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Forgot to mention the RFA deals.

Zacha gets $2.5 Million for 4 years while Butcher gets $4 Million over 4 (maybe 5). I brought back Josh Jacobs on a 3 year, $800,000 AAV deal to see if he can continue to improve down in Bingo. 

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3 minutes ago, beekay414 said:

Also, I think splitting Greene's and Methot's minutes up would be wise and keep them fresher. We don't need Greene out there for 20+ minutes a night. We need to take a depth approach to our defense, not a traditional "shut down #1" type approach. We simply don't have the tools to do that yet.

Yeah, it's kind of insane (and unfair) that we rely on Greene so much. Impossible for him not to get worn down

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2 minutes ago, beekay414 said:

Forgot to mention the RFA deals.

Zacha gets $2.5 Million for 4 years while Butcher gets $4 Million over 4 (maybe 5). I brought back Josh Jacobs on a 3 year, $800,000 AAV deal to see if he can continue to improve down in Bingo. 

I really, really like zacha at that. I'm worried shero is going to give him some sort of two year bridge deal, which I hate

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Evolving Wild's contract projections

Donskoi is projected at 3 years, $2.8 Million. I would be all over that but you'd think we'd have to give him the Jersey bump so it'd be closer to $3.5 or $4 Million.

Here's all the projections for likely Devils targets;

Jacob Trouba - 5 years, $7.3 Million AAV
Mats Zuccarello - 4 years, $6.2 Million AAV (yeah, no thanks)
Tyler Myers - 7 years, $6.167 Million AAV
Alex Edler - 3 years, $5.85 Million AAV
Gustav Nyquist - 6 years, $5.75 Million AAV
Wayne Simmonds - 5 years, $5 Million AAV (definitely no thanks)
Richard Panik - 4 years, $4.88 Million AAV (could be a legit option)
Anton Stralman - 3 years, $4.56 Million AAV (maybe)
Ryan Dzingel - 4 years, $4.33 Million AAV
Michael Ferland - 4 years, $4.2 Million AAV (possible)
Patrick Maroon - 3 years, $3.6 Million AAV
Jordie Benn - 4 years, $3.55 Million AAV (nope nope nope)
Brett Connelly - 3 years, $3.54 Million AAV (I'd consider it)
Patrick Nemeth - 4 years, $3.4 Million AAV (Could be an option. He's a big LD)
Joonas Donskoi - 3 years, $2.8 Million AAV (good god yes please)
Thomas Vanek - 1 year, $2 Million AAV (could be a late option)
Brandon Pirri - 1 year, $1.175 Million AAV

Interestingly enough, he didn't project Butcher or Zacha.

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21 minutes ago, beekay414 said:

Evolving Wild's contract projections

Donskoi is projected at 3 years, $2.8 Million. I would be all over that but you'd think we'd have to give him the Jersey bump so it'd be closer to $3.5 or $4 Million.

Here's all the projections for likely Devils targets;

Jacob Trouba - 5 years, $7.3 Million AAV
Mats Zuccarello - 4 years, $6.2 Million AAV (yeah, no thanks)
Tyler Myers - 7 years, $6.167 Million AAV
Alex Edler - 3 years, $5.85 Million AAV
Gustav Nyquist - 6 years, $5.75 Million AAV
Wayne Simmonds - 5 years, $5 Million AAV (definitely no thanks)
Richard Panik - 4 years, $4.88 Million AAV (could be a legit option)
Anton Stralman - 3 years, $4.56 Million AAV (maybe)
Ryan Dzingel - 4 years, $4.33 Million AAV
Michael Ferland - 4 years, $4.2 Million AAV (possible)
Patrick Maroon - 3 years, $3.6 Million AAV
Jordie Benn - 4 years, $3.55 Million AAV (nope nope nope)
Brett Connelly - 3 years, $3.54 Million AAV (I'd consider it)
Patrick Nemeth - 4 years, $3.4 Million AAV (Could be an option. He's a big LD)
Joonas Donskoi - 3 years, $2.8 Million AAV (good god yes please)
Thomas Vanek - 1 year, $2 Million AAV (could be a late option)
Brandon Pirri - 1 year, $1.175 Million AAV

Interestingly enough, he didn't project Butcher or Zacha.

