Man, as fast as these threads are moving you’d think something was going down
Erik Karlsson
Brent Burns
Oliver Ekman-Larsson
Kris Letang
Dougie Hamilton
John Klingberg
Just listing a few more elite offensive Defenders that are below average defensively. Are they also all 2nd pairing Defenders?
Why cant we trade him for a top 6 winger?
I want my defensemen to actually be able to play defense first. Scoring is secondary.
Barrie is horrendous defensively. I can't get the image of Tkachuk abusing Barrie that led to 2 goals.
Barrie, Girard and Makar on the same group? Lord help us.
Including Senators fansLol. Sens for sure think they can get more for Ceci than the Kings did for Muzzin.
Nobody wants that bum.
I think Barrie gets the first 8 year contract the Avs hand out in this current CBA to be honest.
Yep. Lowers the cap hit by giving a few extra years (plus the security of signing a year early) and we get to keep our best defenseman. Glad to see you’re finally starting to wrap your head around it!Makes sense.
Yep. Lowers the cap hit by giving a few extra years (plus the security of signing a year early) and we get to keep our best defenseman. Glad to see you’re finally starting to wrap your head around it!
I predict 8 years at 6M per year. Far less than market value on AAV but crazy security.
More realistic than actively pursuing a Tyson Barrie tradeAgain, makes sense... quite realistic.
Hopefully you mean Rantanen and not Barrie.I think Barrie gets the first 8 year contract the Avs hand out in this current CBA to be honest.
More realistic than actively pursuing a Tyson Barrie trade
Dreger just said on 1200 we may be pushing to re-sign Dzingel. Apparently the feeling has "shifted a little bit."
If the FO won’t pay Barrie 7per then we’re f***ed no matter what, so I guess we can stop caring about what they do? #silverlining?I'm pretty surprised by all the reaction that so few think Barrie will actually be dealt.
To me it's as obvious as when the Avs were going to trade ROR. I guess there were people who wouldn't believe it back then either.
I'll be absolutely SHOCKED if Barrie is still an Avalanche past mid-July.
I think people will see this the wrong way, that I don't like Barrie which is far from the truth because I think he's a really good component on this team. I think it would be a bit different if Makar was struggling in college but he's pretty much ***** slappin' the NCAA...he's definitely trending in the right direction.
So yeah, in that sense it's a bit of a risk because you don't know how well or how fast he'll adjust to the NHL but if the Avs aren't going to re-sign Barrie for $7M+ long-term, the time to move on from him will be between now and this summer.
I don't think Sakic will go for a futures package though, this will be a hockey trade to bring in an established player.
Duchene is going to see whats out there he'd be dumb not to at this point. I could see him circling back and ending up staying there though esp if Stone re-signs. I just wonder if Dorion is dumb enough to risk him walking for nothing.^ from the Sens board. So did contract talks fall apart with Duchene or Stone for Melnyk to break out the wallet for Dzingel?
^ from the Sens board. So did contract talks fall apart with Duchene or Stone for Melnyk to break out the wallet for Dzingel?