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Forum: Armchair-GM10 hours ago
Thread: Petey for Lafreniere -- Year 2
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>CrazyFlamesFan</b></div><div>I think lots of teams would prefer Lafreniere to Petterson, I don't see this happening at the draft.</div></div>

Pettersson was picked 5th but he might as well have been picked 1st overall. So not sure why anyone would prefer Laf over Petey. The only reasoning anyone could have is they need a winger vs a center more but frankly, the center is more valuable so that is kind of weird to think.

Unless you can predict Laf comes into the Nhl and scores at McDavid rates, theres no reasoning for having him any higher than Petey. At best theyre even and that is assuming Laf is guaranteed to be a superstar which there is no gaurantee for. Petey is already a star in this league and only getting better but more importantly plays center while doing it.
Forum: Armchair-GMMon at 8:43 pm
Thread: If We Didnt Sign Myers
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Silkysmooth42</b></div><div><a href="/users/F50marco" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@F50marco</a>
would you be so kind as to tag other Mods or like someone that can do this:

Add an option under Trade that is "other" : it can be used for CBOs, "Any teams" trades, etc...
I love the new feature that you can see what teams were traded with, but I feel bad for Ducks fans who see every post have their logo, and then its a CBO or a random "any team" trade

EDIT: sorry i didnt know whereelse to do this lol, i just came here cuz I saw a bruins trade, was fooled, and that got me thinking about it</div></div>

I'd rather not bother tagging all the admins of the site when ever someone/you have a question or a suggestion. Im sure they get enough of that already and are swamped with other things. I do however encourage you to discover the other sections of the CF forum (other than the Armchair GM section). There is virtually an answer to any of your questions you may have there and plenty of useful threads that may help in what you are looking for.

One such thread being the "Suggestions megathread" - <a href="https://www.capfriendly.com/forums/thread/50027/">https://www.capfriendly.com/forums/thread/50027/</a>

:p
Forum: Armchair-GMSun at 12:59 am
Thread: serious question
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Silkysmooth42</b></div><div>Nah I get where he is coming from dude. He can block them, but it doesnt mean they wont still call him someones (my) backup account. Sometimes, people are that bad that blocking them doesnt matter, if they are going to just slander you and discredit you, its a lot.</div></div>

Since when is it against the rules to say someone thinks its backup account? That isn't an insult nor a slander. That's just an opinion. It could be wrong or right but its in no way inflammatory. I get you may not like it but at the same time, A) blocking a user will stop you/him from seeing those comments and B) if someone is saying it behind your/his back, you kind of got to learn to get over it. If its not inherently against the rules and those persons comments are blocked for you/him to view, than whats the problem? (Only speaking to the talks of the double accounts, not any time someone was flaming you/him - That IS against the rules and infraction worthy).

Either way, I'm just gonna be straight up with you Silk, I have had my suspicions on both of you as well. Your posting habits together were and still are beyond suspicious but you both clearly haven't been banned yet so I myself decided to move pass that opinion of it a while ago and frankly others should too but by no means is having that opinion against the rules.
Forum: NHL SigningsSun at 12:02 am
Thread: Boston Bruins signed Victor Berglund (3 Years / $850,833 AAV)
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>McGruff</b></div><div>Hi Banks / <a href="/users/F50marco" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@F50marco</a>
Does CF have an email for users to contact the Mod's offsite...
Thanks
McGruff</div></div>

Well If by mods you mean me, no. Im just a forum moderator. If you want to contact the admins of CF, the link was already mentioned by banks above.


<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Banks</b></div><div>
Please email us at contract<a href="/users/capfriendly" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><a href="/users/capfriendly" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@capfriendly</a></a>.com and I'll help get to the bottom of this.</div></div>

Edit: theres also this posted on the forum rules thread: moderators<a href="/users/capfriendly" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><a href="/users/capfriendly" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@capfriendly</a></a>.com
Forum: Armchair-GMSat at 5:26 pm
Thread: Rigged
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>markmws</b></div><div>Agreed. It's pretty nonsensical to let teams that did really well during the regular season have a chance at Lafreniere. You can call me biased, too.

<a href="/users/jslongo" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@jslongo</a>: I would assume that if Juulsen is healthy he will have that last RD spot instead of Fleury: reason being that Juulsen would have to pass through waivers while Fleury would not. I think the Canadiens, no matter what anyone thinks of Juulsen as a player, do not want to loose him for nothing. :)</div></div>

I'm ok giving those teams a chance but giving them equal chance, just seems counter productive to what the NHL is trying to do. That's why I misunderstood it originally. Oh well, things could be worse, we could be Detroit. Haha poor souls.
Forum: Armchair-GMJun 24 at 4:51
Thread: Flat cap no CBO -- trade with MTL
The way I see it, it may still be below value simply taking the Marleau trade as comparison with a few others in the past as well like the Bickell trade and the Datsyuk trade notably. Ericksson's got two more years as opposed to the one for Marleau and the Habs are sending back Mete which is a decent young player in his own right. I feel if Mete is going to be going back, Hab's would need something else added here to bridge the gap.

Just from a market standpoint, that Marleau trade was when the market was good, getting better every year and without exterior factors being in play. As it stands right now, the cap is stagnant, will be staying stagnant for a while and a ton of teams have lost money. The amount of teams that need to cap dump has risen this year compared to previous years which only adds to the market value for dumping contracts.

I think not only will there be less teams willing to take on massive cap dumps but the amount of teams that will need/want to dump cap has risen. If we could associate a value to X dollar/cap being dumped, what ever that is, its higher than in past years. Its gonna be real tough to move salary/cap this year and maybe next so its really gonna hurt the teams that have to do it.