Holy hell, some of those are insane. 5 Mill for Simmonds? I was thinking he'd be a good Target for us at like one year, 4 million lol. 3 years seems like a lot for stralman too. Don't mind the salary, but at his age, 3 years is iffy. Same for Edler, though that salary is high. Dzingel is reasonable. I know his playoffs sucked, but that contract isn't bad. He should be in the radar. 

I want to take a shot on pirri. Dude has had an odd career. 

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Here's a "Hall won't commit so we continue to go young" offseason.

Trades
~Trade LW Taylor Hall and Boston's 2020 4th rounder to the Colorado Avalanche for Ottawa's 2019 1st rounder, C Martin Kaut and RW Sampo Ranta
~Trade Boston's 2019 3rd rounder for RD Colin Miller

Free Agency
~Sign LD Will Butcher to a 4 year, $3.75 Million AAV deal
~Sign C/LW Pavel Zacha to a 4 year, $2.5 Million AAV deal
~Sign LW Ryan Dzingel to a 5 year, $5 Million AAV deal
~Sign RW Joonas Donskoi to a 3 year, $3.8 Million AAV deal
~Sign RW Richard Panik to a 4 year, $4.5 Million AAV deal

Draft
1.1 - Jack Hughes
1.4 - Bowen Byram

Roster/Depth Chart
Jesper Bratt | Nico Hischier | Kyle Palmieri
Ryan Dzingel | Jack Hughes | Joonas Donskoi
Jesper Boqvist | Pavel Zacha | Richard Panik
Miles Wood | Travis Zajac | Blake Coleman

Will Butcher | Sami Vatanen
Ty Smith | Damon Severson
Bowen Byram | Colin Miller
Andy Greene

Mackenzie Blackwood | Cory Schneider

If we suck? We suck. At least we'd be young, fun and full of promising talent for the future.

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Saw this deal in Capfriendly's armchair GM forum. Taylor Hall and Damon Severson for Jacob Trouba and Nikolaj Ehlers. 

Not sure how I feel about it. On one hand, we get a young, potential first line LW to replace Hall but we have to trade Severson for the right to pay Trouba. Is Trouba really a good enough upgrade to Severson to warrant that move?

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2 hours ago, beekay414 said:

Saw this deal in Capfriendly's armchair GM forum. Taylor Hall and Damon Severson for Jacob Trouba and Nikolaj Ehlers. 

Not sure how I feel about it. On one hand, we get a young, potential first line LW to replace Hall but we have to trade Severson for the right to pay Trouba. Is Trouba really a good enough upgrade to Severson to warrant that move?

No, he's not. I get the ehlers / Hall part of it though. 

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48 minutes ago, beekay414 said:

 

Yuck. I don't like that. He will be expensive, and I think any deal for him involves Severson. You know I don't love Severson, but that's not the right deal to unload him in in my opinion

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9 minutes ago, Forge said:

Yuck. I don't like that. He will be expensive, and I think any deal for him involves Severson. You know I don't love Severson, but that's not the right deal to unload him in in my opinion

Talk about Bratt too. I mean, we REALLY need a cornerstone Dman but I'm not sure if I could stomach moving Bratt.

Vatanen (with an extension), 2020 1st, Miles Wood and Dallas's 2019 3rd. That or we take on Ryan Callahan and use that 2019 1st in this deal.

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With all this speculation, I'm just far more comfortable trading Hall for a, no pun intended, haul and continuing to build organically. This draft is going to be huge for us and there's no reason we can't ice a good hockey team in the near future. 

Listen, I get being impatient and wanting to win but, as a Bucks fan, I've seen teams make treadmill moves and it's not fun. I'd rather commit to building a long term winner rather than try to force a square peg in a round hole to appease a pending UFA, even if he happens to be a former Hart Trophy winner.

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