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Speculation: Roster Building Thread LIII: Free Agent Frenzy

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Elliotte Friedman is on the NHL Network. Florida is the favorite for Panarin. The Islanders are the wildcard because they have so much cap space. Florida is the favorite for Bob too.

He said the Rangers are not offer sheeting anyone. He said everyone thought the Rangers could offer sheet someone but that's not happening.

Colorado doesn't want to give 4 years for Pavelski.

If the Avs are worried about term for older free agents, are they giving Zuccarello 5 years? He will be 37 in the fifth season of that contract.

I read Rick Nash has talked to Zuccarello about Columbus. I think Zuccarello is too smart to play for Torts again. Stone age hockey.
 
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eco's bones said:
As an alternative to Panarin we could always aim at Marner--send some kids Toronto's way--Chytil, Andersson, Hajek for instance--not sure they'd want more but they're kind of in a tough spot cap wise and those guys are all cheap and could all help them.
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So sell the farm for one player about to make the same money as panarin with similar production... instead of getting panarin for only money .
Rather keep the farm
 
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RangerBoy said:
Elliotte Friedman is on the NHL Network. Florida is the favorite for Panarin. The Islanders are the wildcard because they have so much cap space. Florida is the favorite for Bob too.

He said the Rangers are not offer sheeting anyone. He said everyone thought the Rangers could offer sheet someone but that's not happening.

Colorado doesn't want to give 4 years for Pavelski.

If the Avs are worried about term for older free agents, are they giving Zuccarello 5 years? He will be 37 in the fifth season of that contract.

I read Rick Nash has talked to Zuccarello about Columbus. I think Zuccarello is too smart to play for Torts again. Stone age hockey.
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Can't imagine Zucc wants anything to do with playing under Torts again.
 
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RangerBoy said:
He said the Rangers are not offer sheeting anyone. He said everyone thought the Rangers could offer sheet someone but that's not happening.
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"Everyone" Who is everyone Elliot? This guy needs some new sources. Anyone who wasn't trying to drive traffic and clicks could have told Friedman that the Rangers, a rebuilding team, weren't going to be offersheeting anyone.
 
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Amazing Kreiderman said:
Free and restricted are opposites. It's just something that bugs me
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Not sure that's true. If you are at a restaurant you are free to order anything off the menu or some reasonable replacements. Doesn't mean you can get lobster at a Mcdonalds though.
 
Panarin for a reasonable amount is fine. The Rangers have a TON of cap space in two years and this year and next year will not be an issue as far as cap space.

All of that being said, $12m for Panarin makes no sense for anyone. Stone made $9.5m in Vegas. $9.5m-$10m. He gets to play in a large city with lots of endorsement opportunities. He plays for an Original 6 franchise. He plays for an organization with a proven track record of making the playoffs consistently and who is currently on the upswing with young players developing and a GM who you can tell knows tat the f*** he is doing.

The Rangers shouldn't be the blank check team but offering him a contract that is in line with what I laid out above would make sense.
 
Thirty One said:
Can't imagine Zucc wants anything to do with playing under Torts again.
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The last time he played under Torts, he was almost sent to Siberia. No way he ends up in Columbus.

Zuccarello is going to go to a wildcard team in need of some veteran help on the wing. I could really see Buffalo try and make a run at him. He's not a big goal scorer, but he'd bring some leadership to that team and a well respected player who has produced on good teams.
 
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Fireonk said:
Not sure that's true. If you are at a restaurant you are free to order anything off the menu or some reasonable replacements. Doesn't mean you can get lobster at a Mcdonalds though.
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Actually...
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Leetch3 said:
well not all teams can or want to pay out bonuses like that...salary gets paid spread out thru the season, but for a $10 mil signing bonus you need to cut a $10 mil check on 7/1. so it could be a way to mitigate the tax difference for a team like the rangers but not all teams would be able to use it (of course assuming that the bonus would be taxed in florida, I'm not sure how those rules work)
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Still, one would ass-u-me that each and every UFA would simply declare residency in Florida to help them and the team that signs them.

Again, am no expert. But short of airplanes, which get taxed according to how much time in a jurisdiction they spend in the air, if your goods and services (in this case playing a sport) are in a particular state, you pay taxes on the wages earned in that particular state. Uncle Sam and local tax authorities tend to want their last dollar. Each and every one of them. In this case, red states are no different than blue states. As such, I would think that you could call it salary, bonus or payments to Aunt Millie's sweet tea, and it would not make a lick of difference.
 
Gardner McKay said:
If I am a GM, I am closely watching the Rangers and how it shakes out with Panarin. Should the Rangers sign Panarin, I'd immediately offer sheet Buchnevich.
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There is no way anyone is offering an offer sheet for Buchnevich. Or any one else. 4 first round picks for him? That alone would make signing Panrin a home run. And i don't even want to sign Panarin.
 
Kovalev27 said:
Well if you get taxed in the state you worked in then you only get half the games in fla and have to pay taxes in the other states you play in on the road so the tax savings are half of what people keep talking about. It’s certainly not worth signing for a small market team that draws 10k on a good night and hasn’t sniffed a playoff series win in god knows how long. I’d be shocked if he signed in fla.
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If you work in NY, it makes absolutely no difference how many business trips you make. 100% of your income is taxable in NY.
 
RGY said:
Well how?

Its been laid out in other posts. Are you talking next year? Or following years?
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For the forceable future. And to alleviate the log jam. I believe, and just my view, that the Rangers go forward with one and not two.
 
Raspewtin said:
Lol, well considering everything about his situation (limited number of NHL games played, durability of his kind of play style, handedness, age, only available for cap space, no injury concerns) the "uniquness" transcends the player.
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+freakish consistency.
 
True Blue said:
There is no way anyone is offering an offer sheet for Buchnevich. Or any one else. 4 first round picks for him? That alone would make signing Panrin a home run. And i don't even want to sign Panarin.
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I doubt he's talking an offer sheet of $10.5m+. There's too many questions mark with our cap right now, but with a signed Panarin and Trouba, could we afford Buch at $5.5m per? Thta's a compensation of a 1st and 3rd...
 
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