The board was also drooling over Matthews recently. And then trying to trade random stuff for him and thinking it’s a good deal for TOR.
So the crazy meter was approaching the TOR or EDM levels on 10 years ago.
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The board was also drooling over Matthews recently. And then trying to trade random stuff for him and thinking it’s a good deal for TOR.
So the crazy meter was approaching the TOR or EDM levels on 10 years ago.
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I think I take my chances on miffing the future pending college UFAs if I'm getting an NHL 1C.
Undersized center moving towards his mid 30s. What could go wrong…
Btw, 1st+Stramel IS overpayment for him.
The reported Stramel + 1st for Trochek at the TDL was an unsigned Stramel. Now that he is signed, NYR have zero risk, making him more valuable(though on the flip side, he did break his foot), while Trochel has lost value, theoretically, because h can no longer help a team in the the 2026 playoffs.
Bottom line is that Stramel and a 1st is a nice offer for Trochek.
That is a big maybe. If we can land larkin or whoever, are we really going to worry about the college free agents who don't do anything 99 out of 100 times? There is no point in worrying about the future right now, we are all in right now. If we have to blow it up in 5 or 10 years and get new management nobody is going to care because we traded one of our draft picks.
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I'm pretty sure both the college players and their agents understand that this is a business and these things happen. Not 100% positive, of course, but at least 50% sure.
Plus, the trade would send him to Michigan if he's involved, and I needn't tell everyone where Stramel has chosen to spend most of the last 6 years of his life.
Yep you said that before. Again do you want to actually win a cup or worry about this crap? We should be doing everything in our power to get a center, end of story. These are big boys, not reality TV stars.
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You are way overplaying the point you are trying to make. A college FA is going to go where he has a pathway to playing. Joe Blow 3 years from now isn’t going to avoid the Wild because his agent reminds him that we traded Stramel in a deal for Dylan Larkin. Lmfao
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Honestly I feel like Anaheim and Columbus would be the best fits for Larkin.
You are way overplaying the point you are trying to make. A college FA is going to go where he has a pathway to playing. Joe Blow 3 years from now isn’t going to avoid the Wild because his agent reminds him that we traded Stramel in a deal for Dylan Larkin. Lmfao
No but an agent would push for a NTC or NMC or a higher salary for security.
You are way overplaying the point you are trying to make. A college FA is going to go where he has a pathway to playing. Joe Blow 3 years from now isn’t going to avoid the Wild because his agent reminds him that we traded Stramel in a deal for Dylan Larkin. Lmfao
No but an agent would push for a NTC or NMC or a higher salary for security.
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This is best for everyone. I won't miss him, but wish him well. I hope Zuccarello does the same now.
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It was nice to have another player that could carry the puck. I think this all but assures Zucc will be back on a cheap one.
My issue is we waited all this time for Stramel to develop, he finally broke out in college, looks to be a solid center in all facets of the game, and now we are going to trade him for a soon to be 33 year old center? That seems like horrible asset management. Finding a younger trade target or seeing what Stramel can do are much better options IMO.
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Slightly, and only temporarily. That's the kind of move a team like the Golden Knights would make, and it works because if your team is good, good players want to play for it. I'm not entirely unsympathetic to the emotional elements of it, but winning smooths over a lot of such problems.
Being a bad to mediocre team is a hell of a lot bigger anchor to signing and retaining players than signing a guy and then trading him when your situation changes,.
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With Jojo going home, and it still being up in the air on Tarasenko/Zuccarello, what’s everyone’s interest level on possible FA wingers…
Bjorkstrand
Mikheyev
Marchment
Kuzmenko
Arvidsson
Tolvanen
Mantha
Milano
Fabbri
Olofsson
Kravtsov (Lol)
Who plays that other wing spot with Ek/Boldy? Mantha, Marchment, and Mikheyev probably get over paid. Maybe Advidsson gets too much money too. Who’s the next Jojo that we can get a lot of production from for little money?
Kaprizov Larkin Zuccarello
——— Ek Boldy
Trenin Hartman Brink
Foligno Sturm Foligno
Haight
Stramel?
Wouldn’t mind seeing something like this going into next year with someone like Arvidsson on line 2
Does Brink bump up and we slot Haight in there on the 3rd…
Bjorkstrand
Mikheyev
Marchment
Kuzmenko
Arvidsson
Tolvanen
Mantha
Milano
Fabbri
Olofsson
Kravtsov (Lol)
Who plays that other wing spot with Ek/Boldy? Mantha, Marchment, and Mikheyev probably get over paid. Maybe Advidsson gets too much money too. Who’s the next Jojo that we can get a lot of production from for little money?
Kaprizov Larkin Zuccarello
——— Ek Boldy
Trenin Hartman Brink
Foligno Sturm Foligno
Haight
Stramel?
Wouldn’t mind seeing something like this going into next year with someone like Arvidsson on line 2
Does Brink bump up and we slot Haight in there on the 3rd…
I like Marchment, he's a shit disturber and he can score
I like Mantha as well
Rest of em don't really do much for me one way or the other
But we gotta make sure we have the cap space for Hughes, Larkin, a FA, and a trade
Kaprizov-Larkin-DeBrusk
Marchment-Ek-Boldy
Brink-Hartman-Zuccarello
Foligno-Stramel/Haight-Trenin
Friedman on today’s 32 Thoughts and Russo on Barreiro both mentioned that McCarron being re-signed.
BagHead
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I hope he has a good final tour in Sweden. He put in some solid value for us the last couple years.
