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Sunny_In_STL

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Forum: Armchair-GMMar. 10 at 4:06 p.m.
Thread: Cost of Krug at 25M retained
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>mokumboi</b></div><div>Stevie Wonder is typically not interested on small Dmen. Setting that aside, I'd like to note that an expectation of not winning anything is not a reason to sneeze at extra cap space if the right player or players are available. One doesn't necessarily have to be contending to splurge on an excellent player. That's how you get to contending. I'm not saying that player has already presented himself, but with the cap rising greatly the next few years, a Krug buyout gets more palatable at a certain tipping point amount of retention. I'm not an economics expert, so I can not tell you what that dollar figure is, but I am fairly sure it's well below 4M.</div></div>

I would rather have the retention over the buy-out because this team probably isn't doing anything meaningful until 26-27. You still have the cap space to splurge this coming year as your forward core should be cheap with a bunch of guys on ELCs. The cheap buyout year is wasted on a team that probably won't be to the cap ceiling anyway. Then you're stuck paying him 2m+ until 29-30 when this team could be making multiple runs. I would rather eat more money upfront and not impact too much of the future, especially if the Blues retain 2.5m the earliest window in 26-27 would be cheaper to have the retention than buyout.
Forum: Armchair-GMFeb. 16 at 12:54 p.m.
Thread: Stop
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Carleton</b></div><div>Good players still post good numbers even on bad teams. Parayko isn't a top defender. He's a 2RD on a good team. Plenty of public analyitic models that take into account individual defensive statistics haven't favoured him in years and suggest he's on the decline. Watching him is no different. He's just big and slow and massively overrated by Blues fans. No idea why they still cling onto this guy like glue.</div></div>

We cling in to him cause he plays a solid 24 minutes every night and we don’t worry about multiple defensive flubs. Also he isn’t slow, he is a top 1/3 skater in the league by speed and is something that (at least the blues) broadcast likes to talk about. On some teams like Vegas or NYR he absolutely is a 2nd pair RD but that what happens when you have an elite RD. On many teams like the blues or the leafs he is still a solid top pair player, would you like Better probably, but you can do plenty worse.
Forum: Armchair-GMFeb. 15 at 2:30 p.m.
Thread: Off-Season Options
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>mokumboi</b></div><div>So wait... you want throw 20M a year for the rest of the decade at Dmen but NOT move out any of Leddy, Krug or Faulk? We literally double the size of our biggest problem as an organization. Skjei and Forsling won't cost that much, and Hanifin shouldn't.

I'll take Forsling for about two year and a million less per, and other teams can overspend on the other two.

I also have no idea how one could figure Krug-Kessel has been solid. They've statistically been a good bit worse than Krug-Faulk, which has been our #1 issue this season. A 28.6% goal share. Brutal.</div></div>

The problem with the Krug/Kessel pair with goal share is that they are being deployed in a second-pair role which is tough for a rookie and Krug isn't the best defensively. You deploy them in a 3rd pairing role I guarantee you they excel but to move them to a 3rd pair, you need an actual 2nd pair which Leddy/Faulk or Forsling/Faulk gives you. If it fails next year all the contracts can be gotten rid of much easier as Leddy/Krug/Faulk move to m-ntc but I would think the defense would look much better.