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Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 12 at 10:12 a.m.
Thread: Ducks 10 2024-25
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>OldNYIfan</b></div><div>Welcome back after your long hiatus!

This is a pretty good idea of what our best possible off-season would look like: draft Levshunov, sign Gauthier, land a productive free-agent forward. But I think that you have a lot of the players in the wrong places:

Zegras -- Carlsson -- Terry, Vatrano -- McTavish -- Marchessault (more on him below), Vatrano -- Gauthier -- Strome is how I would line them up. And Mintyukov shouldn't play on his off side.

I'm a little dubious about Marchessault. If we're going to invest heavily in a free agent, I'd like it to be someone a little younger.

Corey Schueneman for San Diego is a sly touch.

Go Ducks! :rockon</div></div>

Thank you sir! I’m not sure how you knew I’ve been gone for so long (I’m assuming the website tells you), but I haven’t posted an armchair GM team in years.

Me and my buddy were talking about potential landing spots for Jonathan Marchessault and I said “I really think he should sign a deal with the Anaheim Ducks”. I wanted to build this team to see how it would look and honestly I quite love it for them. I think contending teams will have trouble paying Marchessault a high AAV unless he were to take a slight below market discount.

However, Marchessault can afford to collect a $$ bag for 2 or 3 years with a bottom feeder team on the come up. I think he could be exactly what they need. Plus I thought Matt Roy could provide some stability to that right side for years to come. The notable signings were obviously Marchessault, Roy, Lafferty. All 3 don’t have to travel far, they get paid their $$ bags, provide a “winning” dynamic to the team. All 3 are playing notable roles for contending teams currently (Lafferty meh).


I’m not a Ducks fan but this team has some potential to make some noise this offseason. They can make some good noise as soon as next season if they play their cards right. Then Levshunon can take a year or 2 to develop, you have a top 4 of Mint, Zellweger, Roy, Levshunov. This is just assuming they let Fowler walk in 2 years or trade him.
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 13, 2021 at 11:42 a.m.
Thread: B offseason
Carlo probably fetches a little bit more term and $. More than likely in the ballpark of $4 million at 4-5 years. I think you're using the Lindgren contract as a comparable, which makes sense, but Carlo is gonna fetch more due to his big role being part of this consistent high performing team

Give Frederic 2 or 3 years, price isn't too far off. I'd say a million a year for 2 years.

I like that Ritchie contract, may get slightly more

That Rask contract would be a steal, don't think it'll happen. Minimum $5 million

Pass on Montour. For that price, just bring back Reilly.

Really hoping Hall would take less than that. $7 million for 2 or 3 years would be ideal

Favorite part of this team- Joel Armia. I'm a HUGE fan of that. I've been pushing for the Bruins to go after him this offseason, I think he'd really fit this team. Good analytics too and Sweeney has been going after strong analytical players recently. I don't mean fantastic analytics, but he is a fine bottom 6 winger with size and speed.

Bring back Krejci for a year, no reason to trade Clifton
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 12, 2021 at 1:24 p.m.
Thread: Bruins offseason
I want Mike Reilly back on the Bruins next season just as much as the next guy, however- he'll be talking to a lot of teams. There will be a team out there who'd give Reilly more. 28 year old puck moving dman off a great season is going to be popular in free agency. Don't think the Bruins will win any bidding war. It is very dependent on Hall, Krejci, Rask taking those discounts...which could very well happen

Ritchie will fetch probably around a million more.

Kase shouldn't fetch much money, if at all. I'd go max 1.5 for one year with him. Just not a fan of rewarding a player 2+ million for basically not playing for the team this whole time

After that, this is pretty solid. Very well done. That's exactly how much I think Carlo will get (term and $). Anything less for Carlo would be great.

Just one more thing- I would really like it if Bruins had extra money laying around and can bring in a pretty dang good 4th liner. Wagner should no longer be guaranteed a spot on this team, I think the direction of a speedy, defensive first 4th line with Lazar,Kuhlman, wouldn't be such a bad idea. Maybe bring in a 4th liner who has some good wheels and is pretty established as a consistent 4th liner. That could just be me though..if not maybe even another 3rd liner (doubtful)
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 7, 2021 at 1:53 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 3, 2021 at 3:05 p.m.
Thread: Making a case for exposed players Seattle Expansion
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Gofnut999</b></div><div>You can protect 1 more FW.

Kuraly is of no interest via the expansion draft. No point in taking UFAs. Run a huge risk of ending up with nobody. They’d be doing a Boston a huge favor. They might try to sign him as a FA but no chance he’s selected in the expansion draft unless Boston pays them to.

It’s Ritchie/Frederic or Lauzon unless a trade is made. Most likely the FW as their are a ton of D available and not much up front.

Personally I would not be surprised if Debrusk ends up there via a trade that gets them to take Moore and sends a D man back to Boston.</div></div>

I did it on purpose- 7th forward protection spot is between Ritchie and Frederic. I personally think they'd protect Frederic over Ritchie but I made a case for both players

For John Moore- I think you can just buy him out. The cap penalty isn't that bad if they choose to go that route. Don't think anyone wants John Moore
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 28, 2021 at 1:52 p.m.
Thread: Next year
I think you under-paid a lot of these guys.

-I like the term on Carlo, but he's going to be in the 4-4.5mil range. I HOPE we can get him for that price

- Ritchie, if not a Seattle draft pick, probably warrants more. I'd say in the range of 2.5-3.

-Mike Reilly will be an attractive UFA on the open market. 27 year old, puck moving dman with very strong analytics and has 36 points in his last 79 games. Gotta think he gets a little more than 2.25. You got the term about right, maybe Reilly wants a "prove it" type deal where he signs for 1 or 2 years and gets paid even more the next contract.

-Taylor Hall more than likely doesn't sign for anything more than 3 years. He's been awesome, but I think you got the price just about accurate. I'm predicting 7mil for 2 years.

-Tuukka should take less. I think he's at a point of his career where money isn't a major necessity, he can offer a slight discount.

-I understand why you may be moving on from Krejci, but seeing him, Hall and Smith click, I wouldn't hate bringing him back.

-I like Palmieri, I think he has some bad blood with Boston. I think a 2/3 RW signing that would be a little cheaper would be better for the Bruins going forward
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 19, 2021 at 1:53 p.m.
Thread: Offseason
I'm pushing for 6.5 at 2 or 3 years for Taylor Hall. That would be a brilliant contract. I have a feeling he's not signing anything longer than 3 years. My gut tells me he'll get a caphit of $7 mil, which I think I'd be fine with. I'd be hesitant to go more than that.

I don't hate the trade, then again what if Mike Reilly continues to play great for this team? Can maybe bring back Reilly for a very good price and not a lot of term. I think we're starting to get an idea of who may be trade bait this offseason (Debrusk and Vaak), but it's still a little too tricky to tell who exactly they'd be trading for

I would LOVE a great 4th line player like a Barclay Goodrow. Problem is, I think there's so much bad blood with Goodrow and Boston that he won't come here. However, I love your idea of bringing in a very good 4th line player. I think after all the inconsistencies this season with the 4th line, bringing in an established 4th liner would be huge

This is pretty solid though overall, I think you have a good sense of what some of these contracts will be like.