News: Non Qualified Players

[MMC]

Eight players have not been tendered a qualifying offer, and will now become Unrestricted Free Agents. Those players are as follows:

Nathan Bastian, Jesper Boqvist, Zachary Emond, Jeremy Groleau, Zackary Hayes, Timur Ibragimov, Michael McLeod, Aarne Talvitie.

 

[KnockHobbler]

Lodin might be worth a look to a team out there

 

[Marc the Habs Fan]

Not surprised with Sprong. That arbitration case brings him a 2-3 M award. He won't get that in UFA.

 

[MMC]

 

[xECK29x]

 

[MMC]

 

[Some Other Flame]

It's the flat capapocalypse

Would guess a lot of these now UFA's end up re-signing with their current teams

 

[Forge]

I'm signing Blade just because of the name

 

[Marc the Habs Fan]

It's the flat capapocalypse

Would guess a lot of these now UFA's end up re-signing with their current teams

Arbitration is clearly very scary for teams right now. The last thing you want is to be stuck with a 1.5-2.5 M 4th liner. You are stuck with that contract.

 

[Bjornar Moxnes]

How did Geekie not get qualified?

 

[Marc the Habs Fan]

How did Geekie not get qualified?

The fear of arbitration and a team that has Beniers, Wennberg and Gourde ahead of him at C.

 

[MMC]

 

[Zman5778]

Eight players have not been tendered a qualifying offer, and will now become Unrestricted Free Agents. Those players are as follows:

Nathan Bastian, Jesper Boqvist, Zachary Emond, Jeremy Groleau, Zackary Hayes, Timur Ibragimov, Michael McLeod, Aarne Talvitie.

Devils fans -- what am I missing here? Why did McLeod not get qualified? He seems like an ideal bottom 6 center to me?

 

[Ace]

It’s all about arbitration. Teams can’t have depth guys getting half million dollar raises when they need to overpay free agents by millions.

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

Wow. Honestly the UFA class just got so much more interesting to me.

A lot of sneaky good depth players and even some with higher upside then that, just got added into the pool.


Would love to see the Avs come out of tomorrow with one of Geeki/McLeod and Sprong.

 

[HugeInTheShire]

Devils fans -- what am I missing here? Why did McLeod not get qualified? He seems like an ideal bottom 6 center to me?

He has a good case to win in arbitration and NJ can't afford to overpay bottom 6 guys. Wouldn't be surprised if he and Bastian re-sign with NJ tomorrow

 

[theslatcher]

Lodin might be worth a look to a team out there

He's going back to Sweden for a year, his season was plagued by injuries and needs a reset.

 

[Marc the Habs Fan]

He has a good case to win in arbitration and NJ can't afford to overpay bottom 6 guys. Wouldn't be surprised if he and Bastian re-sign with NJ tomorrow

He was also on the 2018 WJC team...not saying he is involved in what happened but I think until that investigation comes out and we get clarity, there will be many teams that will stay clear.

 

[MMC]

 

[Brett44]

Wow. Honestly the UFA class just got so much more interesting to me.

A lot of sneaky good depth players and even some with higher upside then that, just got added into the pool.


Would love to see the Avs come out of tomorrow with one of Geeki/McLeod and Sprong.

Even 2 of this list

 

[ManofSteel55]

I feel bad for Patrick. Injury issues killed his chances, its really unfortunate. Migraines, wasn't it?

 

[MMC]

 

[MasterofGrond]

Devils fans -- what am I missing here? Why did McLeod not get qualified? He seems like an ideal bottom 6 center to me?

He's not actually very good (outside of the PK and the faceoff dot), and the whole WJC is definitely an elephant in the room

 

[Rafafouille]

It is, but those two are also pathetic.

Merkley is going to Europe I believe I saw.

Comtois might be an option, but the Habs have 13 forwards signed and 3 rfas in Newhook, Harvey-Pinard and Ylonen.

Habs also have 9 d.

Habs need to make trades, but they'll probably just go hurr durr and keep all the players and do nothing because that's easier than doing something

All Hughes has been doing is making trades. Not worried about that part at all.

 

[HugeInTheShire]

He was also on the 2018 WJC team...not saying he is involved in what happened but I think until that investigation comes out and we get clarity, there will be many teams that will stay clear.

No idea if that plays into anything, really not worth bringing it up as it's just speculation.
I went with what I know to be true, if he wins his case NJ would have to walk away of overpay him.