that is an enviable 3rd line. newhook & jost likely pair up with burky in the future, and that's just nasty

What made you want to sign gustafsson for 3 mil, he is a bottom pairing guy at most. I'd rather have timmins, he'll play the same 10 mins a night and cost 1/3 of the price

Gabe isn't taking that deal, there will be teams that overpay him if thats what he chooses

Gusafsson makes 0 sense for this team, Timmins is flat out better.

Saad deal is a touch expensive

That is a hell of a paycut for Stastny, who while I'm sure COL fans adore, doesn't really fit with what the team is trying to do at this point in their window. Also with Josts breakout and Newhook on the roster its not a big need.

Thats no where near what it would take to get Kuemper and teams don't usually trade away guys they just acquired. Having an injury prone starter with an AHL backup is a complete disaster waiting to happen that will nuke anything good the team has going for it

good now we can see Makar and MacKinnon. both leave soon as they won't have enough cap space to sign either of them. good

Just personal opinion to be honest, I think hes an underrated good size d-man with a good shot, that can move. The cap hit for him is too high for sure though, signed a little lower he could be used back and forth with Timmins.

You do know that Erik Johnsons deal runs out the same year as Mack right? where do you think most if not all that 6 million will go? LOL

Do you even look at their contracts on book? And literally this ACGM has Makar signed for 8 years, what’s thoroughly uninformed comment.

Makar Grubauer MacKinnon gets 10+ Million. Newhook will need a contract negotiation the same year Bowen Byram will also need an extension the same year. Jost Bura and Nisch will all need extensions as well. Not very hard to piece together the problems.

Are you saying Makar, Mack and Grubauer all make 10 million plus each individually? Because Makar will be around 9, Mack around 10-12.5 and Grubauer 5.5-6.5 ish, if they sign gabriel and all those guys are signed that's keeping the "core" together who knows what byram and newhooks next deals will be valued. They will have more then enough money to sign the guys you have listed (Mack & Makar & Grubby) saad bura and kadri may have to be replaced by other guys down the line no doubt LOL

look at your team amount 9 Million you need a goaltender better than Gruabauer and I'll tell ya what it's gonna be 5-8 Million dollars for a reliable goalie. Landeskog wants 9-10 Million only willing to take a slight hometown discount deal to most likely 8.5 Million, MacKinnon most likely makes near or more than what McDavid makes. Jost is going to be an upped. You add it all up you get around 30 million added into that and that doesn't include any of the depth pieces you have to make a team worth your while.

I guess we will have to wait and see once Landy signs, we can talk about what he wants all day long, but one look at the recent deals will tell you that hes not going to get 8.5 million with the avs and will not get 9-10 in the open market unless its a **** team (he was not able to come to terms with Seattle who has tones of cap space to work with) Hall at $6 mill, Nugent Hopkins at $5.125 a Flat cap dont see gabriel getting what he "reportedly wants" in this market. Grubby will prolly be signed for $6 mil by us (for better or for worse) and Nate has said multiple times he wants rings not money, so he will sign a fair value deal for himself but it wont over what McDavid makes, that whole Erik Johnson salary could go to Nate. I think as long as they keep the core together (Nate, Makar, Mikko, (insert 5-8 million Goalie), Landy) and can sign good value players they will be more then Fine. Teams have to learn how to lose before they learn to win the Avs core is still very young Tampa, Washington, St. Louis all had to lose alot before they won.