DrEasy
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Definitely. It's Anderson, Lalime, Tugnutt in that order for me.He's easily the best goalie this franchise has ever had, would others agree?
Better than;
Lalime
Tugnutt
Rhodes
Gerber
Emery
Leclaire
Hasek *
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Definitely. It's Anderson, Lalime, Tugnutt in that order for me.He's easily the best goalie this franchise has ever had, would others agree?
Better than;
Lalime
Tugnutt
Rhodes
Gerber
Emery
Leclaire
Hasek *
?
So what's the succession plan now? Hogberg and hope O'Connor gets back on track one day?
If Condon wants more than 2.0 or 2 years im fine with Dreidger being back up, lets see what he brings.
Hammond would most likely be backing up if Condon doesn't sign
If Condon wants more than 2.0 or 2 years im fine with Dreidger being back up, lets see what he brings.
Wouldn't surprise me if we are watching the last games for Andy as a Senator. Buying him out this summer makes too much sense, unless a team would trade to get him without sending any salary back. Still, I think he's gone this summer.
There will be a market for him. There aren't enough NHL goalies to go around, and he has enough of a pedigree that a team might justify acquiring him on the basis that if he is able to put up a 900+ save percentage behind the 31st team in the league, he might be able to return to form else where as a 1B type goalie.
Out of goalies who have played over half the season (35+ games so far) he's top 30 in save percentage.
More importantly, unlike a Reimer, Anderson doesn't have term. This is an advantage when dealing him. A team only has to worry about how Anderson will impact their salary structure for 19-20.
Trading with retained salary makes more sense than a buyout. We can retain 1/3rd of his cap hit and salary wise it'll be the same for us as buying him out, the only difference being with a buyout we'd pay the 2/3rds of salary owed to him over two seasons instead of one.
The only real advantage of a buyout is that his full cap hit will remain on the books, which could help us hit the cap floor. We'd get 4.75M worth of salary cap this year while only spending 1.33M this season and 1.33M next season. Unless we plan very poorly, we probably won't be in a situation where it makes sense to buy Anderson out for that benefit. We could just trade Anderson for an asset, and acquire another asset for taking on an LTIR contract.
There's talk about Hogberg signing in Sweden. This seems like it might be Hogberg's agent using whatever leverage they have to push for a 1 way contract.
Nilsson is not going to come cheap. Teams gamble on backup/1B UFA goalies in his situation all the time, it's how he got the contract he is on now. We're not getting him for any less than 2-3 years at 2.5-3.0 million.
We're in a position where trading Anderson might make sense. Get the pick for him, gamble on Nilsson, retain Hogberg, and continue to develop Gustavsson. If Nilsson falls flat on his face, this isn't a scenario like when we signed Condon or Hammond. The reason being, we're not trying to compete right now, so every dollar doesn't really count. Even with our supposed limited budget until 2021, we should have loads of salary to work with, so using some of it to retain Nilsson shouldn't result in us losing any other UFA/RFA players. At most, it means we won't get that 3rd or 4th tier 3rd or 4th line UFA who we'd overpay.
You say "the only real advantage" like it was a marginal one but in Ottawa's situation with ownership, it's a MAJOR advantage. 4.75 of "free cap hit" is invaluable for Melnyk. Plus, as Condon will probably be get rid of, it allows them to sign Nilsson and Hogberg, 2 goalies that won't cost that much (between 1.0 and 2.5 per each) but still bring the Sens a bit more towards the cap floor.
The Sens are currently severely under the cap floor for next season, even counting the Gaborik and MacArthur contracts... They only have a few RFAs to sign in White, Wolanin, Ceci and Duclair.
You say "Unless we plan very poorly, we probably won't be in a situation where..." but I'm not sure how you envision the Sens to reach the cap FLOOR of 62 M$ next season
ThisWe need Andy next year.
“Andy stays a year... for Lafreniere!”
#theplan
This
Can you blame Andy for requesting a trade? Rosters a tire fireAndy showed up to camp angry this year, and that to me seemed out of sorts. Somethings not right if Andy is angry on day 1. You can’t be in a rebuild and be angry at everything.
I get it maybe the team sold him they were going for it when he signed, but Andy built so much good will in the city it all kinda disappeared when his trade request came out.
Not with me. I'm not gonna blame the guy for not wanting to spend his twilight years on a franchise that's determined to race to the bottom as quickly as possible.Andy showed up to camp angry this year, and that to me seemed out of sorts. Somethings not right if Andy is angry on day 1. You can’t be in a rebuild and be angry at everything.
I get it maybe the team sold him they were going for it when he signed, but Andy built so much good will in the city it all kinda disappeared when his trade request came out.
His annual ''Christmas break''Not that I wish any ill harm, but good chance that Andy will be sidelined for his usual ‘tweaks’ to let the other couple of goalies get in 4-5 games next year too.