Speculation: Roster Building Thread: New Season Edition

[HFsNumber1Heel]

Things that happen around here that blow my mind (somehow still):

-bitching about the Buchnevich trade
-complaining about Reaves
-talking about buying-out Goodrow like teams just buy-out captains that perform well

I feel like I just start scrolling when I see these things. Grow up Peter Pan.

Bro, people still can't get over McLIrath or Jessiman.

 

[Profet]

Bro, people still can't get over McLIrath or Jessiman.

I'm still not over Brendl and Lundmark.

 

[Glen Sathers Cigar]

half those guys are on ELCs lol, the others are on 1 or 2 year deals. So no, i don't think those are bargain contracts.

We have "fair" contracts like Fox, Zibanejad, Kreider, Lindgren, even Panarin (pre pandemic) and we have bad contracts like Trouba, Reaves, Goodrow. Shesty is on a good contract AAV wise but its too short, we're going to be f***ed once it expires.

Zibanejad just finished what was one of the best bargain contracts in the whole league, to be fair.

 

[NYR94]

Florida was a well balanced team last season. Mason Marchment signed with the Stars. Anthony Duclair is out until January with a torn Achilles tendon. MacKenzie Weeger is in Calgary. The Florida fans will say Weeger wasn't very good last season. Matthew Tkachuk for Jonathan Huberdeau is even.

The Panthers D is bad. They claimed Josh Mahura off of waivers. Florida signed Marc Staal.

Who is replacing the Marchment's 18 goals? Duclair scored 31 goals last season.

Frank Vatrano did not have a spot in their lineup.

Florida had so much depth last season.

Who is replacing Weegar?

The Panthers don't have much cap space. Duclair is on long-term IR and they need to clear space when he is ready to return. That is a tough injury to return from. Cam Akers still is not right after injuring his Achilles.

Every season teams miss the playoffs after making the playoffs the previous season.

They're starting the season with 20 guys on the roster, so no scratches. They don't have the room to sign Eric Staal, but they'd like to at some point. Florida scouts liked Mahura so they took a chance on him.

 

[Clark Kellogg]

Starring in the 2021 remake of Goodbye, Columbus
This many days till opening night:

That is all

 

[Alluckks]

Does he know he's your little buddy

Little buddy's never know that they are the little buddy

 

[Matt Rentfree]

Does that make you the Skipper? Three hour cruise, my foot. Pfft

Technically, it was a three hour TOUR.

Though the lyric could have been more fun if it was cruise.

... the mate was a mighty sailin' man
the skipper drinkin' booze
five passengers set sail that day
for a three hour cruise.

I like it - it's better.

 

[bobbop]

Bro, people still can't get over McIIrath or Jessiman.

How the hell do you think I feel? They took Lucien DeBlois when Mike Bossy was still, on the board!

 

[RangerBoy]

The Rangers don't have any righties besides their top 3. Skinner is next man up. Jones will shift over.

 

[leetch99]

From my other post in Gaut thread....
"Our whole right side might score a combined 50-60 goals ....it is sad . Krav 13 , Kakko 18 , Blais 6 , Vesey 11 , Reaves 2 ....other...1 " and that about sums it up give or take 10 goals .

The math is simple....Laf has to shift to RW ASAP and get it done .

 

[LaffyTaffy13]

We really need to waive reaves man. Will allow us to accrue like $8.5 mill in total cap space at the deadline

 

[Profet]

We really need to waive reaves man. Will allow us to accrue like $8.5 mill in total cap space at the deadline

35 year old contract... Don't think we benefit (cap-wise) having him play in Hartford. So he would actually need to get claimed, and that wont happen.

 

[GENESISPuck94]

Worst we’ve had since John Scott

Colton Orr, Aaron Voros, Stu Bickel... we've had some beauties in the past.

 

[Profet]

Colton Orr, Aaron Voros, Stu Bickel... we've had some beauties in the past.

