In fairness to Brassard he played really well in game 6 and 7 against San Jose.Right now, Brassard would be 2C on that team.
Don’t get this thought... you don’t want Rants offer sheeted, but that deal would work out. But even if he was offer sheeted, it is an easy match. More than that though... multi tasking is possible. They can sign UFAs, trade, the offer sheets (that won’t happen) can all happen simultaneously.
In fairness to Brassard he played really well in game 6 and 7 against San Jose.
Only referring to RFAs and offer sheets. Avs reportedly aren’t on the same page as Rantanen’s camp but they’re going to go negotiate the type of deal it takes to poach a RFA from another team? Nah. That makes zero sense.
It'll maybe be a PTO by now. Which absolutely we will be handing out.I'm honestly anticipating a Mark Letestu signing on July 1st.
If we don't keep Wilson do we have the smallest bottom 9 in the league now that Soda is gone?
There's been whispers about Huberdeau for a while, I wonder how crazy of a ++ to Barrie it would need to be even with a cap dump.My guess is either a Barrie trade to Florida where we take on a lot of cap to allow them to sign Panarin + Bob (obviously would have to get something very good), or a Subban-esque trade where we acquire Malkin at his full cap hit without sending much salary back to Pittsburgh.
Only referring to RFAs and offer sheets. Avs reportedly aren’t on the same page as Rantanen’s camp but they’re going to go negotiate the type of deal it takes to poach a RFA from another team? Nah. That makes zero sense.
Even then... Let's just say the Avs can sign Aho on July 1 to an 7 year ~9m per deal. Should they not do that because Mikko wants paid ~11m? Negotiations don't have to be exclusive. It isn't like they have to check off all the RFAs before investigating other RFAs. Now I'm the first to say that an offer sheet isn't going to happen. They are so rare, nobody should plan on them... but I don't get the logic of having to have everything checked off before sniffing around the RFA market.
Yeah Carolina will definitely sign a retaliatory offersheet to Rantanen..... :|
So far this is the forward group:
Landeskog-Mackinnon-Rantanen
Kerfoot-X-X
Nieto-Jost-Compher
Calvert-Kamenev-X
I like the group as long as it includes at least two fairly big FAs.
Greer will helpIf we don't keep Wilson do we have the smallest bottom 9 in the league now that Soda is gone?
Yeah, and likely try to sign a Panarin/Zuccarello to drive that 2nd line along with RantanenNah,
I believe the forward group is:
Landeskog-MacKinnon-Kerfoot
X-Jost-Rantanen
Nieto-Compher-X
Calvert-Kamenev-X
I think their plan will be to roll with Jost and Compher as 2C/3C
Nah,
I believe the forward group is:
Landeskog-MacKinnon-Kerfoot
X-Jost-Rantanen
Nieto-Compher-X
Calvert-Kamenev-X
I think their plan will be to roll with Jost and Compher as 2C/3C
Carolina reportedly offered 6M X 8 years to Aho so I'd not be worried about them offer sheeting anyone.