GDT: NHL Free Agent Frenzy 2024

[NOTENOUGHRYJOTHINGS]

I mean the whole roster is basically under contract at this point.

Even without Val, I think this is a group you can get excited about, tbh.

Drouin - MacK - Rantanen
Landy - Mitts - Lehkonen
Wood - Colton - LOC
Kovalenko - Wagner - Foudy

Toews - Makar
Girard - Manson
Behrens - XX

Georgiev
Annunen

That's an 8 minute per night fourth line. At best. If Colton and the 2.5 million dollar man can even handle 14 minutes and some defensive zone shifts it's doable. Leaves 38 minutes for the top two lines. MacK needs to be at 20ish minutes which leaves the second line at 18 which again is doable.

But it's a house of cards if there is an injury. Wagner and Foudy shouldn't even be your first AHL callups.

And the real ugly problem here is out of your entire bottom six they aren't really good at playing defense. Both at 5 on 5 and the PK. LOC and Wood are your pkers? Then who else? Nuke? Lehk? Landy?

And I'm still very confident that Kovalenko is going to get buried after three games tops and never make it back from the doghouse. Everything about his game screams benched for the season.

 

[henchman21]

HOWWWWWWWWWWWW does Lybushkin keep getting big money?

I actually can't wait to play Dallas in the playoffs next year omg lol

Yeah I have zero clue how anybody thinks he is any good whatsoever.

 

[NorthernAvsFan]

There’s no cap space for Skinner, boys.

Also, I don’t think it makes much sense to trade Colton to make room for Skinner.

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807840896995692601

 

[Pokecheque]

Not that I'm complaining but WTF is Dallas doing?

 

[Balthazar]

Not that I'm complaining but WTF is Dallas doing?

Rebuilding their defense

 

[a mangy Meowth]

Avs hamstringing themselves into not being able to offer anyone has turned out to be the best decision they could have made. This is probably the most mindbogglingly bad free agency day I've ever seen for other teams lol. Loving it

 

[LOFIN]

Avs hamstringing themselves into not being able to offer anyone has turned out to be the best decision they could have made. This is probably the most mindbogglingly bad free agency day I've ever seen for other teams lol. Loving it

I mean they did go past the record long time ago didn't they?

 

[Balthazar]

The Duclair contract for the Isles makes no sense but you know it's coming from Roy

He coached him in junior.

 

[Spleenless Wonder21]

Avs do need to clear about a million to make the cap work. Rantanen for Tkachuk clear about a million. Just saying.

 

[henchman21]

That Stephenson deal is hilarious BTW.

 

[dahrougem2]

Rebuilding their defense

Their defense when they played us:

Heiskanen - Tanev
Harley - Lindell
Suter - Petrovic

Their defense today:

Heiskanen - Dumba
Harley - Lindell
Smith - Lybushkin

I am MORE than happy with what they did

 

[Balthazar]

That Stephenson deal is hilarious BTW.

Seattle the biggest losers today

 

[NorthernAvsFan]

That's an 8 minute per night fourth line. At best. If Colton and the 2.5 million dollar man can even handle 14 minutes and some defensive zone shifts it's doable. Leaves 38 minutes for the top two lines. MacK needs to be at 20ish minutes which leaves the second line at 18 which again is doable.

But it's a house of cards if there is an injury. Wagner and Foudy shouldn't even be your first AHL callups.

And the real ugly problem here is out of your entire bottom six they aren't really good at playing defense. Both at 5 on 5 and the PK. LOC and Wood are your pkers? Then who else? Nuke? Lehk? Landy?

And I'm still very confident that Kovalenko is going to get buried after three games tops and never make it back from the doghouse. Everything about his game screams benched for the season.

The 4th line would obviously be upgraded at the deadline. Nobody should be concerned about a 4th line in July.

Also… Colton, Wood, LOC was quite good. It started to go down hill after the LOC injury. The top-6 is obviously top-tier.

 

[Grackle Party]

Sid has got to be pissed, Dubas taking cap dumps and retaining salary

 

[GirardSpinorama]

We should be making a bunch of 800k offers to a bunch of youngish players or vets who could bounce back while we put Nuke on LTIR. Get them a bunch of ice time and put anyone who cant make it on waivers to get nuke back. Ideally we ice a full roster and just test out whose good. Give them ice time!

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

So as of right now we're looking at:


Drouin - Mack - Mikko
Lehky - Mitts - Nuke
Landy - Colton - LOC
Wood - ???? - Kovalenko
Kiviranta


Toews - Makar
Girard - Manson
???? - ????

George
Annunen


With Nuke at a $5M cap, we'd be coming in at a $85.8M for this group and still needing 3 players to sign.


The math still just doesn't work. Even 3x$775k contracts would be $2.325M. So something likely has to be done still.

 

[Avs_19]

Boudreau going off on Pens lol

 

[Balthazar]

Their defense when they played us:

Heiskanen - Tanev
Harley - Lindell
Suter - Petrovic

Their defense today:

Heiskanen - Dumba
Harley - Lindell
Smith - Lybushkin

I am MORE than happy with what they did

It's not a disaster. Better than signing Tanev to that contract.

 

[dahrougem2]

So Nashville's top six now looks like:

Nyquist - O'Reilly - Forsberg
Marchessault - Novak - Stamkos

Their defensive corps is still an absolute tire fire outside of Roman Josi, but they have Saros to cover up.

I honestly consider them big losers of the day, too, because 1) I don't think they can replicate their success from last year (guys like Nyquist, Novak, Evangelista, etc), and 2) those contracts could age poorly very quickly.

It's not a disaster. Better than signing Tanev to that contract.

Dallas is trying to win right now, not in 3-5 years. Tanev is a way better player than Dumba, and Lybushkin is not an NHL player.

Like I said, I can't wait to play that team in the playoffs if they don't improve their defense at the deadline.

It's not a disaster. Better than signing Tanev to that contract.

Dallas is trying to win right now, not in 3-5 years. Tanev is a way better player than Dumba, and Lybushkin is not an NHL player.

Like I said, I can't wait to play that team in the playoffs if they don't improve their defense at the deadline.

 

[Avs_19]

I didn't know de Haan was still in the league. What.

JJ replacement?

 

[The Abusement Park]

Rebuilding their defense

Thank god they’re rebuilding it with Lyubushkin.

 

[Cypher]

So as of right now we're looking at:


Drouin - Mack - Mikko
Lehky - Mitts - Nuke
Landy - Colton - LOC
Wood - ???? - Kovalenko
Kiviranta


Toews - Makar
Girard - Manson
???? - ????

George
Annunen


With Nuke at a $5M cap, we'd be coming in at a $85.8M for this group and still needing 3 players to sign.


The math still just doesn't work. Even 3x$775k contracts would be $2.325M. So something likely has to be done still.

Wagner 4C and Malinski 3RD, both are waiver exempt this upcoming season.

 

[a mangy Meowth]

We signed Calvin de Haan apparently

 

[avalanche_country]

What’s a De Haan?