11 mil for Panarin... seems a little wack

noooo, it seems like someone finally offered a free agent what he's likely to get. weird concept for a leaf fan, I know.

Couple thoughts, you can't get Kakko for 4 years, only 3, and you can't sign Panarin for an 8 year deal, 7 max.

Also, bruins don't want vesey.

11 mil is not what Panarin is worth you need to do some research

Description: “Traded guys were not to teams that necessarily needed them, just put it out there to show who will probably get moved.”

i don't really read the description of a rangers post that says "the future is now," because I know it's going to be ludicrous .

Kravtsov is a LW, not really a center. He shifted their for WJC and did well, but his natural position is LW.

With having Kakko, Kravtsov, and Buchnevich all preferring RW as left handed shots, I wouldn't sign Skinner, another left handed shot.
I also don't think that Strome should be the initial second line center. Give that to Chytil and let him lose it if he underperforms. Honestly this is probably what we should address after Panarin and RHD as we don't really have a 2nd line center

Our preference should be to obtain another right handed shot, both on offense and defense (we need to get rid of shattenkirk, he isn't a top pairing guy)
If we would be able to get rid of half of his cap, we could use the money spent on skinner to make a run for Karlsson (might be a mistake); however, I would prefer packaging Pionk with a pick and/or another player for a better RHD (my wishlist is trouba).

Rykov has played over 20 minutes per game in the KHL, I think he'll be ready for 2nd pairing on the left side (although he can play both).

Kreider should be traded-- he already said he wouldn't report without an extension in place and well, him not playing lowers his stock even more than him playing through his injury.


If we were to:
Sign Panarin
Trade for Trouba (and sign at 7.25)
Sign Duchene (worst case go back for Hayes on another short term deal, say 6.5m for 2 years)
Get rid of Shattenkirk & Smith (we could package smith with vesey and take a lesser pick), buyout Staal

Panarin-Zibanejad-Kakko
Chytil-Duchene-Kravtsov
Lemieux-Strome-Buchnevich
Andersson-Howden- (**) **I would target Ho-Sang, Dal Colle, Duclair, Puljujarvi or another player thats boom or bust, wouldn't cost much in terms of trade or offer sheet**

Skjei-Trouba
Rykov-DeAngelo
(Hajek or Lindgren)-Fox

and i'm guessin

and I'm guessing you thought Matthews was going to sign for 8x10. You can laugh all you want, but if you think what a player will get in UFA is based on what they are worth, instead of what a team will give him, I kinda have to ask where you've been the last 10 years. He might get less if it's in a tax free market, but ya, for panarin to go to new york, it's definitely between 10-11 million.


Also, research? What research? Should I type into google, "crystal ball that will tell me what future UFAs will get in the NHL?"

You think they could work out a move sending Krieder up north for Trouba? (other pieces added as needed)

No, unless you are a non tax state 11 mil is reasonable.

I don't think so. I think he gets $11M easily. Especially since there will be multiple teams bidding.

But you comment on it