Roster/Rumors/Speculation/Trade Talk - 2023-24: Hotel California

[doublechili]

We've reached the very bottom of offseason 2022.

Meanwhile, Lou is out on the porch with the paper and a cuppa, enjoying a few of these...

 

[Big L]

I hear tarasenko IG doesn’t say St. Louis either.

Maybe Wally to st Lou in a package for tank.

Otherwise if kadri is signed and isles need to dump cap, getting rid of Wally makes no sense.

 

[JKP]

There are 83 players in the NHL making $7M or more a year. To suggest Kadri isn’t in that tier seems disingenuous to me. Now, term is a whole other thing, but he seems like a $7M player currently.

 

[Big L]

Meanwhile, Lou is out on the porch with the paper and a cuppa, enjoying a few of these...

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Perhaps a Werthers original also

 

[seabass45]

What is Nicole Shirman doing keeping that screenshot for?

I guess it's good to have when some moron claims there's a big change in his instagram bio.

 

[xECK29x]

 

[seafoam]

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Brock smokes reefer, Kadri's nickname when he was with the London Knights was 'Nose Candy Naz'.

They are not the same.

 

[Glorydays22]

Meanwhile, Lou is out on the porch with the paper and a cuppa, enjoying a few of these...

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These are my favorite too

 

[The Real JT]

Meanwhile, Lou is out on the porch with the paper and a cuppa, enjoying a few of these...

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I’m pretty sure he gave those up along with pignoli cookies which got stuck in his dentures.

Nowadays he goes for an S cookie. It doesn’t raise his blood sugar as much.

 

[isles55]

Creating cap space should’ve been done by the draft, not August.

 

[19 in a row]

Creating cap space should’ve been done by the draft, not August.

If you are looking to dump a player or maybe in a rebuild sure, but there is no true dead weight addition by subtraction players on our roster,(aka Ladd). We have plenty of cap space to sign our own guys, so are not moving any of our >$2M salary players, unless there is an upgrade to replace them. otherwise we will be worse So you only move once you know you have a deal in place. Chicken and the egg..

 

[19 in a row]

I am just hoping that Lou is on the phone to some of our guys coaxing someone to go on LTIR to start the season, so we can add a Kadri without shedding players for peanuts. Let 3 or 4 players all take their turn for a few months, so we are fresh for the playoffs when the cap comes off. Circumventing the rules? definitely, but it worked for Tampa. So ethics be damned.

hey one can dream. That's not the most outlandish outcome proposed on these boards, I am sure.

 

[Mike C]

Very true. We have seen this many times in sports before but I can't recall who. It's like getting dumped by a girl. You go to find any pictures with her and take them off social media like 30 seconds after she breaks up with you.

Then you keep calling her to reconcile yet you find this on the other end if the line

"the number you have dialed has been changed or disconnected "

 

[Mike C]

I am just hoping that Lou is on the phone to some of our guys coaxing someone to go on LTIR to start the season, so we can add a Kadri without shedding players for peanuts. Let 3 or 4 players all take their turn for a few months, so we are fresh for the playoffs when the cap comes off. Circumventing the rules? definitely, but it worked for Tampa. So ethics be damned.

hey one can dream. That's not the most outlandish outcome proposed on these boards, I am sure.

Hopefully that guy's name starts with Matt and ends with Martin

I’m pretty sure he gave those up along with pignoli cookies which got stuck in his dentures.

Nowadays he goes for an S cookie. It doesn’t raise his blood sugar as much.

I take my dentures out when I eat the cookies!

 

[19 in a row]

Hopefully that guy's name starts with Matt and ends with Martin

I hear you but they can send him down to Bridgeport and bury most of his salary so he might not move the needle as much. It would need to be a rotation of Bailey, Palmieri, and Beau on LTIR to open up the space. (hey it's my daydream, I am rolling with it.)

 

[Mike C]

Brock smokes reefer, Kadri's nickname when he was with the London Knights was 'Nose Candy Naz'.

They are not the same.

Hmmmm....

That a new thing or has it always been the case??

Back in the 80s everything was the same in the schoolyards I hung around in!

 

[isles55]

If you are looking to dump a player or maybe in a rebuild sure, but there is no true dead weight addition by subtraction players on our roster,(aka Ladd). We have plenty of cap space to sign our own guys, so are not moving any of our >$2M salary players, unless there is an upgrade to replace them. otherwise we will be worse So you only move once you know you have a deal in place. Chicken and the egg..

This team missed the playoffs last season. They went into the off-season knowing they needed to make moves, and not enough cap space to bring in better players.

Trying to make cap space now for Kadri just reeks of desperation on Lou’s behalf. There are few prospects on the farm, and I’d say most predictions are 50/50 at best if this team even makes the playoffs. Not a lot to be excited about with a new building.

 

[ScaredStreit]

Overpaying for the right players is fine. Kadri is the right player. You don't see Tampa fans complaining about being pressed to the cap for years right?

 

[Mike C]

This team missed the playoffs last season. They went into the off-season knowing they needed to make moves, and not enough cap space to bring in better players.

Trying to make cap space now for Kadri just reeks of desperation on Lou’s behalf. There are few prospects on the farm, and I’d say most predictions are 50/50 at best if this team even makes the playoffs. Not a lot to be excited about with a new building.

The desperation reeking commenced with the dismissal of one Barry Trotz in my opinion

 

[Top Corner]

Overpaying for the right players is fine. Kadri is the right player. You don't see Tampa fans complaining about being pressed to the cap for years right?

Kadri is most certainly the right player for this makeup , if acquired along with another D this team makes noise

 

[YearlyLottery]

Overpaying for the right players is fine. Kadri is the right player. You don't see Tampa fans complaining about being pressed to the cap for years right?

Yup. Overpaying for Kadri who is a tough SOB who will likely score 60-70 points on this team getting top six minutes is not going to be our downfall.

 

[Bones45]

Yup. Overpaying for Kadri who is a tough SOB who will likely score 60-70 points on this team getting top six minutes is not going to be our downfall.

But who on earth would Kadri replace?

 

[mm11]

But who on earth would Kadri replace?

mighty fine question

 

[leeroggy]

what does Wahlstrom, Mayfield and Bailey get you?

Juan Soto

 

[eoin92]

But who on earth would Kadri replace?

I know what you’re thinking. But Kadri doesn’t have a Jingle, so no way he replaces Bailey!