Speculation: Oh Radulov, Where Art Thou...GH?

[Cousin Eddie]

Sakic says no to Radulov

 

[Former Ladder]

Sakic says no to Radulov

Wow, did not expect him to be so definitive on that. I guess we know for sure now. Wonder where that leaves Rads' destinations, unless he comes way down on his demands.

 

[Avs_19]

I don't believe everything a GM says publicly but this sounds about right. I'd be surprised if any team goes more than two years for him.

 

[ASmileyFace]

Well there we have it.

Bummer man. Bummer.

 

[CoachBadkitten]

Was fun while it lasted

 

[Avs44]

Yep, as I said a while ago. Radulov wants money.

 

[BoxOfChocolates]

Gonna be a long season

 

[UncleRisto]

I believe.

 

[Former Ladder]

The tweet about fearing an offersheet tells me they are worried if they eat much of their cap space with someone before they get Barrie/MacK signed that they think someone would offer sheet one of them (likely MacK). That kind of seems like bad management if they haven't got a deal inked for both players if that is what is holding them back from signing Radulov. We have roughly $17M in cap space at the moment (if I remember right) with MacK, Barrie, Grigs and Pickard to sign. That probably only leaves about $3-4M after them. They don't really have the space for a big fish anyways with talk of retaining everybody.

It will be interesting to see how they fill out their lineup for this season assuming Iggy is relegated to 3rd/4th line duties and Stuart is on LTIR.

 

[Former Ladder]

 

[Avs_19]

Fears offer sheet for one of our guys? There is a way to avoid that........

 

[Cousin Eddie]

Fears offer sheet for one of our guys? There is a way to avoid that........

Weird way of approaching it eh? He even said something along the lines of "Mackinnon should be signed before they start camp". The way he said it was almost like it was a positive way of looking at it like "we're so good that we aren't go to wait until camp starts to sign our star of the future, we'll get it taken care of the day before."

 

[StayAtHomeAv]

No excuse for that. Sign your damn guys if that's what you fear.

 

[henchman21]

The fearing an offer sheet screams to me that they have told Barrie to go out and look for another team to get a deal if they don't like the Avs' offers, and they will consider matching it if somebody signs him.

After 3 years, haven't we learned though that we can't really read into what Roy and Sakic have to say? They have been a number of times they say one thing and do another. Sakic really tries hard to manage expectations.

This thread will live on and on!!!!

 

[InjuredChoker]

which team is more comfortable giving radulov big money/term than the one coached by patrick roy?

 

[Cousin Eddie]

which team is more comfortable giving radulov big money/term than the one coached by patrick roy?

CSKA Moscow

 

[AMDZen]

Honestly I hope this is the end. No reason to continue to have false hope that this team will ever do anything to ever be a contender.

 

[cgf]

After this thread gets full, there is gonna be a need for another one for people posting all their disappointments when Radulov signs here & is his awesome self.

 

[Freudian]

I think his lack of signing already proves that he's Russian bad egg.

 

[ASmileyFace]

What a weird way of phrasing it. Fearing an offer sheet for BArrie? Doesn't make much sense to me. Few teams would probably be willing to do that considering he'll demand 6+ more than likely which is a ton of compensation.

I also remember Sakic saying we wouldn't do anything at the trade deadline... then we brought in Bodeker.

We're not out of this yet. I'm not holding my breath anymore though.

 

[RockLobster]

While I do find Sakic's comments odd, I'm not sure why it'd be expected that he'd reveal anything noteworthy about the Avs' pursuit of Radulov.

Until he signs with another team, I'm still believing what I was told.

 

[MacKinnon]

We could have top-5 skilled winger on the world and possibility to break "Duchene Cap". I think I'm not going to get sleep at all this night.

 

[AslanRH]

And here we go again with Avs not getting things done early (MacKinnon and secondly Barrie) and finding themselves is a spot where it might cost them another opportunity.

I am completely over this FO

 

[The Kingslayer]

And here we go again with Avs not getting things done early (MacKinnon and secondly Barrie) and finding themselves is a spot where it might cost them another opportunity.

I am completely over this FO

Im getting there. Im finding it harder and harder to defend some of this ****

 

[hockeyfish]

Settle down kids, it's all part of the negotiations.