Fantasy GM Thread | Part 7
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Rebuild our bottom six. Take on single year cap dumps to facilitate moving worse contracts, should we find participants as willing as fans of some of these fans are.
Stepan for Gaudette, Eriksson, and honestly I'd go full Benning and kick in a pick. The sooner this one happens, the better for Ottawa, as his super cheap year is over this year, and it's just a "less expensive than his cap hit" deal next year. Stepan is UFA, so we can either use him this year, and dump him, or see about a cheap extension if he does well.
Spooner and Baertschi also come off the books, along with Pearson, Edler, Sutter and Benn, and honestly, the way any and all of them are playing overall, I'm not upset if all of them walk. We have internal replacements (Pod, depth of Hughes, Schmidt and Juolevi, MacEwen and Chatfield/whoever, respectively). It wouldn't be pretty, but I'd rather not hand out giant cap hits, or even comparable cap hits to what they make this year, to these kinds of players.
Rather than piss it away on a pet project UFA (Holtby, Myers, Roussel/Beagle, Del Zotto, Eriksson, Miller/Vrbata....not to mention immediate extensions to guys like Gudbranson and Sutter), we need to be predatory and take high cap hit assets from teams like Tampa, Toronto, possibly St Louis, the Islanders, Pittsburgh, or Vegas that are going to resume their crunch this offseason, if the expansion draft doesn't go their way. Some were save by LTIR, some simply have a large number of players to resign and limited space to do, what ever the case is, like with Schmidt this year and Miller last year, even if there are some warts, let's accrue talent this way rather than sign even more bloated contracts.
Stepan for Gaudette, Eriksson, and honestly I'd go full Benning and kick in a pick. The sooner this one happens, the better for Ottawa, as his super cheap year is over this year, and it's just a "less expensive than his cap hit" deal next year. Stepan is UFA, so we can either use him this year, and dump him, or see about a cheap extension if he does well.
Spooner and Baertschi also come off the books, along with Pearson, Edler, Sutter and Benn, and honestly, the way any and all of them are playing overall, I'm not upset if all of them walk. We have internal replacements (Pod, depth of Hughes, Schmidt and Juolevi, MacEwen and Chatfield/whoever, respectively). It wouldn't be pretty, but I'd rather not hand out giant cap hits, or even comparable cap hits to what they make this year, to these kinds of players.
Rather than piss it away on a pet project UFA (Holtby, Myers, Roussel/Beagle, Del Zotto, Eriksson, Miller/Vrbata....not to mention immediate extensions to guys like Gudbranson and Sutter), we need to be predatory and take high cap hit assets from teams like Tampa, Toronto, possibly St Louis, the Islanders, Pittsburgh, or Vegas that are going to resume their crunch this offseason, if the expansion draft doesn't go their way. Some were save by LTIR, some simply have a large number of players to resign and limited space to do, what ever the case is, like with Schmidt this year and Miller last year, even if there are some warts, let's accrue talent this way rather than sign even more bloated contracts.
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I wouldn't make that trade either if I was Boston. It's just a thought made by a Boston reporter.
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21-12-05 it's finally over.
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If we're going to trade Miller I want it to be the next GM making that move. I'd want the return to be futures based (ie. 1st and prospect) and Jim seems to have an aversion to trading for picks or prospects that are a few years out.
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If Miller would get traded, 100% I'd want it to be a new GM and I'd want a really solid young defenseman in return.
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Bettman Returnz
Why so serious?
Unless you’re unloading a boat anchor contract with term... either way seems unrealistic though.
Mr. Canucklehead
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If it helps you clear contracts absolutely you should.
Makes way more sense than acquiring term.
Is it bad I just got giddy at the idea of no more Jake and Adam on the Canucks and that teams actually showed interest?
Probably getting my hopes up.
Probably getting my hopes up.
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Cousins in this market would be rough - even if the sexual assault charges were dropped, he brings a stigma that you probably don't want in what is probably the leftiest city in the NHL.
I like Matt Benning as a partner for Hughes, but the optics of that would be a little strange.
Not sure what a Zsorbl is.
I like Matt Benning as a partner for Hughes, but the optics of that would be a little strange.
Not sure what a Zsorbl is.
Fatass
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The guy rumoured for Jake. It’s a weird name. This Cousins guy is a pervert? That’s all we can get for Hockey God is a friggin’ perv? What the hell?
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I don’t know about the off ice stuff but Cousins is a pretty decent role player
I just keep coming here in hopes to see if Benning and Green are fired..
Fire Benning
diaper filled piss baby
Getting rid of Myers contract has to be priority number 1, if you’re having to add assets to get Seattle to take him in the expansion draft you take it and run. Like many of us stated it’s tracking to be a Eriksson level anchor for the team. The fact that Jim Benning signed that contract then Ferland’s a few days later just outlines how incompetent this man is.
if vancouver wants to upgrade their 3rd C position. cousins would be a nice pickup or even erik haula.?
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