Value of: Zemgus Girgensons

[Chainshot]

With the trade deadline starting to loom in the distance, there are going to be teams looking for depth guys who can fill roles in the playoffs. Girgensons has shown an ability to be a shot suppression specialist throughout his career - both for and against - while playing an up-and-down, mucker style. He's best suited to wing but can fill in at center in a pinch. He'll dive in to defend a teammate but tends to get his nose rebroken about once a year. His current salary is $2.5M and he's UFA this summer.

It seems like most teams would be looking for these sort of players and give up a pick and or B-list prospect on rental purchases. Who out there might be in the market? It seems like he'd be a solid fit for Tocchet's Canucks, with their desire to pick up a PKer. Anyone else?

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[Mrfenn92]

He’ll have a solid market

 

[Nikolajs Sillers]

Toronto? .

 

[wmupreds]

Girgensons fits in on a lot of teams' 4th lines as a prototypical low event player. You can do much worse than a guy that can consistently eat minutes and more or less make sure nothing happens out there while the skill guys rest.

The only issue is $2.5M is actually a little steep for that type of player.

 

[wej20]

Girgensons fits in on a lot of teams' 4th lines as a prototypical low event player. You can do much worse than a guy that can consistently eat minutes and more or less make sure nothing happens out there while the skill guys rest.

The only issue is $2.5M is actually a little steep for that type of player.

Yep, at full retention he's going to be more of an option. Seems like he'd go for around a 3rd.

 

[biturbo19]

Girgensons fits in on a lot of teams' 4th lines as a prototypical low event player. You can do much worse than a guy that can consistently eat minutes and more or less make sure nothing happens out there while the skill guys rest.

The only issue is $2.5M is actually a little steep for that type of player.

Yeah. He'll have a robust market as long as the Sabres are willing to go with max retention. $2.5M is tough for most playoff teams to fit in cap-wise, and i think most of them will be looking for more "bang for their buck" further up the lineup with that kind of precious capspace at the deadline.

But at $1.25M he's pretty much exactly what teams are usually looking for heading toward a potential playoff run. Big, hard-nosed, defensively responsible player with a pretty heavy game and positional versatility and serious "role player" capability.


And i don't see any conceivable reason Buffalo wouldn't be happy to oblige with max retention to expand Girgensons' market. They've got the slots available and i don't see a lot else that's likely to be moving at the deadline there. Mittelstadt maybe, but he's already cheap for what he brings and they could always do retention on both. Maybe someone takes a buried Comrie with retention to sneak him below any buried penalty as extra "3rd goalie" sort of insurance with NHL experience. Doubt there's much interest in a flakey scorer like Olofsson as a "deadline acquisition" so they probably don't have to worry about retention there. So unless the Pegulas are total cheapskates about it, there's no barrier to shipping Girgensons out at $1.25M for a decent prospect/pick or combo.

 

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

He’s the only NHLer to have a rap song in his honor, so.. 1st rounder.

 

[Chainshot]

And of course, goes backwards into the boards and leaves the game tonight. Yep.

 

[CraigBillington]

In a sim league, i just traded him for Gabe Vilardi so there's that