Svech just signed a steal

Yup

Holy crap I’m hyped. Thank god we got him locked up for under 8 million.

It was definetly accurate. Poland won 1-0. The only goal was a shot that barely got past the goalie's pads

Rare Waddell W

Words can’t describe how happy I am right now with the Svech deal. Thank you Waddell.

Lucky thing for Canes fans that the Svech deal was a W. Waddell’s gotta earn the W in his name in at least 1/3 of transactions (one W two Ls lol). Now hopefully the Sens get Tkachuk locked up for 8 years at slightly less than this.

I hate to burst your bubble, but the Canes have 8.6M in cap space now (with Gardiner on LTIR). So if they didn't sign Freddie Andersen, they would have been able to keep Dougie and Ned

Since when is Gardiner injured?

He’s always at least half injured. Also a defensive liability so I get the idea of putting him on LTIR.

8 players have signed bigger AAV contracts than Svechnikov since Jan. 1

-Zachary Werenski
-Alex Ovechkin
-Brayden Point
-Seth Jones
-Darnell Nurse
-Cale Makar
-Dougie Hamilton

Im pretty sure he has a back injury

Or surgery

Svechnikov's signing also just pushed Jonathan Huberdeau outside of the top 25 most paid left-wingers.

1-Artemi Panarin $11,642,857 (NYR)
2-Alex Ovechkin $9,500,000 (WSH)
3-Jamie Benn $9,500,000 (DAL)
4-Jeff Skinner $9,000,000 (BUF)
5-Claude Giroux $8,275,000 (PHI)
6-Andrei Svechnikov $7,750,000 (CAR)
7-Patrik Laine $7,500,000 (CBJ)
8-Kyle Connor $7,142,857 (WPG)
9-Evander Kane $7,000,000 (SJS)
10-Anders Lee $7,000,000 (NYI)
11-Matthew Tkachuk $7,000,000 (CGY)
12-Gabriel Landeskog $7,000,000 (COL)
13-James van Riemsdyk $7,000,000 (PHI)
14-Max Pacioretty $7,000,000 (VGK)
15-Johnny Gaudreau $6,750,000 (CGY)
16-Chris Kreider $6,500,000 (NYR)
17-Alex DeBrincat $6,400,000 (CHI)
18-Brad Marchand $6,125,000 (BOS)
19-Milan Lucic $6,000,000 (CGY)
20-Taylor Hall $6,000,000 (BOS)
21-Jake Guentzel $6,000,000 (PIT)
22-Timo Meier $6,000,000 (SJS)
23-Loui Eriksson $6,000,000 (ARI)
24-Filip Forsberg $6,000,000 (NSH)
25-Mats Zuccarello $6,000,000 (MIN)

Good, I like Loui Eriksson more than Huberdeau anyway

I still cannot believe Vancouver didn't get a single good year out of that contract.

8 x 4.69 for MON & Jesperi Kotkaniemi.

— Elliotte Friedman 💭 (@AbsCoverage) August 26, 2021

nice try

F*ck i fell for it, I was like yes than nooo

Someone do an overrated players list

1. Josh Morrissey

The 3 worst analytical players in the NHL last year

1. Radek Faksa
2. Jordan Greenway
3. Josh Morrissey

Guy is treated like a #1 d-man but he fails every single hockey evaluation test. Eye test fail, analytical fail, even point production fail. He put up 12 5v5 points last year. 17 point pace.

2. Sean Monahan

Again, analytical - 3C, point production - 3C, eye test - half the games I can't even tell you he was playing yet he's treated like a fringe 1C when in reality he's a 3C

Loui>Huberdeau confirmed

Dahlin

Now that could be a hot take but he had 1 good year and now he’s had 2 abysmal years. Yes he’s on Buffalo blah blah - but Eichel, Reinhart, etc still perform. But he’s treated like a Elite pairing d man still by many fans and Buffalo fans.

Dahlin has been just brutal and still has upside but it’s hard to argue he’s worth much right now. You’re really just betting on potential if you think he’s worth something. He’s needs to play well to justify continuous defending of him. Trust me he’s got potential but you can’t defend a kid for 3 years straight if he plays mediocre again.

I think this is a bit too far in the other direction tbh. He’s a perfectly good 2C who has typically been an above average offensive contributor. 19-20 was a down year where he was still on pace for 26 goals and 56 points, which is very good 2C numbers. His average from 2014-19 was 31 goals and 68 points per 82 games which is elite 2C, 1C on a non-contender numbers (which is what he was). This year he was only on pace for 46 points, but he was playing through a hip injury and with a rotating cast of RWers who honestly shouldn’t even be in the NHL (Ritchie, Leivo, Simon, Nordstrom all sucked, Bennett was probably the best and he didn’t deserve to be higher than the 4th line when he was with us).