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Forum: Armchair-GMMon. at 7:28 a.m.
Thread: Wildcard 2025
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>SLAFSQUATCH</b></div><div>Personally I see Harris and Struble and middle pairing dmen. And NHL ready. Never know what a draft pick can become. Habs have that luxury. They might be upgrades on Gologoski, Merrill and/or Bogosian as early as next year. But thank you for your perspective.</div></div>

None of the 3 defensemen you named are 2nd pairing defensemen though. The only reason any of them moved up the lineup was due to injuries up the lineup (Spurgeon and Brodin) and our lack of cap room to do anything else. I think almost any Minnesota fan would prefer to see what Judd Brackett can do with a pick in the top half of the draft than take on what will be a 23 and a 24 year old who MAY have 2nd pairing upside. Our competitive window is more aligned with the draft pick maturing than it is with a 24 year old.

I can't imagine this would have been the best offer Guerin has gotten for a 1st round pick since taking over the team in 2019 and he has yet to trade one yet (except when we moved up in the 2020 1st round). I don't see this package changing that trend.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 2 at 3:26 a.m.
Thread: Last Year of Cap Hell
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Rob32sjsharks</b></div><div>Faber next deal will eat up a large portion of that 14 mil in dead money honestly so it’s not the cap he’ll you think it is.
At best you add 1 more mid level top 6 forward next year and resign Faber and that savings is gone.</div></div>

Figure the cap goes up to $92 million by summer 2025. That's an increase of $8.5 million which would cover the entirety of Faber's raise. If Kaprizov wants $12 million to stay, that's only $3 million of the $13.07 million in dead money coming off the books ($14.74 million drops to $1.67 million). We'll still have $10 million to work with to improve the team. We won't be near the cap floor, but we also won't be forced to do insane cap gymnastics or hope that short term injuries are long term enough for LTIR just so we can function like we had to do this season.
Forum: Armchair-GMMar. 3 at 2:36 a.m.
Thread: New found Winning pieces
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>MajesticWalrus</b></div><div>Ill admit it could definitely take another sweetener but there's no bad players going the other way. Jarry is great and joseph can definitely turn into something, he's shown he's one of the fastest skaters in the league too. Along with high picks.
Minnesota on the other hand, it could be argued fluery is the lowest of value in this deal due to contract and performance.</div></div>

Brodin isn't available and if he was, we sure as hell wouldn't be retaining 50% for 4+ years in exchange for a goalie, an unimpressive defenseman who "can definitely turn into somebody" and 2 picks in 2026. That's insane.

Fleury is almost completely irrelevant to my decision here. Take him out and it wouldn't change anything. We already have $14.74 million in dead cap space this year and next. You're proposing we give you our top shutdown defenseman and make it $17.74 million in dead cap. Jarry isn't bad, but he isn't cheap (remember the dead cap?) and he's signed to term when we have our goalie of the future (Wallstedt) ready to make the jump to the NHL very soon. POJ is playing 13 minutes with uninspiring defensive metrics. The 2 picks lose a lot of value being that far off. Unless you go into a full burn it to the ground rebuild, which I doubt happens, those picks won't be particularly early either.

In other words, this trade makes absolutely no sense from Minnesota's perspective and gets shut down immediately.