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Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 8, 2023 at 9:32 a.m.
Thread: the flyers are bad
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Madrigal</b></div><div>So the Flyers, a rebuilding team are going to give up two picks to move a bad goalie making 5 million for the next two years, for another bad goalie making 3.85 million for the next two years? Are you drunk or something.</div></div>

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>GirouxCrew</b></div><div>You must be trolling right?

Giving up a 2nd and a 4th to save 1.15M for each of the next 2years is ridiculous. Idc how much better Jake Allen might be, that doesn’t matter to the flyers at this point. It’s actually better that they are worse.

Oh and no shot those EDM deals happen.</div></div>

It’s a Habs fan. Every Canadian team’s fans have spent the last 3 days making flyers ACGM teams where we just give away all of our players in terrible deals. Just click the user name and u can see immediately who is just trolling by their favorite team.
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 8, 2023 at 3:55 a.m.
Thread: The Danny Bri-era
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>GirouxCrew</b></div><div>Honestly I thought Nurse was right handed and that with his cap hit Bouchard would never overtake him on the top pair . So that’s on me for not looking more closely. With all of that said and now realized, you’re right , it is unlikely that they will trade him. As far as Hart, he still has one more year on his contract and then would still be a RFA, so under team control. Your argument would be the same for Bouchard who’s contract did actually just expire and will need a new one.</div></div>
No worries!

My point was more that for a goalie to come close in value to a young 1RD (current or soon-to-be), he'd have to be incredibly consistent year-to-year and have cost certainty. Even if I grant the former under the assumption that he'll continue to bounceback (no guarantee with goalies), he would likely end up needing a healthy raise next offseason as he'll be a goalie playing behind a team aiming to contend. Meanwhile, chances are high that EDM already has a good idea of what Bouch's new contract will look like for the rest of the current McDrai window (likely a 2 or 3-yr bridge deal).
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 3, 2023 at 7:57 a.m.
Thread: Reclamation City
The Devils wouldn't accept the Laughton trade. I think Laughton might have a good amount of value, but they wouldn't give up on Holtz for the Meier trade so they're definitely not for Laughton.

I don't think the Konecny trade is terrible, but I'd like to keep Frost. He showed flashes at the end of last year and looked really good in the 2nd half. i think he could become a 60+ point player still. Just a delayed trajectory because of injuries and covid.

Canes fans are gonna rip you for trading Scott "Makar" Morrow, I personally don't know enough about him I think a more likely scenario is a 3rd + younger roster player, the one I've been using for CBJ is Liam Foudy.

Not sure on the DAL trade. It's probably fairish taking into account the price of Cap dumping Faksa but DAL isn't really trading from a position of strength their because Lundkvist value has dimished since last year, and I'm not sure they'd want to give up on him after spending a first to get him a year later.

LAK wouldn't trade Byfield imo. He started to find his game in the latter part of the season
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 31, 2023 at 9:39 a.m.
Thread: New look flyers
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>GirouxCrew</b></div><div>Laughton looks to be getting a 1st or a 2nd all on his own. Faksa is a cap dump compared to Laughton. Especially after a very strong worlds tournament. Risto was much better this year. Especially in the second half of the year after he learned the new system. Marchment played out of his mind on Florida last year on a stacked team. Might have been a fluke that he cashed in on. His contract might not age well. And as I said, Dallas still has the first round LHD they drafted last year and with Esa and Miro on the left and locked in long term Harley won’t have much room to climb the depth chart. And if I swap in Allison, all of those guys fit their current contention window very well.

This is more of a push to win now kind of move. And after getting so close this year they are gonna try to win sooner rather than later while Benn and Seguin are still producing</div></div>

They have a very long window ahead of them. Bourque, Stankoven, Johnston are going to be key core pieces to the offense and will all be better than Benn and Seguin currently are. Add to that Hintz, Robertson, Heiskanen, and Oettinger and you have one of the best cores in the NHL. In my opinion this means they wouldn't be looking to trade for players that are all downgrades. Again, Laughton could be a target for Dallas if they find the cap space but it wouldn't be a trade involving 4 players a side.

Also Heiskanen plays both sides and primarily right. Lindell is not playing first pair LHD so that means that left side is wide open for Harley to climb if he proves himself worthy
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 12, 2023 at 11:43 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 19, 2022 at 5:13 a.m.
Thread: The Torts Turnaround
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>GirouxCrew</b></div><div>Can they not afford him because they just don’t have the money or that if they sign him they won’t be able to fill other holes in the lineup?</div></div>

With 11 forwards, 6 defensemen, and 1 goalie under contract for next year we have $7.3 million in cap space this summer. He was asking for at least that much last offseason before he put up 85 points. If we wanted to sign him, we'd have to move multiple other pieces to make it work with little to no cap coming back and no money retained. We'd then be in a bind next year with little money coming off the books, more dead money from the buyouts and Boldy needing a significant raise coming off his ELC.

The Parise and Suter contracts are what's killing us. It would have been worse if we kept them, but not by much. We have $12.74 million in dead money this upcoming season and $14.74 million for each of the next 2 years after that. If we had that money free, we could easily keep him, but we don't so we pretty much have to move him.
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 13, 2021 at 9:30 p.m.
Thread: Something unexpected is gonna happen
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>GirouxCrew</b></div><div>My guess is Larsson is offered quite a few 4x4 so someone is going to offer more. Flyers are desperate to be better defensively so I wouldn’t be shocked to see them be the ones to overpay. As for McDonagh, there’s so many guys with clauses, someone they’re gonna have to convince someone to go. Since he has 2 cups now he might be more willing</div></div>

Sorry I disagree with your McDonagh logic. He is more motivated to stay in Tampa more than ever. Johnson, McDonagh, Gourde, Stamkos, Kutcherov, Valiesky have no motivation to waive their trade clauses.
Killorn and Palat have M NTCs are the most logical to go. And I don't know why there are so many don't want to put Sergachev or another good young player with cap on the trading block...if needed.