Player Discussion Marco Rossi
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Killakirillthethrill
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If you want Bennett its gonna cost 8-9m, and Boeser will get 6-7m.
That is if Bennett wants to leave Florida, where he resurrected his career. I feel like he takes a team friendly deal to stay in Florida. I feel it's very unlikely to think we get both these guys, and together it's a bit out of our price range
Dr Jan Itor
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There's a chance he likes Florida and stays, but he's also almost 30 and has made less than $25M in his career. I'm not crossing off his going money seeking.
DeagleJenkins
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A BG lowball offer incoming? I’d want to get the heck outta MN and want a trade if I was Rossi, getting treated like that. Russo said today that the Wild offered a deal and he turned it down.
MK9
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Guess I'm not sure why Boston would do this. They just signed him to a 7 year deal. To which, he's only heading into year 2 of. He hasn't been lights out. He came out slow, but he put up reasonable numbers as the season wore on and then later in the season was fairly steady. Especially for what he was brought in for. The fans seemed pretty pleased with him after he got his footing. It's obviously not unheard of to trade a guy a year into his deal, but I don't see it as close to likely.
Lindholm is 7 years older, and is trending downward. He has scored 40+ points in his last two years. His cap hit is almost 8M, and runs for another 5 years. Trading Rossi for him would be insanity.
So you'd rather spend 8M per year on a declining 30 year old Lindholm who's coming of an 47 point campaign instead of resigning Rossi. Not to mention the injury problems lindholm has had the past 3 seasons.
Oh, he is listed 6'1, I can see it now too
Oh, he is listed 6'1, I can see it now too
Dr Jan Itor
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5'10" 22 year old just got 7 x $6.5M after 47p in 77g up in Calgary.
I'd say Rossi would be ~$1M more. Fits pretty much exactly in my Rossi contract range.
I'd say Rossi would be ~$1M more. Fits pretty much exactly in my Rossi contract range.
I wouldn’t trade Rossi for Lindholm, but that doesn’t mean Lindholm wouldn’t help this team either. Right handed shot. Has won over 55% of his faceoffs the last 3 seasons. Defensively responsible.So you'd rather spend 8M per year on a declining 30 year old Lindholm who's coming of an 47 point campaign instead of resigning Rossi. Not to mention the injury problems lindholm has had the past 3 seasons.
Oh, he is listed 6'1, I can see it now too
They’re not going to offer Rossi 7 years. Source: report that they’re not going to give Rossi more than the $7M cap hit Boldy has.
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That would be really promising if Guerin were interested in offering Rossi a fair contract
Dr Jan Itor
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I was just saying that this reinforces that I feel pretty good about where I have Rossi contract-wise. Not so much opining on what Guerin is going to end up doing.
If an offer sheet gets thrown, I don't think Billy matches. That said, I feel like (and hope) we see Rossi on the team for many more years.
Spurgeon
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One possibility I could see from the Wild is trading Rossi for Durzi.
This would only be in the circumstance that Guerin decides to move on from Spurgeon though.
Spurgeon
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They’ve already got kind of a dirty version of Schmaltz in Hartman (RH, ~30 yo, smallish build, center/wing hybrid, mediocre FO%).
I could see them being somewhat interested in him, but I don’t think he’d be the centerpiece of a Rossi trade. He’s a UFA after next year & his offensive numbers have been a bit inflated from the PP in the past 2 seasons.
Realistically they’re probably targeting a bigger forward in a trade for Rossi. Guerin has an obsession with bigger forwards & it’d fit into what I interpret his ideal team to look like.
In the unlikely scenario that Guerin does move Spurgeon for futures in a separate trade though, I think it’d make a lot of sense for the Wild to target someone like Durzi as the replacement.
Dr Jan Itor
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I don't think they'd match. Guerin's last reported offer was 5 x $5M. I guess there's worse things to have than Utah's unprotected 1st in the McKenna draft.
I'm not sure Rossi makes to the offer sheet period though. Guerin is probably going to want to know if he has the full amount of cap space to use on July 1.
Dr Jan Itor
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Spurgeon
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I agree, but that’s still a few years from being a reality. In a “win-now” mode, I think any changes to the defense (Brodin/Spurgeon) requires a NHL replacement to be brought in.
Durzi has had some good numbers in Utah/Arizona and he’s at a reasonable cap hit of $6M for another 3 seasons.
This definitely isn’t my preferred option, but it’s the one that I think makes the most sense if Guerin does decide to move either of Spurgeon or Brodin. I personally think you just keep both of them because their age and contracts fit in with the timeline of Buium and Jiricek’s development.
MrRuin
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He was his coach in Ottawa for two years, the man always had Rossi‘s back. I remember a great interview Russo had with him about Rossi during the first year Rossi tried to make the Wild roster (and failed). For Rossi it would probably be great to reunite with his junior coach. Certainly no trust issues there. If the business side works out this could be a match made in heaven.
