GDT: NHL Free Agent Frenzy 2024

[forsbergavs32]

Its too damn quiet

 

[shadow1]

	GP	G	A	P	+/-	ATOI
Johansen-Era	62	13	20	33	-1	14:09
Mittelstadt-Era	18	4	3	7	-7	12:15
Post-Season	11	1	3	4	+2	13:01

I think the bottom line with the Colton situation is he doesn't PK and his ice time/production took a massive hit after Colorado added Mittelstadt.

40 points from a 3C is awesome, but Colton was the Avalanche's 2C most of the season. He had 11 points in 29 games post-Mittelstadt, and only cracked 15 minutes twice - once was the 2OT game against Dallas.

My thinking with the Colton rumors is that Colorado would get big retention on a replacement defensive 3C, and keep Drouin in the process. That would be amazing and the team would be better for it.

 

[lionsDen]

Yall are a bit over the top in regards to drouin

 

[Balthazar]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807590254427111641

Crazy that Dreger knows the numbers.

Sounds like tampering happened and Dreger doesn't want to tell which team yet to not make it too obvious.

 

[forsbergavs32]

CMac:

 

[Muffin]

So do we rather get fleeced for Colton and re-sign Drouin or let Drouin walk?

 

[Foppa2118]

We have grit everywhere in the line up.

It's dwindling though. Could lose Val. Lehky gets banged up a lot. Landy's a question mark. Kovalenko's a question mark. Cogs retired. They may lose LOC to UFA. Manson may be a cap casualty soon.

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807592161044812149

 

[BobRossColton]

Come on Cnap, blow us away before the end of the night. Start tomorrow with the best you can.

 

[Balthazar]

So do we rather get fleeced for Colton and re-sign Drouin or let Drouin walk?

Colton trade isn't happening now and we don't have the cap space for Drouin so...

 

[LOFIN]

I want us to do something just so that I can post that meme of CNap waking up

 

[dahrougem2]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807592161044812149

I expect Vancouver to do something stupid with either Reinhart or Stamkos now that Guentzel is gone.

 

[expatriatedtexan]

I expect Vancouver to do something stupid with either Reinhart or Stamkos now that Guentzel is gone.

I'd prefer it if Reinhard and Stamkos did something stupid and both signed here on one year league min deals.

That might force JD to fall in line and sign whatever CMac last handed him too.

 

[hockeyfish]

CMac:

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[Balthazar]

2 hrs before NTC

 

[The Pwnerer]

Mentally preparing myself for the bargain bin shopping Cmac will do tomorrow. Going to be a pretty boring frenzy for us I bet.

 

[lionsDen]

Crazy that Dreger knows the numbers.

Sounds like tampering happened and Dreger doesn't want to tell which team yet to not make it too obvious.

There’s a tampering period in the nhl nowadays, or atleast I thought there was

Mentally preparing myself for the bargain bin shopping Cmac will do tomorrow. Going to be a pretty boring frenzy for us I bet.

You heard cmac say as much at the deadline

 

[BrickNHL]

So do we rather get fleeced for Colton and re-sign Drouin or let Drouin walk?

It’s not really a fleecing when gaining super important cap space

 

[Balthazar]

There’s a tampering period in the nhl nowadays, or atleast I thought there was

Not supposed to, that's why teams sometimes trade for rights

 

[LOFIN]

Not supposed to, that's why teams sometimes trade for rights

There actually was an "interview period" that started 1 week before free agency, but the latest CBA MOU eliminated it. So it existed in 2013-2020?

 

[Avs44]

I'm not sure why there's so much disappointment/anger around here...maybe there's a massive surprise and I'll have egg on my face, but this so obviously was likely to be a quiet offseason...the Landeskog situation already made this likely; the Nuke mess locked it in. Nothing management can really do in either of the situations -- can't speed along or guarantee Landy's health if he's absolutely intent on returning, and it sounds like they don't have the option of even trying to get out of Nuke's contract via settlement as long as he's in the program, so the entire offseason now has to be structured around his possible November return. These are both unusual and pretty much unsolvable (for now) situations for management.

I also get everyone wants Drouin back, but have we heard any news on his demands? I won't blame management for not bringing him back right now this instant unless we know what he wants. He's 29; injury history; and managed a good 56 point season in a contract year with some prime minutes with top players. He's good, not great, and breaking the bank for him would be idiotic. If Drouin wants long term security or just wants to maximize his career earnings then we should let him walk.

 

[Muffin]

I'm not sure why there's so much disappointment/anger around here...maybe there's a massive surprise and I'll have egg on my face, but this so obviously was likely to be a quiet offseason...the Landeskog situation already made this likely; the Nuke mess locked it in. Nothing management can really do in either of the situations -- can't speed along or guarantee Landy's health if he's absolutely intent on returning, and it sounds like they don't have the option of even trying to get out of Nuke's contract via settlement as long as he's in the program, so the entire offseason now has to be structured around his possible November return. These are both unusual and pretty much unsolvable (for now) situations for management.

I also get everyone wants Drouin back, but have we heard any news on his demands? I won't blame management for not bringing him back right now this instant unless we know what he wants. He's 29; injury history; and managed a good 56 point season in a contract year with some prime minutes with top players. He's good, not great, and breaking the bank for him would be idiotic. If Drouin wants long term security or just wants to maximize his career earnings then we should let him walk.

I want him back because I think he’ll be a bargain contract. He was basically a point per game player after the first 20 games. Those first 20 games bring his number down.

 

[Balthazar]

I want him back because I think he’ll be a bargain contract. He was basically a point per game player after the first 20 games. Those first 20 games bring his number down.

The ones with Tatar and RyJo

 

[Avs44]

I'll also add: I'm perfectly okay with Drouin going to market tomorrow to hear offers from other teams. Maybe he gets a dream offer and leaves. That sucks. Or maybe he realizes that other teams are concerned about his history and are questioning if his performance last year is the new, real, improved Jonathan Drouin -- or maybe his performance, dedication, and point totals had something to do with playing with his good friend and the literal f***ing Hart and Ted Lindsay winner Nathan MacKinnon. I basically think the Avs are the absolute best spot for Drouin to be, that nowhere else in the league would he have performed and played like he did last year, and other clubs might think accordingly and not throw money at him.

Oh who am I kidding -- some GMs go batshit crazy every year and can't wait to throw away the money of the billionaires

 

[Mighty Makar]

I think the Hawks or Pens will offer him $4M, easy.