Roster Building XXVI: Picking Our Teeth Off the Ice
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TheReelChuckFletcher
Former TheRillestPaulFenton; Harverd Alum
The cap isn't always going to go up like crazy for eternity, especially with expansion on the near-horizon. There can always be another unforeseen event like COVID or a major recession that warps the marketplace again. Also, with Dundon at the helm and as long as our team is one of the best, they will spend to the cap. The teams that may not spend to the cap anymore are the teams who are on the bubble.
Also, when the cap is particularly high, the cap floor will become almost as important to league parity as the ceiling. It may end up being the case that a new inefficiency shows up when it comes to lower end teams needing to reach the cap floor while keeping the rosters bad enough to lose for draft picks.
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Sportsnet view re free agent class:
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If the canes resign Hall that gives them 9 1 way forwards signed for next year. Blake and Stank are locks for roster spots. That brings them to 11 forwards. Nadeau will push for a roster spot, that is 12.
Assuming they add in the offseason which I think is a safe assumption who is out the door?
Assuming they add in the offseason which I think is a safe assumption who is out the door?
That's part of why this offseason is so intriguing.
A) We're a contending team already. If you transform Dundon into Peter Karmanos and the team loses Hall, Andersen, Roslovic, Robinson, Jost, Orlov, and Burns, we probably still are a contending team.
B) Our top 5 on D is completely set with Nikishin, and we may have our #6D in Morrow.
C) We have 10 forwards on lock for next year: Aho, Svech, Jarvis, Staal, Martinook, Carrier, Blake, Stankoven, Jankowski, Kotkaniemi. That leaves 2 open spots at F.
D) In goal, we need a #1A or #1B with Kochetkov.
E) We have $36 million dollars to spend on two forwards, a goalie, and depth.
Not only do we have the most capspace of any good team, we also have the fewest open roster spots. It's hard to fathom how we will spend $36M at this point. I'm hoping the Borg explores taking on other teams' mistakes for draft picks.
I don’t expect all of Blake, Stankoven and Nadeau to ever be on the same roster. At least one of them I think are traded this summer for upgrades.
Nadeau shouldn't be considered for a move...he's the exact same kind of elusive, seam-finding, high-volume goal-scorer Guentzel is and we need to keep him long enough to see if he has the same kind of success here.
Okay, but he hasn't shown that in the NHL. And of those three, he's clearly the odd man out if we were going to trade any of them.
Right, if he’s the piece that moves the needle for a bonafide top 6C with term improves the team, you move him.
Same with Blake or Stankoven. Too many right handed smurfs either currently on roster or in the pipeline as is.
Nah, I'm saying we're already more committed to Blake and (especially) Stankoven than Nadeau, so if the option appears for a trade and the choice comes down to those three, the organization is going to let Nadeau go 9 times out of 10
I think they’re all 3 essentially interchangeable.
Stankoven and Blake have shown well at the NHL level, but they also have a few more developmental years on Nadeau. I’d agree that Nadeau probably would be the most likely traded amongst the 3, but I’m not against trading any of them in a package that clearly upgrades the roster moving forward.
Nadeau has the benefit of having a higher tier shot than the other two as well as history at LW, which we’ve been short of for years.
so what is the best center we can get for a package of 2 of (Nadeau, Blake, Stank) and 2 firsts?
I don’t agree with the concept of “two many righties” we’ve got going on? I feel like we’ve been so short on righties for so long we’re afraid to have them at all. Out of 12 forwards we have exactly three. Part of the reason Rants didn’t work is because without Necas no remaining righty could throw Rants a seam pass on the pp. On a stacked team Stank and Blake are bottom six forwards with some hope for more in the future. Jarvis is a first liner for us but I don’t know that he is league wide.
We have room for at least one more righty plus we could really use one at center. Counting someone out because of what hand they play when we are where we are doesn’t make sense to me.
We have room for at least one more righty plus we could really use one at center. Counting someone out because of what hand they play when we are where we are doesn’t make sense to me.
Nadeau can play left wing. I can absolutely see all of Blake, Stank and Nadeau being on the team next year. Hell, even Marner too along with those guys.
Wouldn’t it be ideal to have one righty per line? I’ve never been too hung up on handedness being a huge deal but it can definitely make a difference in getting a one timer off or not
