It's hard to talk to people who leave out half of the statement. "IF Zadorov is worth 5, Nurse is worth 7". Zadorov is incredibly overpaid for what he brings, he is best suited as a #5 defenseman, facing sheltered minutes. Nurse is better than that.
The threshold for 2 first, a second and a third willprobably be closer to 9.5 than 10.
Bouchard is excellent but isn't worth 10M per that he will be looking for.
I mean... yeah? Everyone is going to be offering futures for Andersson. Calgary had a hot start, but they're falling back to earth and the game plan shouldn't change for them.
Are you suggesting that the price for taking Andersson is also taking Huberdeau? I mean, I can see why the Flames would want to do that, but be realistic. The teams that are going to be most interested in Andersson are the ones who are contending, or close to it. Those teams don't have the cap space to take on a bum contract like Huberdeau's.
The Oilers would definitely match $10M. They probably are looking at $8.5-9.5 as it is. Right now they have about $16M in cap space with 15 players signed. That leaves them about $6M to sign 4-5 guys. Three of those players are probably close to league minimum. Leaving them with about $4M to sign one or two more. Now they probably want to address the second pairing RHD which may mean trading one or both of Kane and Kulak to free up the money depending on how big the contract.
Wow those are insane expected stats! Sign him to his 11M ask right away before he ends up in the 14-25M range.
That's not even a small sample size on Bouchards part, he's played almost the same time without McD/Drai than he's played with them in any combination.
I'm not what you'd call an Oilers supporter. I'm pretty much the opposite of that.
