Rumor: Rumors & Proposals Thread | Where's the Beef?

[samiam]

Anyone know what is the minimum games missed would be to qualify for retroactive LTIR cap relief/credit with regards to McDavid?
For some reason I thought I heard 12 games or 24 days

 

[bucks_oil]

Our management did spend big on a goalie. His name was Jack Campbell.

That decision probably cost us a Stanley Cup last June.

It is what it is.

You're probably not winning a game 7 of a Cup Final with a Skinner or Markkanen in net. We've tried it. 0/2.

$5M isn't spending big IMO, that's way at the low end for NHL starters (except those on ELC) and it showed.

I actually can't think of any/many guys with 3-4 years of "carry the load" starter experience that sign in that price range.

With inflation, we pretty much signed Campbell to a "limited starter experience" similar to what we signed Koskinen and before him Talbot to.

Then we complain about inconsistency, wash, rinse, repeat.

I'm not saying we should be spending more either, just that your expectations that a $2.6M sophomore is going to go toe-to-toe with a $10M multiple Vezina winner in Game 7 of the SCF and not be the first guy to blink in a low-scoring 2-1 style game is kinda... I dunno, it's kinda kooky that you would expect him to win that game.

 

[Took a pill in Sbisa]

$5M isn't spending big IMO, that's way at the low end for NHL starters (except those on ELC) and it showed.

I actually can't think of any/many guys with 3-4 years of "carry the load" starter experience that sign in that price range.

With inflation, we pretty much signed Campbell to a "limited starter experience" similar to what we signed Koskinen and before him Talbot to.

Then we complain about inconsistency, wash, rinse, repeat.

I'm not saying we should be spending more either, just that your expectations that a $2.6M sophomore is going to go toe-to-toe with a $10M multiple Vezina winner in Game 7 of the SCF and not be the first guy to blink in a low-scoring 2-1 style game is kinda... I dunno, it's kinda kooky that you would expect him to win that game.

Adin Hill made $2.18m going toe to toe with said $10M multiple Vezina winner the year before

 

[VeteranPresence]

Adin Hill made $2.18m going toe to toe with said $10M multiple Vezina winner the year before

Once again it comes down to making smart moves and not smartest guy in the room moves. Our two previous GMs were notorious for those, and that's really what cost us a Cup (and probably two) in the McDrai era. Meanwhile McCrimmon and Zito- two candidates we passed over when hiring in past years- surrounded themselves with intelligent people, sought out undervalued assets rather than overpaying for past results, and the rest is history.

Unfortunately Jackson and Bowman are so far repeating history here, having hung onto dead weight like Schwartz while thinking three defensemen from one of the worst D cores in the league the previous 2-3 years were in any way answers to our problems on the blueline.

 

[ThreeOfAPerfectPair]

Stauffer was hinting at us getting Benning the other day. Oh well.

https://x.com/i/web/status/1851757239448572367

 

[McDrai]

I hope it's a real 2-3 weeks, not a "2-3 weeks until he can play again at 80% to save the organization's butt, then will need some sort of surgery in the future".

That’s exactly what will happen. McDavid will be rushed back instead of healing fully. Then will require some sort of surgery

 

[unicornBLOOD]

Say he misses 8 games, we better hope we get minimum 10 pts out of that stretch or we will be in trouble

i think you're bang on, the bare minimum is 40% of available points earned in McDavid's absence, anything less is verging on DISASTER ZONE. I hope the rest of this team is able to wake up, step up, and produce while their captain heals up.