GDT: NHL Free Agent Frenzy 2024

[dahrougem2]

Oh Henchy has a FULL chub right now

 

[Mighty Makar]

Hold down the fort, boys. I gotta go to a Dr. appointment. Be mostly MIA for about 90 min.

 

[Cypher]

#WonTheTrade

 

[NorthernAvsFan]

@henchman21 is a happy human on this day.

 

[Raucherhusten]

Hold down the fort, boys. I gotta go to a Dr. appointment. Be mostly MIA for about 90 min.

 

[henchman21]

Oh Henchy has a FULL chub right now

You know the best part... the cap situation pretty much guarantees he plays!

 

[Avs425]

Hold down the fort, boys. I gotta go to a Dr. appointment. Be mostly MIA for about 90 min.

 

[Vaslof]

As of right now IF Nichushkin's contract is pro-rated to 5M from his current 6.125M, the Avs can only run a 21 man roster and STILL have to make a move somehow, some way to shed ~40K OR hope and pray Nichushkin remains suspended until his cap hit is pro-rated below 5M.

Drouin - MacKinnon - Rantanen
Landeskog - Mittelstadt - Nichushkin
Lehkonen - Colton - LOC
Wood - Wagner - Kiviranta

Toews - Makar
Girard - Manson
De Haan - 775K Defensemen

Georgiev
Annunen

Healthy scratch at 775K like Caleb Jones.

That roster above is $89,162,500. They need it to be at most $89,125,000 OR hope Nichushkin's cap hit is less.

Weren't Lehkonen and Makar both having surgeries? We could make the difference from them being on LTIR for a bit.

 

[RoyIsALegend]

Why do Button and the TSN guys still think Skinner could sign in Colorado?

Have they seen our cap space…?

 

[henchman21]

Weren't Lehkonen and Makar both having surgeries? We could make the difference from them being on LTIR for a bit.

Only Lehky... his surgery and timeline put him right in the midst of camp for a return. Entirely possible he's back prior to the start of the season, at most he misses two weeks.

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

One interesting thing to note on the Val cap.

The NHL season seems to be starting slightly earlier this year. I saw Baugh tweet the Penguins home opener against the Rangers is on October 9th.


If that's the opening day of the season, and Nichushkin gets reinstated on November 14th(Which is exactly 6 months to the day from his suspension), that would be 36 days after the season starts... Out of a 180 day season, it would be exactly 20%. That would put Val's contract prorated to be $6.125M x 80%.

Would work out to $4.9M.

 

[Avsfan1921]

Weren't Lehkonen and Makar both having surgeries? We could make the difference from them being on LTIR for a bit.

No, Makar is not having surgery, as far as I know. Pretty sure the extent of injury was a parroted tale because he wasn’t as good as last year.

 

[MacKaRant]

You know the best part... the cap situation pretty much guarantees he plays!

...for the 3 minutes of ice time per night that Bednar will trust him with

 

[dahrougem2]

Why do Button and the TSN guys still think Skinner could sign in Colorado?

Have they seen our cap space…?

"I said f*** it."

- Stinky and the Kneehigh Park Gang, Chappelle's Show

- Also CMac

 

[NOTENOUGHRYJOTHINGS]

So here's what I think went down. The Avs had a pure cap dump trade in place and an offer to Stamkos of 2 million for a year.

Cmac was ABSOLUTELY SHOCKED that pictures of the Colorado River couldn't sway Stamkos.

So they took Drouin as a backup plan.

 

[hockeyfish]

One interesting thing to note on the Val cap.

The NHL season seems to be starting slightly earlier this year. I saw Baugh tweet the Penguins home opener against the Rangers is on October 9th.


If that's the opening day of the season, and Nichushkin gets reinstated on November 14th(Which is exactly 6 months to the day from his suspension), that would be 36 days after the season starts... Out of a 180 day season, it would be exactly 20%. That would put Val's contract prorated to be $6.125M x 80%.

Would work out to $4.9M.

Avs opener is also the 9th, in Vegas.

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807853443526127862

 

[RoyIsALegend]

So here's what I think went down. The Avs had a pure cap dump trade in place and an offer to Stamkos of 2 million for a year.

Cmac was ABSOLUTELY SHOCKED that pictures of the Colorado River couldn't sway Stamkos.

So they took Drouin as a backup plan.

How can anybody turn this down?

The bikini bitches on the ol’ River are wild.

 

[NOTENOUGHRYJOTHINGS]

One interesting thing to note on the Val cap.

The NHL season seems to be starting slightly earlier this year. I saw Baugh tweet the Penguins home opener against the Rangers is on October 9th.


If that's the opening day of the season, and Nichushkin gets reinstated on November 14th(Which is exactly 6 months to the day from his suspension), that would be 36 days after the season starts... Out of a 180 day season, it would be exactly 20%. That would put Val's contract prorated to be $6.125M x 80%.

Would work out to $4.9M.

Not that it would ever happen but here's where Cmac and Sakic should have a conversation with Nuke.

The team has a lot of dirt on Nuke that could be used as ammo to terminate the contract.

But if Nuke is a good teammate and willing to stay in rehab for another three months then maybe Cmac accidentally deletes all the dirty laundry they got on file.

 

[henchman21]

One interesting thing to note on the Val cap.

The NHL season seems to be starting slightly earlier this year. I saw Baugh tweet the Penguins home opener against the Rangers is on October 9th.


If that's the opening day of the season, and Nichushkin gets reinstated on November 14th(Which is exactly 6 months to the day from his suspension), that would be 36 days after the season starts... Out of a 180 day season, it would be exactly 20%. That would put Val's contract prorated to be $6.125M x 80%.

Would work out to $4.9M.

This season is probably going to be 188 days.

 

[UncleRisto]

How can anybody turn this down?

The bikini bitches on the ol’ River are wild.

Yeah, because are they corpses from murders?

 

[henchman21]

...for the 3 minutes of ice time per night that Bednar will trust him with

His per hour rate is gonna be glorious.

 

[BaconNater]

This season is probably going to be a waste of 188 days.

 

[Eltuna]

Wow Dallas is really struggling today, did not expect them to make so many bad decisions with the cap space they had.

 

[NOTENOUGHRYJOTHINGS]

NAK, Sherwood, Jost, Greer, Dries, Pickard (a day or two earlier).

Which of these ones that got away would you take on their contracts?

None of them and all of them are both perfectly acceptable answers.

 

[JoeSakic13]

Damn, we lost Sean Walker? What an overpayment for a TDL piece.