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Forum: Armchair-GMMon at 12:05 pm
Thread: New details
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Boltsbeathabs</b></div><div>Please explain how a negotiation with a player free to negotiate with every team is poaching? It would in my opinion be absolutely brilliant on Carolinas part. Granted it would suck for the team who is potentially losing the player but really brilliant manuever on the aquirring teams part</div></div>

An RFA is still property of the team that qualified him.
The offer sheet process grants <strong>limited</strong> permission to hold discussions with that player.

Discussing future contracts with another team's player is tampering, unless express permission has been granted by that team. (Even when there are UFA negotiation windows, figures and negotiations are forbidden.)
Even mentioning another team's player in regards to a contract is an offense.

Regardless, KK (or Carolina) would be under no obligation to follow through with it. We'll see what happens when pen is put to paper.
If it does turn out that Carolina made a deal beyond the offer sheet, it will get interesting.
Forum: Armchair-GMMon at 11:05 am
Thread: New details
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Moosetache</b></div><div>I mean how do you possibly enforce that? He was a FA able to talk to every team in the league. Carolina says they are trying to trade for him, and are free to discuss with him what that contract would look like if they complete the trade. Of course a team would want to know what that contract would cost before they decided if they wanted to make the trade. If they discussed 5 years 20 mil if they made the trade, of course that would be both sides idea to "make the other whole". No deal is in place so that could of course change if the player goes crazy with his production, OR if the player is terrible and the team drops the offer.</div></div>

That's why I said if it could be proven.

You are only permitted to discuss the current contract when signing an offer sheet. If KK gets less than his QO from Carolina, there will definitely be an investigation. Montreal will make sure of it, and they won't be the only ones supporting it. No GM wants other teams to be able to make those offers to their RFAs.

All it would take is one person coming forward with information, and it doesn't have to happen right away.
If KK has a $6M year and takes a $4M contract, the balance of probabilities is already leaning towards tampering.
Forum: Armchair-GMFri at 7:05 pm
Thread: Changing the core
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>CD282</b></div><div>He's been below average 3 of the past 4 years, is injury prone and getting hot for a couple of weeks behind one of the best defense corps in the league doesn't change that. Seattle didn't take him for free, remember? They certainly would have if they could have got 3 NHL players, a top prospect and a 1st for him, don't you think?</div></div>

We're talking about playoffs, where he's been outstanding. Seattle had different priorities and probably wasn't willing to retain almost 50%.
Edmonton's priority is to win now and they haven't been able to go deep in the playoffs with McDavid. Price helps them do that.

I dunno about the package proposed here, as I don't think Edmonton moves Holloway. Lavoie and some picks plus necessary pieces, conditions can be included.
Forum: Armchair-GMWed at 10:38 pm
Thread: fully healthy i want to see
I said before the season even started that Suzuki and Caufield need someone on their line that draws attention. Anderson does that, but he's probably stuck with the one line that is working, so Gallagher is the only real choice left.

Toffoli works by avoiding attention until it's too late for the other team to react, and Armia can often be ignored as his skill is as a board player. The remaining options aren't enough of a threat or disruptive to a point where they would have any real impact.

That leaves ...
Caufield - Suzuki - Gallagher
Drouin - Dvorak - Anderson
Toffoli - Evans - Hoffman
Lehkonen - ? - Armia

I'd like to see someone more offensively inclined on the 3rd line and have Evans on the 4th, but we don't currently have a player that fits.

The defense is a lost cause.
Nobody has been able to replace Edmundson with Petry.
Romanov nor Chiarot are the right fit for Savard, and they can't play together either.
Kulak and Wideman don't have the skill set to play this defensive system, and Romanov and Chiarot aren't good enough to cover their deficiencies in our own zone.
Niku coming back isn't going to change anything significantly.