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CaseyFlyman

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Forum: Armchair-GM43 minutes ago
Forum: Armchair-GM4 hours ago
Thread: Chomp
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>kohnsharkosz</b></div><div>Seems like wishful thinking for a guy that played 18 last year and hasn't played more than 56 since 2020. At $8.7 he's a package with picks to dump, not turn their nose up at any package coming back. Frankly the offer above is terrible for the Sharks.</div></div>

Right, but we've got the time and cap space to take another chance on a guy who, when in the lineup, is still nearly ppg and has scored at higher rates than a lot of his WPG seasons. He's penciled in as the top-line RW. If it works: great. If not: well, it's not like his value will be lower, and his contract gets easier to move with just one year left.

Jackets fans aren't trying to push him out the door, but every team tries to tell us he's a worthless player that we should give them for pennies on the dollar...just so <em>they </em>can play him in <em>their </em>top 6 and hope for 30+ goals. That's not exactly an appealing sell.
Forum: Armchair-GMSun. at 3:10 p.m.
Thread: 2024-2025
Is it a lazy, unrealistic Laine trade that's been done dozens of times on this site already, and makes no sense for Columbus? Yes. But...

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Jacketsman61</b></div><div>The Jackets most certainly doesn’t happen. The Jackets are taking a cap dump and giving up Laine. You want Laine and for us to take Anderson…it’s 5OA and Beck++ at minimum.</div></div>

That's just not realistic.

That said, we're not trading Laine unless it's 1) an upgrade, 2) a 1st-line winger return, or 3) a heavily-conditioned draft haul that likely upgrades to multiple 1sts. Otherwise, CBJ (a team that needs high-end talent and has zero cap crunch) just keep him and hope for a rebound.

CBJ counters with asking the price on Caulfield, Suzuki, Slafkovsky, Reinbacher, or 5OA, since those are the only pieces we'd be interested in.
Forum: Armchair-GMSun. at 3:05 p.m.
Thread: Re If Marner Waives
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>LuckyMoneyPuck</b></div><div>Marner isn't extending for CBJ FFS if that is your logic just hang it up. Marner will go test FA because he doesn't owe anyone anything nor is CBJ going to give him 12 mil per.</div></div>

This is such a lazy argument. The whole premise of this specific ACGM is that he waives for Columbus, and he's not waiving for somewhere he wouldn't consider extending. Why in the world would he waive for a bottom-4 team as a UFA-to-be otherwise? Why would Columbus ever consider trading anything for Marner in an assumed non-playoff year unless there was an extension in place?

Suspend your disbelief for one second for the sake of a conversation. If he's not going to extend <em>anywhere </em>because he's going to test free agency, he's going to stay in Toronto and then walk.

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>LuckyMoneyPuck</b></div><div>
You are also over here assuming CBJ is buying out Elvis.
A team with no real organizational depth in net, in one of the worst goalie markets in years, isn't buying out a goalie.</div></div>

Tarasov and Greaves both proved last season that they're better options already. We have organizational depth, we just need a vet backup that isn't going to b**** to the media and demand a trade when he plays himself out of 1st or 2nd string. Hence the probable buyout.
Forum: Armchair-GMSat. at 10:59 p.m.
Thread: Moving Contracts
The Elvis move is fine, but I'm not convinced it's better than a buyout.

The estimate cap floor for next year is $64,700,000 per <a href="https://www.capfriendly.com/salary-cap">CapFriendly itself</a>. I get this isn't a complete roster and there's still all the RFAs to sign, but there's absolutely zero reason for this team to be paying to move contracts.

And moving Laine at all while his value is this low will almost certainly bite us unless we're getting an overpay, or heavily-conditioned picks. Retaining half for 2 more years, while also retaining half on Merzlikins for the next 3, would be such a massive unforced error. ~$6M in dead cap on top of only 1 retention slot each of the next two years, when we're likely selling and retaining on Provorov to eat up the third this year, would be questionable at best.