Rumor: 2022-2022 Trade Rumors and Free Agency Part 14: Sakic goes back to bed

[kl35ha]

Thinking Mack will be the highest pay at 10-10.5mils, if he’s seriously about the discount thing and want the team to stay competitive. Plus it will just be another dagger in Oilers fan heart at the price! Make it happens Mack! Win-win

 

[The Shermanator]

Losing Mack for nothing would suck but to have a talent like Makar in his prime + Rants still in his prime + Byram coming up and being unable to compete because Mack is making 12.5M would suck more.

Can't let him walk if we don't have another 1C of course...but if we were to get a middle of the road 1C for ~8M a year Sakic has to think about it.

PS: No team in the cap era has won the cup with a player making 10M+ on the roster and it's easy to understand why when we're currently watching our depth carrying us deep in the playoffs.

Show Mack that stat and he will sign for 9.9M

 

[Balthazar]

Show Mack that stat and he will sign for 9.9M

If he wants to secure the bag, sure, MacKinnon (sorely underpaid today at $6.3 million) could take a stab at Connor McDavid’s league-high $12.5 million AAV next summer on the open market. Alternately, he could follow the lead of Crosby and Stamkos and keep the band together.

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[LOFIN]

He will sign for 11x8 and it will be a great deal. We can work with that.

Eventually, a guy like Rantanen or Byram will have to go. It's the nature of this hard cap league. It sucks but it is what it is. This is why we need to win now, when MacK, Kadri, Byram, Nuke, Lehkonen etc are still playing for cheap.

 

[Reparlana]

We're going to resign Mack because we're also going to end up with Crosby, because how else will they land Bedard

 

[Vaslof]

I'm confident on MacK staying, but if for some reason he wouldn't, Avs would need to tear things down and go right to rebuild. Younger guys like Newhook, Makar, Byram and Girard would be the new core who should still be good by the time we're ready again.

 

[LOFIN]

I'm confident on MacK staying, but if for some reason he wouldn't, Avs would need to tear things down and go right to rebuild. Younger guys like Newhook, Makar, Byram and Girard would be the new core who should still be good by the time we're ready again.

Tear things down, while having some of the best pieces in the league? I don't think you understand what a rebuild means.

Mentioning the word rebuild in this thread should result in a ban anyway.

 

[flyfysher]

Losing Mack for nothing would suck but to have a talent like Makar in his prime + Rants still in his prime + Byram coming up and being unable to compete because Mack is making 12.5M would suck more.

Can't let him walk if we don't have another 1C of course...but if we were to get a middle of the road 1C for ~8M a year Sakic has to think about it.

PS: No team in the cap era has won the cup with a player making 10M+ on the roster and it's easy to understand why when we're currently watching our depth carrying us deep in the playoffs.

Look at the Carolina Hurricanes and what happened to them in the POs. You need that elite talent to succeed in the POs. So no, the Avs should keep MacKinnon.

 

[Balthazar]

Look at the Carolina Hurricanes and what happened to them in the POs. You need that elite talent to succeed in the POs. So no, the Avs should keep MacKinnon.

We have elite talent on the blue line. Look at the Oilers. Elite talent with no depth.

 

[flyfysher]

We have elite talent on the blue line. Look at the Oilers. Elite talent with no depth.

I'm not for emptying one bucket to fill another.

 

[Hasbro]

I’m sure Sakic will give MacKinnon the same talk her did to Makar. “You’re worth every penny, but if you take less we can spend it on more help for you”.

 

[Islay1989]

Imagine being one win from winning it all, having the top 5 player in the game on your team and thinking of trading him. Insane doesn't begin to describe it.

 

[Hasbro]

I’m sure Sakic will give MacKinnon the same talk her did to Makar. “You’re worth every penny, but if you take less we can spend it on more help for you”.

Losing Mack for nothing would suck but to have a talent like Makar in his prime + Rants still in his prime + Byram coming up and being unable to compete because Mack is making 12.5M would suck more.

Can't let him walk if we don't have another 1C of course...but if we were to get a middle of the road 1C for ~8M a year Sakic has to think about it.

PS: No team in the cap era has won the cup with a player making 10M+ on the roster and it's easy to understand why when we're currently watching our depth carrying us deep in the playoffs.

Weren’t Patty Kane and Captain Intangibles making $10M during the hawks last cup?

 

[Balthazar]

I'm not for emptying one bucket to fill another.

Welcome to the salary cap era where you have to make choices.

 

[flyfysher]

Welcome to the salary cap era where you have to make choices.

You don't have to dump MacKinnon. That's way over the top.

 

[Balthazar]

Imagine being one win from winning it all, having the top 5 player in the game on your team and thinking of trading him. Insane doesn't begin to describe it.

No one is talking about trading anyone here. Wrong thread?

 

[Islay1989]

No one is talking about trading anyone here. Wrong thread?

I guess that Force berg guy is no one

 

[Vaslof]

Tear things down, while having some of the best pieces in the league? I don't think you understand what a rebuild means.

Mentioning the word rebuild in this thread should result in a ban anyway.

1C is probably the most important position. You can't just replace MacKinnon with some UFA fossil asking for 10M.

 

[Pokecheque]

Literally cannot muster the energy to even think about the offseason. I will be happy to do so once the offseason starts.

 

[The Abusement Park]

Literally cannot muster the energy to even think about the offseason. I will be happy to do so once the offseason starts.

All I can think about is the reason I’ll be hammered tonight.

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

Imagine being one win from winning it all, having the top 5 player in the game on your team and thinking of trading him. Insane doesn't begin to describe it.

Ya, there's a few dummies around here. Especially the ones that want to trade him "So we dont lose him for nothing in free agency"


I'll take my chances on trying to win a cup next year over trading the 2nd best player in the world because "Think of the assets we would lose" nonsense.

 

[Balthazar]

Literally cannot muster the energy to even think about the offseason. I will be happy to do so once the offseason starts.

I'll be waiting in this thread for you tomorrow morning (hopefully)

I'll take my chances on trying to win a cup next year over trading the 2nd best player in the world because "Think of the assets we would lose" nonsense.

Yes, there's no such thing as trading Mack.

 

[kl35ha]

Nuke > Mack in the playoffs! Mack take less to pay Nuke end of story

 

[Eltuna]

I’m sure Sakic will give MacKinnon the same talk her did to Makar. “You’re worth every penny, but if you take less we can spend it on more help for you”.

Weren’t Patty Kane and Captain Intangibles making $10M during the hawks last cup?

Their contracts started the next season, their third cup was still on the previous contracts.

 

[Alienblood]

That's not really building around PLD though. He's a secondary piece in Colorado at best when it comes to how good and deep the Avs core already is. Similar to Nuke if the manage to extend him.

I'd trade a Girard package for PLD in a heartbeat. He's exactly the kind of center you'd hope to get for Girard and his team friendly contract.

We need Girard .Toews will be gone . Maybe trade Toews now. For all the flack Sammy gets Toews hasn't been great

Tear things down, while having some of the best pieces in the league? I don't think you understand what a rebuild means.

Mentioning the word rebuild in this thread should result in a ban anyway.

saying Byram may have to go is even worse.