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Forum: Armchair-GMAug. 18, 2023 at 4:18 p.m.
Thread: To the limit
I think you have to either go Patrick or Bailey here. Both i think would be good for 3rd line at this time in their career, kind of make or break that could bring depth scoring, but having both is overkill because whoever ends up on 4th line you won't get what you want from them. Neither are role players and wouldn't bring the energy that you would want for a center between cogs and oconnor.
The same pretty much goes for bear. We have lots of puck moving dmen, 4 of the 6 are that in our current roster and about 90% of the pipeline is as well, i think if we do bring in another D it would be someone with more size and grit to be able to handle the dirty minutes and long playoff push, and most likely take mansons spot when he inevitably gets injured.
As for white, i think his contract pretty much says his worth, he'd be waived at some point during the season especially when kovalenko comes in.
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 12, 2023 at 12:46 a.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 27, 2022 at 1:22 p.m.
Thread: Better lines
(1) Mikko is a natural RW who has been filling in at C. Doesn't play left wing.
(2) Bednar has said in recent weeks he likes Newhook at wing better than center.
(3) Newhook is averaging 14:55 a game and has only played more than 20 minutes twice. Bednar has his top line guys (inc. Compher lately) during these injuries playing a minimum of 22 minutes a game. There's proof Compher can do that without late game slippage. No proof that Newhook can.
(4) Bednar said today that Nichushkin & Kaut are injured -- MacKinnon will be back before them, maybe as early as later this week.
(5) Even if all 13 forwards you have listed were available, Cogliano, who you don't even have playing, is absolutely in the lineup over any of the players you listed in the 4th line.
(6) A healthy Nichushkin is a top 6 on any team in the NHL, not just the Avs.
Forum: Armchair-GMOct. 5, 2022 at 4:43 p.m.
Thread: Kerfoot
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Random2152</b></div><div>Listen I'm not gonna read all that, but the point is a player of kerfoots calibre is far more valuable than this, everyone knows it amd pretends he is worth ****. Even in some cap dump with no market (which I'm not convinced needs to happen at all) I'd wager we got more than this.

But the reason I'm arguing so hard for his value is that all reports from insiders say there would be a considerable market for him. Whatever cap issues a team has go out the window when that happens.
He'd easily get browns return, and I'd wager a little more (like late 1st equivalent - which mostly means a 2nd and another asset like a b prospect).</div></div>

"i'm not gonna read all that because i'm too busy repeating a dumb opinion that goes against every recent trend we've seen. teams will do this because reasons."
Forum: Armchair-GMOct. 5, 2022 at 4:32 p.m.
Thread: Kerfoot
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Random2152</b></div><div>Man these kerfoot offers just keep getting more and more insulting.

And then like clockwork when a trade goes down and we get their actual value the site freaks out.

Every damn time</div></div>

the potential of a GM making a bad deal doesn't change the logic:

there are currently 8 teams that have at least 21 skaters and the $3.5M in cap space to acquire Kerfoot(and that's if we're being generous, with the Islanders technically only having $3.485M) - NYI, WPG, OTT, DET, CHI, ANA, ARI, &amp; BUF.

Kerfoot has a 10-team NTC that kicked in at the beginning of free agency this year - I wouldn't be shocked to find out that at least 3 of these 8 are on his NTC (spitballing: Chicago, Arizona, and one of Buffalo/Winnipeg).

But even if you assume he waives his NTC, I'd argue that Chicago, Anaheim, Arizona, Detroit, &amp; Buffalo have no need to spend an asset to get him - he's a 27 year old pending UFA that you'd have to give a raise above $3.5M to keep around if you think he fits your rebuild timeline, or you're moving him with the hope that you flip him out for a better deal at the deadline (always a gamble), which means that you're going to want to pay less than market price to get him (ie, you think he's worth a 2nd/3rd so your best offer is a 4th.) I'd put those 5 as "highly unlikely" to spend any sort of pick on Kerfoot, though.

That leaves the Islanders, Senators, and Jets as teams with the cap available to get him. The Islanders don't have a spot for him at this point - they're filled up with middle-6 wingers as it is, so it would be foolish to spend an asset to get Slightly Better Josh Bailey when that means they're going to be paying someone else $4M+ to sit in the press box every night.

The Senators *might* have a spot for them in their middle-6, but that depends on the Alex Formenton situation - I have to assume they're holding cap space for his deal if he gets cleared to play.

The Jets have an easy spot for him on their 3rd line (apologies to Jensen Harkins) but again - they've got a perfectly fine player for that spot right now, and while an upgrade would be nice, why are they going to pay up? There's no one they have to bid against, so they've got the advantage over Toronto.

This summer has been filled with trades where teams traded assets at well below what their perceived value was because of cap constraints - there's no reason to think that the Leafs trying to move Kerfoot to be cap compliant would be any different.