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Forum: Armchair-GMYesterday at 11:56 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMYesterday at 7:57 a.m.
Thread: Both teams go for it
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Affectionate_Side_64</b></div><div>You're not sure? Really? Maybe you should look into these things before openly admitting this. They were 2nd in the league in expected goals despite being used as a shutdown pair. Skjei was 3rd in goals among defensemen despite being used in that role and not getting PP1 minutes. Both are bigger, faster, stronger and since Brodie's recent decline are better defensively than both he and Liljegren. The comparison here is not even close, lol.

Teraveinen is a downgrade offensively, though typically approached a point per game before struggling with injuries this season. He is also much, much better defensively and wouldn't need to be relegated to sheltered O-zone starts like Willy this past post-season.</div></div>

These are the reasons why the Canes aren’t going to pull the trigger.
Forum: Armchair-GMFri. at 9:03 p.m.
Thread: Bill wtf are you doing
My guess is that BG’s entire plan is dependent on if Rossi is able to translate his game to the NHL. Since Zucc is up after 2 years, and Foligno could be moved after 2 years, if the Wild eat half of Foligno’s deal, that opens up about 20mil in cap space (including the buyout penalty reduction, 22mil without retention) for the 2026 season. That isn’t even counting however much the cap ceiling rises in that timespan.
On paper, it is both a smart and quite stupid move. On the one hand, he is keeping the team together, and hoping for players to take that next step forward. On the other hand, he is hurting their chances of being competitive as well as making it near impossible to sign any top talents from the market to potentially improve the team. But being exceptionally reliant on Rossi developing into a top line C, not a wise move. And frankly, I’m of the opinion that Rossi won’t develop into what the Wild so desperately need him to be.

It’s either this, or the Wild are taking a very long look at the 2025-26 UFA class, and licking their chops over Draisaitl headlining that UFA class. I mean, not going to lie here, I kind of want to see how much damage a line composed of Kaprizov-Draisaitl-Boldy could do.