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Hammerwise

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Forum: Armchair-GM19 hours ago
Thread: Going into semi rebuild for 22-23
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Subbanator7667</b></div><div>This isn't what MTL should be doing at all. Sell anyone you can for picks, the higher the better, retain if needed and play the youth as much as possible. Tank should be the key word for the next two years for this management.

Only way this team gets to be a contender is by adding multiple high end prospects, if luck goes out way and we get Bedard out of it then we can start looking to turn the corner</div></div>

Maybe, I just dont know if theres much left that other teams want. And guys like Perreault or Evans bring negliable return, so I didn;t bother. Put it this way, Price still has the goods but I doubt any team touches him at 10.5mil for 5 yrs. Guys like Anderson or Toffoli or Edmundson might bring you back some good prospects/picks, but I do think you need quality guys like that with the kids. Is Suzuki or Caulfield there yet? I think you have to have a mix and the great thing about those vets is that they are pretty hard working, heart and soul, and aren't huge salaries and signed through their optimum career years and key development period of the youngsters

As far as youth, the team above has 5 young forwards and 2 young dmen, and I dont know if you bring more on in 22-23, theres not the development, coaching or ice time to bring them all on too soon and all together. 7-8 youngsters, guided by quality vets in 22-23, add 2-3 more in 23-24.
Forum: Armchair-GM19 hours ago
Forum: Armchair-GMThu at 5:06 am
Thread: im bad with gauging values
Im so used to seeing TOR "under offers" for Miller.

Its actually good value for miller and TWO years of retention: two high prospects, a good 1st and a 3rd.

The Lindblom is probably not good value, a late 2nd for Lindblom alone is probably closer. Lindblom is doing all the right things: skating, battling along the boards, just not producing. Hes still young, physically back and shows flashes of that 15-20 goal ability he once had

Just not sure Miller is what PHI needs. Because of their injuries, they really lack center play and have been employing laughton and brassard (and offensive blackhole Thompson) there, which has resulted in a weak 2nd line and no offense from 3rd or 4th lines. So not sure 1LW is their problem, not enough to give up that many futures to not address their problem.

Last night, their 1st line played like 22 minutes each, when they normally play 18, so the team depth beyond the 1st line is the problem. I would expect them to see what Frost can do at 3C and hold on until Hayes is back.
Forum: Armchair-GMThu at 4:57 am
Thread: Getting healthy and minimal additions for 22-23
I dont think PHI moves Giroux. (you've got a 21-22 roster)

And as a UFA I think its more likely Giroux signs in PHI for 5-6mil for 3-4 years than signs in OTT, (another 20mil in career earnings). PHI has alot of good youth (Farabee, Koneckny, Provorov, Hart) now, with high end prospects arriving (Frost, Cam York, Zamula, Alison), alot of quality mid-aged 27-30 guys (ellis when healthy, laughton, couterier, sanheim) and is much closer to being a true contender in the next 1-2 years than OTT, and they have no cap issues end if/when they move JVR.

To be fair Philly has been missing their 2nd line center and top pairing defenseman all season and is 8-4-4, their biggest concerns going into 21-22 was in goal and whether ristolinen could play defense, both of those have been answered.

Does Giroux go for the 8mil in OTT as a 2nd liner or 6mil in PHI as the captain? I just dont see the money as a Giroux thing or him going to a lesser contender
Forum: Armchair-GMWed at 11:35 am
Thread: Pipeline and Core
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>BuFfaLOFaN</b></div><div>I think sabres should trade some assets and picks this draft to select twice in the top 10. and once at 25... Trade from 16-9 and add some prospects later picks... Then draft a forward, and Nemec or Jiricek... That would be the bomb.</div></div>

Or find some quality "mid-aged" talent from some clubs that might have cap issues for picks or midlevel prospects. Guys who arent old or overpaid who can shoulder some of the load and lead while the youngsters get their feet wet, and still be in Buffalo in all liklihood when some of these youngsters start to hit their stride.

And maybe a bad example, by no means is PHI in bad cap space (once they move JVR even at a loss they have plenty of money and space to re-sign all their guys and giroux and ristolinen), but an example of a quality mid-aged guy is like a 25 yr old Travis Sanheim or a 24 yr old LW Strome from CHI.