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Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 11, 2022 at 4:22 a.m.
Thread: Rounding out the Roster
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>EsoYeezus69</b></div><div>Love the idea! Only thing I’d do differently is play Damiani instead of Olofsson, shift Peterson to LW and put Damiani at C. He’s younger and better, in the games he played this year with Dallas he looked pretty good, him and Peterson had great chemistry in the games they played together.</div></div>

This is the ultimate great and also realistic offseason for the Stars. Fills the hole on RD with Bear while not overpaying for Strome or our RFAs.

I agree that Olofsson will be playing in AHL and Damiani has better chances to play than him. Other than that, this is probably it.
Also good thing it you didn't trade Khudobin in this one, basically having the option of doing so only if needed and possibly creating another cap space or having him on in case there's injury to Oettinger/Wedgewood.

Realistically though they won't trade Faksa but rather Khudobin, but it still fits within the cap.
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 9, 2022 at 11:17 a.m.
Thread: My ideal Dallas Stars summer
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Francez</b></div><div>Suter isn’t the problem with re-signing Klingberg at all. It’s the fact that they don’t wanna commit 7.5-8 million a year to a player who will be 38 if they give him the 8 year deal. Not only that but Klingberg was awful in the playoffs. That could be a sign of things to come. You don’t wanna take that risk after already messing up the Benn contract, and Seguin unfortunately not living up to his with injuries

I get y’all wanna keep him because he was drafted and developed by the Stars and he’s a fan favourite, but signing him for big money and big term is a huge disaster waiting to happen.

You can’t blame Suters money as being a problem when you have a goalie who isn’t even gonna be on the NHL roster making nearly equal money, a 4th line Center also making equal money, and the captain who will likely peak out at 50-60 points making 9.5 mil. If they wanted to sign Klingberg they would. It just doesn’t make sense to do so</div></div>

Listen, if Klingberg signs 7x7 deal with Seattle or Carolina, I'm definitely blaming Suter's money for it. That's completely reasonable deal for a RHD like him and he will be almost 37 by the end of it, exactly what Suter is now and what Letang will be in 2 years, so chances are, still potentially serviceable at that point and the cap will be over 100M in 2029.

Also, I've been advocating for moving Khudobin for the longest time here, I've written full article about it.
https://jurajkralik.substack.com/p/after-ben-bishop-stars-should-now?r=1h681h&amp;s=w&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 27, 2022 at 8:14 a.m.
Thread: Ideal offseason IF the Stars keep Khudobin as a backup
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>TheMooterus</b></div><div>I'd swap Dellandrea and Johnston. I'm also reaching out to anyone under the cap floor about taking Faksa's contract. I'll send a 3rd or a 4th with him as payment, but I'm doing everything I can to move him off of the roster this offseason.</div></div>

I'd think moving Khudobin's final year of contract would be much easier than moving Faksa, but I can see him being moved either during this season or next offseason. Why?

Right now, the front office isn't sure who would play those tough minutes Faksa plays and also the PK. Once they realize Dellandrea and possibly others are fully capable of doing that, they'll move him and he'd have also less years remaining on his deal. I'd predict he gets moved next summer.
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 14, 2022 at 9:01 a.m.
Thread: Getting rid of Khudobin is the key
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>ceeque84</b></div><div>Klingberg wants 7 x $8mil, most likely he walks as a UFA
Buyout Faska if a trade cant be worked out with him involved.</div></div>

If you want to buy out somebody, the best candidate is Ryan Suter but the best time to do it is probably next offseason.
Klingberg isn't getting 7x8M in open market. That 56M in total. My deal gets him around 50M but he gets to stay in Dallas.

The maximum I see somebody offering Klingberg in free agency is 7.5M for 7 years. Dallas can offer him the same offer, no problem. At that points, it's just his decision and I think Nill will play this exactly as he did with Khudobin after 2020 bubble run. He re-signed with Dallas the first day of free agency.
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 14, 2022 at 8:58 a.m.
Thread: Getting rid of Khudobin is the key
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>TheMooterus</b></div><div>- Oettinger gets more money
- Either give Robertson a 3-year deal, 4-year deal, or an 8-year deal. Anything else is bad for Robertson or for Dallas
- Klingberg is going to want about $1M more than what you've got offered here

Easy fix to all of this:

- Don't sign Raffl (don't need him when Dellandrea/Studenic can fill his role for $400K less)
- Pay someone to take Faksa's entire contract.</div></div>

I think Oettinger knows Dallas and Jeff Reese is a great place for him to be and signing for 3.75M is actually a total comparable with Andrei Vasilevskiy bridge deal back in 2016. I know the cap is higher now but we have post-covid flat cap environment as well, so it balances out. We'll see what the number will be.

I'm actually on board with bridging both Oettinger and Robertson for 3 years and I see your point of signing him for that or 8 years. I just think with agents and all, they know that too and good compromise is signing him to 6 or 7 year deal, where he can be a UFA being 28 or 29 years old. That way you can actually save on cap instead of bridging him and then offering 10+ in 2025 or pushing to 8 year deal. The best case scenario is 8x8 contract, bottom line.

I think it's much easier to trade Khudobin than Faksa, that's why I did that and with Faksa, you get at least SOME return for your investment instead of NONE in Khudobin's case.
I'm also not on board re-signing Raffl, it was just an example of signing old UFA, because I had 1.2M in cap space and 22-man roster and we all know how Nill loves to do that.

Klingberg honestly isn't getting 8M, not even in an open market. Evolving Hockey has his most probable contract projection at 6.9M for 6 more years. 7x7 is just FAIR compromise from him AND the team.
Forum: Armchair-GMNov. 28, 2019 at 7:52 a.m.
Thread: Calgary trade year 2
Well, they're probably not buying out Cogliano and sending Comeau away, even though we'd agree that at least one of them should be sent away. That means, you have 4.4M of cap space less. Also, I think they are keeping them, so when their cap is off in 2021-22, Miro's cap hit can be easily manageable.

They'll probably re-sign Khudobin for 1 more year at 3M. So that's 7.4M with Comeau and Cogs. Gurianov's and Faksa's cap hit are OK but I think Hintz is getting at least 5M in bridge deal. All of a sudden, they do not have that cap space for big splash. And personally, I'd be glad if they keep at least one of Comeau and Cogliano. Having Comeau, Cogliano and Janmark is redundant even now, that's why your proposed trade in previous thread Janmark+Honka+pick for Hamonic would be great (we'd need to sweten it with another prospect though).

But even without free agent splash (or overpay) this is a good team for next season, especially with Dellandrea and Harley coming up. We need RHD help though. I hope they let Polak walk. Possible UFA candidates for this year are Green, Vatanen, DeMelo, Tanev, Barrie. Me personally, I would love if they could use Tampa's cap trouble in the summer and acquire Erik Cernak.