Mëds wrote: ↑Sun Jun 22, 2025 10:08 pm
Strangelove wrote: ↑Sun Jun 22, 2025 9:07 pm
Bennett and The Rat will re-sign in Florida I figure.
Unless Marchand and Bennett are taking team friendly deals to the tune of 50% market value, there isn't room for them both. Ekblad has to be retained as a RHD like him is not easily replaced at all. They have $19M for Ekblad, Bennett, and Marchand. All of them are $8M players.
Players tend to sign for less in Florida because they like Cups... and because they don't like paying taxes.
In Florida those 3 are more like $7M players.
Also, a few mill in cap space can easily be created by dealing other players away, you know this...
Mëds wrote: ↑Sun Jun 22, 2025 10:08 pm
Tree isn't on the hook for Tkachuk. He took the best offer available, and it was a good one. Huberdeau was coming off of a career season, Weegar was looking like a very good RHD, and a conditional 1st rounder.....for a guy who wouldn't re-sign.
He dropped the ball on Gaudreau. He shouldn't have let him delay his decision beyond the TDL.....if he knew that Johnny was leaving prior to the TDL then that's brutal asset management. Not dissimilar to Marner, however Mitch wouldn't waive his NMC for a trade and so Tree was stuck with Shanny and Dubas' mistake there.
Tkachuk is 4-5 years younger than Huberdeau/Weegar and is better value as far as bang for your buck.
(and Uberdough has always been a floater)
Tree should have done better.
He let
both Gaudreau and Tkachuk delay their decisions
... which allowed Johnny to walk and Tkachuk back him into a corner by refusing to sign a long-term extension.
Yes, of course Shanny/Dubas created the Marner mess
... but I was talking about Tree's rumoured handling of Tavares there (lowballing).
Mëds wrote: ↑Sun Jun 22, 2025 10:08 pm
I think they are trying to set themselves up to have a shit ton of room next summer in case McDavid wants to leave Edmonton and come home to Toronto.
Yeahno, that would be madness.
They are a "contender" (on paper) and will continue to spend to the cap. Full stop.
Have you been listening to Leaves fans who always say "So and so superstar wants to come home to Toronto!"
Fantasies.
Pretty sure McDave knows all about the mess that is TO.
Window beginning to close...