That’s 3 of every 8 points. They had sixteen games out of 56 against them. Next year they have just six of 82.
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If you have to pay $7.2 for seven years to get Kevin Hayes then I would tend to agree.
Corby78
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Records vs the league mean nothing when you have four divisions who don’t play each other. All the wins stay in each division. Comparing records across the divisions means nothing. I’ve been hearing how the caps will stink when we finally play hard competition for years now. Will we take a step back? It’s not a far fetched take. But I still think we’re a playoff team. I expect our goalies to be better, I think youth will do well on D, and the team to be more inline with Lavi. But a long way still in the off-season, you are right there.
Corby78
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Aka: the offers stunk. Glad we didn’t pull the trigger just to pull the trigger
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Langway
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GMBM: "There's a lot going on obviously with other teams and players being interchanged. I don't know that that's the game we're playing. We're playing kind of a different game there. I think as we approach free agency what we're trying to accomplish will come into play more than the bigger trades that are going on now.'
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Well, or "look what we scooped up (Sheary, TVR, Chara) with the flat cap last year, and could stand to do so again with the players about to be wedged out elsewhere"
I guess that's two sides of the same coin when it comes to cap space but different approaches.
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Skrudland2Lomakin
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I don’t think the signed Sheary to an extension late last year just to trade him.
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Sure, they were serviceable but ultimately looked like players that could readily be had from the scrap heap. Very decent cap value in the regular season but nothing remotely special.
The issue here is that a.) 31 GMs know he needs to clear out space and b.) he's under the gun from a time standpoint if he wants to have the flexibility to sign free agents. He can exceed the cap in the off-season or hold off on an offical 8 extension announcement but it's risky getting forced into a corner. He also mentioned that Mantha is a RWer and presumably then Oshie is the 3RW (the later purely my conclusion but I think a logical one). Is that tenable? Is that the reluctant loss to get younger, add space and restructure? It's been alluded to very slightly I think and I wonder...
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Skrudland2Lomakin
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I know it’s not happening but my heart would explode if Ovechkin took a discount.
I think his contract will essentially tell us what his priorities are and if we can expect one last go at the Cup or if he’s content.
He’s fully within his rights to cash out, but let’s not be naive, anything over $10 million is a wrap on our chances till he’s retired. You just will not win a cup with two guys over 35 taking up $20 million in cap space
I think his contract will essentially tell us what his priorities are and if we can expect one last go at the Cup or if he’s content.
He’s fully within his rights to cash out, but let’s not be naive, anything over $10 million is a wrap on our chances till he’s retired. You just will not win a cup with two guys over 35 taking up $20 million in cap space
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Fill in the 4th guy. The end of the forwards are Sheary and Sprong. Its one of them.
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If one of those guys scores 50 goals and the other puts up 50 assists, you say no?
Exactly how I took comments last year. It was one article with no basis that mentioned the caps being done with his antics. No proof no nothing and people here just regurgitated it over and over and spun it up into this crazy thing because he's the current whipping boy. Kuzy ain't going anywhere unless it's an elite player coming back and with his value being a little down right now that very likely isn't happening.
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Not sure what article you are talking about. MacLellan was pretty straight forward that he wasn't happy. He said Kuznetsov was hurting the team and if Kuzy wasnt going to be his best the team wasnt good and decisions need to be made. Its on video.
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… we had this happen multiple times and no Cups. So yeah, the slower, less physical, less defensive versions of that who are both more expensive ain’t doing it
I guess you didnt just read the quote from him saying the exact opposite within the last few hours? The Kuznetsov rumor spun up from Elliot Friedmans 31 thoughts where he speculated they were ready to move on from him because they were "running out of patience." From that speculation you can find articles by the boatload on Google. Try searching from "Elliot Friedman Kuznetsov" and go wild.
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