GDT: Free Agent Frenzy

[raymond23]

Nothing to get excited about sadly

Perron to Ottawa is a gut punch

 

[ShanahanMan]

how are people possibly shitting on the Gustafsson signing? That’s a fantastic deal for an offensive defenseman who’s actually good at playing defense. He’s an upgraded Walman. And at 2mil? Hell yes.

 

[Hen Kolland]

Yzerman is kind of damned if you do damned if you don't at this point. Ya'll are either whining that he is doing noting, but if he signed 99% of any of these deals you would be whining that he paid too much and that contract is going to suck in a couple of years.

Clearly you don't know anything about me to think that I am playing both sides of outrage.

No I am pissed because teams have clearly acknowledged that the cap has resumed going up, will continue to go up and make projections about what the future will hold. They have established the new cost of doing business. Yzerman has decided the juice isn't worth the squeeze, obviously, but without a pretty significant trade, the team will not be materially different year over year. I am not one who thinks we should be sitting on our hands waiting for the perfect situation where someone wants to sign at a discount or a prospect becomes the second coming of Jesus

 

[izlez]

Gustafsson 2nd most PP time for the Rangers last season (99 min vs Fox's 255). So maybe that answers my question.

I am not happy with that answer.

 

[Nut Upstrom]

Not with that full NTC....

Im sure he'll be fine with going to a competitor and chasing a cup.

 

[dj4aces]

I wonder why we didn't trade for chych. At that price he would have been the perfect option for our defense. It's too bad Washington got Roy and chych

Perhaps OTT didn't wanna trade within the division.

 

[Winger98]

Nothing to get excited about sadly

Perron to Ottawa is a gut punch

When he threw that cheapshot at them we should have known they would want to sign him.

 

[RedWingzz]

how are people possibly shitting on the Gustafsson signing? That’s a fantastic deal for an offensive defenseman who’s actually good at playing defense. He’s an upgraded Walman. And at 2mil? Hell yes.

how many teams has he played for over the last 7 seasons?

 

[Squirrel in the Hole]

Was just checking the "who's still available" board, Sean Walker?

 

[ShelbyZ]

Im sure he'll be fine with going to a competitor and chasing a cup.

I agree, but given how picky he's likely to be about where he wants to go, the return probably won't be anywhere close to a 1st rounder.

 

[ShanahanMan]

how many teams has he played for over the last 7 seasons?

Thats a fair point. Is he injury prone?

 

[Konnan511]

Find a way to dump Holl, Husso, and Maata and I think we'll be good.

 

[GarlicbreadTB]

Shanahanman being the voice of reason?

 

[Nut Upstrom]

I agree, but given how picky he's likely to be about where he wants to go, the return probably won't be anywhere close to a 1st rounder.

Yea, good point. Have to consider that he's a d-bag.

 

[Euro Twins]

Was just checking the "who's still available" board, Sean Walker?

Tarasenko

 

[wingsfan17]

Bad news: 2024-2025 is going to be rough

Good news: We’re in great shape for 2028 onward after all these teams gave 6+ year contracts to players in their thirties.

 

[RedWingzz]

Thats a fair point. Is he injury prone?

no, hes just not very desirable.

clearly none of the 8 teams he played for over the last 7 seasons liked him enough to resign him

 

[Game suspension]

how are people possibly shitting on the Gustafsson signing? That’s a fantastic deal for an offensive defenseman who’s actually good at playing defense. He’s an upgraded Walman. And at 2mil? Hell yes.

Gus is like Petry part 2. When it works he is great. But when he is bad he is awful.

Whatever ya do don't ever play Gus and Petry together lol.

 

[GarlicbreadTB]

Not too bad.

 

[ShanahanMan]

Bad news: 2024-2025 is going to be rough

Good news: We’re in great shape for 2028 onward after all these teams gave 6+ year contracts to players in their thirties.

Most will coincidentally end up on LTIR

 

[Lazlo Hollyfeld]

Every year around this time I'm reminded of the amount of people in this forum who could probably use antidepressants and/or therapy.

 

[Squirrel in the Hole]

Agree

 

[Winged Wheel Willy]

Brian Burke once said something like "July 1st is the day on which we GMs make more mistakes than on the other 364 days combined"

- no longterm deals for overpriced vets
- servicable goalie
- a discount ghost who is better on defense than ghost
- all new contracts end in 2yrs
- if one of those players really doesn't work out, it is no problem to move'em
- haven't given away a 1st to dump salary
- got rid of vets clogging up roster spots for the kids

So far an excellent day for us!

 

[ShanahanMan]

Looking over his stats, I think the bargain deal is because he’s very injury prone. Doesn’t seem like he ever plays more than 60 games a season.

 

[RedWingzz]

Every year around this time I'm reminded of the amount of people in this forum who could probably use antidepressants and/or therapy.

go look at the depth chart...

its tough to look at. There wont be a single analyst on the planet that has us as a playoff team.

May as well start researching next year's draft, this team has so many holes. Looking like a lottery team.