BattleBorn
50% to winning as many division titles as Toronto
Until I started reading all this, I was pretty sure teams that lost in the first round got the pick based on their regular season points, so we should get 15 or so.
Until I started reading all this, I was pretty sure teams that lost in the first round got the pick based on their regular season points, so we should get 15 or so.
If we can get Bill for cheaper for longer term then I'd be willing to give him 8 years as it would bring him to 34yo the year the contract expires. Just before the bad side of the 30's.
What would Vegas want for Huala and Eakins we need some depth scoring?
Highly doubt both Eakin and Haula get moved. One of them will be the 3C to start. I think it makes more sense to sell high on Eakin's career year and hope Haula rebounds from his injury. Currently no one is going to pay what a healthy Haula is worth in a trade.
I think if you need to move a center and you have to consider everything involved, you have to deal Eakin and hope Haula is good.If one of the two gets moved, Haula should be the one to go...it's a no brainer. I wasn't very high on him last year when he had a career year, thought he was extremely lucky to score as many goals as he did. Perron & Neal drove his line & did all the dirty work. His strength was/is his skating, but who knows how this injury affects his speed. I just find him to be a very soft player & I like Eakin's grit & face off ability way more than what Haula brings to the team.
If Haula winds up staying & Eakin does get moved, we become a very top heavy team. Our PK is much weaker if Eaks & Bellmare both go & suddenly our strength down the middle becomes a giant question mark.
Obviously some forwards need to go & the D corps needs to be revamped. Engellend was just brutal in Games 5 & 6, and was completely gassed in OT last night. Thanks for the memories, but it's time to transition into life after hockey.
Here's a list of guys I am fine with being elsewhere next year.
Carpenter
Engellend
Holden (bolded because he was that ****ing bad)
Zykov
Merrill
I think if you need to move a center and you have to consider everything involved, you have to deal Eakin and hope Haula is good.
Haula's not likely to fetch what he's probably worth due to the injury, and he's supposedly kind of a primadonna in the room. Hopefully he's the Top 6 caliber guy he was last season and thinks he is.
The only real issue is who plays center on the 4th line if Bellemare is gone and Glass is up, since Glass is not a 4th line guy and neither is Haula. Nosek, I suppose, then move Glass or Haula to wing.
Yuck, that 4th line looks awful. No offense to Carrier and Nosek.Glass could be a 1C I don't think we should be putting him on the wing.
EDIT: I don't know where Haula would fit, either.
Smith-Karlsson-Marchessault
Stone-Stastny-Pacioretty
Gusev-Glass-Tuch
Carrier-Nosek-Zykov
Mikheyev/Quinney/Duke/Kolesar/Hyka
Where does he slot in the team?
Yuck, that 4th line looks awful. No offense to Carrier and Nosek.
Trade Miller, Holden and one of Haula and Eakin for McDavid 50% retained
Could you imagine the meltdown.
Vegas finished ahead of Colorado though and if Colorado loses the 2nd round, Colorado will pick 16 and Vegas 17. The 16-27 spots are by order of finish between the teams that don't make the Conference finals. Doesn't matter whether they lose in the first or the second round and division winners are placed at the end of the list of those that lose during the first 2 rounds.VGK finished 16th in league, but that's behind a team that didn't make the playoffs (e.g., Montreal). As the teams that didn't make playoffs get 1-15, VGK probably will be #16.
Wow, the thought of losing both Eakin and Bellemare is completely frightening based on what we just saw on the PK without them. No other player sacrifices themselves like they do and Eakin is either our first or second best faceoff guy (just watch the crosscheck... too soon?).
I mean of course it all depends on who we get, but we gut our PK unit if we lose both those guys. Maybe Nosek can cover for one of them, but I am not sure who else is as good on the PK. Carpy pretty good, but he's no Eakin. Visions of 4 goals on a 5 min major are still flashing in front of me.
Teams usually use 6 forwards as their primary PK units. Neither Stone nor Smith are centers so they would be losing 2 of the 3 centers from the PK units. I believe if they move on from someone for cap reasons it might be Haula and try to keep 1 or both of Eakin/BelleI'd say Stone/Karlsson/Smith are all fantastic penalty killers themselves. Losing depth players is the price you pay for success and trying to contend. They are also the easiest and cheapest to replace. There is no shortage or 3rd and 4th liners on the free agent market every year that are great PK'ers.