Rumor: Trade Rumors/Proposals/Free Agents 2017-2018

[Blotto71]

You’re welcome, but are you laughing at me or with me?

Totally with you (though I’m also crying a little too)

 

[Micklebot]

so, if the cap floor is around 60 mil next year, I think to break even with revenues this past season, we'd need to sell about 12400 tickets per game. That's a loss of about 3500 tickets a game (assuming average ticket price of 54 bucks a game, and not accounting for parking and concessions).

I think that would have been easily attained if the team was doing a purposeful rebuild instead of a circus act. Had we come out with a proper plan and not had this circus going on, fans would support a cap floor rebuild imo but with an owner threatening relocation, an AGM getting arrested for sexual harassment and wives cyberbullying one another, there's no way.

 

[Do Make Say Think]

Screw rebuilding.

We have Duchene, Stone and Karlsson.

As long as they are here and under 30 we should be able to compete for a playoff spot. Rebuild means we trade Karlsson and that just doesn't like something we'll come out ahead of in.

 

[Wallet Inspector]

Screw rebuilding.

We have Duchene, Stone and Karlsson.

As long as they are here and under 30 we should be able to compete for a playoff spot. Rebuild means we trade Karlsson and that just doesn't like something we'll come out ahead of in.

We had those 3+Hoffman last season and still finished 2nd to last.

 

[Gil Gunderson]

Screw rebuilding.

We have Duchene, Stone and Karlsson.

As long as they are here and under 30 we should be able to compete for a playoff spot. Rebuild means we trade Karlsson and that just doesn't like something we'll come out ahead of in.

Yeah for like another two weeks.

 

[West Coast Eagles]

No plan moving forward confirmed.

 

[Ouroboros]

I don't think the team is 'rebuilding' as such. That would suggest that there is a plan to get back to respectability at some point. We don't have the resources or the people in place to rebuild. Or to contend for that matter! This is just simply a team in survival mode. When you've got insiders reporting that the talk in hockey circles is about Melnyk relishing' the opportunity to get to the cap floor and just 'see what happens' what other conclusion can you come to?

If I get a sledgehammer and start smashing holes in the walls of my condo just to 'see what happens' I wouldn't say that I'm renovating, if you know what I mean.

 

[Do Make Say Think]

We had those 3+Hoffman last season and still finished 2nd to last.

And we finished second in the division the previous year.

Ups and downs are normal.

 

[Langdon Alger]

Ups and downs are normal.

We know this all too well.

 

[HSF]

karlsson will be signed by us

have a good feeling dont think the sens will trade him

 

[Langdon Alger]

Boedker Duchene Stone

Wouldn’t mind seeing what those three can do together.

 

[Benjamin]

tweet

Who the f*** is InsiderSource18?

 

[Langdon Alger]

Who the **** is InsiderSource18?

Former scout apparently.

 

[Shruggs Peterson]

Former scout apparently.

Does he happen to have dinner at 2pm? If so I know a guy

 

[Langdon Alger]

Does he happen to have dinner at 2pm? If so I know a guy

Don’t get what you mean by dinner at 2pm.

 

[Shruggs Peterson]

Don’t get what you mean by dinner at 2pm.

Tried to make a reference to the poster that around the trade deadline said he was having dinner with the players and their wives when Brassard got traded in the afternoon.

 

[Duncstar]

We're talking about NHL players, here.

Looool tip of the hat sir

 

[YouGotAStuGoing]

I think that would have been easily attained if the team was doing a purposeful rebuild instead of a circus act. Had we come out with a proper plan and not had this circus going on, fans would support a cap floor rebuild imo but with an owner threatening relocation, an AGM getting arrested for sexual harassment and wives cyberbullying one another, there's no way.

And of course the lazy narrative is going to turn into "Ottawa fans won't support a rebuild because they're too demanding, so why do they deserve a team?"

 

[philb613]

And of course the lazy narrative is going to turn into "Ottawa fans won't support a rebuild because they're too demanding, so why do they deserve a team?"

I think at this point the rest of the league's fans and the media have come to understand our plight.

 

[YouGotAStuGoing]

I think at this point the rest of the league's fans and the media have come to understand our plight.

Don't get me wrong – I agree. There'll be a good amount of sympathy now. But I'm thinking long-term. Next time things are going poorly, and the team starts considering a teardown, people won't care to dig deeper. They'll look at this rebuild, see the low attendance numbers, and spout something meaningless about Ottawa's fans not being devoted. Keep in mind this is the same industry that slagged Toronto fans for supporting terrible teams and not voting with their wallets during the JFJ and Muskoka Five years.

If there's one thing the lowest common denominator sports journalists love, it's a hot take.

 

[member 2431]

We had those 3+Hoffman last season and still finished 2nd to last.

Hoffman, despite being very good individually last year (and playing well with Duchene), could have been really f***ing up the locker room vibes.

 

[bert]

so, if the cap floor is around 60 mil next year, I think to break even with revenues this past season, we'd need to sell about 12400 tickets per game. That's a loss of about 3500 tickets a game (assuming average ticket price of 54 bucks a game, and not accounting for parking and concessions).

I think that would have been easily attained if the team was doing a purposeful rebuild instead of a circus act. Had we come out with a proper plan and not had this circus going on, fans would support a cap floor rebuild imo but with an owner threatening relocation, an AGM getting arrested for sexual harassment and wives cyberbullying one another, there's no way.

So what I truly really do not understand is why they wanted players back for Hoffman then. There is no direction whatsoever.

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

Guy on twitter said he heard talks between Ottawa and Chicago.

impossible

 

[Burrowsaurus]

that tweet from dreger means absolutly nothing.. "hockey people are talking about it" f*** off

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

Don Waddell hasn't had a chance to really put a stamp on the Hurricanes yet...

It's a two-horse race. Dorion at least has some competition for that "honour".

awfully close to jumping on the band wagon there