Speculation: Caps Roster General Discussion (Coaching/FAs/Cap/Lines/etc) | 2024-25 Summer Edition

[895]

After seeing what Brock Nelson looks like I’m out on him. No thx.

 

[Carlzner]

CMM + 1st/2nd + B prospect might not be a bad package for a McCann deal.

 

[qc14]

marco rossi was available all summer btw

Even if that's true, which I'm not sure it is, he would not be a better fit at 1c for this team

Strome is what he is -- a low end 1c or high end 2c that can give you a consistent 70 points even though he doesn't crush his matchups. That's a very useful player at $5M. He also has the unique ability to transform Ovi from being unplayable at 5v5 to just below average.

xgpm is very different that nst xgf% (lol)

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definitely a player we badly need to pay a lot for and keep in the lineup!!

Who's chart is this? Eller's???

CMM + 1st/2nd + B prospect might not be a bad package for a McCann deal.

Absolutely no need to include McMichael in a McCann package. 1st+prospect should be enough to get it done

 

[Carlzner]

I didn’t join that debate but I don’t think there’s any room for CMM if they acquire McCann. Seems like even the best possible version of what CMM could be isn’t what McCann already is.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Even if that's true, which I'm not sure it is, he would not be a better fit at 1c for this team

Strome is what he is -- a low end 1c or high end 2c that can give you a consistent 70 points even though he doesn't crush his matchups. That's a very useful player at $5M. He also has the unique ability to transform Ovi from being unplayable at 5v5 to just below average.

Who's chart is this? Eller's???


Absolutely no need to include McMichael in a McCann package. 1st+prospect should be enough to get it done

So 1st + who?

1 time 40g guy, more regularly a 20g guy, but still in the 60-70 point range. But if he’s playing 3c are we getting that return? No good at the face off dot either.

I’d rather a top-6 impact guy to push a body down to the 3rd.

 

[qc14]

So 1st + who?

1 time 40g guy, more regularly a 20g guy, but still in the 60-70 point range. But if he’s playing 3c are we getting that return?

I’d rather a top-6 impact guy to push a body down to the 3rd.

1st+2nd+Lapierre.

I'd play McCann on the wing in the top 6 and push McMichael down to 3w. McCann is literally just a slightly better, slightly more proven version of McMichael. Great age and contract situation too for this team. By far the best fit of all the possible names if he really is being made available.

Ovi-Strome-Wilson
McCann-PLD-Protas
McMichael-Eller-Raddysh
Duhaime-Dowd-Mangiapane

Replace Raddysh with Leonard and Mangiapane with Miro for next year and you're golden

 

[Jags]

Absolutely no need to include McMichael in a McCann package. 1st+prospect should be enough to get it done

I don't know. He's got 2 more years at a really good number and can play both positions in a pinch. I think he gets bid up, and I don't know how long Seattle's going to keep moving impact guys for futures, so it might take a roster guy or fully-cooked/highly-regarded prospect.

I didn’t join that debate but I don’t think there’s any room for CMM if they acquire McCann. Seems like even the best possible version of what CMM could be isn’t what McCann already is.

If we end up with a logjam at wing, you work that out in the offseason. No need to move CMM now. Depth for the playoffs is huge.

But if he’s playing 3c are we getting that return? No good at the face off dot either.

He's been a LW pretty exclusively for a while now. I've seen them play him a center when there's injuries, but he's primarily a wing.

 

[twabby]

McCann would be a great addition. He's had a bit of a down year but overall he's produced like a first liner on some pretty poor Seattle teams.

 

[ArmadilloThumb]

For next year if really hope we get to try:

Ovi -Strome-Wilson
McMichael-PLD-Protas
Cristall - Leonard - Miroshnichenko
Duhaime - Dowd - Raddysh

Could shift CMM and Leonard back and forth depending on how Leonard adjusts to C (I have a feeling he might take to being a C with his tenacity).

With LittlePro not far behind

As others have noted maybe where this could be upgraded is 1C. Maybe Strome + Lappy + AA + 2015 1st for a soon to be Elete 1 C with term over the summer. Not sure who, any thoughts on who?

Then go big FA shopping when/if Ovi retires.

 

[Kolzilla]

Now that's a guy I can see the Caps digging.

Screw it, let's get McCann, Bjorkstrand, Tanev , and hell Gourde while we're at it...The Washington Krakens. All have been rumored available and some tied to us.

In all seriousness, I suspect McCann we command the highest return. Are we cool with that price?

 

[ArmadilloThumb]

McCann would be a great addition. He's had a bit of a down year but overall he's produced like a first liner on some pretty poor Seattle teams.

Which is the real McCann. The 40 goal year or this year??? This is basically the same argument many have been applying to CMM during/after a slump in his best ever year.

How do we know McCann isn't Mangiapane? Good but not the bounce back to highest goal production from a few years back.

