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

[Great8Cam]

Bennet isn't staying: he hasn't earned the money of the other players and can really set his family up with taking a giant contract. We won't be able to give him 50M over 7-8 years as a 3C, but someone will pay that

Verhaege is more likely to stay: wingers get paid less in the market and we will have a top 6 role for him, so we could afford to pay him like 6-7.5

ENOUGH WITH THIS BLASPHEMY!!!!! Stupid is as stupid does!!

Benny isn't going anywhere!! He can move down to the 3rd line if need be after this year.

 

[HockeyRulez]

Bennett is gonna be missed after this season

 

[Lundell4Prez]

I feel we’re going to see an extremely team friendly deal for tarasenko coming up

 

[ShootIt]

I trust capfriendly. 766k remaining with 20 skaters.

Lowest paid skater(s) are at 775k.
Say one gets waived, that bumps the cap space to 1.54mil with 19 skaters.

Tank would have to sign a dirt cheap, 1mil deal. I don't think he's at that point yet in his career.

 

[Jean Luc Discard]

I trust capfriendly. 766k remaining with 20 skaters.

Lowest paid skater(s) are at 775k.
Say one gets waived, that bumps the cap space to 1.54mil with 19 skaters.

Tank would have to sign a dirt cheap, 1mil deal. I don't think he's at that point yet in his career.

2.31mil cap space left once Bjornfot and Entwistle are assigned to Charlotte.

 

[WaitingForThatCab]

Expecting another 4 million bump next year and the year after too I read somewhere

TV Contracts continue getting bigger and sports gambling is huge. It's not how I would have wanted hockey to grow in the mainstream, but it's what's happening. People I know who don't really have an interest in the Panthers are finding out that they love betting on hockey.

 

[Gentle Man]

Verhaeghe was already rumored to be working on an extension. I think Lundell's deal pretty much rules out a Bennett extension.

Eh I saw an extension in the works for both.


I actually think Ekblad will sign for less....probably around the Forsling contract

 

[Jean Luc Discard]

I actually think Ekblad will sign for less....probably around the Forsling contract

I think so too but not with the Panthers.

 

[ucanthanzalthetruth]

2.31mil cap space left once Bjornfot and Entwistle are assigned to Charlotte.

They will carry Bjornfot, you want 7 dmen. But if they assign Entwistle and bury Knight for Driedger they'd have $1,896,666 left. Enough for Vlad? Doubtful.

 

[CatscratchFever]

Was the Lundell signing not true?

 

[WaitingForThatCab]

The last 2 years, everyone's thought we had a blue line disaster. Team made the Cup Finals twice.

I think I'm just gonna trust Zito and Maurice at this point to figure out a way to make it work.

 

[BabyBennettov]

Was the Lundell signing not true?

What ?

 

[Jean Luc Discard]

They will carry Bjornfot, you want 7 dmen. But if they assign Entwistle and bury Knight for Driedger they'd have $1,896,666 left. Enough for Vlad? Doubtful.

Bjornfot played 18 games last season and not all of those were in the NHL. He's a project. The Panthers need more experience on the blueline.

 

[iam76]

Let's be assholes.

Offersheet broberg on Edmonton.. make them sign him for more money

 

[WaitingForThatCab]

Was the Lundell signing not true?

Team and League have both announced it, the per year cap hit / money breakdown has been posted. I would assume it's done.

 

[ucanthanzalthetruth]

Bjornfot played 18 games last season and not all of those were in the NHL. He's a project. The Panthers need more experience on the blueline.

Fair enough but if not Bjornfot it'll be some random guy making the minimum.

 

[Gentle Man]

The last 2 years, everyone's thought we had a blue line disaster. Team made the Cup Finals twice.

I think I'm just gonna trust Zito and Maurice at this point to figure out a way to make it work.

Eh. The difference is we were replacing Montour's partner and not actually Montour himself

We had Marc Staal who was easily replaceable. I mean, that is an understatement.

We replaced 3rd pairing Gudas with Kulikov....which I thought was going to be a harder thing to do. But at the end of the day, it's 3rd pairing and Kulikov far exceeded expectations.


TLDR, we are replacing the harder piece this time around.

And once again, everyone is left handed except Ekblad lol. God I could not stand watching the first month, few months of the season with all lefties.

 

[BB88]

I think we all need to come to terms with the fact Nate Schmidt is supposed to be the Montour replacement.

They should really test Boqvist for that

He’d have basically zero impact on the cap, 1 year prove it deal at 1M max

 

[WaitingForThatCab]

Eh. The difference is we were replacing Montour's partner and not actually Montour himself

We had Marc Staal who was easily replaceable. I mean, that is an understatement.

We replaced 3rd pairing Gudas with Kulikov....which I thought was going to be a harder thing to do. But at the end of the day, it's 3rd pairing and Kulikov far exceeded expectations.


TLDR, we are replacing the harder piece this time around.

And once again, everyone is left handed except Ekblad lol. God I could not stand watching the first month, few months of the season with all lefties.

I think we will be OK. I don't expect back to back to back Cup finals appearances, given the restructuring that's needed and the fatigue levels.

IMO, Montour really didn't play well last season, he just didn't look the same after the surgery. I hope for his sake that he gets back to form out west, but this past season he just didn't have it. The guy who will be hard to replace is OEL. He was dynamite on the third pair.

 

[Idiot Stick]

I think we will be OK. I don't expect back to back to back Cup finals appearances, given the restructuring that's needed and the fatigue levels.

IMO, Montour really didn't play well last season, he just didn't look the same after the surgery. I hope for his sake that he gets back to form out west, but this past season he just didn't have it. The guy who will be hard to replace is OEL. He was dynamite on the third pair.

crazy he had 7 goals by december last year before being put lower

 

[Gentle Man]

I do like the fact Schmidt is familiar with PoMo puck and he essentially wanted to come here to play PoMo puck.

As much as talent is necessity, there is also a huge importance towards the ability to read the play and the will to make it happen. We havent had the best talent on the back end, and it is rare that teams without a Norris favorite/candidate win the cup. Even the Capitals had Carlson finish top 5 the year they won.

For the PP, shit it's hopeless anyway so just dont give up SHGs lmao

 

[WaitingForThatCab]

I still think it is possible that we see Ekblad get moved, but I suspect that there's no willing dance partner.

 

[Jean Luc Discard]

I still think it is possible that we see Ekblad get moved, but I suspect that there's no willing dance partner.

If Ekky handed over his no-trade list only a few days ago then I wouldn't expect anything to happen for a while.

 

[KW]

$7.5M for a bot-3 is a bit much… but I admit Ek is good better than anyone else at two things: flipping the puck and eating the puck.

 

[Jean Luc Discard]

$7.5M for a bot-3 is a bit much… but I admit Ek is good better than anyone else at two things: flipping the puck and eating the puck.

Ekblad eats anything if it's covered with guacamole.