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GDT: Free agency madness, brought to you by the letter G - PART 2

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OgieO said:
Am I crazy or is that really high for Washington? No Backstrom and missing Wilson for a long time as well. I don't really dig that roster while those players are out. They likely roll Strome and Brown on a second line.

I think wild card spots are very much up for grabs this year, Hopefully we can start out much much better than we have so far under DJ.
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I'm having a hard time imagining Florida being that high too. Replaced Huberdeau, Marchment and Weegar with M. Tkachuk. That's not...good enough.
 
BankStreetParade said:
I'm having a hard time imagining Florida being that high too. Replaced Huberdeau, Marchment and Weegar with M. Tkachuk. That's not...good enough.
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I wouldn't read it as "up that high". The list is a degree of certainty to make the playoffs, so if everyone was 100% certain Tbay was going to come in 3rd in their division, they'd still be at the top with 100% even if nobody thought they'd win the division.

So, with Florida, while they certainly got worse by losing 3 good players and replacing them with one, they were presidents trophy winners last year, so they can afford to slip and still be locks for the playoffs.

All that said, it will be interesting to see how much they slide. Last year the were without Ekblad for ~20 games, so losing Weegar might be mitigated a bit by a healthy Ekblad, but at the same time, we already know Duclair will be out for a while, and he was a big part of their secondary scoring, Not sure Balcers and White can make that up for them though I suppose they'll get their chance.

That Bobrovsky contract really puts them in a bind...
 
IranCondraAffair said:
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.
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Them trading Puloch to make room for Kadri would be like us trading Chabot to make room for Debrincat.

I think Mayfield/Bailey makes a lot of sense. Rumours surrounding Bailey trade for about a year, he has higher cap than salary and is still a good player. With the possibility of one of our players (hopefully not 2) getting suspended over the HC stuff it would be a great add and Mayfield as well.

Shouldn't cost too much either.
 
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SpezDispenser said:
That's silly though - and I don't mean to offend. If Batherson is playing, he's a filthy set up guy who can also finish. We're talking 70+ points easily. You put him with Norris and Tkachuk without question and we never speak of this again lol
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Real talk, I want Batherson to play the top line, he's my favourite player right now and I think he's hitting 80 points this year.
 
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Bileur said:
Tkachuk, White, Tierney, Balcers and Del Zotto you mean.
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Del Zotto's 41 pts pace isn't that far off of Weegar's 44 pts, I'm sure they'll do just fine with that swap...

They're basically the same player, just one gets distracted by his realestate side hustle.
 
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Micklebot said:
Del Zotto's 41 pts pace isn't that far off of Weegar's 44 pts, I'm sure they'll do just fine with that swap...

They're basically the same player, just one gets distracted by his realestate side hustle.
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I dunno, if you thought he got distracted in Ottawa I don't see him being laser focused in FL given their infinite amount of adult actresses
 
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I think Weegar is underrated by some. This could be the recency phenomena at work and based on performance in the 2nd round of playoffs this year. A lot of focus seems to on his point production and the perception he is an offensive defenseman, but that was Ekblad's role in the Ekblad/Weegar tandem.

Speaking of defenders, it seems pretty quiet on the defenseman acquisition front. It's taken some teams years to acquire a RD, so it's not an easy job. I wonder what other alternatives PD might be considering.
 
Boud said:
Them trading Puloch to make room for Kadri would be like us trading Chabot to make room for Debrincat.

I think Mayfield/Bailey makes a lot of sense. Rumours surrounding Bailey trade for about a year, he has higher cap than salary and is still a good player. With the possibility of one of our players (hopefully not 2) getting suspended over the HC stuff it would be a great add and Mayfield as well.

Shouldn't cost too much either.
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We have no evidence whatsoever that any Ottawa player is going to be suspended. Hell, players have been actually charged with criminal offences and not been suspended. I think everyone is blowing possible consequences out of proportion to the actual danger, while ignoring the real possibilities: players ask for time off due to distraction or players needing to take personal time to deal with legal issues.

Mayfield is one of their cheapest players and virtually impossible to replace to save money. You can't trade a guy barely making over a replacement salary to create cap room.
 
