Rumor: Rumour and Proposal Thread: Who retires?

[McDNicks17]

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[Aceboogie]

Posting this for no particular reason, just a goalie on a three year decline who should not be viewed as a top 5, dominant goalie, and who no team should trade the farm for

 

[ThreeOfAPerfectPair]

At the very least we should be rewarded back our 3rd round pick if they're going to rewrite the rules now.

 

[Bring Back Bucky]

I ain’t gonna work on the railroad. I ain’t gonna work on the farm. I’ll lay around the track til the millin ‘ train comes back, rollin I’m my sweet baby’s arms.

~ Boxcar Willie

 

[NotAVacuumSalesman]

At the very least we should be rewarded back our 3rd round pick if they're going to rewrite the rules now.

We weren't getting it back.

 

[McDoused]

 

[AddyTheWrath]

Can Keith "retire" and then come back mid-season if he wants to continue playing? I think there's precedent with Spezza who joined the Leafs front office but would be able to sign again if he wanted to?

 

[Mr Kot]

Posting this for no particular reason, just a goalie on a three year decline who should not be viewed as a top 5, dominant goalie, and who no team should trade the farm for

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No, you see, this is just an anomaly.

Now be a good boy and pony up your 1st + best prospect + second best prospect for him. What a deal!

 

[Weitz]

Please don’t buy out kassian. Package something in a trade. No more dead cap space with only 3 years left of Draisaitl.

 

[Cloned]

I am definitely retiring.

 

[Tobias Kahun]

Can Keith "retire" and then come back mid-season if he wants to continue playing? I think there's precedent with Spezza who joined the Leafs front office but would be able to sign again if he wanted to?

Spezza didnt give up a year on his contract to save the team 8.9m

 

[MoontoScott]

Brad Malone won't be retiring--a 2 year deal for him today. Well, he's only 33 so he could still bust loose.

 

[MoontoScott]

4 years of dead money? No thanks.

 

[Bryanbryoil]

Brad Malone won't be retiring--a 2 year deal for him today. Well, he's only 33 so he could still bust loose.

He's good depth and instant grit for the bottom 6 if someone gets hurt.

 

[LTIR]

Brad Malone won't be retiring--a 2 year deal for him today. Well, he's only 33 so he could still bust loose.

McLeod - 9GP vs CGY and COL - 1hit

Malone 2GP in playoffs - 9 hits

 

[Took a pill in Sbisa]

Posting this for no particular reason, just a goalie on a three year decline who should not be viewed as a top 5, dominant goalie, and who no team should trade the farm for

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Would be interested to see how these numbers collated with the Ducks position in the standings. Based on Friedman and Marek's discussion on him the other week his performance seems to be heavily reliant on his where his team is at competitively (which can be argued is a negative trait in itself). Sounds like the last few years he'd start the year motivated until the team played it's way out of the playoff race and he'd check out for the year. A change of scenery could be all it takes for him to return to a high level for the full season.

On the other hand you'd also probably want your starting goalie to have a high compete level regardless of his environment. Would he have quit when we went through that mid-year losing streak? Then there's the whole scenario of asking an American to waive their NTC to go to a Canadian team which virtually never happens. He'd probably prefer to go to a place like New Jersey, LA, Minnesota or Washington.

 

[48g90a138pts]

Kuzmenko is supposed to be visiting Edmonton this week.

Kuzmenko to meet with Oilers, Canucks this week - TSN.ca

Lets Go Holland

༼つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Holland take my energy! ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

 

[MettleMcOiler]

Hyman - McDavid - ( )
( ) - Draisaitl - ( )
Foegele - RNH - Holloway
Ryan - ( ) - Kassian
Malone - Bourgault - Shore



Nurse - Ceci
Keith - Bouchard
( )- Barrie
Broberg
Niemelainen

Smith
Skinner
Rodrigue
Fanti

Open Positions: 1st Line RW, 2nd Line RW, 2nd Line LW, 3rd LD, 4th Line Center

Kane or Kuzmenko?
Puljujarvi and Yamamoto
McLeod and Kulak

I think why this off-season is so challenging, is because we have more good players to sign from for limited positions.

If we sign at least 4 to fair deals.

Goaltending will be the issue again.

We would need a goaltender to sign a 1 year homediscount to fit them in.

Oil fans are lucky. We played hockey until June and we have the Draft and FA next month.

Gotta soak this experience in, the ride is still going XD

 

[ThreeOfAPerfectPair]

Move Foegele and Barrie over using assets to trade or buyout Kassian. We have in-house replacements for those two making league min. Gives $9M to resign our 3 RFA's and $5.5 for a new goalie.

 

[Mr Kot]

Kuzmenko is supposed to be visiting Edmonton this week.

Kuzmenko to meet with Oilers, Canucks this week - TSN.ca

Lets Go Holland

༼つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Holland take my energy! ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

Take him to world water park or galaxy land, that will seal the deal.

 

[Davo Ikinzom]

I will account bet anyone who thinks Keith will retire.

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

Didn't realize Kuzmenko played with Podkolzen: Who is Andrei Kuzmenko, the Russian UFA with reported interest from the Canucks?

Will be interesting to see how the Oil chase for Kumzemko shakes out. Both Oil and Canuckles both have different appealing factors.

 

[McJC]

Didn't realize Kuzmenko played with Podkolzen: Who is Andrei Kuzmenko, the Russian UFA with reported interest from the Canucks?

Will be interesting to see how the Oil chase for Kumzemko shakes out. Both Oil and Canuckles both have different appealing factors.

Luckily his agent is Dan Milstein I believe, who also happens to be the agent of Evander Kane. Hopefully he tells his client just how much 97/29 can make him

 

[Took a pill in Sbisa]

I think only Smith retires.

Many former NHLer's have echoed on Spittin Chiclets that when you're thinking about retiring, you've already made up your mind.

 

[Burnt Biscuits]

Some RFA's I could see not tendered qualifying offers or preemptively traded:

Matthew Tkachuk- A near certainty they sign him, he defines their identity, but his QO is $9M and paying that to a winger who has only broke the point per game barrier once in his career is a bit tough to swallow. Personally I wouldn't pay him this much.
Brock Boeser- Boeser's QO is $7.5M and he only got 46 points (71 GP)
Dominik Kubalik- $4M QO and had 32 pts
Dylan Strome- His point totals were more than adequate to justify his $3.6M QO, but the org never seems too happy with him, likely cause of his underwhelming defensive game and occasional disappearing act.
Miles Wood- $3.5M QO and was injured all year, a bit risky to re-sign at that price tag without watching him play post injury. I'm guessing the agent will be fine with negotiating a lower salary, but he could likely force UFA if he was so inclined.
Ethan Bear- $2.5M QO not an outrageous QO by any means, but a price teams generally don't pay for players they healthy scratch for a substantial chunk of the season.
Ondrej Kase & Pierre Engvall- nothing outrageous about these QO's, but they are arbitration eligible and Toronto has higher priority holes to patch without a lot of money to do it. Though they would likely have the money if they bribe someone to eat the Halak contract.

*Obviously if the player wants to stay they can negotiate a deal below their qualifying offer which does happen semi-frequently.*