Roster/Rumors/Speculation/Trade Talk - 2024-25: Re-Tool, Re-Group, Re-Mix, Re-Build

[xECK29x]

They should move on from Pelech. George is cut from the same cloth.

Complete agree with this

 

[seabass45]

If they did bottom out which players, whose contracts extend past this season, would Isles fans want to move on from?

Obvious one is Lee, who only has a year after this. Pageau is also a future UFA. Could also argue in favor of Varlamov, very reasonable contract and there’s always going to be some demand for goaltending out there.

As for the aforementioned Pelech, I don’t know. A lot of people here have buyers remorse about both the Pelech and Pulock deals, and in Pelech’s case (NTC finally becomes modified after his year) his play started cratering after suffering a bad concussion. So we’re at the point of wanting to get rid of him bc he’s damaged goods and hoping some team out there doesn’t see that and is willing to take on the lengthy term remaining. I don’t think it’s going to happen and I feel like the team would be better off just holding because inevitably we’re going to need to replace him and the price might be costly (see: Romanov in 2022).