Confirmed with Link: Yakov Trenin signs with the Wild (4 years, $3.5M AAV)

[Wild11MN]

C'mon people. No thread for this yet?

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807807496343449636

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[MuckOG]

NMC?

 

[Arturia Pendragon]

What a bunch of Yakovs!

 

[Digitalbooya]

Lmao. Basically a 4x4. I’d rather have Perron at $4M than Trenin at $3.5M

 

[Bazeek]

It's too much money and term, but I voted neutral because there don't appear to be any clauses attached. For now I'll let Trenin decide how bad it actually is.

 

[Wasted Talent]

I would probably be okay with this if we didn't have Foligno and Gaudreau locked up at above market value for 4 more years as well.

 

[Minnesota]

Guerin proves he learned nothing from Foligno & Gaudreau’s contracts.

 

[Obvious Fabertism]

I like it, fills an actual long term hole in the roster, as long as he actually does improve the PK, this should make us a better team.

 

[Jesus comma Brodin]

He's a tremendous PKer, has good size and is really tough but this feels massively redundant. Several other bottom 6ers locked for the same term that are already overpaid and we're just adding to our pile of bottom 6ers. Would rather use this money on someone who might actually help the team score.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

At least it expires when Buium's ELC expires.

 

[Obvious Fabertism]

He's a tremendous PKer, has good size and is really tough but this feels massively redundant. Several other bottom 6ers locked for the same term that are already overpaid and we're just adding to our pile of bottom 6ers. Would rather use this money on someone who might actually help the team score.

The thing is, you aren’t getting a long term solution for scoring help at $6MM or less, just a stop gap player looking to cash in down the line if we went that route. I don’t mind solidifying the bottom part of the roster while we wait for the cap limits to come off, then we have the ability to target actual long term difference makers.

 

[f7ben]

He's a tremendous PKer, has good size and is really tough but this feels massively redundant. Several other bottom 6ers locked for the same term that are already overpaid and we're just adding to our pile of bottom 6ers. Would rather use this money on someone who might actually help the team score.

Scoring isn’t part of our identity and we need to get back to our identity which is being tough to play against. More flying Superman punches and more FU!!!

 

[Victorious Secret]

I love this signing. Takes us to the next level of lottery odds and competes with Foligno/Hartman for worst contract on the team so we finally have something to talk about. Extend Guerin.

 

[f7ben]

The thing is, you aren’t getting a long term solution for scoring help at $6MM or less, just a stop gap player looking to cash in down the line if we went that route. I don’t mind solidifying the bottom part of the roster while we wait for the cap limits to come off, then we have the ability to target actual long term difference makers.

There is no cap relief , it’s been spent on slow aging has been a and bottom 6ers.

 

[NHL1674]

Oh Billy, Billy, Billy.........

 

[57special]

Rather have Duhaime at 2 x 1.8M. Not exactly comforting that we did this to make Hynes happy, much like the FreddyG was to make Evason happy.
Kap will be happy to have another Russian speaker, I guess? Maybe he is sick of having to spend all of his time babysitting Marat, and wants Trenin to take over?

 

[ThatGuy22]

There is no cap relief , it’s been spent on slow aging has been a and bottom 6ers.

Or earmarked for Faber/Kaprizov extensions

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

If we have a top 5 PK next year, I'll feel better.

 

[AKL]

I'll just say, he better have some untapped offensive upside

 

[f7ben]

Or earmarked for Faber/Kaprizov extensions

These are the types of deals that cost us Fiala and now they are going to cost us Rossi

 

[ThatGuy22]

These are the types of deals that cost us Fiala and now they are going to cost us Rossi

death by a thousand cuts. (or signing six bottom 6 players to 3 to 4 million deals).

 

[Webster]

That's a lot of money and term for a guy who has 80 points in 300 career games

Guerin thinks MaJo, who played well at the Worlds, is good enough on the 2nd line...

 

[BagHead]

I feel pretty ambivalent about this. On the one hand, I think it's either too much money or too much term, but on the other he's a good bottom-6 player who should improve that part of the team, and it still leaves cap open to accrue through the year for a bigger splash later.
I think I really just need to watch how he plays for us before I know if this is worth getting worked up over or not.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

These are the types of deals that cost us Fiala and now they are going to cost us Rossi

We'll have $27M in space for 2025-26 and only Faber, Rossi, Khusnuts and Wallstedt to re-sign, with Yurov and Buium coming in under ELCs.

$27M - Faber's $9M = $18M - 2 ELCs = $16M.

That's $5M a piece for Rossi, Khusnuts and Wallstedt and the later 2 aren't going to get anywhere near that.

 

[AKL]

We'll have $27M in space for 2025-26 and only Faber, Rossi, Khusnuts and Wallstedt to re-sign, with Yurov and Buium coming in under ELCs.

$27M - Faber's $9M = $18M - 2 ELCs = $16M.

That's $5M a piece for Rossi, Khusnuts and Wallstedt and the later 2 aren't going to get anywhere near that.

Looking at it this way, the plan would need to be that all of the top of the lineup spots are to be filled by the current group of prospects and young players. It leaves no room for error because if Yurov isn't an immediate hit in the top 6, or Buium isn't an immediate hit in the top 4, we have no cap space left to go out and get replacements without trading a bunch of overpaid bottom six players first.