Love the Kuzy deal in comparison to Draisaitl
Love the Kuzy deal in comparison to Draisaitl
Travis Zajac out 4-6 months after surgery for a torn pectoral muscle
Just says it was suffered during off season training
Rumour has it Jagr is close to signing with Calgary. Saw this online and thought it was funny:
Jaromir Jagr's first season was 1990-91.
Matthew Tkachuk's dad Keith played his first season in 1991-92.
yea, fuck all this shit this summer
and maybe wb Breg?
Leafs signed Connor Brown to a three year extension. Glad to finally have him signed, I was getting a little worried honestly.
Shane Doan is retiring
Mike Ribeiro retires after addiction relapse
Vancouver signed Thomas Vanek to a 1yr 2mil deal
CBJ signs Wenberg for $29.4 million, for an average annual value of $4.9 million.
As of today, there are still 4 teams over the cap and all teams are over the floor:
Toronto (+4,579,167)
Detroit (+3,021,212)
Dallas (+196,355)
Chicago (+34,795)
There are still 6 teams with under 20 NHL players on the roster:
Calgary (19)
San Jose (19)
Florida (18)
Colorado (18)
Washington (17)
New Jersey (16)
Can't speak to the other teams but Toronto will be under the cap once LTIR becomes available, even with the overage penalty from last season. Lupul and Horton combined is nearly 10M off the books once the season starts.
Washington is so fucked.
Calgary will hit 20 once Bennett gets his extension which people speculate will be this week. Other speculation is that Jagr signing in Calgary is just waiting on the Bennett deal to get done so we'll see if those rumours are true. Add in Calgary having a couple kids in the minors that are potentially ready for an NHL job come this training camp and the roster is more or less ready to go for the season.
Edit: adding in on what Obs said, Washington is so fucked lol.
I dunno for anyone else but this off season has felt long and boring as fuck for hockey. Rookie camp can't come soon enough
Caps have all the guys they need, it will just be a very young team and who knows how they do.
Forwards
Vrana 863k
Stephenson 650k
Walker 650k
Defense
Bowey 703k
Djoos 650k
Leaves them at 22 but they have another 570k if they would rather bring up Barber or Siegenthaller, or they can bring up Ness at 612k and another 600kish guy over Bowey's 703k. Honestly, simply buying out Orpik would fix so much and give us room to bring up any guys we want but then our retard GM looks like an idiot for losing MoJo and Schmidt for nothing. The team will be very top heavy this year but at least Bura will get Top6 minutes, I think he could easily break out and surprise a ton of people.
Lines would be something like;
Ovi - Backy - Oshie
Vrana - Kuzy - Bura
Connolly - Eller - Wilson
Stephenson - Beagle - Smith-Pelly
Orlov - Niskanen
Djoos - Carlson
Orpik - Bowey
Goalies
Holtby
Gruby
Back-ups
F Walker - D Chorney
Best acquisition of the Caps off-season right here.
Couple days late to comment on this but I think that's a great, low risk signing. I won't be surprised if they'll kinda use him as someone to swap with Ericksson or just but him on the PP and then hide him on the 4th line. The team is still going to be trrrible this season but hey an extra body and that cost is fine by me in the short term.