Pre-Game Talk: The 2019 off-season thread Part 4: Last Thread before the madness starts

[MPGA]

Dale spreads his manure and gives us 4 years of Brett Connolly. Well done

 

[Panthers Propaganda]

Honestly, the more I think about it the more I would rather us, use money that could have been used on Panarin for bonafide depth forwards tbh.

Our top 6 is fine, it’s....it’s the rest.

 

[Gizmo Tkachuk]

No 8 year deal for Panarin.

Goodnight

 

[Boothinator]

Rumor of lee signing with islanders for 56 million over 7 years according to dater. That’s a lot

Staple thinks he is moving on

 

[IceKitties]

Some posters here are overreacting hard about potentially not getting Panarin. If we get a top 10 goalie when our biggest weakness last year was goaltending, it will be a great July 1st for us. Panarin never guaranteed he was coming here. Let's see how things play out over the next 12 hours.

 

[FrolikFan67]

I mean if the islanders give him something stupid like 12 or more then go ahead, I’ll guess it’ll be 11.75, but we gotta add a top-4 D via trade, stralman isn’t the answer, add a bottom pairing guy through free agency sure but they’re not gonna find too much otherwise. A strong middle-6 forward and some depth could be done via free agency

Edit: if they miss out on Panarin then why not go for pavelski? He wouldn’t be a long term signing, would be cheaper while still being one of the top producers. More likely we go with a bolland-esk contract going to Wayne Simmonds, and add Justin Williams or something

 

[GrumpyKelly]

Yeah it's over with Panarin. f***. Really wanted the guy, I guess he didn't want to be here.

 

[RainingRats]

Leddy is the best available d-man I can think of if Panarin signs with NYI. Who else could we trade for? I know, I know, Q supposedly wasn’t his biggest fan

 

[RainingRats]

I mean if the islanders give him something stupid like 12 or more then go ahead, I’ll guess it’ll be 11.75, but we gotta add a top-4 D via trade, stralman isn’t the answer, add a bottom pairing guy through free agency sure but they’re not gonna find too much otherwise. A strong middle-6 forward and some depth could be done via free agency

Edit: if they miss out on Panarin then why not go for pavelski? He wouldn’t be a long term signing, would be cheaper while still being one of the top producers. More likely we go with a bolland-esk contract going to Wayne Simmonds, and add Justin Williams or something

Pavelski is going to Dallas

 

[barkovcanfinnish]

There were a lot of reasons for Panarin to come here. His old coach, former teammate from Russia, talented forward core, coming with Bob, playing in South Florida. We have the cap space to get him, must be some other reasons.

The Islanders lost Tavares last year, you gotta think their fanbase wanted some redemption for that and to get another star player to replace the hole it left. Wonder how much he's gonna make.

 

[Gentle Man]

Make up your mind

 

[RainingRats]

Some posters here are overreacting hard about potentially not getting Panarin. If we get a top 10 goalie when our biggest weakness last year was goaltending, it will be a great July 1st for us. Panarin never guaranteed he was coming here. Let's see how things play out over the next 12 hours.

We have a ton of cap space and want something impactful beyond goaltending. We missed out on Panarin and because we tried to get him, we also missed on Kessel and Subban. Both on manageable contracts re: term and we prob could have traded for

 

[FrolikFan67]

We have two spots available in our top-9 (one of which could potentially be filled by Tippett) and we need a 4th line center. We also need a top-4 defenseman and preferably a bottom pairing one too. Let’s see what happens I suppose

 

[IceKitties]

We have a ton of cap space and want something impactful beyond goaltending. We missed out on Panarin and because we tried to get him, we also missed on Kessel and Subban. Both on manageable contracts re: term and we prob could have traded for

As someone else in this thread said, it takes two to tango. In free agency you can't force someone to sign with you, especially if they are asking for a crazy high % of your cap that you're not willing to give up. Kessel and Subban are another story entirely, but we aren't in Dale's office. We don't know the exact details of those trades, and as far as I know Kessel had an NMC so no clue whether or not he would have wanted to come here. I understand being frustrated about not getting a great player in Panarin, but getting enraged by it isn't good for your health. Plus it sounds like we just got an awesome #1 goaltender that will make games a lot less anxiety-inducing than the goaltending we got last year (still love you though Lu).

 

[KW]

One concussion can make that 13M appear worse than Ek or Reims.

 

[Maylo]

Sergei Bobrovsky xsv%(expected sv%) in 18-19 season(all situations,behind great Torts defence) - 90,95%, Roberto Luongo xsv% in 18-19 (behind tire fire defence)- 90,65%. Columbus Goals for-256, Florida Goals for-264. You will be fine.

 

[MillarWithASave]

You would think that Panarin would have a super easy choice in coming to Florida. Bob, Q, the lifestyle. What does New York have that we don't?

We must have offered him something less than 10M imo.

 

[violaswallet]

You would think that Panarin would have a super easy choice in coming to Florida. Bob, Q, the lifestyle. What does New York have that we don't?

We must have offered him something less than 10M imo.

He can live in Manhattan and commute which is similar to living in Miami and commuting. I can get preferring the NYC life style, especially as a European...

 

[Gentle Man]

 

[Ghoste]

We have two spots available in our top-9 (one of which could potentially be filled by Tippett) and we need a 4th line center. We also need a top-4 defenseman and preferably a bottom pairing one too. Let’s see what happens I suppose

I'm thinking we go with Juho on the 4th line and only grab one other defenseman (with Brown, Cosh, Keeper battling for the 7th spot).

-ghoste

 

[Ghoste]

I mean how big is Q an influence to Bread besides familiarity? Trotz is a great coach also. Honest question.

And perhaps he and his girl want the New York scene. I'm not gonna lie, if someone paid for my vacation and asked if I wanted to go to NYC or Miami, I'm going to New York.

-ghoste

 

[Dr Beinfest]

Jeez reading this thread is humorous in the mood shift.

One minute it’s a celebration and the next it’s the phases of acceptance. We don’t want you anyways! What is it we don’t have that New York does? it’s okay, we can still have a good team.

Anyways. Humor aside... why not just wait for tomorrow? Don’t tie yourself to an answer you don’t yet know.

 

[EnforceTheLaus]

 

[ucanthanzalthetruth]

Huberdeau-Barkov-Dadonov
Hoffman-Trocheck-Vatrano
Connolly-Borgstrom-Sceviour
Brouwer-Sheahan-Hawryluk

Ekblad-Yandle
Matheson-Stralman
Weegar-Pysyk

Bob
Monty

looks good to me, top 9 is stacked

 

[ViD]

I don’t see any reason for Panarin to sign with NYI. There’s no Russian players there, no beaches, no Bob. I don’t know if that extra million will be that important