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Forum: Armchair-GMMay 20 at 6:50 p.m.
Thread: Necas to Utah
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>BruinsWoahWoah</b></div><div>From what I have seen in the rumor mill, it sounds like Necas, Turbo, and Pesce are not coming back to Carolina. I haven't seen anything on Skjei so maybe they are choosing to retain Skjei over Necas? I think its a foregone conclusion that Pesce is gone.

Canes are definitely prioritizing Guentzel and Jarvis.</div></div>

Well now, things are more complicated. Waddell put out in his interview today that he's been talking more about bringing Nikishin over, but needs to find out what the situation is in the next few weeks. If that ends up happening, Skjei for sure is gone. If that doesn't happen, they might try to push for Skjei more. He's hoping to figure this all out before the draft.

Guentzel is priority one, Jarvis follows after.
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 19 at 11:57 a.m.
Thread: Necas to Utah
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>habs_trade_churner_50</b></div><div>Understood, so you would get let of Skjei and Teravainen walk, and what about the rumors surrounding Pesce, do you think he will leave during free agency?</div></div>

Friedman had a report that Pesce turned down a 5x5 deal at the beginning of the offseason, which led us to try and see who we can trade him to. Nothing worked out, DeAngelo was brought in again, and that's that. Many of us assume he's gone now, especially with expectations of Morrow sliding up to his spot next year.

Teravainen, I'd love to keep around, but we'll see what he wants for a deal first. (It's already looking like Unger Sorum might be the Teravainen replacement with how well he played for us in the preseason for next year or the year after.) Skjei is the biggest worry since he'll have a ton of leverage thanks to his performances the past two seasons.
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 15 at 9:14 p.m.
Thread: D List
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Wqrrior</b></div><div>I understand that, but this expensive cap hit is also preventing guentzel, an actual star player, from having room to come back.

I feel like moving orlov to open that gateway, then signing a 2-4m range dman who is slightly lower tier would be far more beneficial to the team. Sure the defense would be far worse, but keeping a star should always be top priority.</div></div>

There's also some big cap coming off of the forwards. Namely Teravainen. Necas (it's sort of leaning like we'll be trading him) would be gone too. I'm curious if the Canes will do something about the KK deal because that's the worst contract by far, and if you can get that off the books, then it's genius. (A buyout this offseason would mean around 850k for 12 years, but given how the cap keeps going up, that won't be a big concern). It's really just seeing what Jarvis takes, since he could get a Necas-style bridge deal.

Waddell does really well of spending to the cap creatively. We could convince Guentzel to take a small 'discount' (imagine more in the Svechnikov range), but we'll need to see how this postseason plays out.
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 15 at 9:03 p.m.
Thread: D List
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Wqrrior</b></div><div>i find it kinda crazy that canes fans would rather hang onto orlov on this contract than move it for nothing, resign guentzel and try and find a cheaper d core option. This makes perfect sense for me (tho i dont think pesce is back), but is constnatly rejected by them.

Im intrigued what blues fans think of moving that faulk contract. he might be worth something with retention, but i agree that his value is not strong at 6.5m</div></div>

Orlov is sort of the gateway we're trying to use to bring Nikishin over as quick as we can. Not to say Orlov has been bad and that's why he's been on the 3rd line, our D core is just that deep.

Pesce for sure priced himself out of here, and there's no guarantee for Skjei to resign.
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 15 at 10:32 a.m.
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Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 5 at 1:16 p.m.
Thread: Random Idea
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>StDetroitBlueWings</b></div><div>Thomas won't be available. Kyrou most likely isn't available but would be more open to listening on him than Thomas. I imagine if this were a scenario to happen, Buch would have an extension in place already. KK is just a negative asset so packaging with a higher end asset in Necas for a top line guy in Buch still shouldn't be out of the question. It's not often a guy like Buch is available and it won't be cheap. Just been seeing a Necas for Buch swap before numerous times and wondered about KK since I feel he needs a change of scenery and could fill the Blues void in a decent 3C role (possibly move to 2C if desperate enough before Dvorsky is ready).</div></div>

I could agree on that, Buch would definitely need an extension for that kind of trade. I'm probably just looking at things a bit differently. Then again, I guess it's all just how GMDW does his trades.