Micklebot
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Except you need bodies to place those guys, and those guys will eat into that money too
Proposal: Free agency edition Trade Rumours/Proposals [MOD - Stay on Topic] 5
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Senator Stanley
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I don't understand what the issue is here. Why can't we have all of Roy, Chychrun and Pinto on the books for some amount of time this summer?
Even if we can't, it's not like Chychrun is some impossible to move contract. If for some reason we absolutely had to dump him (e.g. between Pinto being offer sheeted and when we had to match), I'm sure we could do it, it might just impact the value of the return.
And of course, none of this matters unless Pinto gets an offer sheet, which is extremely unlikely.
Probably going to run it back with new 4th liners and a 2-3M RHD instead of Brannstrom.
Lets hope Ullmark and new coaching can improve things enough.
Lets hope Ullmark and new coaching can improve things enough.
BondraTime
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Monday should be interesting.
Wonder if any teams will circle back to Chychrun if they strike out at free agency.
I’m not optimistic with him not moving at the draft, but here’s hoping someone is looking for an offensive LD.
Wonder if any teams will circle back to Chychrun if they strike out at free agency.
I’m not optimistic with him not moving at the draft, but here’s hoping someone is looking for an offensive LD.
L'Aveuglette
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No worries apparently it's not a big deal not to find what you need before July 1st. Don't mind how all the available top-4 Ds are being traded this weekend.
KevinRedkey
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They can't offer him 8. They can only offer 7 because he wasn't on the team at the deadline.
Gil Gunderson
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At this point you already know if a player has interest in signing with you, that’s why trading for rights is so rarely done.
Wallet Inspector
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In fairness, he did address out biggest issue last season, goaltending, in the past week.
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xVolchenkov
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I personally think Ottawa is a lot closer to being a playoff team than Detroit is. Our goaltending is a lot better as well.
KevinRedkey
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It's the offseason. We can go over the cap if we need to - but we have 11+ right now so I doubt that even matters.
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We’re agreed, i just don’t agree that he is a good 4th liner. I think he is an extremely average 4th liner at best.
Tragedy
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Would you prefer he Dorion's it?
I'm sure he could throw away some picks for aging past prime vets. What's Stepan up to these days?
xVolchenkov
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While I’m all for going in a different direction than the 3 you have listed, they need to be replaced so to act like we’d suddenly have $4.4m for one guy is disingenuous.
aragorn
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Yes, that's obvious, that's why I used the word "approaching", regardless freeing up some of that money will help to pay for a new RD. $3.3 mil for Kelly & Bransstrom & Kubalics $2.5 mil all help pay for something.
Johansen is a salary dump to make the money close & we still have Greig who can play 3rd line C with Ostapchuk & Halliday behind him.
I think people are panicking right now because there were a lot of trades today. Thing is free agency hasn't even come yet and there's a lot of time left in the offseason, majority of teams don't have their roster set-up - including us.
Realistically we all knew this offseason would be a major challenge for this team. Not only because we don't have a ton of assets to trade, but also because we were trying to fill two massive holes at key positions. Trading for Ullmark got us one of the best goalies on the market. We need a RHD which is the most coveted position in hockey.
Then we need to round out the bottom 6 which should be the easiest one.
I think we will get our Dman and figure it out. We just passed the draft. There's a ton of time left here and many moves to come.
L'Aveuglette
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Of course that was a good move, but considering where we finished in the standings, if we don't also seriously address defense I don't see us anywhere near the playoffs next season. Moving some minor pieces around won't cut it.
If Ullmark plays better than korpisalo it won’t be another basement finish.
Can Ullmark save league average low danger shot attempts?
Wondercarrot
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Yeah Steve, wtf have you done outside of trading for a vezina winning goalie in the area of our biggest need.
The only realistic option out there that was traded is Marino but he also had a NTC.
Sergachev was a no go. Tanev was unlikely at his age there's no incentive to come here. Demelo re-signed. Otherwise nothing has moved.
Have to keep in mind not all players want to be here when we are not even a playoff team.Need to be realistic...
You can find 4th liners for league minimum; however, they likely are not very good.
You might get an old vet (Perry) who wants to sign with a SC contender though; however, the Senators are not near that level of team.
I like Kelly but he is worth maybe $1M; he is effective on the PK because he is quick enough and smart enough defensively. Offensively though he lacks offensive skills.
aragorn
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Obviously we replace those guys with cheaper options from our prospect pool. Ostapchuk can replace Kelly or Kastelic & maybe Halliday is ready for prime time after a good showing in Belleville to end last season.
Kleven obviously replaces Brannstrom & I expect when Hamonic's contract is done that Yakemchuk might be ready to step in & to replace him next season. And each of the guys I mentioned will be much harder to play against than the guys they are replacing.
Yeah, WTF have you done Steve? (Life of Brian scene!).
BondraTime
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I’m perfectly fine with the slow approach.
We were never getting Tanev, that was a hope and a dream.
I’m not too high on Marino so I’m probably a little biased saying I’m not upset about missing out on him.
I think all the guys the Sens actually had on the table are still there. They were never going to be in the hunt for Tanev, and likely not Roy either.
We were never getting Tanev, that was a hope and a dream.
I’m not too high on Marino so I’m probably a little biased saying I’m not upset about missing out on him.
I think all the guys the Sens actually had on the table are still there. They were never going to be in the hunt for Tanev, and likely not Roy either.