Grass isn't always greener...

 

[Jags]

How do we know McCann isn't Mangiapane?

He's primarily not Mangiapane because he's signed for a couple more years at $5m. Playing 3W for the Kraken isn't helping his numbers this year, so in my opinion he's somewhere between his best and today, making his cap hit a steal.

Could break the other way, of course, but if he's really available then he jumped pretty high up on my list. Not sure I'd meaningfully subtract from the roster for him though. This team can do real damage in the postseason as-is. I only want to add to that.

 

[qc14]

I don't know. He's got 2 more years at a really good number and can play both positions in a pinch. I think he gets bid up, and I don't know how long Seattle's going to keep moving impact guys for futures, so it might take a roster guy or fully-cooked/highly-regarded prospect.

No one in the NHL ever gets bid up. Even if he does, keep adding on futures instead of a piece that can help us win this year like McMichael.

 

[Jags]

Even if he does, keep adding on futures instead of a piece that can help us win this year like McMichael.

Completely agree. Up to a point, of course, but yeah, totally.

No one in the NHL ever gets bid up.

I'd be shocked if that were true. Players *definitely* get bid up in free agency. There's at least a handful of overpays every year, and I doubt that *always* happens because a GM was a dipshit.

Harder to suss out in trades because we're not privy to how deals go down, but you really don't think that GMs don't pit offers against one another? Can't imagine it doesn't happen with a decent frequency.

 

[Ridley Simon]

Even if that's true, which I'm not sure it is, he would not be a better fit at 1c for this team

Strome is what he is -- a low end 1c or high end 2c that can give you a consistent 70 points even though he doesn't crush his matchups. That's a very useful player at $5M. He also has the unique ability to transform Ovi from being unplayable at 5v5 to just below average.

Who's chart is this? Eller's???


Absolutely no need to include McMichael in a McCann package. 1st+prospect should be enough to get it done

McCann has 2yrs left after this one, at 5m. You think scrubs will “whet their whistle”?? No chance dude.

CMM or someone similar would have to be in to play.

Come on man

 

[Coldnwindy]

For next year if really hope we get to try:

Ovi -Strome-Wilson
McMichael-PLD-Protas
Cristall - Leonard - Miroshnichenko
Duhaime - Dowd - Raddysh

Could shift CMM and Leonard back and forth depending on how Leonard adjusts to C (I have a feeling he might take to being a C with his tenacity).

With LittlePro not far behind

As others have noted maybe where this could be upgraded is 1C. Maybe Strome + Lappy + AA + 2015 1st for a soon to be Elete 1 C with term over the summer. Not sure who, any thoughts on who?

Then go big FA shopping when/if Ovi retires.

I would put each of the newbie/rookies (I consider Miro a rookie as he hasn't even played 1/2 an NHL season yet) with 2 other vets in the top 9 and roll them out equally. 3 rookies in the same line would be a disaster at the NHL level. Leonard needs to play wing to start out as he hasn't played center in a few years and it's a tough ask of a rookie to transition from wing to center as a pro.

Ovi - Strome - Leonard
McMichael - PLD - Cristall
Miroshnichenko - Protas - Wilson
Milano - Frank - Duhaime

This lineup has all the rookies playing their natural positions and with skillsets that I think best compliment the other two players on their lines. 4th line is made up of all the players we currently have signed for next year.

For this year I'm on the trade for Boeser/Bjorkstand camp, as neither of them would require parting with a current roster player.

 

[HTFN]

McCann has 2yrs left after this one, at 5m. You think scrubs will “whet their whistle”?? No chance dude.

CMM or someone similar would have to be in to play.

Come on man

I think if CMM or similar is involved they probably just don't need to do it. Already a top club, let him get another season of playoffs in and find new warts.

If there's one thing I really do see and believe from CMM (after wondering if he was trade bait a year ago to be fair) it's always been that he takes a few passes in the league he's in to figure out how to be good but he has always figured out how to be very good.

best case it's a win-win where they get a cup out of it but are we really rolling those dice on McCann? Like is he tipping that scale in a way McMichael couldn't? Because these are the playoffs we're talking about and if DSP can do it... we still don't know who finds that level. Last year was okay but kind of a wash because they were gassed down the stretch and not expected to do shit, but now those guys have seen the playoffs.

I just have a very hard time punting CMM, who has made serious strides and become a more threatening player in the offseason in most of his "adult" hockey career because he might not do some of the stuff you want from a fully cooked guy.

I get that you don't like him now but are you really telling me he's done cooking? Again this is coming from somebody who probably would have made some of these trades last year, but I see a guy working hard to improve himself and seeing results. His IQ has always been his best asset, so why stop now?

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

McCann has 2yrs left after this one, at 5m. You think scrubs will “whet their whistle”?? No chance dude.

