GDT: NHL Free Agent Frenzy 2024

[UncleRisto]

We’re going to be living in Fat Frank’s car on road trips.

That's good, the guys can sneak fries.

 

[The Moops]

Shoutout from Frank

lol, lmao even

 

[RoyIsALegend]

lol, lmao even

ROTFLMAO?

 

[BobRossColton]

Kahkonen, Reimer, Raanta, Lankinen, Jones, Schmid, Prosvetov, or Copley are still out there.

Avs have always been linked to Reimer and they do like they WSH cast-offs, so Copley, or just re-sign Provo are my guesses.

Is Schmid actually available, didn't Vegas trade for him. Or kahkonen.

 

[LOFIN]

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

Here's what you do:

- Dump Wood
- Sign Jeff Skinner for 1x$2M, sign Boqvist 1x$900k


Drouin - Mack - Mikko
Skinner - Mitts - Nuke
Landy - Colton - Lehky
LOC - Wagner - Kiviranta
Kovalenko


Toews - Makar
Girard - Manson
De Haan - Boqvist

George
Annunen

$88.9M roster, but with Nuke at $4.9M instead of $6.125M it would be an 87.675M roster.

 

[henchman21]

It's fine. He isn't factoring in Nichushkin's suspension pro-rating his contract.

The Avs will have a minor move to make OR try to ensure Nichushkin is reinstated making less than 5M.

One thing about the Nuke at $5m is the Avs will have to carry a player to ice a team that costs against the cap for the month. So it isn't a full savings.

The cap situation is pretty horrendous though. Next season, even if we get to say 93m cap it is even worse... Mikko's raise + George's raise/replacement + Drouin again with only about 5m.

 

[forsbergavs32]

Good, Cursed Corey is staying with the Oilers.

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

Shoutout from Frank

His math is off the mark.

 

[Ararana]

Shoutout from Frank

And next summer Rantanen is going to demand 13 million.

 

[dahrougem2]

One thing about the Nuke at $5m is the Avs will have to carry a player to ice a team that costs against the cap for the month. So it isn't a full savings.

The cap situation is pretty horrendous though. Next season, even if we get to say 93m cap it is even worse... Mikko's raise + George's raise/replacement + Drouin again with only about 5m.

I'm not concerned about this coming season. Avs likely have some options they will explore and it will be workable come season opener.

 

[Tommy Shelby]

Shoutout from Frank

We know Frank, we know.

 

[RockLobster]

One thing about the Nuke at $5m is the Avs will have to carry a player to ice a team that costs against the cap for the month. So it isn't a full savings.

The cap situation is pretty horrendous though. Next season, even if we get to say 93m cap it is even worse... Mikko's raise + George's raise/replacement + Drouin again with only about 5m.

What you just laid out is why there are some out there/here who believe the best course of action is to trade Mikko and re-balance the roster.

Of course, we could also just not re-sign Drouin, or we could have an entirely different path for Nichushkin, or Landeskog could be forced to retire (if his comeback does not go smoothly), etc.

 

[Mighty Makar]

And next summer Rantanen is going to demand 13 million.

Trade his ass now!

 

[LOFIN]

Interesting

 

[The Pwnerer]

Fix our cap situatuon by pulling a Tampa like trade. Trade Rantanen to Utah for a huge package that includes Crouse + Cooley. Imagine the type of package you can get from a team like Buffalo, Ottawa or Utah who are desperate to make the playoffs.

 

[chet1926]

We know Frank, we know.

Basically get f***ed, really have no idea how we get a complete roster. It's a trainwreck. But hey at least Drouin is back, so that's a win.

 

[Ararana]

Trade his ass now!

I've been saying...

Keeping all the big names and trading away the younger cheaper guys was always going to bite them in the ass. Nuke and Landy just accelerated that timeline.

 

[AvsCOL]

Wood making $2.5mil and most likely playing on the 4th line is a problem.

 

[UncleRisto]

Fix our cap situatuon by pulling a Tampa like trade. Trade Rantanen to Utah for a huge package that includes Crouse + Cooley.

Sergachev and Rantanen are not comparable players.

 

[RoyIsALegend]

His math is off the mark.

He forgot which of his four chins he buried the calculator in.

 

[henchman21]

I'm not concerned about this coming season. Avs likely have some options they will explore and it will be workable come season opener.

They'll make it under the cap, but it will be a persistent problem. Even at the deadline, where the Avs will have to make moves to keep pace, they'll be having to overpay for excess retention.

What you just laid out is why there are some out there/here who believe the best course of action is to trade Mikko and re-balance the roster.

Of course, we could also just not re-sign Drouin, or we could have an entirely different path for Nichushkin, or Landeskog could be forced to retire (if his comeback does not go smoothly), etc.

Right course or not isn't super relevant as it is just insanely unlikely. Just like the whole Colton chatter... not a move teams normally make.

 

[hockeyfish]

His math is off the mark.

Math is off, but he isn't wrong. Outside of something we don't know, a cap dump has to happen.

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

Math is off, but he isn't wrong. Outside of something we don't know, a cap dump has to happen.

Not necessarily. All gonna largely depend on exactly what Nukes prorated contract is gonna be this year.

 

[hockeyfish]

Not necessarily. All gonna largely depend on exactly what Nukes prorated contract is gonna be this year.

The team isn't running a 20 man roster most of the season.