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Rusty_Shackelford

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Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 13, 2019 at 9:25 p.m.
Thread: Hawks
Gonna say the same thing to everyone else unaware that decides to sign Ejdsell. The Hawks do own his rights, but he signed in Sweden. He's not coming back this year...if ever. And he wasn't good anyway.

Perlini isn't signing 3 years at that price. Hawks probably aren't sure they want him that long. And it's not enough to entice him to sign that long. He probably wants 2mil for 2 years.

Hicketts is an AHL defenseman. Givani Smith is the equivalent to Graham Knott. Connor Murphy is a valuable dman, regardless of what some say because he isn't fast and doesn't bring offense. He was their best Defensive dman. Just an AWFUL trade for the Hawks.

Anisimov for Vatrano, I'd take Anisimov if we're ignoring salary. Greco is a career AHLer. Anisimov can play center or wing, has size, and can play PK. Entwistle was a PPG OHL player with size. And isn't even 20. And you throw in a 2nd on top of it? Insanity!

You have Kane on the left side. A position he has never played. That makes sense. You have Duncan Keith on the right side. A side he has never played. BRILLIANT!
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 12, 2019 at 11:48 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 8, 2019 at 9:18 p.m.
Thread: Hawks Lines
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Jco5ta5</b></div><div>Anisimov or Murphy easiest to trade, especially if they think the D prospects like Joker and Boqvist are ready.</div></div>

Boqvist isn't ready. Offensively he is. Defensively...well they already have Gustafsson. There was talk between the Hawks and London in moving him to Forward.

As for the lines... Perlini probably gets traded with Anisimov/Murphy/Gustafsson/Jokiharju (rumors have been building he's fallen out of favor)

They didn't sign Ryan Carpenter to scratch him. He's your 4c. Shaw on the 4th line behind Sikura is dumb.

If they keep Anisimov and Dach (highly unlikely both stay, both gone is probably more likely.) The Hawks have some size down the middle! As well as being not so fleet of foot. Dach apparently isn't slow.. just not so quick. I worry about his faceoff numbers.

Kubalik-Toews-Kane
Debrincat-Strome-Saad
Saarela-Anisimov-Shaw
Caggiula-Carpenter-Kampf

Maybe swap out Quenneville for Saarela. Or if Dach impresses slide Anisimov to the left.

Keith-Gus
Maatta- Murphy
DeHaan-Seabrook

I'm not opposed to trading Gus. I think his riverboat gambler style is what made Keith bad defensively. I'm not sure Colliton is sold on Jokiharju though. Jokiharju didn't really stand out too much at the world championships. He started off hot with the Hawks...then fizzled. He needs to get stronger this summer and play with confidence. A scout said 'he got hit early, then was scared sh!tless."
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 4, 2019 at 9:18 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 3, 2019 at 7:09 p.m.
Thread: New Chicago
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Logan03</b></div><div>Vegas can do so much more to shed salary, and once they do, grab Murphy, really not that hard and they are literally about 1M difrence in salary, I’m sure they’ll make up something to lose that no problem</div></div>

Have you actually looked at the Vegas roster? They have 1 goalie and 6 d with Murphy. They have 3 centers. Even after trading Clarkson and assuming dansk is number 2 they have 800k in space. That's without signing two of their RFA'S. One will want a little over a million in Jimmy Schuldt. The other will want 3million plus in Nikita Gusev. They can't realistically trade Eakin with only 3 centers. Once they call up Glass they're over. Without Clarksons deal and before Gusev and Schuldt.

Adding salary in any trade before the season starts isnt going to happen.
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 3, 2019 at 6:50 p.m.
Thread: New Chicago
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Logan03</b></div><div>So few? If u look at our d-man prospects so few isn’t the right words, why send jokiharju down if he’s good enough to play, idk why u would prefer Gus over Murphy but like okay i guess so, buying out Määttä after trading for him is somthing I don’t think Chicago will do, and my bad I didn’t know de Haan was injured for that long, also I can see it now, Gus becomes one of the best d-men in the league and all the hawk fans starting blaming bowman for trading him when literally everyone was saying trade him,we will have space for cat, strome, and probably Gus too, if we lose anisimovs contract, Murphy’s, Crawford’s, and find a way to lose seabs then we can keep our top Offensive defensman</div></div>

The chances are slim Gustafson can repeat the offensive production and his defense is an absolute liability...still. he can be a game breaker ...for both side of the ice. But his offensive production is enticing and someone will value him higher than Murphy. He'll want 6+ million. Something the Hawks can't offer. That's why you trade him.
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 3, 2019 at 3:48 p.m.
Thread: New Chicago
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Logan03</b></div><div>They add Murphy who boosts there defense he’s great defensively and Chicago would keep him if there was room but Chicago has other players so grab reaves to add more grit to the team like Chicago has been doing with shaw, I would agree that Dallas rejects but faska has one year he’s gonna ask for about 5M obviously Chicago ain’t gonna pay him that he comes in to help Chicago more and give Chicago a better chance at playoffs Dallas grabs a third, and yes I think faska will ask to be overpriced at 5M I think he’s gonna have a great season and if anisimov got 4.5M He’s gonna want more</div></div>

Again, Vegas wants to shed salary. They are over the cap already. They need dollars gone. I get that hed be valuable to them. But this doesn't help them get salary compliant. They're saying they might trade Gusev because they don't have enough space. Adding Murphy who makes more than Reaves doesn't help them become cap compliant. It puts it further out of reach.

I proposed trading Gus to Vegas for Gusev who will want 3-4 million.
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 3, 2019 at 1:17 p.m.
Thread: Blackhawks best case scenario as of 7219 Not saying this will happen
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>RamonDaze</b></div><div>Cap Space is not a player. It could be a player, but Cap Space does not check anyone, score goals, etc. If one is going to propose a cap dump trade, feel free to use it to say sign Dzingel or trade for Gusev, etc.

The Blackhawks are not in cap hell anymore. After years of being up against the cap, I know it's tough to adjust to this new reality, even if they have trouble next offseason with Strome &amp; Debrincat plus goalie. There's a new CBA coming, where there might be a new buyout. There's going to be a new TV deal in a few years which should push the cap up higher. What I'm getting at is by the time the Blackhawks have put enough of a sweetener for another team to take on Seabrook's cap hit &amp; play him on bottom pair, it's not really worth it for the Blackhawks, especially because it's not really a pressing issue &amp; it's likely going to become less of an issue in a few years.

I don't</div></div>

The Hawks have a million in cap space. They have 11 million coming off the books next year, but they need to spend 15 million to resign Strome and Debrincat. Theyll have to trade one of Saad, Anisimov, or Seabrook to make it work as it is. You'd have to trade Anisimov to sign Dzingel. Theyre not in cap hell...but they dont have the spaced to sign a 5mil player.