Bunting has a 3 year deal at $4.5 mil and even if you re-signed him instead of Klingberg that only works for this upcoming years.
Good job Mess.
He was upgraded and people flipped out we upgraded him for physicality. Now they're upset he has a good chance of playing again? A lot think Abruzzese is ready for that next step and is one of our more intelligent players. Like I've been saying, the only thing we're missing from our depth pieces is physicality because they didn't bring much scoring during the playoffs.
Homie...it's kind of already destroyed.
They seemed to be under the former GM. Just a weird coincidence that they aren't under the new GM.
The core 4 is good enough to make the playoffs and roll the dice. I keep coming back to 2 more years then you are free of JT and his 11 mil to better build the team and also a higher cap as well.
The thing about Free agency is in the word and that players are free to decide where they want to sign.
Shanny? All about marketing top players, team be damned.
Not sure what you're even talking about. Acciari was pretty widely loved by everybody on here.
I don't think anybody is upset that Holmberg has a good chance of playing again. I think people are upset that we're going to need Holmberg and some currently unknown pieces to do more than they've shown to be capable of at this point, because we decided to make some bad signings instead of bolstering our depth.
Don't worry, we are counting on Robertson to score 50 from the bottom 6 to make up for all the 5G-7G players we signed.
Yep.
What depth? People like you say we lost because of depth scoring and now all of a sudden we had it all along? So it's a core issue then? Can we make up our minds here. Did we even get 10 goals total from our bottom 6 during the playoffs in those 11 games? 1 goal a game average from them all combined?
5-7 goals isn't good enough now to you from our depth guys? That's all the ones we let go brought to our lineup.
Brad Treliving on his next priorities after signing John Klingberg and Ryan Reaves: "Depth scoring is a situation we want to address... We had some goals walk out the door today"
On day one of unrestricted free agency, Brad Treliving discussed the additions of Ryan Reaves and John Klingberg and the areas of the roster he wants to address as the offseason continues. What are you getting in Ryan Reaves? Treliving: I remember Billy Guerin mentioned a while back — when he...mapleleafshotstove.com
A lot of your UFAs move on from the team. To what extent was that disappointing?
Treliving: There are some good players. A lot of my focus, since coming here, has been working on our own players. There have been some good players.
I said when I was introduced that I thought Kyle Dubas did a really good job, especially at the deadline, of augmenting the team. For the most part, we tried. The price has got to fit.
I wish those players all the very best. It is a puzzle to put together. There were certain levels that we could go to, notwithstanding some of the other business we have to do. Unfortunately, there are some players we would love to have here, but good for them in getting the deals we got. We just couldn’t make a business deal.
How surprised are you by how some of those situations played out throughout the day?
Treliving: I wouldn’t say it is really unexpected, especially for our guys. Probably in the last day or so, we had a pretty good idea, especially with the guys that were here last year that signed elsewhere, that we weren’t going to be able to make it work.
We have some business to take care of throughout the summer and we wanted to make sure we are being prudent in terms of leaving ourselves some room moving forward. Term was an important thing for us in this free agency. I don’t know if there was anything that was overly surprising.
Where do you go now in terms of next moves? Do you turn to the trade market?
Treliving: We are looking at everything. I know the first few hours of July 1st get all of the attention, but we have all summer to build our team. We will continue to do it. We have some depth things that we have to look at later this afternoon and this evening into tomorrow.
We continue to look at ways to make ourselves better. It is a puzzle. You are working with X amount of cap dollars. We will explore all avenues, whether it be through continuing to look at the free-agent market, looking at the trade market, or continuing to look at any way we can improve the team.
What are the priorities you want to address positionally?
Treliving: We continue to look at depth on the blue line, but we also look up front. To me, depth scoring is a situation that we want to address.
There are two ways to address it. I still think there are some people in the organization that can push from below. Certainly, to the earlier question of whether it is through free agency or the trade market, it is an area we want to try to become deeper.
We had some goals walk out the door here today. Definitely, goal scoring is something we want to continue address not only today but throughout the summer.
It's Canada Day, I am drinking to cope.I know you're taking the piss but that does look like our plan
Plan? What plan?
