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RazWild

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Forum: Armchair-GMFri at 8:56 pm
Thread: What I would like to see
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>wabit</b></div><div>Not to GMBG. He wants to tank/rebuild anyways, all his moves trades have been tanking moves not going for it moves:
1. Zucker for futures
2. Kunin for futures + flip Bonino at the TDL last year.
3. Staal/MarJo. Takes the worse player with a higher cap hit to get around a NTC and get something at the TDL.
4. Bjugstad was chance to flip for something positive if he remembered how to stay healthy and play.
5. Donato for futures.
6. Brodin, JEE, and Spurgeon long term so they are there when the Parise/Suter deals and the team was coming out of the rebuild.
7. Completely sat out the last TDL instead of even making a minor improvement.
8. Wouldn't give Boldy a chance to earn a spot for the Playoffs over the MarJo, Bjugstad, Bonino, Parise mess in the bottom-6.

The only problem was the COVID divisions, Kaprizov came in and blew up, and JEE figured out how to put pucks in the back of the net.</div></div>

For once, I agree with your assessment on that one. 🤷‍♂️
Forum: Armchair-GMFri at 8:52 pm
Thread: What I would like to see
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Wildwinswhen</b></div><div>All fair points RazWild. But isn't 2.5 -3 years of Kap better than zero? If he stays in the KHL for 3 years don't we lose his rights anyway?</div></div>

We do, but it basically comes down to if you want to win or not. Kaprizov for lack of a better word, is too good of a player that we'd find ourselves in the mushy middle again, just like this year. If you can't keep him here for longer than 4+ years, you might as well be tanking.

The 2022 and 2023 draft classes are absolutely stacked and are really deep, with no less than a potential <strong><em>five</em></strong> franchise centers among them. Shayne Wright, Brad Lambert, Mathew Savoie in 2022; and Connor Bedard, Matvei Michkov in 2023. On top of that, there's no less than an additional 12-20 potential elite high-end forwards during the course of those two drafts. By comparison 2024 is looking like it could be a weak draft year and it's far too early to gauge the 2025 draft. If you can't keep Kaprizov through at least through those 4-5 years, it's better to keep him out of it and cash in on those drafts while you can.
Forum: Armchair-GMFri at 8:19 pm
Thread: What I would like to see
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Wildwinswhen</b></div><div>WTH. Can they really believe that? I mean he's a FA either at 3 years (KHL or NHL) or at 4 years if we can get him to sign it.</div></div>

On a 3 year contract he'll have been walked to UFA and we won't have the cap space necessary to re-sign him in 3 years as we'll still be dealing with the final year of the $14M in dead cap space. He'd be gone for nothing or we will be forced to trade him. Either way it's not ideal <em>or</em> beneficial to sign him for less than 4 years. It's a major loss on Guerin's end if he can't sign a single year of UFA on Kaprizov's next contract.

4 years gets us past the buyouts and a single UFA year where we will have more than enough money to throw at him to get him to re-sign. But it still might be tough to keep him at that rate. It isn't ideal, but it's <em>absolutely essential</em> that we sign him for 4 years at a <em>minimum</em>!

5 years gets us two UFA years and Guerin will have had two years past the buyouts in order to build up the team after the large cap hits come off. This is the most ideal outcome at this point.

The basic point is, if you can't sign him for longer than 4. You may as well tank, because losing that negotiation is bad... bad look by the GM. If Guerin refuses signing him for less than 4 and doesn't trade his rights, he more or less salvages face and reputation by not being bullied into a bad contract by a 24 year old kid who's played less then 82 games in the NHL.
Forum: Armchair-GMFri at 6:01 pm
Thread: What I would like to see
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>drmantalban</b></div><div><a href="/users/jaytea" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@jaytea</a> <a href="/users/razwild" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@razwild</a>

Out of curiosity, do either of you listen to Worst Seats, and if so have you caught the latest episode? Russo and Pants dig into the Kap contract a bit, and both of them vehemently agree that it’s better to let him sit in the KHL and say good riddance vs. sign him to a 3 year. Their argument is that the principle exceeds whatever trade value you’d get from him.

My jaw was on the floor.</div></div>

I do, but haven't listened to that one yet. I don't see Guerin signing him for less than 4 years. If you can't, I would have to agree with Russo and Panther on that one. Strange as it might seem.
Forum: Armchair-GMFri at 5:08 pm
Thread: What I would like to see
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>drmantalban</b></div><div>Def agree with the idea of a cheap RH depth forward for the exact reasons you suggested. Makes too much sense given the low risk (especially if it’s a 1 year).

The Dvorak of package is a tad rich for my blood, but I also think it’s probably accurate to market. Any less may be a losing package.

We’re in a weird spot as a team.</div></div>

Keep in mind it's meant to be a tad rich by design. We <em>are</em> dumping Rask in this package as well.

They way I look at it is it’s Greenway, Khovanov, and the 2022 2nd for Dvorak himself. The 2023 3rd is to dump Rask.

I think Gusev and Kase would be good additions. I think they would both fit in well. I really like Kase's upside, he's just unfortunately too injury prone.
Forum: Armchair-GMThu at 10:39 am
Thread: Minnesota wtf
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>themarast</b></div><div>If he will sign more than 8.2M for example 10M... than in season 2023 you have 10+14 = 24M and just one player, i think buyout of Parise and Suter was a big mistake for future of minnesota.</div></div>

He was offered $8.5M on a 8 year contract and turned it down. Not because it was too low, but because it was too <em><strong>long</strong></em>. His dispute isn't the money, or I should say the money right now, but the length of term. He wants to go short term, Guerin and the Wild want to go long term.

That's the divide.

Kaprizov's agent Paul Theofanous is trying to get his client signed on a 3 year deal that will take him to UFA where he can then cash in on a $10M+ contract once he’s more established in the NHL and the cap will likely have gone up in a few years. He's not getting that kind of money on a shorter term contract. He's projected to get $6.5M on a 1-3 year deal, $7-7.5M on a 4-6 year deal, and $8-9M on a 7-8 year.

We would be able to afford him on a mid-length contract. We would more or less be just like Toronto or Edmonton, heavy on the top six but low on depth player.


We could survive but would be reliant on league minimum deals and ELC's to offset the dead cap hits.