GDT: FA Frenzy time ladies and gents (for everyone else that is)

[MinJaBen]

Kotkaniemi was a 21 year old player...that's not a move that you can evaluate in a year's time...

If you can't evaluate it yet, why are you crowing about it, then?

 

[SlavinAway]

RD market just got smaller

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

I don't really buy that narrative. I think that they wanted KK for a long time. You don't give an 8 year extension if you didn't have long-term plans with him in the organization. The offer sheet strategy was unusual, but I think that they always wanted the actual player and the Aho offer sheet gave them a really good excuse to do it.

we really screwed the pooch if we torpedoed our off-season in order to wait 6 weeks to offer sheet a dude with 34 points as a career high. Im not going to say they didnt like Kotkaniemi but that is too long to wait into an offseason to execute your plan.

I think you’re mixing him up with de Haan. Gardiner was signed on September 6th that year.

maybe so. i stand corrected.

 

[Borsig]

welp.

I guess Klingberg is my first choice now. I don't even know

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

Boston fans are going to love Zacha. A lackadaisical LW that doesnt use his body as much as he should. Going to love it.

 

[hblueridgegal]

The Haulas should invest in a moving company

 

[TheReelChuckFletcher]

If you can't evaluate it yet, why are you crowing about it, then?

I'm not crowing about it. I'm giving a general overview about what the Canes did last offseason, as far as timeline is concerned. My opinion is neutral about Kotkaniemi except about the fact that I believe that it was a futures move and not a right-now move, and that many are jumping the gun too quickly about whether the move is good or bad.

 

[Chrispy]

we really screwed the pooch if we torpedoed our off-season in order to wait 6 weeks to offer sheet a dude with 34 points as a career high. Im not going to say they didnt like Kotkaniemi but that is too long to wait into an offseason to execute your plan.


maybe so. i stand corrected.

It was clearly plan E or F. They tried signing others, they were trying to sign Saad late for one.

They tried to trade for Kotkaniemi before the offer sheet as well per Waddell. The situation was unique in that there was cap space that likely couldn't be banked with Gardiner going on LTIR, so they decided to use it to procure Kotkaniemi rather than lose it.

Whether it works is a long-term question, and the jury is definitely out on whether it ends up more like the Trocheck trade or the Gardiner signing.

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

Manson staying in Colorado may make Girard available. I only say that for conversation not that I want him to be a hurricane.

 

[Borsig]

I'm not crowing about it. I'm giving a general overview about what the Canes did last offseason, as far as timeline is concerned. My opinion is neutral about Kotkaniemi except about the fact that I believe that it was a futures move and not a right-now move.

I hope he's one that just shows up, but his late blooming does bother me. His skating sucks.

 

[Finlandia WOAT]

One thing that everybody tends to forget about this FO is that they often like to keep a bunch of open cap space well into August and September, leading fans like us to whine and complain about the team "doing nothing", and then they strike. That's how Kotkaniemi became a Hurricane, actually.

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Kotkaniemi was like Plan D after they struck out on Saad and couldn't get the Blues to agree to Tarasenko for Gardiner and pocket lint.

 

[SlavinAway]

Looks like Manson will be 4x4.5.

 

[Unsustainable]

Marchant would be good

 

[Borsig]

Contracts seem more reasonable this year compared to last year.

 

[hblueridgegal]

Gen Z owners for the win

 

[HisIceness]

Gen Z owners for the win

Damn it

 

[hblueridgegal]

For Coverage

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

Manson at 4 x 4.5 is a good deal. I would have liked to do that. ah well.

LOLZ Francis always chasing goalies.

 

[Svechhammer]

Florida letting Marchmant go and not being able to sign Giroux... oof, going all in does have its dangers

 

[Chrispy]

Manson at 4 x 4.5 is a good deal. I would have liked to do that. ah well.

LOLZ Francis always chasing goalies.

Driedger tore his ACL at the world championships, so it makes sense Francis would look for a short-term backup solution.

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

Driedger tore his ACL at the world championships, so it makes sense Francis would look for a short-term backup solution.

yea i get that. His goalie choices havent been good for some time.

 

[Borsig]

Im wondering if we sell Raanta high, if Kooch is backup ready. Raanta should have some value right now.

 

[chaz4hockey]

jersey clearing space?

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

jersey clearing space?

clearing a roster spot that is filled by a below replacement level player, yes

 

[chaz4hockey]

Florida letting Marchmant go and not being able to sign Giroux... oof, going all in does have its dangers

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