Excellent. Our only forward pickup is on the LTIR.Sounds like Pacioretty is expected to start on LTIR, which should help finesse some of their (at least) initial cap considerations.
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I’m not bothered by the interview. He’s just not a player that will put in the effort every night and he plays the game like he’s a small player for some reason. He’s also quite skilled at destroying whatever line he’s on, he really drags everyone down with him.
I hope he has a great contract year and that some metro team will pay him big bucks.
Agreed! I would prefer a system that accomodates for wheelchairs and walkers.
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ewww no way. I’m all for experimenting with a no kuz caps team. But this doesn’t even work with the cap. Wouldn’t they have more cap hit post trade than pre trade. Then you need to make room for 2 more bottom 6 over 30 players? Gross.
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The 2025 draft begins to look nice in that case — they have Boston’s and Colorado’s 2nd round picks in 2025 — but I can’t see how it helps them win now. And somehow their cap situation is worse after making this trade.
Why not just Kuznetsov for their 1st round pick? They can throw in another pick or prospect if Washington ends up needing to retain.
If they’re trading Kuznetsov and not getting a legitimate top six forward in return I’d rather they either hold onto him and hope he bounces back this year or trade him for futures to open up a spot for one of the kids.
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Clearing cap space made sense a couple months ago, when they could still put that cap space to good use. Right now, doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
At this juncture it's best to hold onto Kuzy, hope he rebounds, and then deal him at the trade deadline or next off-season for positive value.
At this juncture it's best to hold onto Kuzy, hope he rebounds, and then deal him at the trade deadline or next off-season for positive value.
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I wouldnt mind getting 1st rounders for Kuz if no one will give us a top 6 player.
Didn’t we kind of already know that would happen?
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It was basically built into the signing from day one, but yeah
Fake news but im 50/50 on the idea. MIN is a question mark team. They can be good, or they can have a bad season too. They are one Kaprizov injury away from being a lottery team. Even with a protected pick, if it slides to 26 its the same same situation. So the pick could end up being a good one.
Purely from value point, its premium price for Kuzy's current form, and that makes it really intriguing.
But to do this trade you would have to be in acceptance that Backstrom is fit to play 2C next year, since it leaves us a little over the cap. Im not sure we are happy with that... I mean, unless you keep bagging and Mantha goes out to get a center.
And we dont really need Foligno or MaJo and I have no idea why Minny would even send MaJo out as they just signed him after liking what they saw last year, and would not have the need to do so. Id figure we can circle back on sending Mantha out for a C and maybe theres an opening for Foligno..
1st + Foligno for Kuzy at 4,68 is propably closer for both sides. And I still cant see either of team doing it
And its fake site so whatever.
Purely from value point, its premium price for Kuzy's current form, and that makes it really intriguing.
But to do this trade you would have to be in acceptance that Backstrom is fit to play 2C next year, since it leaves us a little over the cap. Im not sure we are happy with that... I mean, unless you keep bagging and Mantha goes out to get a center.
And we dont really need Foligno or MaJo and I have no idea why Minny would even send MaJo out as they just signed him after liking what they saw last year, and would not have the need to do so. Id figure we can circle back on sending Mantha out for a C and maybe theres an opening for Foligno..
1st + Foligno for Kuzy at 4,68 is propably closer for both sides. And I still cant see either of team doing it
And its fake site so whatever.
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Poor offer with that much salary retention.
I'd deal him for futures without a doubt but that ship sailed already. 2 months too late for that trade. Time to re-visit that closer to the trade deadline. But even then that offer is a really poor one given it doesn't make us a better team or even a younger team. It makes us older and worse. Pick is nice but if we are retaining that much salary that should be a non-starter.
Wild does have the pieces to make it work. But they need to fix their cap situation first. Pick + Rossi / Addison / One of their prospects is a good start.
I'd deal him for futures without a doubt but that ship sailed already. 2 months too late for that trade. Time to re-visit that closer to the trade deadline. But even then that offer is a really poor one given it doesn't make us a better team or even a younger team. It makes us older and worse. Pick is nice but if we are retaining that much salary that should be a non-starter.
Wild does have the pieces to make it work. But they need to fix their cap situation first. Pick + Rossi / Addison / One of their prospects is a good start.
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Looking closer at the Joel Edmundson trade. Hes a soon to be UFA with a NTC. We traded a 3rd (Minn) and a 7th for. It really doesnt make much sense, If we are to flip him at the deadline what would we even get for him? surely not a 1st.
So we are blocking a young player for a Vet D to maybe turn a 3rd and 7th into a 2nd?
Maybe GMBM does think we can make a playoff run. Edmundson and Max seem like middling moves with no real direction. Both have NTC are not long term plan players.
So we are blocking a young player for a Vet D to maybe turn a 3rd and 7th into a 2nd?
Maybe GMBM does think we can make a playoff run. Edmundson and Max seem like middling moves with no real direction. Both have NTC are not long term plan players.
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I would perform a week of actual corporate labor to get Elias Pettersson on the Capitals. I would synergize, leverage, network definition 1, value-add, and shift the hell out of paradigms to make it happen.
100% with you on this. I'll host a seminar on growth hacking and establishing a new normal.
Would you also circle back later, follow up with an email, think outside the box, establish a best practice for going forward, and take this offline or do you not have the bandwidth for all of that to be on your radar?
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At the end of the day, we just need to drill down and get very granular.
Would you also take a matrixed approach?
Serious thing: In 2017 my company's marketing dept shoved "digital transformation" down the sales team's throats. No one understood it at all, it didn't apply to our product, and the sales team mostly all quit, and the company never recovered. It sold in 2020 for half what it was worth in 2016. Good times with business buzz words.
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