Apparently Raymond is about to sign a new deal with an NHL team.
Apparently Raymond is about to sign a new deal with an NHL team.
Apparently Raymond is about to sign a new deal with an NHL team.
So if we are looking at FA bottom four LHD options, not a whole lot in free agency left.
Wisniewski
Nakladal
Schultz
L. Schenn
Are the only right shooting D really worth much at this point.
If we aren't picky about which hand, then we get a few more options:
Carle
Seidenberg
Quincy
Grossman
Medvedev
Russell
Gotta imagine outside of Russell all could be had for really cheap. Just going purely off advanced stats as far as I can tell Medvedev looks like a decent bottom pairing option.
Gonna have to look at each team and see if they have any excess bottom four guys we might be interested in.
Ottawa perhaps? He loves Canada and Ottawa loves bargains.
If we can trade Wideman, I wouldn't mind Seidenberg. Other than that I'd just re-sign Nakladal, and run with:
Gio-Brodie
Jokkipakka-Hamilton
Wotherspoon-Nakladal
Smid-Engelland
Seidenberg was beyond awful last year. Not even an NHL defenseman anymore defensively. Advanced stats seem to point to that as well.
I'm not opposed to Nakladal, but Treliving made it sound like he wasn't coming back.
DamnitTreliving on the Fan this morning.
Some key points.
- Still talking to a few FA's, likely will be depth signings.
- The Stockton team will be very young with a lot of new graduates from the CHL/otherwise. Wants to bring in some veterans/depth guys.
- Talking to Nakladal, but doesn't sound like we're bringing him back.
- Says the right side has depth in Brodie, Hamilton and Wideman. Left handed D seems like more of an area of need.
- Still talking to some teams to see if some things come loose (Trades, etc).
- No real update on Monny/Johnny, outside of that they're working on it
From his interview, my takeaways are:
- Smid is likely LTIR-bound.
- Engelland is our depth Dman.
- We'll be looking at guys like Legwand/Richards/etc for 2-way deals.
- They'll find a bottom 4D Left hand shooting D for this team to round it out.
Apparently Raymond is about to sign a new deal with an NHL team.
Damnit
You already have a couple of good options, Wotherspoon and Kulak are probably just as good of options as there are in FA right now.
Overall, some surprising statements to me. Engelland is probably of more use to this team than Wideman is at this point. I really don't understand why he is the depth dman, I would assume that means 7th.
Because he's not that good and has questionable work ethicWhy haven't we signed Brandon Pirri yet?
Because he's not that good and has questionable work ethic
Fair enough. But he can shoot a puck. Who else can do that?
Fair enough. But he can shoot a puck. Who else can do that?
Why does it seem like NJD does well with our former pieces? (Schlemko, Cammy etc.)
Why does it seem like Avs do meh with our former pieces but acquire more anyways? (Berra, Iggy, Tanguay etc.)
Why does it seem like many of our "good" pieces don't at all with any other clubs? (Glencross, Hudler, Russell)
Because they're good players we undervalued.
Because at this point they're meh pieces and the Avs love meh pieces.
Glencross and Russell were never all that good. Hudler is being undervalued though, whoever signs him is getting a fine complimentary piece.
Why is this the last item on his list?! Clearly Brad Treliving is not doing the right thing and focusing all his time on getting these two guys signed. It should have been done months ago. This is inexcusable.
Agreed. Kind of ruins those two's summers as well.
Good. If they're turning their backs on the Flames by not signing new contracts on July 1st, then they don't deserve a vacation. If I had my way, they'd be locked in a room until they put pen to paper. Their family could visit once a day.
I'd support all parties being locked in a room until the contracts get signed. I like it it.
Glencross was pretty damn good. He was a very reliable 2nd liner.