Signing the 7 best UFAs: Hall, Palmieri, Iafallo, Hoffman, Saad, Hamilton and Andersen.
It is next to impossible, but Seattle could draft most of them (Hall, Palmieri, Hoffman, Iafallo) and start negociating early, throwing all their capspace at them. The other ones will will be fare game on July 1st, but once again Seattle won't have much competition. It's the only way to get top 6 offensive power, a No 1 defenceman and A1 goalie IMO.
LITR= Traded for futures
SO MANY QUESTIONS
ANA: Which young defenceman has the most potential?
ARI: Do you try to sign Raanta? Who else?
BOS: Which young defenceman has the most potential?
BUF: Do you try to sign Hall? Who else?
CAR: Which defencemen get protected?
CGY: Does Lucic waives?
CHI: Anything of value?
COL: Is Landeskog protected? Does Johnson waives?
CLB: Anything of value?
DAL: Do you take Khudobin?
DET: Anything of value?
EDM: Is NH protected? Is Klefbom non admissible?
FLO: Anything of value?
LA: Is Aifallo protected? Who else?
MIN: 7/3/1 or 4/4/1?
MTL: Byron, Evans, Edmundson or Allen?
NAS: 7/3/1 or 4/4/1?
NJ : Do you take Subban? Who else?
NYI: Can you protect Bellows by exposing someone else?
NYR: Anything of value?
OTT: Anything of value?
PHI: Do you take JVR?
PIT: Tanev or a youngster?
SJ: Anything of value?
STL: Do you take Faulk? Who else?
TB: Can you protect Foote by exposing someone else?
TOR: Do you try to sign Andersen as a UFA?
VAN: Who's the 7th foward protected?
WAS: Which defencemen get protected?
WIN: Which young defenceman has the biggest potential?
There's no way Sakic will leave Toews exposed. Either we'll go the 4+4 route or we'll simply trade or buy Erik Johnson out. I think EJ will waive his NMC though.
There's no way Sakic will leave Toews exposed. Either we'll go the 4+4 route or we'll simply trade or buy Erik Johnson out. I think EJ will waive his NMC though.
Graves is your man.
They probs gonna let Graves go. Makes sense as they got good D-depth and really can survive losing him.
I could see the 4+4 option though. Am I right?
Ranta, McK, Land, Bura.
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Makar, Johnson, Girard, Toews.
In that case, I would go with Kadri instead of Graves
I'm still convinced that team captain Landeskog and general manager Sakic will work out an extension to be announced the first day of free agency, thereby permitting Colorado to protect MacKinnon, Rantanen, Kadri and Burakovsky. They would lose Compher, Jost or Graves, but that's an acceptable price to keep the core of a Stanley Cup contender together.