CMM or someone similar would have to be in to play.

Come on man

For that guy? Really? Sure they’d want him….but….might be the 1st + AC…..wonder who fans would part with then….

 

[qc14]

Completely agree. Up to a point, of course, but yeah, totally.



I'd be shocked if that were true. Players *definitely* get bid up in free agency. There's at least a handful of overpays every year, and I doubt that *always* happens because a GM was a dipshit.

Harder to suss out in trades because we're not privy to how deals go down, but you really don't think that GMs don't pit offers against one another? Can't imagine it doesn't happen with a decent frequency.

I mean I think it does in the sense that you squeeze a 3rd into a 2nd or get another 4th thrown into the deal but this mythical "bidding war" for TDL acquisitions just never happens.

McCann has 2yrs left after this one, at 5m. You think scrubs will “whet their whistle”?? No chance dude.

CMM or someone similar would have to be in to play.

Come on man

What McMichael-esque guys have been moved in a deal for a better player recently? Chytil in the Miller package, Vilardi in the PLD package, Geekie in the Sergachev deal? All of those upgrades were for players at least one tier above what McCann is currently.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

I would put each of the newbie/rookies (I consider Miro a rookie as he hasn't even played 1/2 an NHL season yet) with 2 other vets in the top 9 and roll them out equally. 3 rookies in the same line would be a disaster at the NHL level. Leonard needs to play wing to start out as he hasn't played center in a few years and it's a tough ask of a rookie to transition from wing to center as a pro.

Ovi - Strome - Leonard
McMichael - PLD - Cristall
Miroshnichenko - Protas - Wilson
Milano - Frank - Duhaime

This lineup has all the rookies playing their natural positions and with skillsets that I think best compliment the other two players on their lines. 4th line is made up of all the players we currently have signed for next year.

For this year I'm on the trade for Boeser/Bjorkstand camp, as neither of them would require parting with a current roster player.

Protas….just not a center….just like CMM.

That second line would get wrecked. Frank at 4c?

So many issues with this lineup for me. Pass the sativa…

 

[qc14]

I would put each of the newbie/rookies (I consider Miro a rookie as he hasn't even played 1/2 an NHL season yet) with 2 other vets in the top 9 and roll them out equally. 3 rookies in the same line would be a disaster at the NHL level.

I agree with you on this, which is why there's zero chance more than two of Lappy/Miro/Leonard/Cristall are on the NHL roster at the same time next year.

Leonard needs to play wing to start out as he hasn't played center in a few years and it's a tough ask of a rookie to transition from wing to center as a pro.

Cannot stress enough how much I agree with this one too. Leonard is not a center.

 

[Coldnwindy]

Protas….just not a center….just like CMM.

That second line would get wrecked. Frank at 4c?

So many issues with this lineup for me. Pass the sativa…

This is just the idealized line up of course. I doubt all 3 of the rookies make the opening night roster and we don't know if dowd will be re-signed/who else will be signed or traded in the summer.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

This is just the idealized line up of course. I doubt all 3 of the rookies make the opening night roster and we don't know if dowd will be re-signed/who else will be signed in the summer.

Yep, just too many youngsters….this is why I see someone we like getting dealt (eventually).

 

[Ridley Simon]

I think if CMM or similar is involved they probably just don't need to do it. Already a top club, let him get another season of playoffs in and find new warts.

If there's one thing I really do see and believe from CMM (after wondering if he was trade bait a year ago to be fair) it's always been that he takes a few passes in the league he's in to figure out how to be good but he has always figured out how to be very good.

best case it's a win-win where they get a cup out of it but are we really rolling those dice on McCann? Like is he tipping that scale in a way McMichael couldn't? Because these are the playoffs we're talking about and if DSP can do it... we still don't know who finds that level. Last year was okay but kind of a wash because they were gassed down the stretch and not expected to do shit, but now those guys have seen the playoffs.

I just have a very hard time punting CMM, who has made serious strides and become a more threatening player in the offseason in most of his "adult" hockey career because he might not do some of the stuff you want from a fully cooked guy.

I get that you don't like him now but are you really telling me he's done cooking? Again this is coming from somebody who probably would have made some of these trades last year, but I see a guy working hard to improve himself and seeing results. His IQ has always been his best asset, so why stop now?

Let me be — hopefully — clear.

I do not want McCann. Not that I don’t think he’s a good player, but I am not interested in him.

That said? Anyone who thinks the Krakens top scorer can be had for simply a “1st +” (which is all I was replying to, bear in mind), isn’t understanding the market.

He’d cost at least a roster player. I don’t think Lapierre is near enough. But that’s just me.

Again, I do not want McCann. As I’ve said maybe a gazillion times (right, @Jags ?), I’d trade CMM+ for Tuch. That’s always been my stance.

RIF please, everyone!!