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Daniel Sprong, Tyler Johnson, and Max Paccriocetty look like the best remaining. Sprong is basically a 3rd line version of Skinner, doesn’t make much sense. Johnson would have made sense if we didn’t add McLeod for the 3C role already. Patches would make some sense for the 6F spot, but he’s had a lot of injuries the last few years and may not ever return to form, so it’s a gamble.

Dahlin is a #1D. Who are the other two? I assume you’re talking about Power and Byram, but neither is a number 1 defender at this point in time. Maybe both have potential to be that at some point in their career, but right now they’re more like 2nd pairing defenders. Also, the statement that this is the first year of the rebuild being over is just moving the goalposts. Playoffs were the expectation last year, they just failed.

Edmonton wouldn’t be asking for Benson for McLeod, Benson matched his career best in points as an 18 year old rookie. If they were asking for Benson, it means McLeod wasn’t really for sale.

The key difference here: McLeod is trending up: .29 ppg, .4 ppg, .38 ppg (with much better analytics). Meanwhile Krebs is trending down: .46 ppg, .35 ppg, .21 ppg. Krebs is a year younger, so maybe he puts it together soon, but so far he’s been getting worse the longer he’s been in the league.

Not really many players out there worth bringing in. He probably wouldn’t be able to play a whole season, but Max Pacioretty is still out there and can probably play in a middle six role.

You can’t redo deals in the NHL.

Complaining about Kulich, Östlund, and Savoie not being ready for the NHL seems pretty silly when you consider that from their draft year, only 2 players agave played a full season’s worth of games, and only 7 have played 30 or more.

Honestly? Our 12th best forward right now. It’s possible he has some development and jumps up some, but he was 11th in total points last year, only one point ahead of Nicolas Aube-Kubel. And In a per game basis, NAK beats him. Lafferty, NAK, and Malenstvn all have a better defensive game as well. After last season, I really only wanted Krebs around in a 13th forward role.

If Henrique was 2C, that likely means Cozens is on the wing, which brings us back to the problem of Krebs being 3C.

Florida would probably match, they’d still have 4.5 mil to sign 2 bottom sixers+a 7D or 13F or both. There’s also rumors of them wanting to move Ekbald which would free up more space to give them more to work with.

Erikkson Ek is likely out of the picture now, had a clause kick in today.

AHL goalie.

Lindholm is more than a 3rd line center, he’s a solid 2nd line center production wise and brings a great 2 way game. He’s had some 1C production in the past (42 goals, 82 points on the flames), but most years is not that productive. He’s a good pickup for Boston, though the term is likely 2-3 years too long.

His production is in line with an average 7th forward. He produces more like a high end 3rd liner, definitely not a 4th liner. Obviously, I still want to see some more adds.

I’d guess closer to 3.5-4.

Montour signing with the Kraken, 7 years in the neighborhood of 50 million.

32 year old Left winger, played for the wild, penguins, and Nashville. Once got up to 64 points, but now more of a 30-40 point guy.

IIRC, it wasn’t that they took less. I believe we had an offer, Ottawa made a slightly better offer, and then the Coyotes didn’t give the opportunity for us to make a better offer after.

We still haven’t seen a healthy McDavid in the finals. He has an abdominal injury that likely require surgery. And it really seems like you’re exaggerating Crosby’s finals performances. In 25 finals games, Crosby has 20 points, with his best being 7 points in one finals. McDavid had 11 points in 7 games. Crosby was held scoreless in 2 finals clinching games, and hasn’t scored a goal in a final clinching game. Crosby is a career +4 in the finals. McDavid was a +5 in this series. If he’s healthy, I take McDavid with little doubt in my mind.

98 points and missing the playoffs would be an NHL record. 96 points and missing the playoffs has only happened 3 times in NHL history. Last year, 91 points made it, the year before 92 was good enough.

Mitts was getting about 17.5 minutes a game in the playoffs, 3 minutes more than the forward behind him. That’s a reasonable amount of time considering the Avalanche have one of the best top lines in the league.

I’m not sure this is true. Laughton is a terrible hockey player. Defensively worse than Skinner, without the production to even things out. Assets would have to be coming to the Sabres for me to consider taking him. And Dlo has a tough, physical game, which would be nice to add, but doesn’t bring enough else to be anything more than a 12th/13th forward. I would Offer a 3rd or 4th round pick for that package at the most.

But then wouldn’t they be more likely to trade 12+ something smaller to move to somewhere in the 9-11 range? Them wanting 11 and 12 points to them wanting 2 players from that range (potentially from a group of 3-5 players).

Not someone I’m very interested in, especially not at the price of 11OA. 4 years at 5 million a season with average analytics despite spending most of the year playing with Konecny. He could help us this season, but he’d be too expensive for the bottom six role he’d be in after this season.

Tippett is a winger signed for 8 years at 6.2 million a season with a career high 53 points. He’s a solid player, but IMO slightly overpaid, and really doesn’t fit into the long term plan.