... Darren Langdon

 

[cwede]

... Rangers don't have any righties besides their top 3. Skinner is next man up. Jones will shift over.

Welinski, w over ~40 NHL games, likely recalled ahead of Skinner.
Possibly Emberson too

 

[Mac n Gs]

We really need to waive reaves man. Will allow us to accrue like $8.5 mill in total cap space at the deadline

His full cap hit cannot be buried in HFD, and it'd basically net out equivalently to just waiving Dryden Hunt

 

[redwhiteandblue]

He already knows. It's not a coincidence that he structured Goodrow's contract so that the Rangers get a cap credit next year and the year after if he is bought out next summer.

So just because something possibly could be means that it will absolutely will be? For all you know, this happens more often than we even realize.

In a more likely reality, he built that into the contract thinking it was a safeguard in case of a massive injury or breakdown from a guy coming off 3 Cup runs.

Bro, people still can't get over McLIrath or Jessiman.

Lol fair enough. I struggled over those two specific ones quite a bit. Jessiman I watched live once and knew he was a miss. McIlrath.... what could have been.

 

[Avery16]

... Darren Langdon

Langdon was a very good enforcer. His name does not belong with those others.

 

[Avery16]

We really need to waive reaves man. Will allow us to accrue like $8.5 mill in total cap space at the deadline

This is my quarterly reminder on this thread that Reaves was *third* among all skaters *in the league* in hits last season.

 

[Boris Zubov]

Langdon was a very good enforcer. His name does not belong with those others.

His play was decent as well.

How the hell do you think I feel? They took Lucien DeBlois when Mike Bossy was still, on the board!

They liked DeBlois so much they even brought him back for a return engagement in the late 80s!

 

[McRanger92]

Things that happen around here that blow my mind (somehow still):

-bitching about the Buchnevich trade
-complaining about Reaves
-talking about buying-out Goodrow like teams just buy-out captains that perform well

I feel like I just start scrolling when I see these things. Grow up Peter Pan.

I'm a Goodrow guy but he's definitely getting bought out if they need the cap space. They get a cap credit this summer and next if they do. It's like Chekhov's gun. LTIR could be an option too.

 

[GAGLine]

35 year old contract... Don't think we benefit (cap-wise) having him play in Hartford. So he would actually need to get claimed, and that wont happen.

It's not a 35+ contract. CapFriendly lists it as one, but it's not. They changed the rules for 35+ contracts in the MOU, but even before then, a 1 year deal, by definition, was not considered a 35+ contract. And even for a multi-year deal that fell under the 35+ rules, the first year of that contract wouldn't be subject to the restrictions.

We saw this with Brashear. He signed a 2 year deal at age 37. Only the 2nd year of that deal was subject to the 35+ restrictions. If we had send him down in the first year, the cap hit would have been reduced like any other contract.

So just because something possibly could be means that it will absolutely will be? For all you know, this happens more often than we even realize.

In a more likely reality, he built that into the contract thinking it was a safeguard in case of a massive injury or breakdown from a guy coming off 3 Cup runs.

I'm not saying it absolutely will happen. I'm saying Drury intentionally structured the contract that way in case he needs to buy him out, so a buyout is much more likely than some people want to believe.

 

[Glen Sathers Cigar]

Seriously.

Don't like having to read opinions you disagree with? Maybe don't go to a message board.... or social media... or just stay offline altogether.

I have a solution:

 

[duhmetreE]

Reaves serves a purpose and plays a role. His ice time needs to be limited and take an occasional day off.

Carpenter serves a purpose and plays a role.

I like our role players. I just wouldn't give them regular shifts at even-strength if I didn't have to.

 

[Profet]

Langdon was a very good enforcer. His name does not belong with those others.

Maybe we were watching different players?

Langdon was a middleweight when the rest of the league was using heavyweights. He was a courageous SOB, but he got his s**t kicked in more times than I can remember.

And stone hands...