In all honesty, I think Van will have to resort to simply not resigning guys like Markstrom or any free agents like Demelo, coupled with a strategically placed buyout of Ferland. IMO this will hurt less than all the cap dumping they'd do to make space for EP and Hughes.
Forum: Armchair-GMJun 23 at 12:10
Thread: Based on a previous trade from DET fan
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>math731</b></div><div>Id argue that he is in the same category as Matthews and Eichel who are franchise players (not generational). Even without two extra first rounders, we're still stacked for the next 2-3 years imo.
The depth and skills of this lineup is among the best in the league, plus we get to have our own Matthews, MacKinnon, Eichel, etc.

Tatar-Danault-Gallagher
Lafrenière-KK-Drouin
Caufield (at the end of 2020-2021)-Suzuki-Armia
Lehkonen-Poehling-Evans (Byron)
Ylonen
Romanov-Weber
Chiarot-Petry
Norlinder (by the end of 2020-2021)-Fleury
Struble*-Juulsen

+two high second round picks

By keeping the 3 picks, we're simply adding players that wont be ready until 2021-2022 at the very least and even though this next line up would be great, we'd have too much skilled players for so many pp time and ice time in general.

Tatar-Danault-Gallagher
Caufield-Suzuki-Perfetti
Drouin-KK-Jarvis
Lehkonen-Poehling-Armia
Byron, Evans, Ylonen

Romanov-Weber
Sanderson-Petry
Chiarot-Fleury
Norlinder, Struble, Juulsen

And that is if those guys pan out... I have no worry about Perfetti and Sanderson but they sure have less chances than Laf to reach their max potential.</div></div>

I'll have to disagree with that assessment. I do not think Lafreniere is in that calibre group with most hockey analysts agreeing with me and on top of all this, hes a winger, those guys are centers. They control the game way more than wingers do.

He is being compared to guys like Huberdeau. Great player, dont get me wrong but 9/10 people say Barkov is the better player because centers are more important.

Plus I mean you basically made the point against it in your previous post to convince me Detroit should accept.....


"So based on past drafts, its basically :
Hughes for 3 of Zegras, Cozens, Caufield, Podkolzin, Newhook or Soderstrom
Dahlin for Hughes, Boqvist, Farabee
Hischier for 3 of Necas, Suzuki, Brannstrom, Vilardi or Tippett."

In any one of those drafts, id take 3 of those players over the first overall any day.

Make no mistake about it, if Lafreniere's name was Alex Lawton, we wouldnt even be having this conversation. Thats the problem IMO.
Forum: Armchair-GMJun 22 at 9:12
Thread: Based on a previous trade from DET fan
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>math731</b></div><div>I just thought that the incentive here for DET would be to acquire 2 (potentially 3) elite prospects instead of one franchise player. I think it woud help them more in the long run to ends up with lets say Rossi, Sanderson and Askarov. This is imo an offer they couldnt refuse.

On MTL's side, its clear that giving multiple elite pieces for one potential franchise player is a lot but keep in mind that we havent had that kind of forward in a very long time. And he is a native kif playing LW (its a need for us).

So based on past drafts, its basically :
Hughes for 3 of Zegras, Cozens, Caufield, Podkolzin, Newhook or Soderstrom
Dahlin for Hughes, Boqvist, Farabee
Hischier for 3 of Necas, Suzuki, Brannstrom, Vilardi or Tippett.</div></div>

Fair enough. Assume this offer is what it is then, why would MTL do it and should they? I don't think so, no.

IMHO The Habs making this move above is proof as to why the politics here in QC is the reason they will never be as good as they can be.

Side note: Its not even just three 1sts and a 2nd for Lafreniere anymore, its also losing Mete and adding two years of Ericksson........ I love Lafreniere as much as the next guy but he isn't McDavid, Matthews, Eichel, Crosby, Ovechkin, etc. Great player but not generational.
Forum: Armchair-GMJun 22 at 6:26
Thread: Based on a previous trade from DET fan
Even if lets say you were able to pull off those trades to get the extra picks and even if the value for the 1st OV was "technically" fair, doesn't necessarily mean that Detroit should do it though. Some times its not about just offering fair value, its about making them an offer they can't refuse. I'm pretty sure whoever gets 1st OV, just like any other year, they will need an offer they can't refuse.

Which then you have to ask yourself, is Lafreniere even worth doing that for? IMO No. (Assuming it was an offer they could't refuse)

Moving into the top 3 of any draft from outside top 5 is already almost never gonna happen again, trading for the 1st OV from outside the top 5 is virtually impossible. One team has to lose that trade from the get go for it to happen and I think teams are just to wary of being that team nowadays.
Forum: Armchair-GMJun 21 at 11:30
Thread: This is a MB move
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>TGDline</b></div><div>It clears cap for the Coyotes to sign Hall and the Wings have no d-men, a 7th D for a 16th forward seem fair.</div></div>

Depends how much cap they need to shed and which players make the most sense to move out to make it. IMO Goligoski is one of Arizona's best dman and Raanta will be in high demand. These are the wrong players Arizona will attempt to move out to shed some cap. The idea is good but the execution isn't. I think Stepan will be their main target to trade to open up cap followed by Raanta. Only choosing the guys that don't have NTC's or NMC's for simplicity sakes. If Soderberg, Grabner and Demers accept a trade to the trading team, they will also be candidates.

I get your point in this and these are the TYPES of moves MB could make but Goligoski isn't the right player based on their team.

The Helm for Alzner trade makes so little sense that it's not even plausible. When a team needs a dman, they don't go out and get one of the worst ones available. Helm is still a decent NHL'er, Alzner isn't. Then throw on the fact the contract differences....... there is no way for this to make sense. You'd have to tack on a 2nd round pick to Alzner for this to work Detroit.