Rumor: Rumors & Proposals Thread | With Klingberg in the Mix Who Are Our 7D After the Deadline?
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NVM... It worked.
Not shedding one single tear about any Blues loss this season.
Ohhhhh myyyyyyyy
KeithIsActuallyBad
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Rantanen isn't happening. Don't even bother entertaining this idea.
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Zero chance this can be done without gutting the team of any depth we have.
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I'm drooling like a bull dog at that idea...
Then again, that would mean bye bye Bouchard because signing both him and Rantanen would be impossible.
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A creative GM could definitely make it happen.
TBH.. its not even that hard with the cap space coming in the next few years.
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It’s possible because Bouch has lowered his value by about 3M per this year.
They’d have to trade/LTIR Kane and probably Arvidsson too but it’s definitely possible if Rantanen is willing to sign for around 11-12M.
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Last 3 years are going to hurt but realistically this team is going to be pretty similar to the Penguins in about 4-5 years.
KeithIsActuallyBad
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Also given that our dollar is even more in the crapper it's going to be even more expensive. Let other teams take on that anchor.
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Elite players help you win Cups.
The best part is we get to see how Rantanen works without MacKinnon for half a season first.
KeithIsActuallyBad
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I mean we have two, possibly three of them. Part of the reason we keep losing in the playoffs is the rest of the lineup not contributing enough.
If Katz isn't worried about how the exchange impacts his hockey team, you shouldn't be either.
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If you keep adding elite players eventually the “rest of the lineup” starts to have some elite players in there.
KeithIsActuallyBad
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Katz should be worried about how poorly we draft and manage our assets.
Better yet I'd rather him not be involved at all.
It's not really working out well in Toronto, though.
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Yeah and it didn’t work in Tampa either… until it did.
You have to give yourself the best shot. If it doesn’t work out at least you don’t have any regrets about not going for it.
The Oilers would be losing Jeff Skinner, Arvid and Kane who are hardly helping the Oilers at the moment in order to sign Rantanen. The rest of the roster remains the same.
I have no idea how they would make that happen, but these forums would burn to the ground if it did.
KeithIsActuallyBad
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Tampa succeeds because they draft super well, not because they went whale hunting every July. Imagine getting a Brayden Point in the third round.
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I do wonder if Edmonton tries a deferred contract route with both Rantanen and Bouchard this summer. If both players were game we could make it happen and still work in some depth. This is also where a contract like Savoie and Podz would ne huge
Oof, that's a grenade of a rumor.
Ratanen would have to take a cut, along with Edmonton shipping out a few players.
Will have to pay attention a bit to how he does in Carolina, he was carried pretty hard in Colorado and this is his chance to show that he's more than a sidekick.
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