GDT: Off-season/July 1st Free Agent frenzy thread-Is Joey Crabb still available?

[Chessarmy]

Shit that’s not good on the Lundell front

Lundell should take his 3 to 3.5M and be happy with it. He didn’t exactly set the world on fire offensively last year

 

[305Pantera]

Losing Stenny is really the only one that's hurting right now, IMO. My guess is he didn't want to be a 4th liner anymore?

 

[iam76]

lundy isn't going anywhere hes a zito guy...

 

[FinlandPanther]

Lundell should take his 3 to 3.5M and be happy with it. He didn’t exactly set the world on fire offensively last year

He did in the playoffs. That’s his point. He was arguably a top 4 forward in playoffs for us.

 

[Beezers Mask]

he's an RFA. We have all summer to sort out his deal. Zito needs to focus on UFAs right now.

Zito does need to have an estimate on the cost for Lundell to know how much he has to spend to fill other positions

 

[Mogo]

A.J Greer gets 2 year / 850k per season

 

[ScottyMascotty]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807853894673867076

Lomberg replacement

 

[Gentle Man]

replaced the Lombergini with a honda lfg

-_-

 

[barkovcanfinnish]

he's an RFA. We have all summer to sort out his deal. Zito needs to focus on UFAs right now.

Fair but what’s stopping some team from offer sheeting him? Hope he’s committed to staying and the team keeps working with him

 

[Idiot Stick]

He did in the playoffs. That’s his point. He was arguably a top 4 forward in playoffs for us.

top 10 in points for the playoffs this year

 

[Ghoste]

Seems like we got a little bit of toughness back in Greer.

 

[ucanthanzalthetruth]

I think he's worth it but we don't have the room. That's all it is. $9.5M for Lundell plus 4-6 depth guys. If Lundell gets $4.5M then that's only $5M left for like 5 guys and we have a greater been at RD

You may be right, we'll see how the math shakes out but right now if you go:

Swaggy-Barkov-Reinhart
Rodrigues-Bennett-Tkachuk
Lu-Lundell-(TBD)
Greer-Nosek-Gads
Extra-Asplund

Forsling-Ekblad
Mikkola-(TBD)
Balinskis-Kulikov
Extra-Bjornfot

Bob
Knight

This roster leaves 7.3 million to sign Lundell, a 3RW, and a top 4 dman which is indeed tight math.

 

[Sticksandsun]

Expected losses but still sucks

 

[Beezers Mask]

Fair but what’s stopping some team from offer sheeting him? Hope he’s committed to staying and the team keeps working with him

It’s probably almost 100% that someone has a sent him an offer sheet. He would have sign it and know it’s a possibility that the panthers don’t match. So just because someone offers him doesn’t mean we have to give him that deal.

 

[iam76]

i heard michael benning is 1 month into a legendary summer growth spurt. He's walking into camp 6'4" 230... r handed dman

 

[barkovcanfinnish]

I’m really glad we won the cup with these guys. I think we’d be facing these losses even if we lost in the finals again.

Sucks to see them go. They’re bound to our team forever.

 

[Chino Oscar]

You may be right, we'll see how the math shakes out but right now if you go:

Swaggy-Barkov-Reinhart
Rodrigues-Bennett-Tkachuk
Lu-Lundell-(TBD)
Greer-Nosek-Gads
Extra-Asplund

Forsling-Ekblad
Mikkola-(TBD)
Balinskis-Kulikov
Extra-Bjornfot

Bob
Knight

This roster leaves 7.3 million to sign Lundell, a 3RW, and a top 4 dman which is indeed tight math.

If Mackie takes that spot, we would have more to spend on the other 2 don't we? Meaning, that number is already taking into account Mackie's salary.

 

[Gentle Man]

doesnt sound like Tarasenko is being considered either, Jersey and Rangers getting floated

 

[Chessarmy]

AJ Greer appears to be Great Value Ryan Lomberg

 

[ucanthanzalthetruth]

You may be right, we'll see how the math shakes out but right now if you go:

Swaggy-Barkov-Reinhart
Rodrigues-Bennett-Tkachuk
Lu-Lundell-(TBD)
Greer-Nosek-Gads
Extra-Asplund

Forsling-Ekblad
Mikkola-(TBD)
Balinskis-Kulikov
Extra-Bjornfot

Bob
Knight

This roster leaves 7.3 million to sign Lundell, a 3RW, and a top 4 dman which is indeed tight math.

To cycle back to this, I think you probably end up getting a bridge deal for Lundell, put Samo in the 3RW spot, and bring in Ghost or someone similar at 3 million, lineup probably ends up

Swaggy-Barkov-Reinhart
Rodrigues-Bennett-Tkachuk
Lu-Lundell-Samo
Greer-Nosek-Gads
Extra-Asplund

Forsling-Ekblad
Mikkola-Ghost
Balinskis-Kulikov
Extra-Bjornfot

Bob
Knight

There would literally be zero dollars left with this lineup. Is it worse than last year? Yeah but it's still good and I feel really good runnig back the top 6 again.

 

[Boothinator]

Bring in Brady Tkachuk

 

[Chaos2k7]

Our John Tavares?

 

[Chaos2k7]

To cycle back to this, I think you probably end up getting a bridge deal for Lundell, put Samo in the 3RW spot, and bring in Ghost or someone similar at 3 million, lineup probably ends up

Swaggy-Barkov-Reinhart
Rodrigues-Bennett-Tkachuk
Lu-Lundell-Samo
Greer-Nosek-Gads
Extra-Asplund

Forsling-Ekblad
Mikkola-Ghost
Balinskis-Kulikov
Extra-Bjornfot

Bob
Knight

There would literally be zero dollars left with this lineup. Is it worse than last year? Yeah but it's still good and I feel really good runnig back the top 6 again.

Ghost is a LD, he would be better than Montour on the PP however.

 

[Beezers Mask]

Ghost is a LD, he would be better than Montour on the PP however.

He did play RD extensively in Philly. Not sure about Carolina and Detroit.

 

[batting1k]

The overreaction is here is at its highest level. We were never going to keep the whole team together. These guys were in all likelihood going to leave for more money. It’s just the business of it. Fortunately our top-6+ is basically sorted, just need to fill in a few in the bottom 6 and find a D.

I’ll bet Zito and the staff expected this and planned for it way before now.