Strangelove wrote: ↑Sun Oct 11, 2020 12:16 pm
Orderlies, take this gomer away for another round of shock therapy!
Only a gomer would think you'd have to give up something that high for a Tanev-like top-4 in the current climate....
Quit with the name calling. I'm sick of it. If not, From this point forward, you are [MOD EDIT]. It WILL catch on. You'll embrace it.
Hey Gomer, I'm not the mod that deleted your post the first time you posted that.
We don't allow racist terms here, get with the program.
Hey Gomer, try using all those rainbow terms. You know, the ones your super familiar with from all your young guy friends and uncles!
Re: Around the league (signings, RFAs injuries)
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 2:20 pm
by 2Fingers
It is going to be a long summer/off season/fall/winter until they drop the puck again.
unit then boys and girls buckle up because it is going to get nasty here.
Re: Around the league (signings, RFAs injuries)
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 2:24 pm
by rats19
Prediction or... projection
Re: Around the league (signings, RFAs injuries)
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 2:37 pm
by Meds
Right now we have taken a step back on the blueline.
I’m fully on board with Tanev and Markstrom getting those paydays elsewhere. Everything said about them is true.
That being said, Tanev is not easily replaced simply because of how thin our right side already was and there’s nobody internally that can step in at his level of defensive play.
Could he be replaced via free agency? Yes.
There have been a few defensemen already signed that I’m very surprised we weren’t in on when you see their price tags.
Barrie for example just signed a 1 year show me deal for $3.75M. He would definitely have been worth having on a 1 year deal at even as high as $4M. No clue what went on and maybe he’s really just looking to cash in on the chance to ride McDavid and Draisaitl’s coattails.....regardless that is going to be something that any GM will factor in next year. So I’m not sure it does anything for him. Or perhaps he just wanted to avoid expansion nonsense. Although I can see him signing as an UFA with Seattle to be close to home.....and I can also see an expansion team giving him a 5 year contract at a salary he’s happier with.
Regardless, Tanev needs to be replaced, and right now Benning is seemingly sitting on the sidelines while other teams are landing some discounted talent that would be serviceable in the holes we currently have.
It’s only day 3 though. So patience is still a virtue. However Elmer might find himself picking over some real scraps at this rate.
He gets far more than a passing grade for his handling of Markstrom and Tanev.
I think I would have been happy with Stecher back at $1.7M tho. I suspect in this case that when Vancouver didn’t give him a QO he decided to sign elsewhere like a jilted lover.
I think everyone just wants to know what the plan is for the blueline because as of now the only hope this team has of a playoff spot is if Demko plays at least 30 games like he did his last 3....
