2021 Free Agent Frenzy! July 28

[I-90 W]

Oh please let this be the case, I wanted him even before he went to Vegas and has his revival.

[WildCard]

  On 7/27/2021 at 3:30 PM, LGR4GM said:

 

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1 year left at a $7M cap hit, will be 37 this season.

 

[LGR4GM]

 

[LGR4GM]

This gives Vegas around 12mil in capspace. If they want to trade for Eichel, they now have the flexibility to do so.

[Sabres Fan in NS]

  On 7/27/2021 at 3:33 PM, LGR4GM said:

 

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How can they literally trade a player for 'nothing'?  Does there not have to be something going the other way?  Conditonal pick that is so outrageous that it would never happen?  Something?

Edited July 27, 2021 by New Scotland (NS)
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[I-90 W]

This is frustrating, they could have given him to us and we’re not even in their conference. Unless he has a list and our team is on it.

Edited July 27, 2021 by I-90 W

[GoPuckYourself]

A goalie has to be in play for us right? Frederik Anderson perhaps? Had a very down year but before that was lights out for Toronto. 

[WildCard]

  On 7/27/2021 at 3:37 PM, I-90 W said:

This is frustrating, they could have given him to us and we’re not even in their conference.

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He had a full M-NTC 

  On 7/27/2021 at 3:35 PM, New Scotland (NS) said:

How can they literally trade a player for 'nothing'?  Does there not have to be something going the other way?  Conditonal pick that is so outrageous that it would never happen?  Something?

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Yeah I don't understand how that works either. 

[I-90 W]

  On 7/27/2021 at 3:38 PM, WildCard said:

He had a full M-NTC 

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Yeah just realized that and edited my comment.

[LGR4GM]

 

  On 7/27/2021 at 3:38 PM, WildCard said:

He had a full M-NTC 

Yeah I don't understand how that works either. 

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Fleury had a 10 team NTC

[Digger]

  On 7/27/2021 at 3:33 PM, LGR4GM said:

 

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Very interesting.  Good pickup for Chicago.

I was listening to Elliotte Friedman's comments from yesterday.  They mentioned the last time a Vezina winner was traded the following season was when Buffalo traded Hasek to Detroit.

[Buffalonill]

Hawks going all in 

[sabrefanday1]

Once we give Jack away for a bag of hockey pucks as we did with Sam will we even meet the cap-floor threshold? Looking on the bright aside we should be able to lock up the  1st overall pick again next year fairly early. Isn't there new rules concerning how many times one team can have the 1st overall pick now? Thought I read that a new rule came in stopping teams from getting 1st overall pick too often in a 5 year stretch. Anybody hear of this rule?

[WildCard]

 

[I-90 W]

Found out through Twitter, man that’s cold.

[darksabre]

And people say the Sabres are bad at PR 

[The Jokeman]

  On 7/27/2021 at 3:35 PM, LGR4GM said:

This gives Vegas around 12mil in capspace. If they want to trade for Eichel, they now have the flexibility to do so.

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Vegas is like the Rangers, not sure they have the horses to give us a fair deal for Eichel. I think Minnesota the ideal partner since they have proven NHLers and a prospect or two that I like. 

[Buffalonill]

Want nothing from Vegas they have nothing besides  Krebs this it 

[The Jokeman]

  On 7/27/2021 at 3:49 PM, sabrefanday1 said:

Once we give Jack away for a bag of hockey pucks as we did with Sam will we even meet the cap-floor threshold? Looking on the bright aside we should be able to lock up the  1st overall pick again next year fairly early. Isn't there new rules concerning how many times one team can have the 1st overall pick now? Thought I read that a new rule came in stopping teams from getting 1st overall pick too often in a 5 year stretch. Anybody hear of this rule?

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Yeah the rule starting next year, I think it's you can't have more than 2 number one overall picks in a draft over a 5 year span. See no more Edmonton/Buffalo "tanking". 

[LGR4GM]

  On 7/27/2021 at 3:53 PM, The Jokeman said:

Vegas is like the Rangers, not sure they have the horses to give us a fair deal for Eichel. I think Minnesota the ideal partner since they have proven NHLers and a prospect or two that I like. 

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I think Vegas very much can match Minnesota. They have drafted well in their short time and even have a couple of Russians if we want to continue to go that route. 

[Justin C]

So Chicago pretty much said screw rebuilding and are trying for one more cup run huh?

[The Jokeman]

  On 7/27/2021 at 3:55 PM, LGR4GM said:

I think Vegas very much can match Minnesota. They have drafted well in their short time and even have a couple of Russians if we want to continue to go that route. 

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Until Adams changes the scouting staff I think we're still a Swede first team. 

[I-90 W]

I’m going to have ESPN on this afternoon, curious to see if they even cover anything.

[WildCard]

  On 7/27/2021 at 3:56 PM, The Jokeman said:

Until Adams changes the scouting staff I think we're still a Swede first team. 

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I'd rather be a Swede first team over a Russian first team any day of the week.

[Digger]

  On 7/27/2021 at 3:55 PM, LGR4GM said:

I think Vegas very much can match Minnesota. They have drafted well in their short time and even have a couple of Russians if we want to continue to go that route. 

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I agree with you on Minnesota having the best options at this point but having teams bidding against each other is the key to maximizing our return.  Let's get her done Kevin.