GDT: NHL Free Agent Frenzy 2024

[BobRossColton]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807521006724215183

How does a Ufa become arbitration eligible?

 

[LOFIN]

How does a Ufa become arbitration eligible?

I guess if some team trades for their rights now?

 

[hockeyfish]

I could see Steel being a cheap target for 4C.

How does a Ufa become arbitration eligible?

They were arbitration eligable RFAs. Dallas declined to give them a qualifying offer. Now they become UFAs.

 

[GirardSpinorama]

Glad we got mitts done early. 5.75 for a legit 2C is cheap when bottom pairing Ds and no defense one way Ds are getting so much.

 

[LOFIN]

They were arbitration eligable RFAs. Dallas declined to give them a qualifying offer. Now they become UFAs.

The point was the poor wording by Seravalli here. "They will become UFAs. Both are arbitration eligible". Such a thing doesn't exist.

E. To be fair, Seravalli said "They can become UFAs". It is still poor wording, easy for people to mix up. Though people who know anything about NHL contracts realize that there is no such thing as an UFA with arb rights.

 

[hockeyfish]

The point was the poor wording by Seravalli here. "They will become UFAs. Both are arbitration eligible". Such a thing doesn't exist.

He mis-typed are when it should have been were.

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807525051916222619

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807524456799060337

 

[AvsMakar08]

Just get the Colton for Askarov deal done already

Preds might ask for Richie and maybe a 1st rounder.

 

[UncleRisto]

Nils lundqvist anyone?

Sucks.

 

[Cypher]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807515245805523061

To no one's surprise

You just know Vegas is gonna get Hart and McLeod for dirt cheap.

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807526045559521537

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807526761841775058

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807527031191527636

 

[The Abusement Park]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807527031191527636

Would be an interesting option for the Avs bottom pair.

 

[Balthazar]

Man the real story is Filip Zadina

He walked away from life changing money (nearly 4M) and got his contract terminated in Detroit last summer to bet on himself.

Played one year in SJ and today he wasn't qualified.

 

[LOFIN]

Preds might ask for Richie and maybe a 1st rounder.

If I'm honest, if the deal is Colton + Ritchie + 1st for Askarov....

I might still do it. Maybe ask for Pärssinen from the Preds.

 

[Balthazar]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807527031191527636

Would be an interesting option for the Avs bottom pair.

It needs to be us

 

[hockeyfish]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807527031191527636

Would be an interesting option for the Avs bottom pair.

6'5"

I can tell you what else just became 6'5"!

 

[Balthazar]

If I'm honest, if the deal is Colton + Ritchie + 1st for Askarov....

You do this 10 times out of 10

 

[BobRossColton]

If I'm honest, if the deal is Colton + Ritchie + 1st for Askarov....

I might still do it. Maybe ask for Pärssinen from the Preds.

Top 3 protected 1st... Add a little intrigue to it

 

[Balthazar]

6'5"

I can tell you what else just became 6'5"!

He's a big RD, legit NHLer, can PK and makes league minimum

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807527031191527636

Would be an interesting option for the Avs bottom pair.

Very affordable cap hit also.

Really hope this is the Avs.

 

[AvsMakar08]

Yup, I agree.

I don't know if anyone else caught it but yesterday during day 2 of the draft they interviewed CMac on sportsnet after the Nabokov pick and asked him a bunch of questions. At one point, they asked about free agency and the fact that they can re-sign Rantanen on July 1st and his response was kind of interesting.

He seemed to be taken aback a little bit by the question and then kind of regurgitated a bit of a made-up answer.. Something like "well, we're definitely going to check-in with his agent here in the next couple of days..."

Just thought it was weird because in my mind, that part would have been done a long time ago.

I'm still holding out hope that he makes the right call and moves him out to get a big-time haul back as well as lots of cap-space or a player like B.Tkachuk.

Yea but teams barely trade start hockey players in their prime unless the star player does not want to resign with the club.

 

[LOFIN]

You do this 10 times out of 10

We need some capspace still, if we want to re-sign Drouin. Ritchie is our best prospect sure, but that's not saying much is it. A 1st should be a late first, when the mentality is to win a cup. So not that much lost in Colton, Ritchie and 1st if it's for the right piece(s).

Askarov could end up being a top goalie in the NHL as soon as this season, if given the chance. Pärssinen could be a decent #3C project.

Actually sounds even more tempting now that I say it out loud. But I still wonder if that's enough for Trotz, if there are other teams with offers.

 

[hockeyfish]

Very affordable cap hit also.

Really hope this is the Avs.

I could see Colton for Kovacevic and 2025 2nd.

 

[Tommy Shelby]

Makes too much sense to be us

 

[BobRossColton]

I could see Colton for Kovacevic and 2025 2nd.

How about Colton for Evans+kovacevic