News: Non Qualified Players

[Michel Beauchamp]

For the Devils I am pretty sure of these guys not being qualified.

Ryan Graves ( I smell Vancouver)
Miles Wood (someone is going to overpay)
Tomas Tatar

Those three players are UFA, so QOs are not involved...

 

[thestonedkoala]

So many 'big' names at one time. Just shows you that prospects bust more often than not.

 

[KrisLeturnover]

Poehling would have liked to see him back

 

[elitepete]

Looks like the Sabres won't qualify Jost. They've said they want to bring him back, but apparently at less than his QO price.

Can he center a 3rd line?

 

[Zman5778]

Can he center a 3rd line?

If you're OK with your 3rd line center winning ~35% of his faceoffs........I suppose he could.

IMO, if you look up the definition of "average NHL player", it'd be his name that popped up. Dude is average at pretty literally everything. But winning faceoffs.....he sucks there.

 

[MMC]

 

[thestonedkoala]

Steel should have an asterisk as he centered Zuccs and Kaprizov and did jack

 

[rocketdan9]

Bruins need to snatch one of these UFAs

Like McLeod. Not sure what Devils are doing...

McLeod one of the top FO players last season... 60 per at FO dot. 587 wins.

 

[chaser17]

Nobody has cap space! This is madness!

 

[CupInSIX]

Nobody has cap space! This is madness!

Apparently Detroit does...but they suuuure don't act like it. -.-

 

[Shak19]

McLeod either signs in Edm or Toronto

 

[chaser17]

Apparently Detroit does...but they suuuure don't act like it. -.-

Yzerman just doing his old buddy Kenny a solid haha

 

[Brodeur]

Bruins need to snatch one of these UFAs

Like McLeod. Not sure what Devils are doing...

McLeod one of the top FO players last season... 60 per at FO dot. 587 wins.

Like a lot of teams, Devils are conserving cap space but are trying to negotiate a deal. McLeod was an ace in the faceoff dot but also has 10 goals in his last 157 regular season games. They're probably trying to sign him for something closer to his AAV last year instead of risking an arbitration award that'd give him a decent sized raise.

They traded for Curtis Lazar at the deadline which seems like a fallback plan if McLeod and/or Bastian end up taking deals elsewhere.

 

[miscs75]

For the Devils I am pretty sure of these guys not being qualified.

Ryan Graves ( I smell Vancouver)
Miles Wood (someone is going to overpay)
Tomas Tatar

I have a feeling Lou tries to get Myles Wood. Then his father shows up as an assistant somehow.

 

[tsujimoto74]

Can he center a 3rd line?

Ehhh, I’d say he’s more of a 4th liner.

 

[Forge]

Bruins need to snatch one of these UFAs

Like McLeod. Not sure what Devils are doing...

McLeod one of the top FO players last season... 60 per at FO dot. 587 wins.

Elite face off guy. Can't do anything else really. One of the worst shots in the league bar none. I thought he looked better offensively last year just with the way he carried with puck and he had some nice passes, but you really shouldn't be paying him anything that starts with a 2 mostly likely unless its right at like 3 years, 2.05 million or something. He's not even great defensively. He's a 4th line player, unfortunately. I'm a little surprised that they didn't qualify him, but he's also not good enough to be afraid of losing.

 

[TheGreenTBer]

Steel should have an asterisk as he centered Zuccs and Kaprizov and did jack

He centered Kaprizov and only got 27 freaking pts?

Send him.to North Korea. Christ.

 

[NewtJorden]

He centered Kaprizov and only got 27 freaking pts?

Send him.to North Korea. Christ.

That certainly is a sad stats.

 

[Petes2424]

I feel bad for Patrick. Injury issues killed his chances, its really unfortunate. Migraines, wasn't it?

He’s toast. Career is done.

Did any of the 2018 Canadian Men’s Juniors players, who were eligible to receive a QO today do so?

I count McLeod, Steel, Comtois and Mete all not receiving one. Did I miss anyone?

Howden was qualified.

 

[pth2]

Poehling would have liked to see him back

I don't get it, he seemed to be doing well and is a rare younger guy on PIT.

If Montreal didn't have too many contracts already I'd want him back.

If Montreal gave up on him and PIT is letting him go, I wonder what's the problem. It's not like he was going to win a big arbitration award...

 

[Empoleon8771]

I don't get it, he seemed to be doing well and is a rare younger guy on PIT.

If Montreal didn't have too many contracts already I'd want him back.

If Montreal gave up on him and PIT is letting him go, I wonder what's the problem. It's not like he was going to win a big arbitration award...

He allegedly has some major health issue. There have been murmurs about it all off-season that he has some major issue with his back that may hurt his effectiveness going forward.

 

[Siludin]

This unqualified RFA class really gave a shot in the arm to the UFA class. Some really interesting depth names out there.

 

[Petes2424]

Obviously Garionov and Geekie are going to see plenty of interest.

Fischer is an interesting one. He’s never really done what we thought he might. Someone will give him a deal because of what he was supposed to be. Just because it’s been the Coyotes.

Anderson-Dolan probably doesn’t get as much interest as people think. He’d be smart to take the first one-way offer he gets, as they may dry up quickly.

The 3 Devils will get plenty of looks too, as well as Caleb Jones.

There’s always teams who feel they can fix an issue with a dman. He has the feet and the physical ability to be a good retriever, and make that first pass. He’s just looked overwhelmed a lot of the time. Someone will try fixing that with him.

Not sure there’s a difference maker but maybe Garionov lands with the Rangers or someone with other Russians and kickstarts his career again. He’s too talented not to get offers.

 

[rocketdan9]

Elite face off guy. Can't do anything else really. One of the worst shots in the league bar none. I thought he looked better offensively last year just with the way he carried with puck and he had some nice passes, but you really shouldn't be paying him anything that starts with a 2 mostly likely unless its right at like 3 years, 2.05 million or something. He's not even great defensively. He's a 4th line player, unfortunately. I'm a little surprised that they didn't qualify him, but he's also not good enough to be afraid of losing.

He is a good skater. There is still a ceiling to reach. With the Bruins luck with these kind of players... "Zacha" him

 

[HugeInTheShire]

Can't walk away from any arbitration award under $4.5m.

Makes even more sense to not qualify McLeod then, if they award him 3 million they’ve got to pay him