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Forum: Armchair-GMOct 28, 2020 at 11:41

Thread: Realistic fire sale

Do Detroit fans realize how bad their team sucks? .. it amazing the delusion .. think Red Wing fans have overtaken Toronto fans for the Most Homer Award

Forum: Armchair-GMOct 27, 2020 at 8:24

Thread: Cap space

Ever hear of COVID and Flat revenue cap? .. all #s will be MUCH smaller for next 2 to 3 years as we have seen already this free agent year.. down 20+% .. so you can NOT compare to previous years.. if no/limited fans and season .. several NHL teams in financial trouble

Forum: Armchair-GMOct 27, 2020 at 6:17

Thread: IT WORKS

A Mc Donough trade makes sense for both him and Tampa. He is a HIGHLY productive defensive D leader .. maybe #1 unsung player on Tampa .. does all the "dirty work" .. goes against opponent #1 line, PK, eats minutes .. enables Hedmen to be Hedmen .. and still gets some points but not flashy .. he makes 100% sense with a team like Colorado to help Cup chances OR a team like Rangers or Philly who have good young teams but need D and leadership.. he 30 so should have no problem playing well until 35 like many other D .. Bruins could make sense also but don't see that trade .. I think Mc Donough would go also.. he not really a "Florida guy" ... and if you don't get what that is .. please watch the Cup celebration.. partying fun and women are part.of culture

Forum: Armchair-GMOct 27, 2020 at 5:21

Thread: Cap space

Johnson will cost a 2nd and a prospect when all said and done.. yawn

Forum: Armchair-GMOct 27, 2020 at 5:18

Thread: Just showing how tight this cap is

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>BCAPP</b></div><div>I have trouble taking anything you say seriously when last summer all you did was complain about how the team was doomed because Gourde wasn't traded</div></div>

And I was 100% correct .. as usual .. Gourde contract is killing us now... Tampa won because it added Colemen Goodrow Maroom Shatterkirk and Bogo/Schen to a great core .. their addition .. at the cost of 3 #1 picks .. was because Gourde and TJ weren't good .. pure and simple. Without those GM moves by JBB .. Tampa doesn't win

Forum: Armchair-GMOct 26, 2020 at 10:08

Thread: Just showing how tight this cap is

Yawn .. let me educate the youth ..

1. Cirelli was 2C all year and was great and finished 4th in NHL for Selke ..
2. Stamkos is 2nd line winger with his biggest role now as the "one timer" on the PP .. which he is 2nd in NHL behind Ovy
3. See #1 and #2 b4 you post
4. TJ destroyed 2nd line in playoffs and why he gone

Stamkos to LTIR makes sense and trading him and his 8.5M cap hit in 2021 .. cap ptoblem solved.. I laugh at some of these chicken little posts...

Forum: Armchair-GMOct 26, 2020 at 7:31

Thread: Which Teams could use Killorn and Palat and have the Cap Space

LOL .. this board .. Killorn and Palat are 1st and 2nd line scoring wings on a championship team and have been doing it for years.. amazing how other team fans value the crap or prospects of their own team .. both worth a 2nd easy .. Killorn fits like a glove in Nashville and PAINS me to say that .. both would be losses for Tampa

Forum: Armchair-GMOct 26, 2020 at 2:21

Thread: Do they have a choice

I laugh at all this Tampa bashing/jealousy .. we just dominated the Cup .. not a Game 7 to be found .. without Stamkos .. our 5th or so best player. We do have issue due to 3 very good RFAs .. which 2 of them were acquired in trades and 1 a homegrown 4th rounder .. LOL .. we got 2 bad contrcats .. TJ and Gourde .. at end of day we will eat draft picks prospects or some cash to get rid of them .. and I laugh harder if people think NTCs matter in this Flat Cap world

Doesn't change fact we should win at least 2 more Cups in next 5 years under any scenario

Forum: Armchair-GMOct 26, 2020 at 11:31

Thread: CAP dead money maybe good strategy

You are right .. clicked wrong D ... return really isn't key for Tampa ... only low cost debt is really needed..

Forum: Armchair-GMOct 26, 2020 at 6:18

Thread: Some idea I saw online

Stamkos injury complicates things and most likely a LTIR for a shortened regular season until playoffs ..

