I’d do the lines a little different but this could be along the lines of what they do.

I had a few iterations I was going through, what changes would you make to the lines?

Hard to believe Suter will sign this contract.

i find it hard to believe that Makar would want less than 9 mil. i think landeskog would want 7 mil. i can see him walking

I guess we will see. One report I was reading today indicated landeskog wants between 6 and 7 mil, the avs are comfortable with that and the only issue is term. For makar, I was basing this on mile high hockey saying they can't see him getting above 9 with the heiskanen deal. Hopefully we will find out soon.

we’ll see what happens ig

Maybe, guys coming off of buyouts usually sign for lower than they are worth, but this may be overly optimistic. We will see.

I’d slide Newhook to LW on the 2nd line letting him play center offensively and Kadri defensively like what they do often with MacK and Landy. Slide Jost to 3C where he was so good the last half of this season and a more typical spot for one of the primary PK guys, and I don’t know what the Avs are doing with Kaut but I’d put him at RW on the 3rd line with Jost and Nichushkin. With what you did on the 4th just slide Maltsev to the LW. Imo Byram is going to be a star and by the end of the year he is in the top 4, but with that d-Corp you can blender however you want to accommodate for the game situation, but I’d be inclined to keep EJ on the 3rd pairing to keep his minutes in check but that’s me nitpicking.

Heiskananen is a very good comp for Makar but even at $9M that is quite a bit more.

Nitpicking is part of the fun. I feel like kaut is sliding on the depth charts for the team. It would be great to see him turn it around this year though for sure. Likely bumping Sherwood out of the lineup, and sending Megna down to the eagles. If kaut could make it work on the third line I'd be interested in sliding nichushkin down to comphers line. With O'Connor, compher and nichushkin that's a fairly good defensive line.

I'd say Makar is a lot better than Heiskanen. If I were Makar I'd try to get like a 8M for 4 years or something like that and then get a Karlsson like contract in the 11M range

that’s fair, but heiskenan also wasent a norris candidate

True but Heiskanen is every bit the stud Makar is. Both will win the Norris in the future.

we’ll see what happens ig