Roster Building Thread - Part XI (Off-season edition)

[Clark Kellogg]

If you look at cap allocation though:

Fox - $9.5m
Roy - $5.8m
Schneider - $2m

That's not a bad allocation of cap space



Walker I think can. I believe Roy has strictly played RD. I believe Tanev can play both sides as well

For me I am looking at the long game.
Just an opinion but I believe this upcoming season will be a very weak Eastern Conference.
Drury could take a chance my shedding salary and the team should still make the playoffs and compete.
Next season the UFA market has a chance to be a once in a decade opportunity. Which could be a double bonus. If Drury does shed salary now, then he would be cap fat come trade deadline day with a chance of a surplus of teams that will be looking to move expiring UFA contracts.
Of course nothing is guaranteed.

 

[Levitate]

Debates me

Because Lindgren is just being used on the top pair where he shouldn't be? He would be fine playing on the 2nd or 3rd pair, with less minutes, and easier competition.

Lindgren was also fine playing with Fox for years. Yes he had a down year, which is why now he should play down the lineup.

Odd how some people are so against him.

He was never “good” with Fox

 

[Profet]

I completely get people defending Mika. I understand why people defend Kakko.
I have no idea why people defend Lindgren.

When Lindgren fails playing bottom pair minutes feel free to complain about him.


You're judging him playing as a #2 d-man. A role he clearly is not suited for.

If his cap hit is reasonable, and they separate him and Fox, I'm fine keeping Lindgren.

 

[The Crypto Guy]

Debates me

He was never “good” with Fox

He was absolutely fine with him, lets not pretend like he wasn't, this is getting pretty ridiculous.

 

[McRanger92]

Emily reporting Drury recently met with Trouba to discuss his future

 

[noncents]

Walker 3x5 - Fox
Miller - Roy 5x5.75
Dillon 2x3 - Schneider
Jones

not bad

 

[NYR Viper]

Emily reporting Drury recently met with Trouba to discuss his future

ONE TEAM THAT could make big waves this offseason is the New York Rangers. I have been told they've had conversations with other teams on Kaapo Kakko. While New York was unwilling to part with the former No. 2 pick in the past, including this past traded deadline, it sounds like both sides would welcome a change of scenery now. He just signed a one-year deal for $2.4 million, which is cost certainty.

There are more stories bubbling about the Rangers, ranging from exploring a Jacob Trouba trade to a possible reunion with Patrick Kane. I heard GM Chris Drury met with Trouba, whose no-move clause becomes a 15-team no-trade list on July 1, recently to discuss his future. A trade is hardly guaranteed, but the team is exploring options.

I'm told that Drury is telling people around the league he's looking to clear cap space.

Ultimately I think the team would like to focus on acquiring younger players, but I do get the sense a lot is on the table right now.

Kaplan's offseason buzz: Latest on Steven Stamkos, Jake Guentzel and more around the NHL

 

[Ruggs225]

Emily reporting Drury recently met with Trouba to discuss his future

You will be gone.

You wont ruin my 4th of July weekend.

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

Emily reporting Drury recently met with Trouba to discuss his future

Would make one think that Trouba has let him know where he’s willing to go if this is true.

If he told Dru to F off I’m sure they would have set their focus elsewhere.

 

[duhmetreE]

If this team signs Kane.... they haven't learned anything from watching the past playoffs failures. I may not even watch

Dump Trouba

I wouldn't mind Lindgren as a 3LD with a PMD at 3-RD. That's just not gonna happen. He handicaps the top4 greatly. Time to move on.

Get bigger and faster. It's not rocket science. Get tougher to play against. Hard on the forecheck. Does not handle the puck like a grenade...

IF THEY DO NOT FIT THAT CRITERIA, DO NOT ACQUIRE THEM.

 

[rangers1314]

Flyers buyout Atkinson

 

[The Crypto Guy]

Kaplan's offseason buzz: Latest on Steven Stamkos, Jake Guentzel and more around the NHL

Kaplan is a rumor reporter now?

 

[Tob]

 

[kovazub94]

Trading him is the preferred approach but I'd say it's preferable to give Lindgren the QO for one year than to sign him to a long term deal.

QO over long and expensive deal (with NTC later to boot)

 

[GAGLine]

Kaplan is a rumor reporter now?

She has broken some stuff in the past, I believe. I think she had Wennberg to the Rangers before anyone else.

 

[NYR Viper]

Atkinson and Kreider played together at BC.

 

[bleedblue94]

I'm

It was an extremely weak reaction for a mentally weak and cowardly team. Two handing Wilson in the face five times was warranted and they instead waited for a soulless Brendan Smith fight where he lost.

That group was a massive failure at the most basic level. I woulda nuked the whole squad and started over.

I hated it prior to that incident and I will always point to Ryan Strome bc he was the one person that for years would publicly push back against coaches whenever the coaches called out the players in the media. Rather than take it as a challenge and acknowledge the faults and need for adjustments, Strome kept self-appointing himself as spokes person and just enabling his teammates to act selfishly.

 

[Gardner McKay]

Kaplan is a rumor reporter now?

She's quite credible.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

FR , I need some excitement in my life.

And no the draft doesn’t count

 

[Tob]

She's quite credible.

She's already at the pinnacle of hockey, nothing to gain by lying

 

[The Crypto Guy]

She's quite credible.

Had no clue. Weekes must be giving her some of his sources.

 

[Fitzy]

Emily reporting Drury recently met with Trouba to discuss his future

“Where do you see yourself five years from now?”

“19th street getting my fav..”

“Let me stop you right there”

 

[Gardner McKay]

Had no clue. Weekes must be giving her some of his sources.

Maybe. Maybe she earned her own sources. All I know is she was pretty accurate at the TDL. She has a better record than many of the major "insiders".

 

[McRanger92]

Maybe. Maybe she earned her own sources. All I know is she was pretty accurate at the TDL. She has a better record than many of the major "insiders".

Emily is pretty plugged in to the Rangers, ive noticed. Much more so than Elliotte "Im Wondering" Friedman or any of the TSN guys.

 

[haohmaru]

Had no clue. Weekes must be giving her some of his sources.

Kaplan has more sources than Weekes in all likelihood. She’s at the top of the food chain.