IranCondraAffair said:
We have no evidence whatsoever that any Ottawa player is going to be suspended. Hell, players have been actually charged with criminal offences and not been suspended. I think everyone is blowing possible consequences out of proportion to the actual danger, while ignoring the real possibilities: players ask for time off due to distraction or players needing to take personal time to deal with legal issues.

Mayfield is one of their cheapest players and virtually impossible to replace to save money. You can't trade a guy barely making over a replacement salary to create cap room.
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NYI just traded for Romanov and they have Dobson, Pelech, Puloch, Aho, Salo and Bolduc. Chances are they won't be able to re-sign Mayfield and now he's sliding down to their 3rd pair and had an underwhelming year last season. I could definitely see him on the move.

Who knows what will happen with HC stuff but there's smoke, I never mentioned it would happen at all, I actually mentioned possibility which means there's no indication either way at this point but there is a possibility with what's been out there so far. If NYI can trade Mayfield to get a team to take Bailey when half the league is at the cap or over then it makes a lot of sense since they can replace him internally easily with what they already have. When you consider the Kadri rumour it does make sense.

Sens have picks/assets they could deal and would be one of the few teams that could take these players without sending any salary back. In any case it's all speculation. To my initial point though, it makes a lot more sense for them to trade Mayfield than it does for them to trade Puloch. I'd trade Hamonic before Chabot even if the end goal was to get Kadri. Puloch is a top pair D making 6M a year long term. No one is trading that. Mayfield is not in a NYI sweater past this season.
 
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Boud said:
NYI just traded for Romanov and they have Dobson, Pelech, Puloch, Aho, Salo and Bolduc. Chances are they won't be able to re-sign Mayfield and now he's sliding down to their 3rd pair and had an underwhelming year last season. I could definitely see him on the move.

Who knows what will happen with HC stuff but there's smoke, I never mentioned it would happen at all, I actually mentioned possibility which means there's no indication either way at this point but there is a possibility with what's been out there so far. If NYI can trade Mayfield to get a team to take Bailey when half the league is at the cap or over then it makes a lot of sense since they can replace him internally easily with what they already have. When you consider the Kadri rumour it does make sense.

Sens have picks/assets they could deal and would be one of the few teams that could take these players without sending any salary back. In any case it's all speculation. To my initial point though, it makes a lot more sense for them to trade Mayfield than it does for them to trade Puloch. I'd trade Hamonic before Chabot even if the end goal was to get Kadri.
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I'd love to get Mayfied. If it means we have to take Bailey, i'd be open to that. Bailey makes less than his caphit and wouldn't be too bad of an option on the 3rd line. Worst case, he could always be moved afterwards as well to another team who might need a forward to fill out the roster while they tank. Mayfield for a contract season might be a good fit for us.
 
Boud said:
NYI just traded for Romanov and they have Dobson, Pelech, Puloch, Aho, Salo and Bolduc. Chances are they won't be able to re-sign Mayfield and now he's sliding down to their 3rd pair and had an underwhelming year last season. I could definitely see him on the move.

Who knows what will happen with HC stuff but there's smoke, I never mentioned it would happen at all, I actually mentioned possibility which means there's no indication either way at this point but there is a possibility with what's been out there so far. If NYI can trade Mayfield to get a team to take Bailey when half the league is at the cap or over then it makes a lot of sense since they can replace him internally easily with what they already have. When you consider the Kadri rumour it does make sense.

Sens have picks/assets they could deal and would be one of the few teams that could take these players without sending any salary back. In any case it's all speculation. To my initial point though, it makes a lot more sense for them to trade Mayfield than it does for them to trade Puloch. I'd trade Hamonic before Chabot even if the end goal was to get Kadri. Puloch is a top pair D making 6M a year long term. No one is trading that. Mayfield is not in a NYI sweater past this season.
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Again, trading Mayfield doesn't save them money to sign Kadri, It saves them like...800K tops.
 
Bailey would be a wasted add at this point. We’d have to pay someone to take him next year.
 
bicboi64 said:
Real talk, I want Batherson to play the top line, he's my favourite player right now and I think he's hitting 80 points this year.
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It's kind of hard to predict how Tkachuk, Norris, and Batherson will produce this year. One one hand they're going to get some easier match-ups now with Cat-Stu-Giroux taking some of the load off, but they also aren't going to get the same PP opportunities now, which is how they got a lot of their points last year.
 
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