The one who looks great for Nashville is Killorn .. much to my chagrin .. particularly if Hoffman goes elsewhere.. Duclair is no Killorn and even Hoffman is not that far above Killorn given the intangibles.... Killorn could get a 2nd but probably not enough draw to bundle with Tampas 2 problems .. TJ and Gourde

Forum: Armchair-GMOct 25, 2020 at 2:09

Thread: CapCrunch

I also think both are fair and realistic .. maybe a little less for Tampa but in ballpark.

And 100% TJ and Gourde take it .. when will fans here realize COVID and flat caps are making NTCs virtually worthless

Forum: Armchair-GMOct 25, 2020 at 1:05

Thread: Tampa cap compliant

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>draft_em_sign_em_trade_em</b></div><div>Other than their 1 Cup win, they are the new generation SJS, who spent a decade on the brink of a Dynasty before the dark times finally caught up to them.

That Vaz contract will age as well as M. Jones did. Good luck with than anchor.</div></div>

LOL .. whatever u want to believe to make you feel good ..

Forum: Armchair-GMOct 25, 2020 at 7:21

Thread: Tampa cap compliant

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>draft_em_sign_em_trade_em</b></div><div>Thank you for the Cup winning team Stevie Y but now this team enters a dark period, they are going to miss the playoffs. Bos, Leafs, Buff/Mon (call me crazy) will be top 3.</div></div>

How is the weather in your world? Tampa has been to 2 Cups and 4 Conference Finals in last 6 years. They are just hitting their "win zone" and should win at least 2 more Cups in next 5 years as the "core is just hitting 30" BUT the unique part is Point Vaz Cirelli and Serg make up the "next 25s wave" but they will take step down .. but not for 5 more years.

Forum: Armchair-GMOct 24, 2020 at 11:14

Thread: What the Lightning should do

They tried to move Stamkos to Vegas and even asked him to waive .. you do not ask if not real. . It will happen soon ..

Forum: Armchair-GMOct 24, 2020 at 4:07

Thread: Who says no

Yawn .. Serg isn't going anywhere and Tampa needs NOTHING to repeat as Cup Champs and can do without Stamkos as shown this year .. trade him to Detroit for picks or with TJ .. solves cap until 2022.

Forum: Armchair-GMOct 24, 2020 at 4:02

Thread: Tampa use Yzerman

SERG going nowhere.. TJ to Detroit with a 2nd and a prospect that Yzerman likes for a "bag of pucks" is still in Detroits best interest in 2/3 years from now .. and TJ will go to ANY NHL team now .. he will never play for Tampa again .. cant understand why people don't get that...

Forum: Armchair-GMOct 24, 2020 at 3:53

Thread: What the Lightning should do

ISSUE is next year worse .. Coleman and Goodrow up for contracts and none go away. BUT situation is not that dire albeit tight.

1. TJ will go somewhere in NHL but will cost us a 2nd and prospect..
2. I would trade Gourde now and if cant/he says no .. waive him now.
3. TJ and Gourde are due $11M a year and $45M total .. if can't trade then now; forget next year as it will get worse. Tampa "saves" over $5M in Cap for next 4/5 years .. yea $6M dead money also but it all about freeing up space for next couple years.
4. Killorn and/or Palat would need to go this and next year .. again worse case if we eat 2/3 of TJ and Gourde contract over next 6 years.

This gets us to give 3 year contracts to RFAs ...

BETTER Strategy is to start to move Stamkos and Mc Donough next 2 years with Stamkos to LTIR ASAP.
HAVE to free up money for Point in 2022 and RFAs in 2024

Forum: Armchair-GMOct 23, 2020 at 9:50

Thread: Serious go at this

Uh .. No

Forum: Armchair-GMOct 23, 2020 at 2:37

Thread: Stamkos or the Shrimps

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>sensibleguy</b></div><div>Gourde signed the contract on Nov 2, 2018, after the one season, and 12 games into the second full season

17/18 in 82 games, 25G 39A 64P
18/19 in 12 games, 4G 8A 12P

Since the signing

18/19 in 68 games, 18G 18A 36P
19/20 in 70 games, 10G 20A 30P</div></div>

YUP .. Why on God's good earth do you give a 6 year $33M NTC contrcat to a 27 year old rookie who played ONE friggen year with Point and Kuch!!!!! ... baffles me .. and we started paying for the mistake last year losing JT Miller to cap .. he only had.like 90 pts this year.. better not be Killorn this year.. just waive Gourde!!!!

