GDT: NHL Free Agent Frenzy 2024

[Bill Peckerskull]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1812878998117990817

 

[hockeyfish]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1812878998117990817

Interesting.

 

[Tommy Shelby]

Please just take Nuke with you and you guys can have all the snow your little sniffers can handle

 

[UncleRisto]

#CauseChaos

 

[PAZ]

Friendly reminder that the Edmonton Oilers not only traded down in 2021 with the Minnesota Wild who proceeded to select Jesper Wallstedt with Edmonton's original pick, they also ignored the advice of Paul Coffey who went to management and told them to pick Wyatt Johnston because he thought he was the best player in the draft.

Instead they selected Xavier Bourgault, and Johnston went one pick later to Dallas.

Xavier f***ing Bourgault. Lol.

And they still might win the cup with incompetent management.

 

[MonsterMack]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1812954507929919637

 

[hockeyfish]

Only took them a month to finally make a player trade!

 

[JoeSakic13]

If this guy doesn’t have Grogu on the back of his mask I’ll be very upset.

 

[The Pwnerer]

6'4", finally a goalie above 6 feet!!

 

[henchman21]

Mandolese has been a bit of a victim of a numbers game for Ottawa. He's always been the 3rd goalie prospect and tagged along with that. As a result of that, he hasn't had the workload you'd really want for a younger goalie. Big, shows minor flashes of athleticism with quick legs while down... but reads the play slow and lateral movement side to side is very weak. If he ever learns to stop giving up soft goals, he can be an AHL starter.

 

[RockLobster]

They couldn't just sign someone in UFA?

Granted, I know nothing of how to interpret the advanced stats for goaltenders, but this guy doesn't scream "worth trading for", when you could've gotten someone like Lankinen is just sitting there.

 

[BrickNHL]

His last name sounds like a racist trying to make up an Asian language

 

[PAZ]

They couldn't just sign someone in UFA?

Granted, I know nothing of how to interpret the advanced stats for goaltenders, but this guy doesn't scream "worth trading for", when you could've gotten someone like Lankinen is just sitting there.

This is more of a contingency move and the equivalent to future considerations. It won't stop them from signing Lankinen or a better #3 if they want to come here for cheap.

 

[henchman21]

They couldn't just sign someone in UFA?

Granted, I know nothing of how to interpret the advanced stats for goaltenders, but this guy doesn't scream "worth trading for", when you could've gotten someone like Lankinen is just sitting there.

Lankinen wants a NHL job or at least a competition for it. Avs have decided Annunen is their man and don't want to upset that possibility. Mandolese is a guy who won't threaten the NHL pecking order, needs games, and could be a slight surprise in the AHL.

 

[dahrougem2]

Wtf is a Mandolese

 

[BrickNHL]

They couldn't just sign someone in UFA?

Granted, I know nothing of how to interpret the advanced stats for goaltenders, but this guy doesn't scream "worth trading for", when you could've gotten someone like Lankinen is just sitting there.

CMac will never make the easy and obvious move

 

[hockeyfish]

Wtf is a Mandolese

An enzyme.

 

[Pokecheque]

Yay. They got four goalies on the depth chart now.

 

[Balthazar]

Wtf is a Mandolese

Plan B for failing to trade for Askarov.

 

[Cypher]

Surely one of these 3 back-ups on the depth chart or one of the 3 goalies we just drafted turns out to be somewhat capable of stopping pucks and being a starter, right?.... RIGHT?

 

[Avs_19]

We complained non-stop about them not drafting goalies. Now they're using all of their present and future picks on random ass goalies.

 

[Balthazar]

We complained non-stop about them not drafting goalies. Now they're using all of their present and future picks on random ass goalies.

Who needs quality when you can have 12 shitty ones

 

[BobRossColton]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1812954507929919637

Slowly luring Dorion over..

 

[JoeSakic13]

6'4", finally a goalie above 6 feet!!

Size queen

 

[S E P H]

I quite like Mandolese, an athletic goaler with good but not great positioning and reflexes. I actually think there is some NHL back up talent and quality there, but he probably finds himself more as an AHL starter for his career.