Right when I started thinking you were cool.Let's get Jonathan Toews on this team. That's a real leader. We can jettison fake-never-won-anything-in-his-career-leader Zuccarello. Rossi can learn a lot, and I'll get to wear my Toews Sioux jersey again.
Who is your ideal $7M UFA?Here is how I see next year:
Top 6: Kap, Rossi, Zucc, EK, Boldy, $7M UFA
I don’t love Boeser, but he’s probably the best short term fit. Be nice to have a real RHS sniper for first time in franchise history.Who is your ideal $7M UFA?
The placeholder theory actually makes sense with when the full no trades end and the dead cap lowering. After next season the only player with a full no trade will hopefully be Kaprizov.But placeholders usually don’t have full NMCs. Albeit Foligno’s goes to a M-NTC in. 2026-2027 it just feels like BG has the entire roster under trade protections that will make it very hard to move.
I’d probably do #12 options, and you have to choose 1:
#1 - Trade Kaprizov to Carolina for Nikishin + 2025 or 2026 1st round pick, plus sign Marner to 7 x $13M
or
#2 - Re-sign Kaprizov for 8 x $15.5M
Marner would be incredible but don’t see the cap working unless we move Spurgeon or something.
Trenin + HartmanWhat else can we do? Maybe buy out some people?
I think it only takes hartman and trenin to afford 12-13 playerTrenin + Hartman
Zucc
Rossi for a player on an ELC
Foligno + Freddy
First option easily. I think Guerin has to make a real run at marner this summer. You can figure out the money later. Dallas isn’t exactly swimming with cap space next year and that didn’t stop them from adding a game changer. Plus, it’s Kaprizov insurance.2 options, and you have to choose 1:
#1 - Trade Kaprizov to Carolina for Nikishin + 2025 or 2026 1st round pick, plus sign Marner to 7 x $13M
or
#2 - Re-sign Kaprizov for 8 x $15.5M
Yeah, don't think about that. Think about other stuff that isn't that. Marner ain't coming here. I get the team will have the coin to get it done, but Minnesota isn't a preferred free agent destination. I'd put good money on it not even being in the top 2/3rds of the league. They'd have to overpay him significantly to get him here. Enough so that it would be detrimental to the rest of the roster.First option easily. I think Guerin has to make a real run at marner this summer. You can figure out the money later. Dallas isn’t exactly swimming with cap space next year and that didn’t stop them from adding a game changer. Plus, it’s Kaprizov insurance.
92 per 82 player in the regular seasonMarner... what?
92 per 82 player in the regular season
72 per 82 player in the playoffs
While we are at it, bring back the Sioux name to UND as well.Let's get Jonathan Toews on this team. That's a real leader. We can jettison fake-never-won-anything-in-his-career-leader Zuccarello. Rossi can learn a lot, and I'll get to wear my Toews Sioux jersey again.
That's pretty much Kaprizov too.Marner at 10M...maybe, ok, even though I think the money is better spent on a C. Marner at the 13M or so he's gonna want? No thanks. He is a winger with zero physicality and mediocre defense.
Malkin is near done. If we can get him for 6-7M x1, sure, but he won't leave PIT for us at that wage bill.
I am sad seeing the forwards we are trotting out there game after game. Also wondering just how high of a draft pick we gave away in 2025, for a guy they refuse to play over Bogosian, Chisholm, and Merrill.