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Speculation: Roster Building Thread III (2021 Offseason) - “Simple Jack”, "Will over Skill", "Drury in a Hurry"?

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Lone Ranger said:
Teams with cap problems don't seem to need to worry as much with the way the NHL allows the rules to be circumvented. It irks me how many teams have won Cups using various iterations of cap circumvention. Now it's Tampa Bay. Kucherov sits out the whole season allowing them to be compliant, then, as soon as the playoffs start, and there's no longer a cap to worry about, the guy steps right into the line-up at his usual elite level. I don't blame Panther fans for booing him every time he touches the puck.They're getting hosed.
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Quite the lessen to be learned here...Cheaters always win!
 
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I don’t have a problem with the way Tampa handled Kucherov. He had legit surgery. He could have 10000% come back sooner but it’s not like they broke the rules. Every team in the league could have done that.

I do think that the league needs to cap how much a team can put on LTIR at once though. Kucherov himself isn’t an issue, the nearly 18 million they had on LTIR at one point is ridiculous.
 
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Uninstaaled said:
I don’t have a problem with the way Tampa handled Kucherov. He had legit surgery. He could have 10000% come back sooner but it’s not like they broke the rules. Every team in the league could have done that.

I do think that the league needs to cap how much a team can put on LTIR at once though. Kucherov himself isn’t an issue, the nearly 18 million they had on LTIR at one point is ridiculous.
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Tampa are such a good team that they can deal with it, but you ask if other teams around the league want to do the same: Do you want play the whole regular season without your best player? I'm pretty sure that will quiet some things down. Here we are bitching we missed the playoffs because we played without Panarin for 3 weeks.

Trying to change the rules because of this fairly unique situation is like what they did to the offside rule after the Duchene incident: try to shoot a fly with a shotgun.
 
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For the millionth time, we are not allowed to complain about bending the cap rules after the shit we pulled burying Wade Redden in the minors
 
Fitzy said:
For the millionth time, we are not allowed to complain about bending the cap rules after the shit we pulled burying Wade Redden in the minors
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In fairness he legitimately was an AHL defender. What an immediately brutal signing that was.
 
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Uninstaaled said:
I think they'll try, but Zibanejad and his people also know that he'll be able to command what ever he wants after a big year. I'd be very surprised if he got signed this summer, especially after an uneven season where he got the vid.

Whether or not that prompts them to trade him is a different story. I'd like to believe that you're right, but I can't see them doing it with out an alternative. That may actually be the one thing that stands in the middle of them pursuing Eichel and not doing it. I can't imagine that they tie up another 10 mill in cap space after extending Zibanejad. I can totally see them letting it play out the way that Kreider/Staal/Girardi did and yeah, that would be less than ideal.

I don't love either option (Anything over 5 years for Zibanejad would be a mistake IMO) but I'd prefer extending him to trading for Eichel, even more so if you can get him for something reasonable.
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I think Zibby is going to end up being a self rental.
Then in the offseason they'll make a run at Barkov/Hertl/Forsberg/Malkin/Giroux/Zibby/Couturier and see what sticks.
 
Guyute said:
Adam Fox isn’t getting even close to 13.7 million.

13.7 million!!?! That’s insanity
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I assume that number is coming from the Athletic article. Dom's numbers are based on UFA market value and a long term contract. He also had Lindgren at 5.6 mil.

Luszczyszyn’s model sets his market value at about $13.7 million on average over the next seven years. That market value isn’t always comparable to what a player will actually sign for — as an RFA, he won’t be hitting the open market — but the number represents the high end for a player whose value continues to rise and who the Rangers need to contend.
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Fox isn't getting anything close to 13.7 mil per year, not with a flat cap and him having 3 RFA years left after this contract is up.
 
RGY said:
CBJ fans are ecstatic. As they should be.


f*** Dolan.
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Get serious. We debunked this already. JD is a caricature and had no command of the organization. We applaud Dolan for making the necessary but unpopular move.
 
huerter said:
Get serious. We debunked this already. JD is a caricature and had no command of the organization. We applaud Dolan for making the necessary but unpopular move.
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ROFL.... you are something special, to put it lightly...

“We debunked this already” — who is “We”? Who do you think is trenched in the bunker with you on this?

Like most of your takes —- ROFL
 
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Did Jets fans excoriate Pionk yet for not being a supposed playoff type player?
 
RGY said:
ROFL.... you are something special, to put it lightly...

“We debunked this already” — who is “We”? Who do you think is trenched in the bunker with you on this?

Like most of your takes —- ROFL
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Us in the sports world. The former DOBOs and the like.
 
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