2017 NHL Off Season

[Great8]

Movement out of DC has commenced already.
Johansson out the door to NJ for a couple of picks.

About 2 years too late unfortunately. I like MoJo but geez he was a underperformer.
Would of liked to get a bit more for him but in reality he isn't much chop without Kuzy and Backy as support

 

[Great8]

Join us Washington. It's fun in no man's land.

Was aiming to head over for a couple months in 2018 and catch a heap of games, might push that back about 10 years now

 

[Great8]

Pens have had a fair shake up. Bonino, Daley, Hainsey and now Kunitz gone.
Why on earth would they bring in Niemi though

 

[PalaceGun]

Why on earth would they bring in Niemi though

Why wouldn't they at $700k?

 

[Bradesmaen]

Paying $6.25M/season for "veteran leadership" and power-play (which was already very good)?
His 5v5 production over the past three season would place him in
10th for the Leafs and in that time at 5v5 he has produced a lower pts/60 than Leo Komarov, Mike Fisher, Nick Bjugstad, Shane Doan and Brian Gionta.
Yikes...

Stats c/o @SteveBurtch

He was playing third line a fair bit last year.

 

[PalaceGun]

He was playing third line a fair bit last year.

Near on exact same ice time with Couture (460), Thornton (406) and Pavelski (466) over the past two seasons, 2014-15 was almost all with Couture.

Auston Matthews was 14 days old when Marleau made his NHL debut.

 

[Bradesmaen]

Near on exact same ice time with Couture (460), Thornton (406) and Pavelski (466) over the past two seasons, 2014-15 was almost all with Couture.

Auston Matthews was 14 days old when Marleau made his NHL debut.

That's because we roll 3 lines, but quality of line mates was not the same.

 

[PalaceGun]

That's because we roll 3 lines, but quality of line mates was not the same.

The same of who?

 

[Phone]

Join us Washington. It's fun in no man's land.

uh oh

 

[scottyjc]

Radulov goes to Dallas

 

[catters078]

Happy with the Radulov signing. He's a bit of a wild card but definitely has the talent to play with seguin and benn. 5 years 6.25 per isn't that steep either...fits our cap pretty well.

We badly needed a top 6 winger and got one.

We've added radulov, Hanzel, methot and bishop in the off season..some good experienced additions.

Hopefully back in the playoffs this year.

 

[PalaceGun]

One Q alumni out for the Habs, one Q alumni in.

I'll take a fit Hemsky for a season at $1M.
He says he's 100%...

 

[catters078]

One Q alumni out for the Habs, one Q alumni in.

I'll take a fit Hemsky for a season at $1M.
He says he's 100%...

if you can get a healthy season out of him he still has the wheels.

if he plays say 70 games, i think you get numbers like 15-20-35

 

[PalaceGun]

Hemsky will be well rested. Looked good in that World Cup thing until he got injured.
It will be interesting to see who they put him with.

 

[Great8]

Burakovsky re-signs for 2 years at $6m.
Have made a couple of other minor signings and maybe a couple more cheapies to come but that's pretty much it for us now

 

[Peter Sidorkiewicz]

Kovy back to KHL it seems.

 

[Marns]

Pens have had a fair shake up. Bonino, Daley, Hainsey and now Kunitz gone.
Why on earth would they bring in Niemi though

Niemi's a great add at virtually league minimum. Horrible starting goalie, but a vet to backup Murray is a good thing.

I wouldn't call the rest a shake up. Kuni was really just holding on to a spot. Bones and Daley will obviously need to be replaced, but I've got faith we can figure that out. And we upgraded Hainsey with Hunwick, so no worries there.

Also, regarding the defence, I completely forgot about Letang coming back, so right now we have a top six that consists of the following: Letang, Maatta, Schultz, Cole, Hunwick, Dumoulin (RFA) & Ruhwedel. Add some more depth there and we're laughing.

 

[Marns]

Kovy back to KHL it seems.

Hilarious. And the 2018 Ilya free agent watch begins.

 

[PalaceGun]

And we upgraded Hainsey with Hunwick, so no worries there.

It's interesting, most everyone in Leafland think they have upgraded with Hainsey.

 

[Kakkle]

I like Kruger to Carolina. I also like the idea of all ex-Blackhawks players in a nice big share house

 

[PalaceGun]

Minutes after Galchenyuk signs a 3 year 4.9M per season contract, some Habs fans are complaining about his next contract to be signed in 2020.
Never happy.

 

[Agent93]

It's interesting, most everyone in Leafland think they have upgraded with Hainsey.

Yeah I'm iffy on that one. If he's a miracle answer to the right side, then yay. But it looks like we've paid 3 mil for 2 years of a 36 year old slow 3rd pair D.

Not thrilled with the Leafs off-season, I felt we've overpaid on nearly every signing (re- or FA) except maybe Dominic Moore.

 

[jdz101]

Just give pasta his money bruins....as many years as possible please.

 

[Baird]

Just give colton his money blues....as many years as possible please.

 

[Agent93]

Just give pasta his money bruins....as many years as possible please.

He's got no arbitration rights, right? This is going to be another situation where the B's screw a good player for a season a la Krug / Smith.