Quoting: Koskinen_The_Great
I literally said nowhere it was good value for the Blues. What was the price you got Buch? A 2nd and Sammy Blais. You think that was a bigger price? You think an older Buch is a better asset when the Blues are now in a worse cap crunch than the Rangers were then?
Boggles my mind how some of you think you will get 10 1sts for every good player. Thats not how a market works
You know how a market works?
Someone has to want to sell the asset for the market to be there in general.
You're proposing a player who it makes 0 sense to sell.
Now lets get into stats to detail what it would take to get Buchnevich for the sake of simplicity we'll keep it to last 2.5 seasons.
Bo Horvat Age 27 Contract 1x 5.5 million Impending UFA
Player 1: Age 27
Year GP G A P
20-21 56 19 20 39
21-22 70 30 21 51
22-23 62 36 26 62
Timo Meier
Player 2 Age 26 Contract 1 x 6million Expiring RFA (10m QO)
Year GP G A P
20-21 54 12 19 31
21-22 77 35 41 76
22-23 58 32 21 53
Vladimir Tarasenko
Age 31 Contract Status: Impending UFA Contract 1 Year 7.5 million
Year GP G A P
20-21 24 4 10 14
21-22 75 34 48 82
22-23 50 14 24 38
Pavel Buchnevich
Age 27 Contract 3 x 5.8m Exp UFA
Year GP G A P
20-21 54 20 28 48
21-22 73 30 46 76
22-23 47 18 34 52
This does not account for Special teams play. Buchnevich is our leading penalty killer and has been most of his tenure here. He is the only player on our roster that has a positive Goal differential. He is signed for 2 extra seasons at 5.8 million where his market value is probably near 8 years x 8.75 million (referencing Horvat + Larkin extension).
This took approximately 15 minutes to type out. If you just went and checked the stats it would take 3 minutes to look at this and compare.
All of these players returned a 1st plus. Meier returned a massive package.
So please when the cap is lower, and for 2 additional seasons, please explain to me where you think he would return 2 2nds in any world. Or a 2nd and Sammy Blais or equivalent.
The Blues are not in a worse cap crunch. We have approximately 7 million in cap hit to add 3 forwards and a goaltender next season. Doug Armstrong, our General Manager who is in charge of this in the actual real essence of it has stated he does not plan on being a big player in the Free Agent market, hence the Kapanen and Vrana pick up. Hofer is one of the best goalies in the AHL currently and is signed to a 775k 1 way deal for 2 years, essentially outlining he will be the backup, or we will sign a vet for min price as a safety net if he is not ready, one that will pass through waivers.
We have 3 1sts and 2 3rds which can be used as capital to move players if need be but Armstrong also outlined that this retool/rebuild will most likely not be done by next season meaning, there's probably not going to be much of an addition in payroll.
So where is our cap crunch in which we dump our best player for 2 picks around 53 and 57 when we have 7 million to sign a 3C and fill out our 4th line?