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Forum: NHL SigningsApr. 13 at 9:45 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMFeb. 3 at 1:19 p.m.
Thread: Stand Back I Dont Know How Big This Thing Will Get
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>NoVaSpartan</b></div><div>Few things here:
- despite playing a "4th line" role Dowd is playing much closer to low 2nd-3rd line minutes averaging almost 16 minutes a game, he can easily fit into a defensive 3rd line role.
- He's one of the best defensive forwards in the league in models such as A&amp;R, and has consistently helped shut down top lines, something pretty much no other line can do for Washington.
- He has an extremely low cap hit plus the extra year on his contract, making him valuable over the next two years.
- Lars Eller returned a 2nd round pick while in a down year, and not only is Dowd better defensively, he's got the extra year and is outscoring Eller from last year on an offensively inept team.

Bottom line, if a team wants Dowd they're going to have to pay up, and Washington is going to be looking for at least a 2nd.</div></div>

You could right, he appears to be elite as a bottom 6 shut-down defender, and a RHC to boot, but typically offensive players are worth 1st &amp; 2nd rounders and the defensive types are 3rd rounders or lower.

The market will dictate.

Is Dowd even available?
Forum: Armchair-GMJan. 30 at 9:33 p.m.
Thread: Stand Back I Dont Know How Big This Thing Will Get
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Trevor31lv</b></div><div>So you've paid for Columbus to eat Campbell's deal.....MAYBE a bit more. But how are you getting Laine with retention AND Ceulemans, who they've got no incentive to move?</div></div>

They would move the offensively oriented Ceulemans for more well-rounded, but offensively gifted Akey (the kid is a sublime skater and has a rocket shot, should have been a much higher pick). Ceulemans seems to be struggling, so this trade adds more value to the deal for CBJ and brings CC home.

Laine has extremely underperformed expectations, and Campbell’s (seriously) incredible personality will replace the distracting Elvis to help the young CBJ tenders along. Change of scenery therapy for everyone.

Campbell needs to move to a place with less pressure and should be pretty good.

Laine retained prevents a potential total $8.7 million write-off…
Forum: Armchair-GMAug. 7, 2023 at 1:29 p.m.
Thread: 97 Feasts on Petrys Dishes
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>CD282</b></div><div>Petry fell off a cliff last year when you consider his play v Elites. He was really bad. Is that the beginning of the end? I'm not about to risk my 1RHD to find out.

Your bias against Ceci is blinding you to the fact that he played top-5 hardest minutes in the league over the past 2 years and came out of it with 51.55 xGF%. There's evidence that Petry would be a clear downgrade.</div></div>

I am not biased against Ceci. This past season he struggled, but I know he had a core injury. Not sure why he wasn’t shut down, hopefully he is healed.

I know Petry had some distractions and injuries, but he also still can skate, pass and shoot at high levels. I think there is still something substantial there.
Forum: NHL SigningsJul. 15, 2023 at 11:45 a.m.
Thread: Edmonton Oilers signed Raphael Lavoie (1 Year / $874,125 AAV)
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>CapFriendly</b></div><div>[url=/players/raphael-lavoie]Raphael Lavoie[/url] has signed a new contract with the Edmonton Oilers.</div></div>

This is very disappointing.

I was very surprised to learn that it was not a minimum salary deal and even more surprised that at $100 K more than minimum, that it is not a 2 year deal. With experienced NHL utility players on PTO’s who will no doubt be fighting for their careers at camp and who will have no choice but to take minimum salary deals, he may not even see an NHL game this season.

I hope I am wrong, but no matter how well he plays he won’t be more than a 4th line winger to start, if he makes the team out of camp. And with his salary, injuries will be the only thing that gets him on the roster.

We all saw how the salary cap impacted players (Janmark) early in the season last year….

I do not think this was a smart move, this is a straight-up gamble. His Agent should be providing better advice than this for a player with zero NHL games, the strategy has to be to do anything possible to get his client on the NHL team.