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Forum: Armchair-GMWed. at 1:57 p.m.
Thread: Reloading for next year
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Dan_the_Man</b></div><div>So instead of working on our own reclamation project the GM absolutely loves, we take someone else's and pay someone to take ours ? Makes a lot of sense I guess ( not really)? Stamkos will sign in the 6-6.5 range in TB. He realizes cap is tight and wants the ring more.Duke probably in the 3.5 and with the savings I mentioned makes up the difference Jeannot and Kubalik. Back to Kubalik if you have to expect him not to play defense to be somewhat productive he won't be playing much for Jon Cooper.</div></div>

Yeah on board with this take exactly. Plus moving Jeannot won't look good for us considering the ransom we paid, but every GM misses at least once. Not sure sacrificing him for Kubalik would be much better, the dude just needs to stay healthy.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 16 at 2:36 p.m.
Thread: Is Rempe the new Boogieman
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Hckeydude123</b></div><div>Lets keep it real here, the Lightning are highly unlikely to make it out of the first round let alone win the cup.</div></div>

Alright well not sure what this year's playoffs has to do with discussing moving one of our star d-men next year when there's absolutely no reason to, but if we're keeping things real then Hedman probably has the state of California on his M-NTC list like most guys do because of taxes. Not to mention his whole life is in Tampa and would probably refuse to waive anyways. Management says they'll do everything to ensure the group remains competitive so until disaster strikes odds are they hold on till they end up in a bad spot, not to mention we'd have to resign Gavrikov, have an undersized replacement in Spence, and a reclamation project in Kaliyev.

I mean it's easy to say we don't have a chance in the toughest division when the pacific is that easy, but can't say your odds of a deep run or the cup are much better seeing as Vegas still has 2 games on you, so you can either go through McDavid and the Oilers, Vancouver or Dallas. Regardless if you think that little of Tampa I'm sure all the guys you mentioned are saving PLD, Cam Talbot and co a spot on the course when they're both inevitably eliminated :)
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 16 at 2:12 p.m.
Thread: Is Rempe the new Boogieman
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Hckeydude123</b></div><div>The problem with that is if you continue to "gut" your bottom six every other year you won't have anything of value and you won't be very competitive shortly after. TBL only has a small handful of guys that have significant value to trade to keep this team going for years to come, guys like Stanmmer Point Kuch Cirelli Sergy Headman and maybe Cernak are the only guys they have they could actually get value for. All those guys are locked up long term except Headman and Stammer so if this team wants to be competitive 2 yrs from now than they are going to have to do something soon otherwise this team will hold out like CHI did without Kane and Towes and go into a super long depressing rebuild.</div></div>

But if we're trying to win now with this core, why would we care about significant value of our own guys to trade away? Outside of those guys you mentioned, Nick Paul has been a solid 3C setting a career high at a cost-effective deal, Glendening for close to league minimum has improved TB's faceoff%, something we desperately needed. Motte and Jeannot both bring energy to the lineup but unfortunately both have been banged up quite a bit. The only real miss in the bottom six is Sheary, but a buyout or trade with sweetener opens up space for Duclair + Stamkos.
There's no reason to gut the whole thing, move Sheary, play Goncalves/Groshev instead next season, and it's still younger fourth line than Maroon-Bellemare-Perry.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 14 at 4:48 p.m.