We have the Cap room!! 2019-20 UFA Targets??
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Toews2Bickell
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If Stone is off the market in July and its Panarin at 10m per or nothing what would the next plan be...thats the way its trending atm
RememberTheRoar
“I’m not as worried about the 5-on-5 scoring.”
Spend the money on several above average bottom-6 guys to improve depth. Keep the terms short, and be willing to go slightly higher in $
Toews2Bickell
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Concern is these guys always seem to be overpaid unless its on a sweetheart deal ala Richards in 2014.
Hawkaholic
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Knowing Bowman, he will sign Ron Hainsey, Eric Fehr, and resign Cam Ward and say he improved the team. All of us fans expecting a big signing will be left disappointed as another wasted year of Toews and Kane go by.
AmericanDream
Thank you Elon!
I rode the Derek Ryan train hard last year as a valuable add, so going to ride the Ryan Dzingel train and bring the local boy home...
RememberTheRoar
“I’m not as worried about the 5-on-5 scoring.”
That’s definitely a concern, but this team needs multiple guys who are all but guaranteed to put up 30+ in a bottom 6 role, especially if there’s not another top-end talent coming in.
AmericanDream
Thank you Elon!
I have watched a ton of hockey this year- wife and kids so overjoyed from it lol...
But honestly, I have literally seen every team and very few of them look real good out there consistently. Very few of those teams have a better top 6 than we do (when Saad is going of course)...our area that other teams are better at is that bottom 6 right now.. we have a number of young guys not really contributing offensively, that needs to change. We need to get Sikura up here, put him on the third line with a responsible guy like AA and a hard worker like Kahun...that line will start to change things around as they will not be a complete disaster away from the puck and will help produce some offensively.
Go out and get a Ryan Dzingel for a prospect/pick and staple his ass on that third line... the difference would be huge in our lineup if we could throw out this:4
Saad - Toews - Kane
DeBrincat - Schmaltz - Kahun
Dzingel - Anisimov - Sikura
Hayden - Kampf - Fortin/Martinsen
that is a significant upgrade right there and a lineup that matches most of the top teams in the league...sexy bitches right there!!
the other area we are behind in is defense of course, we all know this so hopefully Murphy and Forsling can do just enough to make us average overall.
RayP
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Like who? Honest question. I looked and nobody that will be on the market jumps out to me to go this route with.
BK
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Ace Rothstein
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BobbyJet
watch the game, everything else is noise
Interesting tweet from yesterday. Something I was unaware of:
PS ... those scratches listed were for last nights game. Hopefully that changes tonight.
PS ... those scratches listed were for last nights game. Hopefully that changes tonight.
Let the rookies from Rockford play next year.Re-sign Schmaltz and Debrincat.Trade Anisimov , Murphy and Crawford at deadline .They need to free up money for future to re-sign the kids on defence.Try and trade Keith (Seabrook....nobody wants that contract )if possible at deadline or over summer.They need to start over ...
Jeffrey Lebowski
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1) this isn't even close to "starting over"
2) how do those moves help us rebuild besides the cap space (which we already have)
3) how many young players do we need to re-sign this off-season to even full that extra 15 mil?
4) who do we sign (considering market values) to revamp this team? Consider, we're competing with 30 other teams to outbid for whoever that is
I understand that people are panicked, but dumping contracts and signing free agents isn't going to right the ship. And we don't have the prospects to even consider assembling a cup team yet.
Ultimately, this process will take time. Let's not get ahead of ourselves thinking there's a quick fix.
Kevin Musto
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BobbyJet
watch the game, everything else is noise
/\ Yep. Even 3 years to be truly competitive again is very optimistic.
BobbyJet
watch the game, everything else is noise
AmericanDream
Thank you Elon!
I said Manning would play again today...sadly he didn't make any massive blunders, but he offered nothing positive either...if he at least stops making those horrible reads, pinches, and coverages and just stays to a basic game he can be a useful physical 6th dman..I just do not have confidence he can consistently do that,
dreadpirateroberts
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Jeff Skinner has definitely performed out of our price range now, right? He currently has 18 goals and is on a 60-goal pace right now.
RememberTheRoar
“I’m not as worried about the 5-on-5 scoring.”
Hawkaholic
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Looks like Hawks have 17mil+ in cap space, with 7 players to sign, but no one that will take more than a couple million.
Very likely Hawks have roughly 9-10mil in cap space come July 1st, or 15mil if they trade AA.
Very likely Hawks have roughly 9-10mil in cap space come July 1st, or 15mil if they trade AA.
I would be surprised if this team does not add one of Panarin, Karlson, Stone, Duchene in the offseason. With all this cap space and a guy like Mcdonaugh around, they will attempt to make a splash. Expect them to dole out 10 plus million a year in cap space in early July. The cap likely rises by a couple million, and they can still move Anisimov if they wanted too. I'd prefer to keep him with the lack of depth upfront but they can be very creative for the first time since Hossa was signed.
question, there are players whose contract will be up the following yr, do you think it is wise to spend that huge chunk of chg for that special elite player......
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