Around the league (signings, RFAs injuries)

[Carl Yagro]

I be chilled, mon.

[Doyle Hargraves]

Yeah.... well that’s just your opinion man

[Carl Yagro]

[The Brown Wizard]

Carl needs some curb nachos too?

[Carl Yagro]

English, please?

[Micky]

Taylor Hall signing in Buffalo for one year for eight million and still;
PROJECTED CAP HIT : $67,854,167
PROJECTED LTIR USED : $0
PROJECTED CAP SPACE : $13,645,833

They need the dynamic Louis / Sven combo. It will only cost them picks and prospects.

[The Brown Wizard]

English, please?

A wise old stoner/poster once said...

...y'all need to sit down on a curb, smoke a big gagger and chill out with some 7-11 nachos...extra cheeze squirts

[SKYO]

I'm just not a social media guy... even if I was a young buck like yourself, Skyo.

Just find Twitter a cesspool of the worst kind of humans. Guess I'll wait for 5 minutes of Squire Barnes to get my news

Didn't he retire yet?

[dangler]

Anyone come across a regularly updated list of remaining UFA's?

[Curmudgeon]

Anyone come across a regularly updated list of remaining UFA's?

CapFriendly does a great job of keeping things current on signings and with UFA/RFA lists.

[UWSaint]

Taylor Hall's on his 4th team. Do winning teams not want him?

Well, every player that goes #1 overall is going to a losing team absent a trade or very unlikely lottery results.

New Jersey traded for Hall when they thought they had an elite goaltender and were among the best at suppressing goals. Not unreasonable to think that they thought of themselves as a soon-to-be-winning team.

Arizona was on the upswing based on the prior year's performance compared to what they had been doing. They had some young talent and they were in first place in the division when they acquired Hall.

And Buffalo? Well, I am not sure any "winning" teams are really in the market for top forwards. Cap is tight and 3 of the top 4 forward UFA's (in my view) remain unsigned -- Hoffman, Toffoli, and Dadanov. It might have nothing to do with Hall. Hall wanted to maximize the paycheck, likely. He might have had his tires kicked by winning teams, but once it was clear that he wasn't going to get a big paycheck with a long term deal in this environment, he chose what was likely the highest offer. $ 8 million is a lot of money for a player with Hall's track record.

Of course, Hall doesn't have a track record of bringing those teams to the next level for any sustained period. And a lot of that is that Hall has had trouble staying healthy and the other part is that Hall's not gifted at using his teammates. Players with his skill set and history can absolutely make a team better, but not a LOT better and it isn't $8 million better.

[Micky]

It's officially, officially official: New York Rangers Welcome to the family, Alexis Lafreniere!

CapFriendly@CapFriendly
In line with all 1st overall picks, Alexis Lafreniere's deal with the #Rangers is set at the EL max

$925k caphit
$3.775M AAV
$11.325M total value

$832,500 Base Salary (all 3 yrs)
$92,500 Signing Bonus (all 3 yrs)
$850k Sched 'A' Bonus (all 3 yrs)
$2M Sched 'B' Bonus (all 3 yrs)
9:03 AM · Oct 12, 2020·

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Pierre LeBrun@PierreVLeBrun
Hearing that the Islanders are finalizing a deal with UFA netminder Cory Schneider. There's the obvious connection there between Schneider and Isles GM Lou Lamoriello. Happy to see Schneider, 34, get a chance to continue his career. One of the good guys in the game.
9:32 AM · Oct 12, 2020

[Micky]

Ryan S. Clark@ryan_s_clark
Joe Sakic says the club agreed to a three-year deal with Ryan Graves last night.
AAV is $3.16 million,

He's 25, took him a while to get going but what a breakout year. Finishes a shortened season a PLUS 40!

[Doyle Hargraves]

Toffoli to Montreal at 4.25 x4.

You can wake up from your booze haze at any time now Jim.

We probably don’t even have the money to bring back Fantenberg

Clearly the Aquilinis have taken the cheque book away. Where was this restraint in previous years when all the damage was done. I like Elmer’s savvy drafting the kids but we need someone running the purse strings here and have for a while.

[Micky]

Toffoli to Montreal at 4.25 x4.

You can wake up from your booze haze at any time now Jim.

We probably don’t even have the money to bring back Fantenberg

Clearly the Aquilinis have taken the cheque book away. Where was this restraint in previous years when all the damage was done. I like Elmer’s savvy drafting the kids but we need someone running the purse strings here and have for a while.

Holy shit! Madden and a 2nd round pick turns out to be a steep price to pay for just 17 games and a peeky-boo in the POs. Might have been different without the Covid mess.

I would never have given him Boeser money but 4 years at four and a quarter would have been fine. Pearson / Horvat / Toffoli.
This also kind of signals Virtanen's spot is safe.