Fair enough. But even dismissing the upcoming Shesterhkin deal, I don't believe there's any way we get him under 8.
He's not untouchable but he's a very valuable piece for us. He's an excellent 3C, can give you 30-35 points per year while playing against top competition. Very versatile player and also a part of our leader group.
Well Shesterhkin and Sorokin both are in NY so they get that bump in pay. I guess you would have to pay Hellebuyck to stay in Winnipeg! Everyone else is under $6.4 except Bob and Vas. So I could see if the Preds wanted to stay with Juuse and keep him long term that they could go like a Peka deal maybe 5x$7 or $7.5 if they felt Asky wasn't the next guy. But you run the risk of losing Asky if you give Juuse a long (5yr or more) term deal. IMHO.
Yeah, I'm pretty confident we'll get Pesce. Trotz probably almost made a scary-bad trade for him last year. Passing him up as a UFA when it's just money and we have so much Cap open won't be an option.
I don't think there's a term-related risk in losing Askarov. The only risk is if you give Saros the NMC and Expansion comes along. But then that's only a risk at all if Askarov actually develops into an NHL-caliber goalie, which also hasn't happened yet.
I do agree in that as long as Askarov has a discernible and reasonable pathway to the #1, or to challenge for the #1, we probably don't have a risk of losing out on him. If it were to be a situation where Saros has an unmovable contract with a NMC and Yaro sees himself stuck as nothing more than a 20-25 game backup, regardless of his performance, for the next 5+ years, that would be the scenario that may cause concern.
Exactly. And that's why you do not give Saros a NMC under any circumstances. If Saros absolutely wants the NMC (only 4 or 5 active goalies in the NHL have a full NMC) then you have to let him go. It has to be non-negotiable. It can't be on the table, period.
I could see maybe meeting him in the middle and offer a 10 team or Modified NMC if Saros wants some say in where he doesn't want to go. If he gives a home team discount.
Well, he just broke the fact that Trotz did not try to trade for Pesce during this past season…..
Well yeah but that doesn't make it true. FWIW the only insider I truly trust is Friedman and that's because he has a track record of actually being correct about things.
In which case you give him a NTC, which I take for granted Saros will get.
)The Predators organization issued him media credentials, he attends practices and talks with staff coaches and players after practice, He sits in the media section of the arena at games, he does post game interviews with players and coaches.
None of that means he has any insider knowledge about trades the team is considering. Our beat writers have notoriously never had any insider info and Gallagher has yet to break anything that would suggest to me he does. Not sure where you got the idea I’m listening to random people on HF Boards about anything? I know you love a good straw man to argue against though. I have no idea whether we actually tried to trade for Pesce or not but it seems pretty unlikely to me that after last season he had such negative value it would take a high draft pick to dump him.
