SalarySwishSalarySwish
Avatar

martm2k

Member Since
May 26, 2021
Forum Posts
85
Posts per Day
0.1
Forum: Trade Machine ProposalsMay 29, 2022 at 10:39 a.m.
Thread: Habs Get 2nd Overall without giving 22 or 14
There's no chance this happens.

If the Devils trade the pick, they'll ask for either Caufield or Suzuki in return, which is not happening.

Let say, for the sake of the discussion, that there would be a way to get the 2nd overall without including of of these 2.

It starts with either the 1st round of Calgary or the 1st of Florida (next year)... If not both.
You then need to add your best prospect, which currently would be Guhle.
To that, you need to probably add 1 the following top prospect/young player:
Farrell, Barron, Romanov
As well as 1 of the following lower prospect/young player:
Ylonen, Harris, Norlinder, Primeau, Kidney, Roy, Mailloux, Struble
You'd also need to add a roster player that can help them right now out of the following:
Evans, Rem Pitlick, Poehling.
If you want to send them a higher salaried player like Anderson or Petry (I really doubt they'd entertain Drouin, Hoffman or Armia) instead of Evans/Pitlick/Poehling, you probably have to throw in an extra pick to make them take it.

And, even then, I'm not even sure that would be enough as I really doubt they entertain it without including Caufield/Suzuki.

Tuch as little to no value.
Petry isn't worth much to them as they aren't in a position to win now so you'd have to pay them to take his salary (you won't have to do that if you trade him to a contender).
Ylonen and Struble aren't enough high prospect to move you from 25-ish to 2nd overall.

Without higher prospect like Guhle + 1 of Barron/Farrell/Romanov included, there's not even going to be a discussion IMO.
Forum: Armchair-GMMar. 27, 2022 at 6:33 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMMar. 27, 2022 at 6:18 p.m.
Thread: Habs
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Pain</b></div><div>Why would AZ do that LOL! They can get picks for taking on bad contracts, why would they pay just to each the cap floor 🤣</div></div>

Difference is, Montreal doesn't need to get rid of Weber's contract and I doubt they do so if they have to pay for it.

Furthermore, you got a team in Arizona who's cash strapped and apparently going to move in a College rink for the next 3 years.
You're telling me that this owner wouldn't be interested in saving over 25m of real money over the next 4 years in that context and that he wouldn't be willing to give an asset to safe that kind of money?
Considering how they have 7 picks in the 1st two rounds this year, letting go of one of them to safe 25m doesn't sound like much of an overpayment to me.
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 13, 2021 at 5:03 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 8, 2021 at 5:02 p.m.
Thread: Pretty realistic
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Josh_Anderson</b></div><div>i mean anything above 1.5 is an overpayment saad could be replaced with a guy like gusev who provides scoring and getzlaf is coming bc of perry</div></div>

Riiiiiiiiight...
Lehkonen is already getting 2.4m... He's good for 10 to 15 goals (while playing on the bottom 6 and not getting any PP time), he doesn't take penalties, he's quite good at killing them and shutting down the opposing players. I'm not saying he gets a raise but he's not dropping under 2m.

Gusev? People have been on Drouin's back since he signed here. Gusev is the same type of player but not as good. He doesn't fit the mold of what Bergevin is trying to build.

As for Getzlaf coming because of Perry, we're not even sure Perry's coming back. And, even if he his, I didn't see Getzlaf go to Dallas last year to play with him or move his NTC this year to come to Mtl and reunite with him. I really doubt that where Perry is playing has any influence on what Getzlaf is doing with his life.
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 4, 2021 at 1:55 p.m.
Thread: Realistic expectations
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Clement</b></div><div>Drouin isn't good. He hasn't been for years,,&amp; has left Montreal,,basically quit, &amp; went into hiding. Wild definitely wouldn't be interested</div></div>

Isn't good? Hasn't been for years?
He averages over 50pts per 82 games played over the last 4 years.
How many forwards are doing over 50 pts per year? Roughly 90, give or take, depending on which year you're looking at.
With 31 teams currently and 3 forwards per line on each team, that means that he's either one of the least performing (on average) on a first line (as there are 93 forwards playing on a first line in the league) or one of the top performer on a 2nd line.
Either way, I call this a good player.
People need to stop treating him as if he was trash; GMs are giving up high picks and top prospects each year for 50pts players.
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 3, 2021 at 10:49 p.m.
Thread: Realistic expectations
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>GMs</b></div><div>Seattle decline, Byron would cost more to dump
MIN decline, they don’t need more LW forwards
How is Lehkonen no sandpaper player
He plays way bigger than is seize and he is extremely important IMO
Plays PK, against the best lines, perfect 4th liner who can play anywhere in the line up
I agree adding Coleman for an upgrade, but keep Lehky and let Armia walk</div></div>

Well, Vegas HAS to take someone from the Habs.
Most people are saying it would either be Allen (2.8m) or Chiarot (3.5m).
A 3rd round to take Byron over Allen (600k difference) isn't that much of a reach. Make it a 2nd round if that's what it takes.
Seattle probably doesn't even need Allen as they'll have other options as far as goalie goes. In that case, you'd pay a 3rd so they take Byron over Chiarot.

The Wild might decline, that's why I listed other possibilities. I'm just not going to make a roster for every single one of them as the trade would be similar to this no matter which of the other options would be. Would you do a similar trade for Ristolainen? Dunn? Graves? Or do you have another realistic target on 'd' that might work in a trade for Drouin?

As for Lehkonen, you are correct, the team could swap him with Armia; you can let Armia walk and give Lehkonen the same contract.
To me, both players are pretty much interchangeable though so I was trying to get an asset back for Lehkonen while keeping Armia instead of having him walk and have nothing to show for it.
I'm good either way though. You keep one of the 2 and you replace the one who leaves with a guy like Coleman or Saad.
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 3, 2021 at 8:55 a.m.
Thread: Canucks
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Canucker</b></div><div>Clear some cap space. Erikkson is done in the nhl,.so they would ship him down to AHL. They move up to 9th overall and select a great future player.</div></div>

Eh.... Putting him in the AHL doesn't clear all of his cap space.
Go check the Canucks page buddy.
By putting him in the AHL, they get part of his salary in cap relief so, instead of counting for 6m$ on the cap, he only counts for 4,875,000$

So, unless my math is wrong or I missed something, Dallas would be trading away Faksa and his 3,250,000$ salary to ADD an extra 1,625,000$ on their cap and, then, on top of that, you need to replace Faksa on the roster. Even if you take someone at minimum salary, you still have to add an extra 750k. So, this would actually end up costing at least 2,375,000$ more for Dallas.

I don't think that moving up 5 spots in this year's draft is worth it.
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 3, 2021 at 8:30 a.m.
Thread: 2021 Habs - Offensive D
There's little to no chance you get Danault and Lehkonen to sign those contracts. Hamilton will also most likely get more than that.

I wouldn't trade for Tarasenko with his shoulder problems; this is too much of a gamble and all of the Blues fans on here will tell you they don't want Drouin and he doesn't fit on their team (at least, that's what they've told me on multiple occasions when I tried to trade him there).

I kind of like the Werenski trade although Columbus might be asking for more than that. The issue is that you get him for 1 year and, then, his qualifying offer is 7m$. Though to do when you'll also have to resign KK and Suzuki during the same summer.

The other thing that doesn't work out is that you're right against the cap with only 20 players on your roster instead of 23. This means that, all year, you can't carry any backup player (aside from the 2nd goalie). If someone gets injured or is sick, you can't call anyone up to replace them.