GDT: Free Agency Frenzy July 1st @ 12pm ET (Apparently it's not 12pm)

[Bacon Artemi Bravo]

That’s “the best Chris Drury could do” ladies and gentlemen

 

[Fitzy]

The real winner today was Zac Jones so let's hope he runs with it.

 

[Filip Chytil]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807884008241476049

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807883568263450793

 

[17futurecap]

You can and then you lose any/all leverage in a Trouba trade because you must unload him.

Remember the Leafs sending Marleau to the Canes? … and that was a 1 year deal for 6 million. We’d get held over a barrel and everyone would be saying how dumb Drury is.

You would just buy him out then, and bank the 4 million in savings if the Wings didn’t want him anymore.

 

[Circus86]

Was that all Drury had to say? Not much there.

 

[Riche16]

"Trouba knows what I think of him as a player"

- GM Drury

Also GM Drury "CAN I PLZ TRADE YOUR ASS TO DETROIT? PRETTY PLEASE? I WANT YOU OFF THIS TEAM!"

 

[Atax]

The real winner today was Zac Jones so let's hope he runs with it.

And the loser is Adam Fox who is going to go another 4-5 years with an anchor.

 

[Filip Chytil]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807884547083706807

 

[TominNC]

There are teams that got knocked out earlier that had a better chance to win the cup then nyr did in the ecf.

As for the reg season, is 4-6 less wins a season going to ruin your 6 months? You can't handle one less loss a month for the sake of your "entertainment" if it means having a team that is better built for the grind of the playoffs? Really?


Completely agree!

People act like second round pics or nothing important, they're extremely valuable and a lot of good players get scooped up in the second round, at the very least the second and third round really helped to develop depth in an organization. We're lacking all of that now. I didn't even realize how many second rounders we've traded away with virtually nothing tangible left to show for it

There are no guarantees unless you’re built like the 80s Oilers. With the guys moving around it’s just a lot of shuffling then the Lu start dealing cards in Oct. who knows what will happen. Just entertain me

 

[Barnaby]

Who cares if we have to give up Trouba for a conditional 7th , addition by subtraction

More like you’ll be giving someone a 1st and quality prospect… make no mistake we’d be the one giving assets and possibly retaining on top.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807884547083706807

Hm, maybe trading away all our 2nds is a good idea after all lol

 

[GAGLine]

Spend a 2nd and a 4th to get Wennberg, then spend a 2nd and a 5th 2 months later to get Smith. Neither player will be on the team this time next year. Brilliant asset management.

 

[Uglybstrd]

I guess by going younger Drury means giving Jones, Berard and Othmann every chance to make the team next year. How are Perreault and Sykoras chances to make the team, or get some games during the season, anyone have an update on them?

 

[Filip Chytil]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807885123418759315

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807885360787083515

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

More like you’ll be giving someone a 1st and quality prospect… make no mistake we’d be the one giving assets and possibly retaining on top.

Retention maybe but definitely not a 1st

 

[bleedblue94]

Someone on here before said he will be traded, waived or bought out definitely. @nyrob13 ?

At this point they might just be best serve to keep him on the 3rd pair to play with Jones this year. Let Jones basically run every single breakout and Jake can be the physical presence out there.

 

[ElLeetch]

Slaf 8 years, $60.8, 7.6 AAV
The bar has been set for Laf

Yep, Laf is going to get 8-9M

 

[Oscar Lindberg]

The fact that Drury is talking to the media suggests to me nothing is close with Trouba. No way he’d talk to them if there was something bubbling

 

[Daves a mess]

Now just resign Tyler Pitlick, and the summer is ours.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

I guess by going younger Drury means giving Jones, Berard and Othmann every chance to make the team next year. How are Perreault and Sykoras chances to make the team, or get some games during the season, anyone have an update on them?

You think Laviosaurus will play 5 rookies in his lineup, let alone 3? Maybe one of those guys makes the team, if that

 

[LOFIN]

The full Drury quote on Trouba:

"Jacob plays hard every night, provides a lot of leadership for us. Jacob knows what I think of him as a person and a player and I'm going to keep any private conversations I have with him or his agent keep it private. We're always looking to move the team forward and be the best team we can possibly be. I'm not going to go through player by player, who is going to be here, who is not going to be here. We're just trying to do the best we can in the offseason and put our best foot forward come training camp"

 

[Bacon Artemi Bravo]

The fact that Drury is talking to the media suggests to me nothing is close with Trouba. No way he’d talk to them if there was something bubbling

100%

 

[Mac n Gs]

I think the Trouba stuff got vastly blown out of proportion initially, and it's being overlooked that Friedman said that people were telling him that it wasn't close yet and everyone was getting ahead of themselves. I get it, and it's a complicated situation. Someone was saying it yesterday, but Overhardt and Trouba are likely using what leverage they have to try to get some grasp of control on this situation. Maybe he's still moved, maybe he's not. I don't think any of the D available in FA were really going to make or break that decision.

 

[17futurecap]

When someone has an argument here, it needs to end with one party saying the poster knows what I think of them as a poster here.

 

[n8]

Yep, Laf is going to get 8-9M

It'll be a wild world if RFA Laf is getting more than UFA Reinhart.