Forum: Armchair-GMOct 23, 2020 at 10:47

Thread: Stamkos or the Shrimps

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Bluejackets2000</b></div><div>What about option #4???

It seems that Stamkos has had more injury problems of late, and is becoming more unreliable from that standpoint.
He is 30 and signed for 4 more years...the chances of him missing significant time for injuries down the road increases considerably.
Trading Stamkos while he still has a high perceived value.
I realize he has a NMC, but it may be easier to find somebody who would take a chance on him (at his term and salary, given his injury status).
(Stamkos has meant a lot to TB, but could still reasonably be moved as he has not yet reached "Franchise" status like Crosby in Pittsburgh or Ovi in Washington)

This would free up almost enough space (will probably still need to waive or unload one of TJ, Gourde, Killorn, or Palat).
Cirelli could then be signed and play 2C behind Point at 1C.
Just a thought.</div></div>

I am 100% in agreement with you on trading Stamkos as I have been harping for a YEAR to do this .. we won Cup without him as proof .. problem now is his injury and what he worth.. last year we could have got 2 #1s and had NO cap issues as his cap would cover Serg and Cirelli.. ugh

Forum: Armchair-GMOct 23, 2020 at 10:42

Thread: 2021 Stanley Cup Champions

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>bhavikp27</b></div><div>I don't see COL's offense having many problems against a Hedman-Schenn, McDonagh-Coburn, Borgman-Foote defense.</div></div>

LOL .. who the heck is Borgman? .. add Sergachev .. these Colorado fans reading their own clippings .. make a conference final first newbies .. also your young offensive D are very good .. but years away from remotely stopping anybody like Tampas O ..

Forum: Armchair-GMOct 23, 2020 at 8:57

Thread: 2021 Stanley Cup Champions

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Radu47</b></div><div>Grubauer/Francouz both have a higher career sv% than Vasilevskiy (low sample size for Pavel) and if Andrei got hurt then McElhinney is solid at very best</div></div>

Please ...

Forum: Armchair-GMOct 23, 2020 at 8:20

Thread: 2021 Stanley Cup Champions

Getting there but still 3.to 4 players away...goalie, 3rd/4th line and solid D veteran .. maybe 2022 .. Tampa would destroy you as of now due to depth and net

Forum: Armchair-GMOct 23, 2020 at 8:18

Thread: Stamkos or the Shrimps

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Radu47</b></div><div>Gourde did it again though. 2nd season similar to first, a bit less TOI and 2nd assists. His 3rd season?

His primary linemates went from Point, Palat, etc. to

Paquette, Maroon, Verhaeghe, Stephens, etc.

Less TOI and fewer gp so everything was tougher

Conacher was a good NHLer from 23 to 27 too</div></div>

Your post proves mine .. Gourde worthless without good line mates to carry him .. he was God AWFUL this year 20 something points .. BUT "magically" played well in playoffs when Coleman and Goodrow were acquired...hmm .
.what is the common denominator .. Gourde just a run-of-the-mill forward and should have contract like Paquette

Forum: Armchair-GMOct 23, 2020 at 7:56

Thread: Stamkos or the Shrimps

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>justaBoss</b></div><div>Actually Tampa did just that. Problem was that Gourde started to flourish just during that said bridge deal, meaning that yet another bridge deal wasn't a realistic option...</div></div>

Gourde NEVER broke out .. played 1st/2nd line where a chimp could excel with Point and Kuch .. Gourde is a low skill great hustling 3rd/4th line grinder .. TOTAL 100% contract error by JBB .. one of few to be fair..

I laugh at people here still thinking TJ and players have a choice with NTCs .. world is different now and will be worse in 2021 .. anyone can be waived with a NTC .. why Gourde hasn't been waived yet is beyond me .. only difference I see is TJ isn't coming back and to waive someone says we don't want you under any circumstances .. so waive TJ this year and waive Gourde next year could be the approach

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