Speculation: 2022 Off-Season | Dethroned: What next? - Part 2

[Point21]

 

[Stammertime91]

My prediction

W/ TB: 5.45 x 5

W/ Another team: 6.25 x 6

Oh. Goodbye Drej. Been fun.

 

[Point21]

i dont mind walking away from Palat. Go after one of the nontendered guys on a cheap 2-3 year deal and turn them into stars

 

[DFC]

This is gonna be a painful day.

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

Gonna hold out hope until he signs with someone

 

[Cigar City]

Love you Pally!

Congrats on the big ticket and ability to do whatever you want for the rest of your life. You earned it!

 

[TampaBoltz]

Palat has had one 20 goal season and that was back in 2013-2014. He’s a very good player that plays well with great players. Not worth $6M especially long term

 

[Flat Ronnie]

Losing Palat will hurt us more than keeping him will help us - if that makes sense.

He got to play with Stamkos, Kucherov and Point for the majority of his career. He's good but he was blessed with HoF linemates. Some team will overpay for him and he'll be good but not great for them.

Either way, we're left with a big hole that we'll probably fill with a "cheap" alternative. Not ideal but wattaya gonna do. Think we're gonna have to adjust expectations for next year unless JBB makes some splash via trade - which i highly doubt.

 

[Point21]

Losing Palat will hurt us more than keeping him will help us - if that makes sense.

He got to play with Stamkos, Kucherov and Point for the majority of his career. He's good but he was blessed with HoF linemates. Some team will overpay for him and he'll be good but not great for them.

Either way, we're left with a big hole that we'll probably fill with a "cheap" alternative. Not ideal but wattaya gonna do. Think we're gonna have to adjust expectations for next year unless JBB makes some splash via trade - which i highly doubt.

you mean keeping him hurts us more?

 

[JTBF81]

i dont mind walking away from Palat. Go after one of the nontendered guys on a cheap 2-3 year deal and turn them into stars

Or watch them be the kind of player that led to them being unqualified....

 

[Sky04]

6? He's going to get 6.5-7M.

 

[Point21]

Or watch them be the kind of player that led to them being unqualified....

we are like the Rays when it comes to developing unknown talent

This is gonna be like the 2016-17 offseason. alot of overpaid garbage

 

[Todd1a]

My prediction

W/ TB: 5.45 x 5

W/ Another team: 6.25 x 6


Oh. Goodbye Drej. Been fun.

Not surprised we just can’t afford to pay him what he can go out and get

 

[Lightning1995]

No McDonough or Palat……OUCH

 

[JTBF81]

we are like the Rays when it comes to developing unknown talent

This is gonna be like the 2016-17 offseason. alot of overpaid garbage

Palat, and many others, will be far from overpaid garbage. Tampa has now likely lost Palat, McD, and Rutta in favor of keeping Killorn, a reclamation project in Myers, and whatever meh players get signed tomorrow to supposedly replace Palat and McD. What's not to like about these moves thus far...

 

[Flat Ronnie]

Tarasenko
Kane
Malkin
Giroux
Chychrun
Maybe more...

Surely one of them would like to take a chance on Tampa to chase a cup? Or are other teams in the east just as enticing with more cap space?

 

[Todd1a]

Tarasenko
Kane
Malkin
Giroux
Maybe more...

Surely one of them would like to take a chance on Tampa to chase a cup?

None will

Losing Palat will hurt us more than keeping him will help us - if that makes sense.

He got to play with Stamkos, Kucherov and Point for the majority of his career. He's good but he was blessed with HoF linemates. Some team will overpay for him and he'll be good but not great for them.

Either way, we're left with a big hole that we'll probably fill with a "cheap" alternative. Not ideal but wattaya gonna do. Think we're gonna have to adjust expectations for next year unless JBB makes some splash via trade - which i highly doubt.

If point , vasy or Kucherov wanted him to stay they could have taken 8.5 avv per season instead of 9.5 avv per season but Covid also screwed the nhl salary cap

 

[Flat Ronnie]

None will


If point , vasy or Kucherov wanted him to stay they could have taken 8.5 avv per season instead of 9.5 avv per season but Covid also screwed the nhl salary cap

Eternal optimist

 

[Stammertime91]

Tarasenko
Kane
Malkin
Giroux
Chychrun
Maybe more...

Surely one of them would like to take a chance on Tampa to chase a cup? Or are other teams in the east just as enticing with more cap space?

I'll put my tongue through a cheese grater if we land one of those five.

 

[Flat Ronnie]

Malkin resigned 4x6.1

We prob coulda done something like that

 

[PJ817]

Malkin resigned 4x6.1

We prob coulda done something like that

Would think that lowers Pally value

Malkin didn’t need line mates to be great, and while I love Pally, he is not Geno

 

[Todd1a]

Would think that lowers Pally value

Malkin didn’t need line mates to be great, and while I love Pally, he is not Geno

Doubt it palat is younger

 

[Lightning1995]

Hope Myers is good, we probably don’t have room for Pally with our current cap space since Myers wasn’t bought out. Unless Killer is moved which isn’t gonna happen at this stage I don’t believe

 

[PJ817]

Doubt it palat is younger

True but Pally is and will never be equivalent to Geno and Geno gets to play with Sid still… if Pally goes to CGY to play beside Pickles, then maybe the $ makes sense but at that point, the taxes are bad up there

 

[Rschmitz]

Rakell just got 6x5 he's younger and produces similar but with better goal scoring numbers. Nobody should be giving Palat 6 years or 6M.

Rakell is also a soft perimeter player and is not in the same zipcode as Palat defensively, give me Drej every day of the week.


Preferably, at a much cheaper rate.....