Quoting: TheeDjeeEem
Wow, so confident yet so full of
...typical
You do know teams can spend 10% over the cap
in the off season including LTIR?
That's plenty of room to sign Mits even IF he performs well and deal RyJo for a future 2nd if needed
Mits played most of his 5v5 with Skinner and Tuch and played top PP mins with Tage, lots of 40 goal scorers there... when was the last time Nichuskin and Lehkonen scored 40? 30?
And Rantanen plays 90% of all TOI with MacKinnon so try again
Sakic is a good GM, but he bungled up this TDL bad, guess we'll have to see
Once they ship Byram off, they needed a D to fill in that spot, else they are rolling AHL D every day (Jones, Malinsky, Hunt, etc.) even with JMFJ in the top 6. So they needed Walker. But Walker is not worth a 1st or 2nd round pick on his own, Philly likely wanted more than a 4th...Avs have no 3rds. So they figure a way to make Walker worth the first Philly was coveting ...by sending a massively overpaid floater and getting a 5th back.
And comparing Walker to Peeke is absurd...Walker is a full time NHL player, Peeke is not this season...healthy scratch for 40+ games. Walker averages 19.5 minutes a game, Peeke just 15.6. Walker averaged 2.2 minutes a game on the PK and gave up 7 goals in 64 games. Walker averaged 1.5 minutes per game on the PK and gave up 7 goals...in 23 games.
Avs also likely had other deals in discussion, which may have required the cap space, but that is just speculation. But hell, if they had kept RyJo, waived him and sent him down...they would be over the cap....his buried cap hit is still $2.85M, Avs only have $2.1M in cap space as of right now.
And the final point I would like to make, concerning Mittlestadt. He was leading the Sabres in scoring. Meaning he was outscoring those "40 goal scorers." This year. I don't care that Skinner scored 40 once in his career, over half a decade ago. Which now that I look, Tuch never has. Tage also has one 40+ goal season, and at least it was last year...but this year he is the lowest scoring of the three. Lehkonen is scoring at a better pace than any of them. Nichushkin is over PPG this season. Val has more goals and points than Skinner (the best of the BUF 3 this year), despite playing 15 fewer games. Casey also now gets to share the ice with the (arguably) best D pair in hockey, play on the PP with the league leading scorer (plus Mikko, Makar, etc.), and if Landeskog comes back for the playoffs, will likely have him on the wing.
And a nitpick....Mikko has played 86.5% of his ice time with MacKinnon this year, all situations. 5v5, it drops all the way to 84.8%.