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

[JohnC]

You would have been livid if they gave Laf that contract last offseason.

Shit, I would’ve been livid if they gave Laf that contract last offseason and I was a Laf believer.

 

[noncents]

I would have taken this over a new Lindgren deal.

YA THINK

 

[Vitto79]

Pretty obvious NYR forecasts Igor , Laf , Miller resigns and can’t add more money to next year

 

[JimmyG89]

Canes crushed it letting their d go, and getting those two deals, unreal on Walker.

Still have the same goalies, so nothing has changed for them.

 

[Oscar Lindberg]

that Walker deal is pretty good

I really don’t have anything to say about the strategy here

 

[LOFIN]

Walker pretty neat deal

 

[Atax]

that Walker deal is pretty good

I really don’t have anything to say about the strategy here

What strategy

 

[JCProdigy]

Wennberg is getting 5M for a Game 3 OT goal

More like he's getting 5M because some team needed to get to the salary floor. Kudos to him.

 

[nyr2k2]

This is why I suggested buying out Trouba last night if they didn't have a certain deal in place. A buy out is the least appealing of the three options (trade, waivers, buy out) but it was the only thing that we could control, that would give us any certainty coming into today.

With that said I don't think we were giving term to anyone today. Not with big dollars attached, anyway. I think the team is operating with an eye towards next off-season.

 

[Oscar Lindberg]

What strategy

that’s the joke

 

[Fitzy]

Pretty obvious NYR forecasts Igor , Laf , Miller resigns and can’t add more money to next year

I just think they're getting ahead of themselves a bit on that front. If NYR bombs out again next season you need to strongly consider a retool or rebuild.

If Drury is trying to create a team that competes for the next decade, not just the nest 2 years, we should probably stop trading away half of our draft selections from rounds 2-4 rather than just limit long term contracts for veteran players.

 

[Bacon Artemi Bravo]

Drury fired this week?

 

[Matt Rentfree]

HF Boards just verified that I am a human! Mazel Tov!

 

[NYR Viper]

 

[noncents]

man that walker 5x3.6 shot and lindgren 6x5.3 chaser gonna hit SOO f***IN GOOOD

 

[Profet]

HF Boards just verified that I am a human! Mazel Tov!

Seems like they finally implemented some bot detection, hopefully the site loads faster without all the scripts refreshing pages constantly.

 

[Shadowtron]

So today the Rangers acquired Carrick, Smith and a 31st season without a Cup. Cool.

 

[nyr2k2]

NGL I don't think I even know who that is.

 

[nsvoyageurs]

The league trying to slide this news out on the wildest day of the year, figuring it’ll go unnoticed. So greasy

They are scumbags for letting those guys back into the league. Neither of them should

 

[MysticLeviathan]

this whole trouba thing was handled horribly by management. there was zero reason for us to leak anything early.

 

[savebyrichter94]

Rebuild 2.0 coming down the pike in the not so distant future, too many big money shrinking violets who only grow a set when you threaten their fraternity of overpaid pretenders

 

[NYR Viper]

 

[AirGut]

Carrick is gonna end up just like Ryan Carpenter

 

[Oscar Lindberg]

If Drury is trying to create a team that competes for the next decade, not just the nest 2 years, we should probably stop trading away half of our draft selections from rounds 2-4 rather than just limit long term contracts for veteran players

It’s very clear at this point that Drury doesn’t care about that far out (and rightly so) If he doesn’t win in the next 3 years, he probably doesn’t have a job anyway

 

[17futurecap]

This is why I suggested buying out Trouba last night if they didn't have a certain deal in place. A buy out is the least appealing of the three options (trade, waivers, buy out) but it was the only thing that we could control, that would give us any certainty coming into today.

With that said I don't think we were giving term to anyone today. Not with big dollars attached, anyway. I think the team is operating with an eye towards next off-season.

But doesn’t he know he has that in his back pocket as last resort? If it’s truly done with Trouba here, and say he has to buy him out the worst case is 4 million saved.

The second buyout window can be used as long as Lindgren just files for arbitration, they don’t even need to go to arbitration to get the second buyout window open.