MiamiScreamingEagles
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Obviously, but other guys will be coming off of the books over that time period and expansion could play a significant role in them freeing up cap space if they need to. Also, minus a huge improvement this season Patrick isn't exactly looking at a huge pay day in the summer of 2020.Got to remember when signing someone to a 5-7 year deal, it's not just this year's RFAs, there's Patrick, Hart, etc. in a couple years that you have to retain some room to sign.
You can make bold moves without being irresponsible. Duchene is a 50-60 point center on this team. He's 28 years old and it's likely going to take 6 or 7 years at an aav of 9 million to get him. Let someone else make that mistake.9 million isn’t a lot anymore. I would not go above that for Duchene, but I’d say he’s worth that value.
You just have to look at the great teams over the years. You have to be bold. Make bold moves and take risk on losing out on prospects. That’s EK, Panarin, Duchene.
Looking at losing Lindblom in the ED, I'd package him and the 11 to try to move up to 5 or 6
Why are we making a move now for the expansion draft in 2 years????
That makes zero sense
I'd trade TK before I'd trade Lindblom.
TK is more talented, but Lindblom is already a better player and will continue to improve.
TK after three seasons has regressed, his fundamentals are still shaky, and it remains to be seen how he'll handle tough coaching.
Lindblom is going to have a career like Stone, people forget he dominated the SHL at age 20, if he was a flashy skater he'd have gotten a lot of hype, all he does is the dirty work and play defense - but the second half the game slowed down and he started scoring. Guys like this are invaluable because they make it easier to slot scoring forwards on their line - and as more smaller flashy scorers enter the league, "anchor" guys who get them the puck and CYA become more valuable.
I'd trade TK before I'd trade Lindblom.
TK is more talented, but Lindblom is already a better player and will continue to improve.
TK after three seasons has regressed, his fundamentals are still shaky, and it remains to be seen how he'll handle tough coaching.
Lindblom is going to have a career like Stone, people forget he dominated the SHL at age 20, if he was a flashy skater he'd have gotten a lot of hype, all he does is the dirty work and play defense - but the second half the game slowed down and he started scoring. Guys like this are invaluable because they make it easier to slot scoring forwards on their line - and as more smaller flashy scorers enter the league, "anchor" guys who get them the puck and CYA become more valuable.
TK is more talented, but Lindblom is already a better player and will continue to improve.
TK after three seasons has regressed, his fundamentals are still shaky, and it remains to be seen how he'll handle tough coaching.
Dude, he contradicts himself so much/so often I honestly believe he can't keep up with himself.I love Lindblom, but a career like Stone? A guy who was a 60+ point selke caliber winger by 22 and is essentially a PPG player now? And your take on Konecny is laughable. You harp on ES scoring as much as anyone and Konecny has scored almost 90% of his points at ES the last two seasons, and is the best goal scorer on the team aside from Couturier.
You can make bold moves without being irresponsible. Duchene is a 50-60 point center on this team. He's 28 years old and it's likely going to take 6 or 7 years at an aav of 9 million to get him. Let someone else make that mistake.
God bless you for that bro. I wouldn't come close to 7 or 8 years for a 28 year old Duchene or the 9 million or so aav it's going to take to land him. I'll take Hayes at 5 or 6 years for an avv in the 5-6 million range over that any day. Hayes would be almost as productive with the Flyers in that second line role as Duchene would, and would do so at a fraction of the cost.Of course I’d want Fletch to make the smart move that no one sees coming and works out great for us. I’ll believe that when I see it. I don’t see Fletch as the creative type. Plus they don’t have wiggle room even if it’s a trade like Frosberg to Nashville. They are going to have to lean towards surer bets in the UFAs than a young unproven player. And 60 pt second line center is pretty good. I would do it.
Fair enough. Better to get an exempt asset for one of these guys.