AROUND THE LEAGUE - 25-26

[Hockey Widow]

Rathbone waived by Sabres. Man our D depth is so refreshingly strong.

Wouldn't the Sabres keeping Wrath Bone be more affirming of our D depth? Casting off our castoffs just affirms our decisions but says nothing about how strong the rest of our players are.

If teams were keeping our castoffs, that would be a good sign.

Except they are talking of castoffs from yesteryears… when our depth truly sucked.

They call it felching....

… ummm…


… you and I have two VERY different definitions for ‘felching’.


Jus sayn.


<edit> … if you do not know the term, and your in a serious relationship, I would recommend against ruining your browser history for your partner to see by googling that term.

Oh oh. I just ruined my browsing history.

[Cousin Strawberry]

Comby do you really think I don't know that term? I spent like 12+ years in fort crack

[Cornuck]

Kirill Kaprizov signs an eight-year, $136M extension with the Wild (17mil aav)

and the next wave of salary increases starts - I'm sure it won't affect ticket prices....

[theman]

Kirill Kaprizov signs an eight-year, $136M extension with the Wild (17mil aav)

and the next wave of salary increases starts - I'm sure it won't affect ticket prices....

So, is McJesus still going to take a 'home town discount for the Oil' like so many of their media say he will????

[2Fingers]

Kirill Kaprizov signs an eight-year, $136M extension with the Wild (17mil aav)

and the next wave of salary increases starts - I'm sure it won't affect ticket prices....

So, is McJesus still going to take a 'home town discount for the Oil' like so many of their media say he will????

Or AM or QH.

Minny GM is a complete moron.

[Chef Boi RD]

Kirill Kaprizov signs an eight-year, $136M extension with the Wild (17mil aav)

and the next wave of salary increases starts - I'm sure it won't affect ticket prices....

Yeah, Quinn Hughes was recently voted as the 6th best player in the league, two spots ahead of Kaprizov. How is our cap situation looling in two years? I imagine we need to make sure we have the space, lots of it.

[theman]

Kirill Kaprizov signs an eight-year, $136M extension with the Wild (17mil aav)

and the next wave of salary increases starts - I'm sure it won't affect ticket prices....

Yeah, Quinn Hughes was recently voted as the 6th best player in the league, two spots ahead of Kaprizov. How is our cap situation looling in two years? I imagine we need to make sure we have the space, lots of it.

At least the worst of the OEL buyout will be over by then. Canucks management need to make sure they don't make anymore mistakes like that one though.

[Chef Boi RD]

Kirill Kaprizov signs an eight-year, $136M extension with the Wild (17mil aav)

and the next wave of salary increases starts - I'm sure it won't affect ticket prices....

Yeah, Quinn Hughes was recently voted as the 6th best player in the league, two spots ahead of Kaprizov. How is our cap situation looling in two years? I imagine we need to make sure we have the space, lots of it.

At least the worst of the OEL buyout will be over by then. Canucks management need to make sure they don't make anymore mistakes like that one though.

They will definitely have to be mindful of the contracts they sign, or will have to sign leading up to the Quinn negotiations. This will also force management into a new hemisphere of having to hold on to top end draft picks, somewhat, instead of moving them for veterans “with” or “needing” chunky sized contracts like Marcus Pettersson (Rangers first pick) and Hronek (Islanders 1st pick). That era has come, if we are having to pay Quinton something similar as to what Kaprizov just received. The ELC’s on high end prospects like Cootes and Willander will be relied upon, an area where past regimes didn’t plan for. This is what I’m interested in seeing, how this regime handles this, will it be the short sighted mess of past regimes or well thought out long term planning?

[donlever]

Minny GM is a complete moron.

Why do you say this?

He's actually quite a competent GM.

[Meds]

Minny GM is a complete moron.

Why do you say this?

He's actually quite a competent GM.

[donlever]

Minny GM is a complete moron.

Why do you say this?

He's actually quite a competent GM.

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[UWSaint]

Kirill Kaprizov signs an eight-year, $136M extension with the Wild (17mil aav)

and the next wave of salary increases starts - I'm sure it won't affect ticket prices....

Demand affects ticket prices. Ticket prices (and sales) affect the cap. The cap affects salary increases.

Hockey econ aside, this is a pretty Wild deal.

[UWSaint]

Putting the numbers in perspective, the only salary greater as a percentage of the cap that I could find was when OV signed for 9.53M when the cap was 56.7M. That's about a half a percent more of the cap as compared with Kaprizov's. And OV's deal was for 13 years, so surely over time there was the idea that the percentage of the cap number would go down fairly substantially (that became less true than projected given covid and the freeze). The same idea exists here as well, given the sizable projected increases.

But if the cap doesn't keep syrocketing, all Kaprizov needs to do to earn this contract is become the greatest scorer of all time....

He is a great player; I think we generally overlook him because (1) Minnesota and (2) for whatever reason good Russian players seem to be uniformly underrated. Not by a lot, but by a little. I think there's a perception that Kaprizov isn't the guy that puts his team on his shoulders and leads them to a cup, and I wonder how much of that is because they haven't made noise in the playoffs, and how much of that is the Russian thing.

[Chef Boi RD]

Minny GM is a complete moron.

Why do you say this?

He's actually quite a competent GM.

I to think Guerin has done a decent job in Minny as well. Not a dingbat. He seems to be the guy looked up to leading American hockey. He was stuck between a rock and a hard place, Kaprizov is one of the best forwards in the game at the moment, a game changer.

[donlever]

Demand affects ticket prices. Ticket prices (and sales) affect the cap. The cap affects salary increases.

Hockey econ aside, this is a pretty Wild deal.

There may be an interesting conversation here as to what the attendance structure will be like moving forward and where ticket demand ends up in the future (as well as what the cost of "in home" viewing will be including what it looks like as tech & AI continue to evolve).

For me, I can go to any game I like yet have not for years.

There is a roi discussion with respect to the merits of getting to and from the barn, as well as associated, ancillary costs therein, versus the at home experience available with respect to viewing sporting events (which, as suggested above, is ever evolving and improving...hell soon I will be able to get a BJ on my couch from a robot that looks like a 25 y/o Loni Anderson while watching Elias Petterson stumble around (j/k) on tv)...

There are literally multiple avenues this conversation could meander down.