Speculation: Trade and Free Agency Talk - LI

[ctmagic]

1. Krejci

2. Wennberg

3. Suter

hope our priority list looks like this.

 

[16thOverallSaveUs]

For better or worse, Carolina absolutely low-balls the shit out of everyone.
I like it; it doesn’t matter how good the player is. If they don’t think it will be a good contract they say F off, we’ll use the money elsewhere where we can get a good contract. That regime is going to win a cup.

I do wonder what they’d be saying to Kaprizov, though, if they were in our shoes. I bet they’d give him his 3 year deal and not really worry about it

 

[Wild11MN]

1. Krejci

2. Wennberg

3. Suter

hope our priority list looks like this.

Krejci is reportedly re-signing in Boston.

 

[Spurgeon]

What's a clean way out of the Parise/Suter deals? Any trade or retention of $$$$ would come with huge risk of cap restructure penalties if one or both retired early. Parise was also relegated to being scratched so he was ALREADY dead cap. The Suter buyout surprised me but I understand Guerin wanting a clean slate and to be able to know exactly what his cap hits are going forward without having to have the ghost of a cap restructure penalty hanging over this team. In different interviews Guerin said Suter was going to see a "significant" reduction of ice-time and I'm assuming didn't want to go through the same issues he just went through with Parise.

Suter is better than any defenseman we’re signing today. I also don’t know exactly how much his ice time could realistically have been reduced by. He’d be playing on the same pairing and still getting PK time. Sure, maybe he loses out on his PP ice time, but that’s a marginal impact.

 

[ctmagic]

Krejci is reportedly re-signing in Boston.

Something come out today? Seravelli said there have been no talks between Boston and Krejci and him signing elsewhere on a 1yr deal was a possibility.

 

[Spurgeon]

Something come out today? Seravelli said there have been no talks between Boston and Krejci and him signing elsewhere on a 1yr deal was a possibility.

The Wild should just give him a 1 yr x $9M or something ridiculous.

 

[Wild11MN]

Something come out today? Seravelli said there have been no talks between Boston and Krejci and him signing elsewhere on a 1yr deal was a possibility.

This is from yesterday. Seems like a credible source given that multiple sites are citing it from the Boston area.

 

[16thOverallSaveUs]

Say we Kaprizov/Fiala get a combined 15M, then we have 14M to fill 6 or 7 spots. Gologoski will probably eat 4M of that. Then we’re probably going to pay another 4 for the bottom pair. I don’t see how we can afford a Krejci. Suter I could see

 

[Engebretson]

Hopefully we're shifting attention from Eichel to someone like Dvorak.

 

[TwiztedHeat]

Weird feeling we're gonna swerve and sign Danault for too much money

 

[Webster]

Guerin doesn't want another guy named Suter on this team

Don't know why you're talking about Rask as 1C, Guerin said a while ago he hopes Rossi can be that guy.

 

[GuerinUp]

guerin needs to get on the phone with NYR and offer something significant for zibs right now that will push NYR to pickup eichel and keep him out of the west.

 

[MuckOG]

His NHL resume is small. I'd give him that for a 1 year deal, but nothing longer.

Evolving Hockey predicts Pius Suter to get a deal somewhere in the ballpark of 3 x $4 million.

 

[Spurgeon]

Say we Kaprizov/Fiala get a combined 15M, then we have 14M to fill 6 or 7 spots. Gologoski will probably eat 4M of that. Then we’re probably going to pay another 4 for the bottom pair. I don’t see how we can afford a Krejci. Suter I could see

Move Rask out & it works.

Or don’t spend $4M on Goligoski. It’s ridiculous that BG is targeting Bogosian with Addison and Menell already on the right-side. This team is going to need to make space next year & it’d be a hell of a lot easier if they knew what they had in either of them as a potential Dumba replacement.

 

[16thOverallSaveUs]

Move Rask out & it works.

Or don’t spend $4M on Goligoski. It’s ridiculous that BG is targeting Bogosian with Addison and Menell already on the right-side. This team is going to need to make space next year & it’d be a hell of a lot easier if they knew what they had in either of them as a potential Dumba replacement.

I don’t think Rask is somebody who would be easily moved in this climate

 

[GuerinUp]

I don’t think Rask is somebody who would be easily moved in this climate

arizona would probably take him tbh

 

[Spurgeon]

I don’t think Rask is somebody who would be easily moved in this climate

Eh, retain 25-50% on him and he’s probably not negative value as a bottom 6 center w/ this weak FA center market.

 

[grimmel95]

Suter is better than any defenseman we’re signing today. I also don’t know exactly how much his ice time could realistically have been reduced by. He’d be playing on the same pairing and still getting PK time. Sure, maybe he loses out on his PP ice time, but that’s a marginal impact.

You didn't answer a clean way out of the Parise/Suter contracts. I just mentioned the significant reduction of ice-time that Suter was going to see which was stated by Guerin. I agree Suter is still a good dman but his minutes and play has started to diminish and MY assumption is that Guerin decided that if he was going to cut him now would be the time since he would be able to gain some cap relief for this year and also to start with a clean slate.

 

[MuckOG]

For those interested in Pius Suter

 

[Minnewildsota]

For those interested in Pius Suter

I think 3.4 for 2 would work... Maybe?

 

[Jesus comma Brodin]

I think 3.4 for 2 would work... Maybe?

He’ll get more term elsewhere I think, and money. Don’t see it working for us but I hope I’m wrong.

 

[16thOverallSaveUs]

I swear to God Billy…

 

[thestonedkoala]

Say we Kaprizov/Fiala get a combined 15M, then we have 14M to fill 6 or 7 spots. Gologoski will probably eat 4M of that. Then we’re probably going to pay another 4 for the bottom pair. I don’t see how we can afford a Krejci. Suter I could see

If we sign Goligoski for more than 2 million, Guerin should be fired.

 

[Spurgeon]

You didn't answer a clean way out of the Parise/Suter contracts. I just mentioned the significant reduction of ice-time that Suter was going to see which was stated by Guerin. I agree Suter is still a good dman but his minutes and play has started to diminish and MY assumption is that Guerin decided that if he was going to cut him now would be the time since he would be able to gain some cap relief for this year and also to start with a clean slate.

They needed to buyout Parise for numerous reasons. They didn’t need a clean slate with Suter though. Having to commit $3-4M now to a 2LD significantly hampers this team over the next 4 years, especially with Parise’s dead cap and a flat cap. It might not hurt this year, but having that cash freed up + Suter would make me a hell of a lot more optimistic right now.

I swear to God Billy…

I guess my overestimate of Cole @ $3M+ a few months ago was actually accurate.

 

[16thOverallSaveUs]

If we sign Goligoski for more than 2 million, Guerin should be fired.

Gologoski is still a good player who I’d pay more than 2M for. Cole though…