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Thoughts on Scott Mayfield?

If the rumour is true that NYI have signed Kadri, but need to shed salary, I wonder if they would part with him.

They already have Pulock and Dobson on the right side, and Romanov that could play either side.

He’s a Free Agent after this year, but might be a good stop gap until we figure out if JBD or Thomson can stick.
 
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benjiv1 said:
Thoughts on Scott Mayfield?

If the rumour is true that NYI have signed Kadri, but need to shed salary, I wonder if they would part with him.

They already have Pulock and Dobson on the right side, and Romanov that could play either side.

He’s a Free Agent after this year, but might be a good stop gap until we figure out if JBD or Thomson can stick.
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He would be sweet but with only a 1.45M cap hit this year he seems like an unlikely cap dump candidate.

Perhaps we could convince them to utilize him as a sweetener in exchange for taking on Bailey.

Would offer them JBD/Thomson for Bailey + Mayfield if we could talk extension with Mayfield beforehand.
 
Hale The Villain said:
He would be sweet but with only a 1.45M cap hit this year he seems like an unlikely cap dump candidate.

Perhaps we could convince them to utilize him as a sweetener in exchange for taking on Bailey.

Would offer them JBD/Thomson for Bailey + Mayfield if we could talk extension with Mayfield beforehand.
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Yah, that’s sort of my thinking.

Take on a bit of a cap dump, and offer them an entry level contract as replacement.

They still need to sign Dobson too.
 
Hale The Villain said:
He would be sweet but with only a 1.45M cap hit this year he seems like an unlikely cap dump candidate.

Perhaps we could convince them to utilize him as a sweetener in exchange for taking on Bailey.

Would offer them JBD/Thomson for Bailey + Mayfield if we could talk extension with Mayfield beforehand.
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Bailey/Beauvillier could be great stop gap tweener wings if the HC stuff drags out. Could be had for cheap and their contracts aren't that bad - 5M and 4.125M respectively x 2 years in cap hit but only 3.5M x 2 years for salary for Bailey.

If they're really desperate for cap space, future considerations is all it would take I imagine - but they're only going to really be in a bind next summer when Barzal comes up (I'm assuming they bridge Dobson and Kadri gets less than 8M).
 
Hale The Villain said:
He would be sweet but with only a 1.45M cap hit this year he seems like an unlikely cap dump candidate.

Perhaps we could convince them to utilize him as a sweetener in exchange for taking on Bailey.

Would offer them JBD/Thomson for Bailey + Mayfield if we could talk extension with Mayfield beforehand.
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I'd be fully on board for this. Bailey would be great insurance if our guys get suspended. If not we'll have to shed some salary. I like Mayfield.
 
God Says No said:
Boro was fine the one season he got paired up with Demelo. The rest ranged from terrible to below average.
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I disagree. He was also effective with Wideman, he actually played very well the first season under Boucher as the system really meshed with his skillset. The next year he played up with Ceci which didn't work out, and Boucher's last year everyone had checked out but as a third pair guy he was fine, we just sucked overall. He carried a bad rep from his first few years imo that I thought was never fair. Again, as you mentioned, he was very good with Demelo on the third pair.

He got into trouble when you play him in the top 4 or with an AHL caliber partner (guys like Clarkson and Jaros).
 
Boro,Gudbranson,J.Brown,Hamonic,Gryba,Cowem,Ceci,Phanuef,Wiercioch....all sucked as Senators. Time to turn the page and actually construct a good defence.,
 
PlayItAgain said:
Not a juicy rumour but Brent Wallace says Ottawa is still very much in on Jakob Chychrun on the latest Wally & Methot podcast.
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I believe Dorion still wants it to happen. I just don't think Dorion will pay the asking price or that Arizona will lower the asking price.
 
LMFAO said:
With the Batherson situation up in the air

Would you guys do Puljujarvi for Ridly Greig ?
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Micklebot said:
I disagree. He was also effective with Wideman, he actually played very well the first season under Boucher as the system really meshed with his skillset. The next year he played up with Ceci which didn't work out, and Boucher's last year everyone had checked out but as a third pair guy he was fine, we just sucked overall. He carried a bad rep from his first few years imo that I thought was never fair. Again, as you mentioned, he was very good with Demelo on the third pair.

He got into trouble when you play him in the top 4 or with an AHL caliber partner (guys like Clarkson and Jaros).
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I'll concede he was average that one year under Boucher. That's 2 out of 9 years. I would not call that "fine" for his overall OTT career. Demelo was more than fine for most of his time, barring his start to his career in OTT.
 
benjiv1 said:
Thoughts on Scott Mayfield?

If the rumour is true that NYI have signed Kadri, but need to shed salary, I wonder if they would part with him.

They already have Pulock and Dobson on the right side, and Romanov that could play either side.

He’s a Free Agent after this year, but might be a good stop gap until we figure out if JBD or Thomson can stick.
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As someone mentioned, Mayfield seems an unlikely candidate to be moved if they're trying to save cap.

That said, maybe there is another move they might make (Pulock ideally) that could work.
 
benjiv1 said:
Thoughts on Scott Mayfield?

If the rumour is true that NYI have signed Kadri, but need to shed salary, I wonder if they would part with him.

They already have Pulock and Dobson on the right side, and Romanov that could play either side.

He’s a Free Agent after this year, but might be a good stop gap until we figure out if JBD or Thomson can stick.
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CF has them at 14 F + 6 D + 2G
That would be 15 F with Kadri.
They already have 7 F's with cap hits above $4 million. I'd assume that they'd start there to shed salary.
 
playasRus said:
I remember Phaneuf being effective in Ottawa for 1.5 years after being acquired. The year we traded him the whole team collapsed
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People forget how good he was for us until he completely and utterly fell off a cliff. He was a rock for us.
 
Micklebot said:
I disagree. He was also effective with Wideman, he actually played very well the first season under Boucher as the system really meshed with his skillset. The next year he played up with Ceci which didn't work out, and Boucher's last year everyone had checked out but as a third pair guy he was fine, we just sucked overall. He carried a bad rep from his first few years imo that I thought was never fair. Again, as you mentioned, he was very good with Demelo on the third pair.

He got into trouble when you play him in the top 4 or with an AHL caliber partner (guys like Clarkson and Jaros).
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His playoffs games vs Boston when we went to the CF was the best hockey he ever played. To bad he got hurt because he was making a huge impact
 
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