GDT: July 1st, 2018 - Canes Free Agency Thread

[bleedgreen]

He’s been productive for a 3rd center. Everyone is desperate for that. Of course 20 teams want him.

 

[Vagrant]

curious on how much he got. great for him personally, but if we allowed a player to walk away without a contract from as diminished of a forward group as this was last year that's not a great sign. sometimes players in large markets are victims of overexposure, this is what a player who puts up good eye test numbers in a market nobody really watches can get. oddly enough, we're pricing right into the range of victor rask being our 3rd center and not being drastically overpaid if he can recover that 45 point form.

 

[Roboturner913]

I am not surprised that DR drew some interest. But this $2.5 million/3 years rumor.....uhhhh. nope.

Nice story, good dude, have fun in Calgary bruh

 

[AD Skinner]

Good for ryan. Glad he will get a payday, sorry that he will now be at the mercy of Canadian media/fans. Always seemed like a good guy, not his fault he kept getting played over his head- that's on the coach for sending him out there and the GM/owner for not giving the coach any better options

 

[w e l o s t b o y s]

hope we sign that tavaris guy

 

[DougieSmash]

Please don't overpaid for DeHaan/Hickey. They both sucks.

 

[StormCast]

He’s been productive for a 3rd center. Everyone is desperate for that. Of course 20 teams want him.

Totally agree and never understood, aside from BP's perplexing usage - an almost obsessive commitment to handedness - the barrage of criticism here for Ryan. An HF-style piling on IMO. Not dissimilar to Riley Nash.

As for G's, I'd say Lehner but he's hardly THE answer.

 

[Joe McGrath]

I am not surprised that DR drew some interest. But this $2.5 million/3 years rumor.....uhhhh. nope.

Nice story, good dude, have fun in Calgary bruh

NORTH of $3 million is the latest. I’m beginning to think TD might have a point about the stupidity of the free agent market.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Totally agree and never understood, aside from BP's perplexing usage - an almost obsessive commitment to handedness - the barrage of criticism here for Ryan. An HF-style piling on IMO. Not dissimilar to Riley Nash.

As for G's, I'd say Lehner but he's hardly THE answer.

I think that’s exactly the answer. Kind of like LaRose in the past, and even to some extent, Hainsey and other defensemen. I think most of the derogatory comments re: Ryan came about because of usage.

Part of it is on the coach for making those usage decisions and part of it is because the team didn’t have enough talent to make it harder for the coach to use him that way.

Ryan is a decent option as a 3rd/4th line C with some playmaking ability, but he’s weak and soft and needs some time and space to make plays. When paired with other small, soft guys (Skinner, Stempniak), it exasperates the issue.

I can see why other teams were interested him. Put him with the right players, use him the right way and he can be effective.

 

[JWEKD]

When he signed it he was entering his best years, not leaving his prime like JVR is.

Oh OK. You didn't specify who you were talking about and said "players". Coming right after a post about Skinner I for sure thought you were trying to justify not paying him.

Philly may regret the term but they have plenty of cap space. 7 is the going rate if you want to play the FA game.

 

[Lucky Lindy]

Soon.

 

[A Star is Burns]

I picked Ryan to be the first goal scorer in his first game and won the puck. So, I'll always have that.

 

[Lucky Lindy]

Khudobin to Dallas, and Halak to Boston. Soon only Lehner left of the "good" UFA-goalies.

 

[GoldiFox]

Khudobin to Dallas, and Halak to Boston. Soon only Lehner left of the "good" UFA-goalies.

So a bidding war with NYI for the last bottom-10 NHL starter? No way that could go bad.

What are we looking at... 3 years x $3-4+ million? f***. Getting bad when Nedeljkovic starts looking like the best option.

 

[tarheelhockey]

I’m going to stay positive and just say, good for him working his way up to the point of having an almost $10M contract.

 

[DougieSmash]

JVR to Flyers. Ouch, great lineup.

JVR/ Giroux/ Voracek
Weal/ Couturier/ Konecny
Lindblom/ Patrick/ Simmonds
Raffl/ Laughton/ Weise
Vecchione, Varone, Vorobyev

Provorov/ Gudas
Gostibehere/ Macdonald
Sanheim/ Myers
Morin/ Hagg

 

[DougieSmash]

Halak, Hutton, Khudobin and Hammond off the market. So, probably Lehner.

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

JVR to Flyers. Ouch, great lineup.

JVR/ Giroux/ Voracek
Weal/ Couturier/ Konecny
Lindblom/ Patrick/ Simmonds
Raffl/ Laughton/ Weise
Vecchione, Varone, Vorobyev

Provorov/ Gudas
Gostibehere/ Macdonald
Sanheim/ Myers
Morin/ Hagg

Simmonds is probably gone though.

Still, even more teams in the division improving.

 

[GoldiFox]

Carter Hutton gets 3 years x $2.75 million

You are very welcome rest of the league. Canes taught everyone a valuable lesson on why you don't give a backup a huge contract.

Reports from a couple places saying goalies left money of the table. Canes contacted multiple goalies and nearly all the "top" ones are gone. Sounds like interest was pretty low for a team that should be very desperate.

 

[DougieSmash]

Hutchinson to Florida. Ouch.

 

[Joe McGrath]

Anyone else hoping the Canes sign no one?

 

[What the Faulk]

Anyone else hoping the Canes sign no one?

At this point, yeah

 

[bleedgreen]

Please don’t sign Lehner. Don’t sign anyone who is left for that matter. Hutton was the only guy I even felt “maybe” about.

 

[DougieSmash]

I prefer to sign Cam and roll the dice with Darling, he couldn't be worse than Lehtonen/Lehner.

 

[GoldiFox]

Please don’t sign Lehner. Don’t sign anyone who is left for that matter. Hutton was the only guy I even felt “maybe” about.