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Forum: Armchair-GMMay 21 at 7:08 p.m.
Thread: Lets do this
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Cub19</b></div><div>To be honest way I see it is nuke will end up on LTIR. Then he gets sent to minors. Someone will probably claim him. If not stuff him there till a trade happens.

Landeskog is my opinion should just hang his skates up. He won't be the same player and his contract in hindering the avs right now. He should become a coach with the avs system for now.

I think the C should go to Toews. People say mackinnon but he dint want it.

Last thing. Kovalenko did better then expected in my opinion. At times he looked out of place but dude was thrown into a fire with no practice and stuff.

If landy ends up on LTIR they can easily get 2 more top 9 players and a 3rd pairing dmen. I'm a try one with no trades and no landy</div></div>

I don't see anyone taking him on full freight but GMs do weird stuff all the time

We can't know what's going to happen with Landy but we do know he hasn't played competitive hockey in two years and had a surgery not many elite athletes have had. It doesn't look good but we won't know until we hear something.
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 21 at 5:08 p.m.
Thread: Lets do this
I actually think sending Nuke to the minors is not a terrible idea. I mean, it doesn't save a ton in cap but it might reinforce just how pissed they are. Maybe he asks for a trade; maybe he refuses to report and they terminate his contract. It's another of several options they have.

I can't see Behrens making the jump next year and I'd rather see them dump Manson than Girard. $2.1M is a lot to pay a 4th line C but he was pretty good for them; if they go 4 years, they should be able to shave at least a little off that cap hit. It's going to be interesting to see if Kovy can stick. He obviously didn't get much time to adjust but looked out of place. Once he does get time to adjust, hopefully he can be a solid bottom-six option. Mitts may very well get more. Of course, if Landy doesn't come back they'll have more money to play with; I wonder if they have an internal timeline on his return because if they go beyond UFA not knowing one way or the other, that's going to be tough to deal with.
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 19 at 9:32 p.m.
Thread: Lando is done Nichushkin is sent away
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>DanielSan92</b></div><div>Not sure where you don't understand that paying to get out of his deal is stupid considering he either gets his **** together or they can terminate him without spending assets.</div></div>

They can't just terminate his contract; that is simply not an option with him being in the Player Assistance program. Now, if he gets to level 4, that's a different story but that would mean he got cleared at level 3, he was reinstated and then violated the terms of his release from the program so, in that case, he would have to end up back on the ice which means they have to account for his cap hit. And there is such thing as too high a price to pay to have someone else take him; you can't send, for example, a 1st and Ritchie and retain 50% just to get rid of the contract. This is going to take time and has to follow a process to clear up.
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 19 at 4:11 p.m.
Thread: They are so cooked
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>batman</b></div><div>180k penalty is very cool.

idk what’s the penalty for the other years tho</div></div>

You should check it out. It's actually -$180K the first year so that's nice but then it goes to:

$519K
$3.019M x2
$5.019M x2
$1.694M x6

I guess if they decide it's worth it for the first 2-3 years but then it gets crazy. Also, ownership would have to sign off which isn't necessarily a foregone conclusion; that's a lot of money to pay a guy to not play for you. I imagine they explore all other avenues including just having him come back and seeing if he can't stay clean; if he helps them win games (which he does), he'll earn a little bit of leash but there will always be the risk of relapse and going to stage 4 which could give them grounds for contract termination. At the very least, in that scenario they'd get a year of LTIR relief and he might never be reinstated after that.
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 18 at 7:51 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 18 at 7:43 p.m.
Thread: No crazy blow-ups what could Val return
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>dopplsan</b></div><div>Retention, to begin with.

He’s productive; but, yeah…it’s very hard to get over the toxicity here. Otherwise, why would COL be looking to move him?

If I’m CBJ, or really any team, I sit and wait for as long as possible. If someone wants to pay a dollar - go for it. But I think you’re going to see a bunch teams sitting on their hands waiting for the ask to go down. Or maybe some of the TOR fans can convince themselves they can Fix Him™️.

Otherwise, I’m paying pennies and basically keeping the guy on house arrest.</div></div>

They'd definitely have to find a team that is desperate and willing to take a risk; Toronto definitely qualifies, LOL. The upside would be that, if he goes to stage four, it's a year suspension so they can LTIR that for a year then try to void the remainder of the deal. If the Avs were willing to retain, say, 20% of his contract, I could see a team that needs a clearly talented and clutch player who is also clearly troubled. That's more bearable than a buyout but it's still a tough sell.