Wow, gotta respect that Carolina offersheet.
NHL could use a little of that spice.
No kidding. We know the kind of garbage Habs fans were offering for Ekholm or Forsberg when they were allegedly on the block--bunch of shit dressed up as fantastic value (oh, and the Weber recapture). Could you imagine the offers for players perceived to have no/negative value? No thanks, pass.I don't want to hear those offers.
Would we though? We basically need higher-end forwards and Montreal doesn't have a ton of those at the NHL level nor in their pipeline.va te faire voir per google.
If the person making the proposal screams 'TABERNAK!' You are making progress.
Sad thing is Nashville and Montreal would make great trade partners. But I do NOT want to help Berg and the owner of shitty beer.
Who though? Caufield and Suzuki are the only interesting pieces from that forward group, and neither of those are getting traded in this type of deal. If we had wanted Toffoli or Hoffman, we would have pursued them in free agency. Their forward prospect pool isn't that exciting.
The bolded is... well, don't post that on the mains or you'd get slaughtered. Anderson is still a pretty valuable player up there; Drouin is in the "we're desperately trying to convince people he still has value" cap dump phase.
There isn't logic to it with the expansion draft gone and our cap situation under control, and Poile isn't going to retain salary. Montreal can pay us a value that will make us willing to part with one of our top 2 centers, and they can potentially add a contract to it to help balance the cap. No need to consider it otherwise.
I'd kind of a want a playmaking 1st line center with size... so ummm...
This. Plus after all the pure bullshit so many Habs fans put me and my fellow Jackets fans through over PLD nonsense less than a year ago, I'm perfectly happy to see them suffer.I'd kind of a want a playmaking 1st line center with size... so ummm...
Looks like there are only 11 teams who have the requisite compensation picks to make a $10M offersheet for Elias Pettersson. (2 1sts + 2nd + 3rd). (Lots more could go higher into the full 4 1sts).
But of those 11 who has $10M in open Cap space? Only 6 teams as I see it: Buffalo, Ottawa, Detroit, New Jersey, Seattle might be able to squeeze it in, and... us.
Now, I don't think teams who are very consciously deep in rebuilding and looking at top-5 picks the next 2 seasons can consider it. Strong drafts with big superstars at the top, you don't give up 2 cracks at those potential franchise stars to add Pettersson now in a rebuilding year. And not like he's going to sign in Buffalo anyway, right? So that kind of takes most of those teams out.
Does it still take us out? I think we're still at least hoping to compete for a playoff spot, so for us, we dare to dream our picks aren't going to be as high as many of those teams. And Pettersson you would think makes us all the more likely to be able to compete for a playoff spot.
I mean, we all know David Poile is not making any offer sheets. That's not gonna happen. So it's 100% hypothetical only. But for me, as a Fantasy Armchair GM... $10.275M for Pettersson... I might just do that. Especially if extension talks with Forsberg weren't giving me any warm fuzzy feelings about him returning.
Probably Vancouver would match even at $10.275M. Although it would definitely give them fits as they try to sign Quinn Hughes too. But I'd at least put it in on my list of things to think about as the Fantasy GM. I'd probably still end up being too scared to do it, just because "what if" we really do suck badly this year and our pick does land near the top of the draft? Also, even "middle round" 1st picks can be pretty good... Askarov, Svechkov, Tomasino... a couple prospects like that are pretty valuable. And it does seem a little futile if you are basically certain Vancouver will match anyway.
So in the end, I pass. Anybody think differently?
