Salary Cap: Garbage Day collection comes early!

[Honour Over Glory]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807431682368147737

Idiots complain about POJ and then want someone small and soft as shit instead?

Lol

When you are mediocre on a bad team for so long

Imagine saying that about the Sens when at this point it's more truthful about the Pens.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Did I miss Bemstrom not being qualified?

I hope he wasn't qualified. The bloke was absolutely nothing as a project from Lumbus.

 

[SEALBound]

Idiots complain about POJ and then want someone small and soft as shit instead?

Lol


Imagine saying that about the Sens when at this point it's more truthful about the Pens.

POJ isn't overly physical. Brannstrom isn't very big and when you're not very big or physical, you need to skate well and put up the points. I think he skates well enough. If you lose Letang and/or EK, your puck moving and transition take a big hit and we don't any one waiting in the wings to come up and do it.

Same thing with POJ, yeah. I think if we wanted to move on there would be interest in hopes of him meeting potential under a new team and system,

These aren't bad defencemen we're talking about here.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Brannstrom f***ing sucks.

 

[Pancakes]

Still think POJ is whatever but I suppose we could do worse for the third pair.

I don't trust Ludvig/Shea/St Ivany either. All put up pretty aggressively bad results.

My only thing about any of these guys is if we're gonna keep them and use them, fine so long as they're cheap. At least then Dubas isn't overpaying to get a third pair guy who is also as mid as those guys are.

 

[OnMyOwn]

POJ can leave or stay. Really makes no difference to me. I’d prefer a more physical dman in that 5/6 role, but it’s whatever. He’s still young for d standards.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

He's a f***ing dwarf and turnover machine, on an absolute shit system and team like this you think Brannstrom would be worthwhile? They didn't even give Ty Smith a shot before they moved him. So why the f*** does this bloke deserve one over him? He doesn't.

 

[Andy99]

We don’t have the 2nd. We traded it for EK65.

Ah…didn’t realize

 

[Al Smith]

Still think POJ is whatever but I suppose we could do worse for the third pair.

I don't trust Ludvig/Shea/St Ivany either. All put up pretty aggressively bad results.

My only thing about any of these guys is if we're gonna keep them and use them, fine so long as they're cheap. At least then Dubas isn't overpaying to get a third pair guy who is also as mid as those guys are.

I thought St. I was more effective than the other two by a decent margin. But he's no more than a third pairing, whereas I'd consider the other two tweeners.

POJ is a third-pairing guy who maybe has some upside to a second pair. I thought he was out of his element when he was paired with Letang last year. If we lose him and we tank next year, his absence won't be the reason.

 

[Headshot77]

I've been saying that for a couple years now.

Nah. We weren't a rebuilding team until we signed Dubas. With late-era JR and Hextall we were a "spin the wheels and do nothing" team.

 

[Tom Hanks]

Ah…didn’t realize

We could get it back if they really wanted too but offer sheets are rare despite some talk there could be some this year.

 

[DesertedPenguin]

Hey @Zirakzigil or @Scandale du Jour, can we merge salary cap/off-season threads so we can have one discussion?

 

[Ryder71]

Hey @Zirakzigil or @Scandale du Jour, can we merge salary cap/off-season threads so we can have one discussion?

Be great if you know, we had a MOD from the Pittsburgh area in a PIT forum.

 

[orby]

I presume this Bennett MacArthur fellow is a pure WBS acquisition, right?

 

[Ryder71]

Nah. We weren't a rebuilding team until we signed Dubas. With late-era JR and Hextall we were a "spin the wheels and do nothing" team.

We should have been.

I presume this Bennett MacArthur fellow is a pure WBS acquisition, right?

IF that.

We're not trading picks UNLESS it's for an even better pick.

 

[Ulf5]

I presume this Bennett MacArthur fellow is a pure WBS acquisition, right?

23 yrs. old- 108 ECHL games, 6 AHL games.
He's an afterthought it seems.

 

[Jacob]

Brannstrom is intriguing but I don’t see how he fits here. You aren’t pairing him with Karlsson or Letang unless you want them to get eaten alive defensively.. so he’s on the off-side on the 3rd pairing with either Graves or Joseph? Sullivan isn’t employing that. And even if he did that’s not putting him in a position to succeed.

 

[Jag68Sid87]

St. Ivany was very solid when given his chance. Could he regress? Of course. But he is stable and reliable, and we need both of that in spades.

Brannstrom with St. Ivany makes sense, but then Graves...

 

[Scandale du Jour]

Be great if you know, we had a MOD from the Pittsburgh area in a PIT forum.

Pourquoi est-ce que tu n'aimes pas les Québécois?

 

[Nakawick]

Graves is going to get his shot at a redemption. We don’t really have a lot of options.

 

[The Great Mighty Poo]

Pourquoi est-ce que tu n'aimes pas les Québécois?

Omelette du fromage?

 

[Ryder71]

Pourquoi est-ce que tu n'aimes pas les Québécois?

Get lost franco!

 

[Sideline]

I guess this is now the thread where we dunk on the Leafs for giving Tanev 5MM on a long term deal

 

[DesertedPenguin]

Nick Robertson, come on down! You're the next contestant on Most Likely to be a Penguin!

 

[OnMyOwn]

I’d take a flyer on him for sure.