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KingsFan81

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Matt Greene becomes a UFA at the end of this season. He has been a healthy scratch a lot as of late, something like 12 games in a row, as well as oft injured. This year his cap hit is right around $2,950,000. What to do with him? do we:
A) Resign him at his current price.
B) Try to resign him for a home town discount
C) Let him walk at the end of the season.

Now I like Matt Greene, and I like the physicality he brings to the team. but can we afford him. Even with the cap going up we also have Willie Mitchell, Trevor Lewis, Marian Gaborik, and Colin Fraser as UFA's and Dwight King is a RFA as is Linden vey. So what to do. What are your opinions on this.
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Evaluate the market before doing anything. If we lose Mitchell, probably wanna hold onto Greene. I'd be fine with him returning at a lower price.
 
Walk, no doubt.

He won't sign with the Kings to be the #7 dman and with the money he'll command the Kings would opt for a guy like McNabb.

Side note, but can anyone confirm whether or not McNabb is waiver-exempt next season? He's currently fulfilling the last year of his ELC.

edit: Based on the feedback, it appears he is not exempt. So he's basically a lock to make the team, which means the Kings will need to open up a spot for him. Mitchell or Greene: the decision is pretty straightforward.
 
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Let him go, thanks for the help, the leadership, and the cup. Time to move on with the new batch of younger, healthier D
 
TwoForRoughing said:
Walk, no doubt.

He won't sign with the Kings to be the #7 dman and with the money he'll command the Kings would opt for a guy like McNabb.

Side note, but can anyone confirm whether or not McNabb is waiver-exempt next season? He's currently fulfilling the last year of his ELC.
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I'm almost certain he isn't exempt next season.
 
TwoForRoughing said:
Walk, no doubt.

He won't sign with the Kings to be the #7 dman and with the money he'll command the Kings would opt for a guy like McNabb.

Side note, but can anyone confirm whether or not McNabb is waiver-exempt next season? He's currently fulfilling the last year of his ELC.
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McNabb becomes waiver elligible next year so I figure he will be the 7th defenseman next year.

And at this point I'll let Greene walk and resign Mitchell.
 
Love Greene and what he brought in the cup run, but let him walk. A nice injection of speed in the D-core would be nice, Greene doesn't provide that.
 
Take a look at the market, then decide.

Matt Greene won't command over 2.5 million. Wife is from LA.

Word is EDM has no interest in him, according to beat writers.

Greene is probably staying in LA at a reduced cost. One year deal probably at around 1.8-2.0 million.

No team is going to offer Greene a big contract, he has to prove he can stay healthy and still play in this league.
 
Black1963 said:
Only sensible post on here.
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I don't know, I'm not sure we will ever again see the Matt Greene we saw two seasons ago.

By the way, he was on the ice warming up. Doesn't really mean he's in the lineup, just an observation.
 
Ron said:
I don't know, I'm not sure we will ever again see the Matt Greene we saw two seasons ago.

By the way, he was on the ice warming up. Doesn't really mean he's in the lineup, just an observation.
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I remember the same thing being said about Regehr early in the season. It's very possible, Greene's still not 100%. I like Greene, and hopefully he'll rebound.
 
Re-sign him before free agency, we can't rely on Mitchell, and if we lose both, we only have 4 capable dmen left

My dream scenario, re-sign Greene to play bottom pair with A-Mart, 1 year extension for Mitchell to play with Voynov, Trade Muzzin + to get a good young defensive dman for Doughty, trade Regehr for free to the Sharks
 
Black1963 said:
I remember the same thing being said about Regehr early in the season. It's very possible, Greene's still not 100%. I like Greene, and hopefully he'll rebound.
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You say that like Regehr isn't the reason that Voynov can't score points. (They cant move the puck up the ice as a team, because being MEAN and TOUGH TO PLAY AGAINST doesn't come with puck handling skills)

http://www.extraskater.com/players/on-ice?sort=cf_pct_rel&team=la

Regehr forever and always, will be a disaster and a huge hindrance on this team
 
Muzzinga said:
Re-sign him before free agency, we can't rely on Mitchell, and if we lose both, we only have 4 capable dmen left

My dream scenario, re-sign Greene to play bottom pair with A-Mart, 1 year extension for Mitchell to play with Voynov, Trade Muzzin + to get a good young defensive dman for Doughty, trade Regehr for free to the Sharks
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Don't understand this last part at all. The guy has been a rock for the majority of the season (subtract the first 10 or 15 games).
 
If you can find a single statistic that correlates to winning games, where Regehr isn't the worst dman on the team by a good margin, i will be impressed

He is a decent pk-er, because he doesn't have to move much, but thats it
 
It probably depends on how healthy he can get. A lot can happen before the end of the season. There's no guarantee that mitchell is here next season or if he'll even play.
 
Muzzinga said:
You say that like Regehr isn't the reason that Voynov can't score points. (They cant move the puck up the ice as a team, because being MEAN and TOUGH TO PLAY AGAINST doesn't come with puck handling skills)

http://www.extraskater.com/players/on-ice?sort=cf_pct_rel&team=la

Regehr forever and always, will be a disaster and a huge hindrance on this team
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I personally think he's looked very good this season via the eye test even if the stats say otherwise. Conversely, much of this board thought Muzzin looked awful when the stats said otherwise. So I take it with a grain of salt. But I would also argue advanced stats don't take good evaluations of defensive defenseman. I agree with your implicit assumption that defensemen can't really be one-dimensional these days so the true stay-at-homer is sort of a dying breed and Regehr is one of those at this stage.

To be honest, him and Voynov don't look great together but that also has a lot to do with Voynov. In my eyes, that's our third pairing, ice time be damned.

As far as Greene, I'd love to see him stay, but I just dont' see it in the cards. McNabb has to be on our roster, so one of him or Mitchell has to go, and I sure like Mitchell in the top-4 more than I like greene there (in case of injuries etc).

Doughty-Muzzin
Regehr-Voynov
McNabb-Martinez
Mitchell

Something like that. And that's assuming one of them doesn't get moved if someone like Bodnarchuk bulls their way into the conversation at camp.
 
Brad Doty said:
Doughty-Muzzin
Regehr-Voynov
McNabb-Martinez
Mitchell

Something like that. And that's assuming one of them doesn't get moved if someone like Bodnarchuk bulls their way into the conversation at camp.
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same line-up i suggested weeks ago in the Roster II thread. evaluate the market, then sign Mitchell to a contract (1, 2 years at most) and if he turns it down then go with Greene.

the UFA D crop this summer isn't that special and there isn't much out there that will improve them beyond what Willie and Matt can offer. at least with them the team knows what they are getting.

who's to say what either of them over the summer may do when it comes to conditioning.

i still hope to see at least one of them signed as a coach to work with the D prospects in MAN.
 
Whiskeypete said:
same line-up i suggested weeks ago in the Roster II thread. evaluate the market, then sign Mitchell to a contract (1, 2 years at most) and if he turns it down then go with Greene.

the UFA D crop this summer isn't that special and there isn't much out there that will improve them beyond what Willie and Matt can offer. at least with them the team knows what they are getting.

who's to say what either of them over the summer may do when it comes to conditioning.

i still hope to see at least one of them signed as a coach to work with the D prospects in MAN.
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Very good point. The market is saturated with similar, younger players--the question will be will another team overpay for a gritty vet?

I think many of us are also forgetting something related to your second point--Mitchell didn't play hockey last year. At all. So for this to be his 'comeback' season, he's been great. I'd love to see how he looks after this summer with some conditioning too. Same with Greene, really. We can't underestimate how hard it is to come back from injuries.
 
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