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[andora]

I see a bit of a pattern here and I hope management adjusts their negotiating strategy. It's one thing to figure out your bottom line and stick with it. It's another to be stubborn and low ball and the proceeding to meet the player's original demands "too late." Castonguay being a former agent should know the market. 3X$3m for Myers, 2X$2M for Descharnais but 1x$1.5M for Cole is a joke. It's like offering something similar to RNH to Horvat.

When their tactics actually start costing us high impact players or Star players then maybe we can worry about it.

Was our offer to horvat actually out of touch?

 

[Just A Bit Outside]

I’m completely fine with the Nucks moving on from Z.

He needs to be constantly motivated and even then, he’s a Top 4 at best.

I think mgmt is planning to acquire a legit Top 4 dman by the TDL at the latest.

 

[Baby Pettersson]

I’m completely fine with the Nucks moving on from Z.

He needs to be constantly motivated and even then, he’s a Top 4 at best.

I think mgmt is planning to acquire a legit Top 4 dman by the TDL at the latest.

Exactly. I think they have long term plans to find a better top 4 D and will be pulling the trigger close to the deadline.

 

[Josepho]

Cole is 35 and the wheels were clearly falling off at the end of last season. I would rather gamble on Desharnais' upside at $2mil than Cole at anything similar.

 

[Jerry the great]

When their tactics actually start costing us high impact players or Star players then maybe we can worry about it.

Was our offer to horvat actually out of touch?

only if you're hung up on the idea his 50 game heater was repeatable.

 

[Nucker101]

I love Z, but man do some people here overrate him as a hockey player

 

[rypper]

I think I just liked the luxury of having a player like Zadorov on the bottom pairing, to move up when injuries happen. Obviously cost plays into it huge and was the deciding factor.

 

[Peter Griffin]

I’m completely fine with the Nucks moving on from Z.

He needs to be constantly motivated and even then, he’s a Top 4 at best.

I think mgmt is planning to acquire a legit Top 4 dman by the TDL at the latest.

Should be their #1 target and hopefully they can find a true #3 to anchor that 2nd pairing.

 

[krutovsdonut]

like many aging veterans, cole would have won a starter's job, looked great early, then faded as the season went on, but at the same time have been hard to sit down because very professional and respected veteran. eventually you have to sit him and throw in cold the guy you should have been preparing all season.

leafs found this out with giardano last season.

and before we get cocky about passing on cole, anyone celebrating myers' play right now should keep this lesson in mind given he was our high minute dman yesterday