Trades & Free Agency Thread: Off-season Edition

[hamzarocks]

Guentzel's had a single 80pt season, and played with Crosby. That contract is absolutely brutal

He has 410 pts in 398 games since 2018-2019 or an 85 pt pace

This is a very good deal for tampa

 

[TMLegend]

f*** me that's a steal

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807779610928591029

Good deal. Would much rather pay an extra $1mil for Pesce than sign Tanev.

 

[yort2010]

Pretty quiet so far, just rumours and no firm deals.

they cant officially sign till 12pm (or is it 1pm)

 

[ER89]

Can you people relax... It's not his fault Tavares & Marners contracts are still here and unmovable. Once Tavares is at least off the books that's when he can really get to work.

this is the dumbest f***ing thing ive heard.

Its not his fault that those contracts are here so im gna handcuff the team even more and sign taneva nd oel to equally shitty contracts?

what in the world are you even talking about.

 

[RunItBackAgain]

f*** OEL for 4M. I'd MUCH rather give Zaddy an extra 1-1.5M.

 

[Puckstuff]

Good deal. Would much rather pay an extra $1mil for Pesce than sign Tanev.

5.5 m for top pair RD Pesce and 4.0 m for #5 LD OEL. That is absolutely sickening. Please don't let this be true.

 

[Tony Romo]

Tanev, you basically knew it was going to happen. So I've accepted that one but potentially being priced out on Zadarov, Roy because you gave OEL/Lily a combine 7m is well.

 

[JKG33]

Guentzel's had a single 80pt season, and played with Crosby. That contract is absolutely brutal

Have you watched the playoffs? I'd trade any of the overpaid 4 assclowns for him in an instant

 

[yort2010]

Brisbois released a statement today explaining how the Florida teams take advantage of the taxes there. It is a huge selling point.

then the other teams that can't should be pushing to change the rules

 

[Daisy Jane]

No state tax is truly a huge advantage. If everyone takes 15 to 20% less than what they would get in a taxed state, at 15% that's another 12.5 million dollar player

which is why the cap as it is - is a joke.
I remember when "it wasn't fair to overpay because teams like Tampa and Florida can't compete because they aren't making much money." now they have rich owners, and a hard salary cap which they fought for and now they can go "loo laa loo, we can comply but we can always get people to come to us because we can pay less but they earn more because of no state tax."


and the league's refusal to let teams have some sort luxury tax or something to compensate is an unfair advantage. Canada can't help that our dollar sucks, and eastern teams can't help that they have large state tax. the league should make adjustments so the whole "everyone needs the same advantage." is actually accurate.

 

[Smif]

f*** me that's a steal

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807779610928591029

Why in the world would Carolina not re-sign him and why wouldn't any other team beat that??

 

[stats1]

No it doesn’t. So many nonsense takes today.

Yes it does leafs just freed up 5 million+ either you fill that hole

Again no. There’s a multitude of different ways it could play out.

Again yes. Elliotte has said OEL is on Leafs radar. Zadorov is too pricey

 

[JKG33]

Just catching up.. is this OEL thing real? What the f***?

 

[Albz]

One of the most concerning parts about this off-season so far is the lack of interest players have playing in Toronto. A little worrisome tbh. We all want Skjei, Montour, Roy, etc but by the sounds of it, none of those players have any interest in coming here whatsoever.

Mayne cause we treat them like shit. Look what's happening to marner.....

 

[ToneDog]

This team is a joke lol. Treliving talks about the roster needing a lot of work and basically just runs back the same bullshit minus Bert/Brodie/Samsonov and +Tanev/OEL/StolarzBrossoitetc. Cool, we MIGHT get back to the second round this time!!!

This is what Pelley calls "trying to win". Just a bunch of clowns stringing along its fans. They better not suck early or they will hear it.

 

[ER89]

Mayne cause we treat them like shit. Look what's happening to marner.....

we didnt treat him like shit the f***. We overpaid his ass by like 3 million for 5 f***ing years while the mental midget did dick all when he was supposed to.

Treating them like shit god what a clown comment.

 

[RomanianLeafs]

Scary how much of a shit show this franchise is. It should be a desired location for free agents, not an automatic hard no.

If the pieces arent there this summer. Brad is better off signing cheap players to short term deals to not f*** us up in the future.

Signing Tanev to 6 years is stupid. Especially if it is pushing $5 million.

Signing Stolarz to $3 million is also nuts. $6 million in unproven goalies is going to playnout same way Samsonov/Murray did

Giving OEL 3 years and $4 million also nuts.

Lafferty 2 years x $1.25 million
Deanglo 1 year x $2 million
Broissot 2 years x $2.5 million
Hakanpaa 3 years x $2.5 million
Toffoli. 1 year x $3.5 million

Knies. Matthews. Nylander
Mcmann Domi Marner
Jarnkrok. Tavares. Toffoli
Holmberg. Kampf. Lafferty
Reaves

Rielly. Hakanpaa
Mccabe. Lilly
Benoit. Deangelo

Woll
Broissot

Good...stop watching then..your team is not even making the playoffs

 

[1specter]

f*** me that's a steal

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807779610928591029

We're so pathetic in every way possible.

 

[Jozay]

Why in the world would Carolina not re-sign him and why wouldn't any other team beat that??

He’s from New Jersey

 

[Sypher04]

f*** me that's a steal

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807779610928591029

I think the only take away one can get from that is the pesce really wanted to be in Jersey and left money on the table to do it

 

[OVO16]

Toughness wasn’t an issue though.. scoring was

Yeah I agree toughness wasn't an issue clearly because we had one of the toughest/grittiest teams in a while.

Its definitely gonna become an issue again this season

 

[DraftSchmaft]

then the other teams that can't should be pushing to change the rules

There's actual research papers written on the true cap space of each team. The non-tax states have a higher cap than the rest of the league.

Only people who choose to remain ignorant about this cry when Florida or Tampa signs their stars for 9 mil instead of 11. I've stopped caring because it just is what it is.

 

[Jojalu]

This is what Pelley calls "trying to win". Just a bunch of clowns stringing along its fans. They better not suck early or they will hear it.

Since nothing matters but the playoffs, that sounds like it would be unreasonable.

Or is that just regular season success that doesn't matter? Lol

 

[Sypher04]

Yes it does leafs just freed up 5 million+ either you fill that hole


Again yes. Elliotte has said OEL is on Leafs radar. Zadorov is too pricey

OEL maybe signing shortly doesn’t make what you said yesterday correct. Both things I called out as not true were 100% not true at the time you wrote them.

 

[Rare Jewel]

Just catching up.. is this OEL thing real? What the f***?

Seems so.