Around the NHL - 2023 offseason edition

[My3Sons]

That will fix them. Bold move and now his work is done.

 

[Hockey Sports Fan]

Watching all the waiver action on twitter and it’s incredible how many people (through little fault of their own) still don’t know that 2-way contracts don’t mean waiver-ineligible.

 

[SJinNewJersey]

Defenseman Adam Fox will wear an A on his sweater during the season after being named the team’s fifth alternate captain. He will join forwards Mika Zibanejad, Artemi Panarin, Chris Kreider, and Barclay Goodrow to serve under captain idiot Jacob Trouba.

 

[Captain3rdLine]

Defenseman Adam Fox will wear an A on his sweater during the season after being named the team’s fifth alternate captain. He will join forwards Mika Zibanejad, Artemi Panarin, Chris Kreider, and Barclay Goodrow to serve under captain idiot Jacob Trouba.

Should have 3 max. Also weird that Goodrow had one before Fox

 

[TF1970]

Bogosian on waivers today from TBL. He was a guy I wondered if they would inquire on for what they ended up acquiring Miller for. Hindsight is 20/20 and it was only a 5th round pick, but turns out could have had Bogosian for free, and he is as good if not a little better than Miller overall IMO.

 

[Poppy Whoa Sonnet]

Bogosian on waivers today from TBL. He was a guy I wondered if they would inquire on for what they ended up acquiring Miller for. Hindsight is 20/20 and it was only a 5th round pick, but turns out could have had Bogosian for free, and he is as good if not a little better than Miller overall IMO.

I'm not gonna cry about it, in part cause I always liked Miller. I also don't think the team wanted to be in a place where if Nemec had a bad camp they were forced to find a RHD solution. I prefer being proactive there.

 

[Brodeur]

Fighting the urge to bump a random Simon Benoit thread on the main board. Some random guy was convinced that Benoit was a monster based on his hit numbers from last season and said he was the similar to Radko Gudas. I pointed out that he only played 19 minutes a game since it was Anaheim and that his hit numbers might be more indicative that he was chasing the puck more often than not. Poster said that was BS and that every team would want a guy like Benoit; That was also funny since the thread was very late in the offseason before Benoit landed a league minimum deal with Toronto.

 

[sabremike]

 

[njdevils1982]

Defenseman Adam Fox will wear an A on his sweater during the season after being named the team’s fifth alternate captain. He will join forwards Mika Zibanejad, Artemi Panarin, Chris Kreider, and Barclay Goodrow to serve under captain idiot Jacob Trouba.

you get an A...you get an A...you get an A..you get an A...everybody gets an A!

 

[Mgd31]

Didn’t the Leafs trade a first round pick for this guy at the deadline last year?

 

[Ripshot 43]

 

[njdevils1982]

things like that only happen in the movie bruce almighty

 

[Brodeur]

Didn’t the Leafs trade a first round pick for this guy at the deadline last year?

Lafferty was a bit of a throw-in, McCabe was the main piece of that deal as Chicago was eating half of his salary for a 2+ years.

 

[Goptor]

AI images are so funny.

 

[OmNomNom]

What the heck happened to Colin White, I remember when he had that year in Ottawa

 

[HBK27]

Defenseman Adam Fox will wear an A on his sweater during the season after being named the team’s fifth alternate captain. He will join forwards Mika Zibanejad, Artemi Panarin, Chris Kreider, and Barclay Goodrow to serve under captain idiot Jacob Trouba.

 

[Hockey Sports Fan]

What the heck happened to Colin White, I remember when he had that year in Ottawa

I always thought he was destined to be a JAG at best, but even I didn't expect him to fall off so hard and so fast. Smart pickup by Pittsburgh though, he could be a big help if he could bring a tiny bit of offense to that bottom 6. And I trust Johnston more than most other coaches in the league to use someone like White the right way.

 

[Bleedred]

Tampa claiming Jones seems all too predictable.

Unless they’re banking on Alex Lyon to be waived by Detroit today.

 

[Brodeur]

Tampa claiming Jones seems all too predictable.

Unless they’re banking on Alex Lyon to be waived by Detroit today.

In Elliotte Friedman's column last week, one exec put out the possibility of Tampa claiming Malcolm Subban; Blues waived him today. The loose connection was that Subban played well (.921 sv%) in beating Tampa's AHL club in the playoffs last year.

I suppose in a vacuum I'd rather take Jones.

 

[Guadana]

Bogosian on waivers today from TBL. He was a guy I wondered if they would inquire on for what they ended up acquiring Miller for. Hindsight is 20/20 and it was only a 5th round pick, but turns out could have had Bogosian for free, and he is as good if not a little better than Miller overall IMO.

Its better to spend 5th round pick for Miller at the time we made a trade, then wait for waivers and hope that there will be Bogosian or better player. Bogosian could be better player, but it would be much worser management decision.

 

[MasterofGrond]

Bogosian was pretty bad last year.

Miller was much, much better.

 

[Clam Jensen]

Rasmus got PAID

 

[MasterofGrond]

That's a fine deal for Dahlin. I know Makar and Fox and McAvoy are all underpaid, but defense salaries are gonna be widely above that in just a few years.

 

[britdevil]

Damm that Dahlin contract. That's a lot of wonga.

 

[jkrdevil]

Edit: I forgot that he is older than I thought and he was bridged once, so this is mostly a UFA deal. Still on the high side though, but not as much as I was thinking.