Confirmed with Link: RFAs & UFAs | QOs: Kucherov, Killorn, others | Marchessault to FLA (updates post #1)

[2020 Cup Champions]

I have a good feeling he and Killorn will be signed today.

 

[Hoek]

Detroit. Desperate for young but proven talent. Toronto. Needs a uber-skilled guy to play with Matthews. Ottawa. And good god, my Rangers would sell their souls to land Kucherov (we need a Russian mentor/babysitter/good influence for Buchnevich) but don't appear to have cap space. Honestly if I am a GM and can land a talent like Kuch say 7mil / 6 yrs I would say hell with draft picks.

We'd match that if we had to. Or pretty much any offer south of 9 mil. It'd hurt everything else but we're not going to let someone snipe him off of us. So no point of another team even bothering to sign him to an offer sheet imo.

 

[The Gongshow]

C'mon lets get these Killer and Kuch deals done!!

 

[Flat Ronnie]

I remember hearing, just like Hedman, Kucherov loves it hear and doesn't want to go anywhere else.

 

[The Gongshow]

Kuch gonna get 6x6 today??

 

[ThunderAlleyNomad]

I remember hearing, just like Hedman, Kucherov loves it hear and doesn't want to go anywhere else.

It's what I heard as well, plus the Lightning payed for his surgery when his KHL team wouldn't. Not saying he's going to give us a huge discount or will refuse to sign an offer sheet, but I'm willing to bet he gives Yzerman a better than fair shot at making a deal.

 

[VasilyKucherov]

$50-55M for 8 years is coming, and HF Boards is going to implode.

 

[Brie]

I feel that since we've been quiet at the UFA market that we'll probably re-sign as many as possible of our RFA, I mean if they didn't want to stay then I think Yzerman would have tried to get someone else since we'd be down 3 forwards.

 

[Brie]

It's what I heard as well, plus the Lightning payed for his surgery when his KHL team wouldn't. Not saying he's going to give us a huge discount or will refuse to sign an offer sheet, but I'm willing to bet he gives Yzerman a better than fair shot at making a deal.

This is what I feel as well, Palat is another one who have openly said how much he loves Tampa and everything about the team and the city.

 

[The Gongshow]

C'mon.. quit teasing us. Sign the Kuuuuuuuuuuuuuch man

 

[ThunderAlleyNomad]

C'mon.. quit teasing us. Sign the Kuuuuuuuuuuuuuch man

He'll get it! Even the Yzergod needs to take a breath now and then.

 

[DaBolts]

$50-55M for 8 years is coming, and HF Boards is going to implode.

We are quickly becoming a hated team because we're making other team's stars look greedy and selfish.

RE: Chi...

 

[DaBolts]

C'mon.. quit teasing us. Sign the Kuuuuuuuuuuuuuch man

Whoever is going to or working at Bern's Steakhouse tonight, please let us know if Stone Cold Steve Freaking Yzerman is having dinner there to night with Kuch, Killorn, and their agents.

 

[Stormbreaker]

 

[Werewolf]

It feels like Kuch wants more than $6M. We don't have the cap space and we are trying to move Bish before signing Kuch. Could it be?

 

[ThunderAlleyNomad]

Yeah, I'm starting to think all my happy thoughts about Kuch taking a team friendly contract were just pipe dreams. Hopefully I'm wrong. Still have to get him signed either way.

 

[The Gongshow]

Gotta lock up Kuch. He's gonna get 6.5. Forsberg got 6 so Kuch is gonna get more than that

 

[VasilyKucherov]

$50-55M for 8 years is coming, and HF Boards is going to implode.

Maybe wishful, but I am thinking somewhere in this range will get it done.

 

[Volodya Krutov]

It sounds like Kuch didn't consider Yzeman's first offer as being enough, indeed.

 

[Flat Ronnie]

It sounds like Kuch didn't consider Yzeman's first offer as being enough, indeed.

Well, guess what, son...Get with it cause Stamkos and Hedman pretty much set the table for the standard around here.

 

[2020 Cup Champions]

We just waited, what, half a year for Stamkos to take the original deal he was offered, we're not even the full day into free agency, and you guys are inferring things that aren't remotely clear. Go have a beer or something.

 

[DFC]

We just waited, what, half a year for Stamkos to take the original deal he was offered, we're not even the full day into free agency, and you guys are inferring things that aren't remotely clear. Go have a beer or something.

Was thinking the same thing. I'm nervous about offer sheets too, but it's been a matter of hours. Let's not get spoiled.

 

[Bobby Orr's Knees]

Well, guess what, son...Get with it cause Stamkos and Hedman pretty much set the table for the standard around here.

It's business. Hedman pretty much got what he's worth. You can't expect a professional athlete to leave too much money on the table. There is always a risk of a career-ending injury. People expecting Kucherov to sign for $5m - how fair is that to the player?

 

[DFC]

It's business. Hedman pretty much got what he's worth. You can't expect a professional athlete to leave too much money on the table. There is always a risk of a career-ending injury. People expecting Kucherov to sign for $5m - how fair is that to the player?

I don't think many people are expecting under six.

 

[Raymones]

Well, guess what, son...Get with it cause Stamkos and Hedman pretty much set the table for the standard around here.

Yes they did, indeed. I'm pretty confident Steve is persuading all of the coreplayers to act the same way. He obviously wasn't afraid to let Face of the Franchise walk as he didn't seem to blink from his first offer. He is bold, stubborn man with a plan.

"Leave a couple of 100k on the table and I will bring you a cup. If not, you´re out". I don't think he would hesitate trading one of Killer/Johnson/Drouin/Palat if they're reluctant to sign for what he deems fair. Maybe even Kuch.