The 2021 Offseason Thread

[Muevelos]

7 minutes ago, devlman said:

Man, Sakic has gone from king of the GMs to looking really bad this off-season - The mess with Landeskog, losing their starting goalie, trading away a first and Timmins for the very average Kuemper, and now losing Saad. 

Over the past few seasons, Kuemper has been pretty good. Definitely above average

[mfitz804]

14 minutes ago, SterioDesign said:

 

#caphellisonlyamyth

I think you don't see a difference between a salary cap and "salary cap hell". Nobody is in "hell" over losing Brandon Saad. Does the cap prevent a team from having every player they want? Sure. 

Does not being able to sign Saad because you have MacKinnon, Landeskog, Rantanen, Makar and Maltsev count as "hell"? I think not. 

 

Edit: Yes, I put Maltsev in there for comedy. 

Edited July 29, 2021 by mfitz804

[SterioDesign]

2 minutes ago, Nicomo said:

Eh, not the strongest example of a core player really considering he’s 36 years old. 

Yeah but its also not the strongest logic that you can only prove cap hell exist if you lose a young core player. That's a very flawed way to look at it

[SterioDesign]

8 minutes ago, mfitz804 said:

I think you don't see a difference between a salary cap and "salary cap hell". Nobody is in "hell" over losing Brandon Saad. Does the cap prevent a team from having every player they want? Sure. 

Does not being able to sign Saad because you have MacKinnon, Landeskog, Rantanen, Makar and Maltsev count as "hell"? I think not. 

 

Edit: Yes, I put Maltsev in there for comedy. 

i know the difference. And i can see this conversations turning into nitpicking semantics as if it's actually disproving anything. A cap hell scenario exist and has been used by analyst and in sports community for awhile. To deny it cause it doesn't fit your own narrow view of it doesn't prove anything.

It can be that you have many veterans way past their prime not contributing anymore and you can't move them. So you can't get good depth enough to compensate and can't spend more on other things. There's many scenarios.

its used in all sports, why are we denying it? lol

 

Edited July 29, 2021 by SterioDesign

[Devil Dan 56]

On the Zajac thing... A few of the trackers say the Devils signed Brian Flynn, former Canadien and Sabre. He was playing in the National League in Switzerland last year. Most likely a Utica guy who may try to push for the 4th line. 

We also signed Chase De Leon who was a point per game player in the AHL for the Gulls but can't seem to make it work in the NHL. 

Both are centers so I wonder if the team is looking to use McLeod on the 3rd line and see if one of these guys fits on the 4th. 

I'd prefer they keep Zacha on the wing. He just does better there. 

[MrBreeze]

TSN reports it's official

 

NJ has signed C Brian Flynn 1yr/750k

 

 

Edited July 29, 2021 by MrBreeze

[SterioDesign]

2 minutes ago, Devil Dan 56 said:

On the Zajac thing... A few of the trackers say the Devils signed Brian Flynn, former Canadien and Sabre. He was playing in the National League in Switzerland last year. Most likely a Utica guy who may try to push for the 4th line. 

We also signed Chase De Leon who was a point per game player in the AHL for the Gulls but can't seem to make it work in the NHL. 

Both are centers so I wonder if the team is looking to use McLeod on the 3rd line and see if one of these guys fits on the 4th. 

I'd prefer they keep Zacha on the wing. He just does better there. 

id also want to land a 3rd line center so that mcleod stays on the 4th and doesnt do more than he should. unless he really deserve the 3rd line.

[Nicomo]

1 minute ago, Devil Dan 56 said:

On the Zajac thing... A few of the trackers say the Devils signed Brian Flynn, former Canadien and Sabre. He was playing in the National League in Switzerland last year. Most likely a Utica guy who may try to push for the 4th line. 

We also signed Chase De Leon who was a point per game player in the AHL for the Gulls but can't seem to make it work in the NHL. 

Both are centers so I wonder if the team is looking to use McLeod on the 3rd line and see if one of these guys fits on the 4th. 

I'd prefer they keep Zacha on the wing. He just does better there. 

I’d imagine Boqvist will get a shot before either of those guys. It took McLeod until he was the age Boqvist is now to really look like an NHL player so who knows. I’m not giving up on him yet. 

[Devil Dan 56]

3 minutes ago, Nicomo said:

I’d imagine Boqvist will get a shot before either of those guys. It took McLeod until he was the age Boqvist is now to really look like an NHL player so who knows. I’m not giving up on him yet. 

I was thinking of other centers and totally forgot Boqvist. It would be really great for him to make a jump this year like McLeod did last year 

 

[SterioDesign]

14 minutes ago, Devil Dan 56 said:

I was thinking of other centers and totally forgot Boqvist. It would be really great for him to make a jump this year like McLeod did last year 

 

Boqvist and Siegenthaler coming out with huge years would be huge for us. I feel like both are seen like "okay guys filling the gap for now" but if they could become something, we'd be talkin'

[CarpathianForest]

26 minutes ago, MrBreeze said:

TSN reports it's official

 

NJ has signed C Brian Flynn 1yr/750k

 

 

Wooo Hoo!

[mfitz804]

35 minutes ago, SterioDesign said:

i know the difference. And i can see this conversations turning into nitpicking semantics as if it's actually disproving anything. A cap hell scenario exist and has been used by analyst and in sports community for awhile. To deny it cause it doesn't fit your own narrow view of it doesn't prove anything.

It can be that you have many veterans way past their prime not contributing anymore and you can't move them. So you can't get good depth enough to compensate and can't spend more on other things. There's many scenarios.

its used in all sports, why are we denying it? lol

 

I don't agree at all, not being able to spend on other things is not cap hell, that's just a salary cap. If you had to lose a core player, like if they had to choose between Makar, MacKinnon, Rantanen and Landeskog, sure, that's cap hell.

Losing any player at all because you are at the cap is not the same thing that anyone (other than you) is talking about. It's been made clear that those of us who say it doesn't exist feel teams don't lose their core pieces due to salary cap and moves are always made to preserve the core, and you keep trying to roll out examples that just don't fit the bill. 

34 minutes ago, Nicomo said:

I’d imagine Boqvist will get a shot before either of those guys. It took McLeod until he was the age Boqvist is now to really look like an NHL player so who knows. I’m not giving up on him yet. 

This is the only reason I am not on the Boqvist Sucks train already. But let's just say I have bought my ticket and I am waiting on the platform lol. 

[DevsMan84]

1 hour ago, SterioDesign said:

 

#caphellisonlyamyth

lol they are cutting loose their most expendable player who, in your own words, scores "meh" goals.

47 minutes ago, MrBreeze said:

TSN reports it's official

 

NJ has signed C Brian Flynn 1yr/750k

 

 

[mfitz804]

3 minutes ago, DevsMan84 said:

lol they are cutting loose their most expendable player who, in your own words, scores "meh" goals.

This is what I’m saying, that’s not “cap hell”, that’s just “cap”. 

[Devil Dan 56]

Lets just all agree to call it cap heck. 

[DevsMan84]

10 minutes ago, mfitz804 said:

This is what I’m saying, that’s not “cap hell”, that’s just “cap”. 

It's working with the cap.  Cap Hell is when you have to part with a core piece to stay under the cap.  For Colorado that would be someone like MacK, Rantanen, Makar, etc.

[mfitz804]

6 minutes ago, Devil Dan 56 said:

Lets just all agree to call it cap heck. 

It’s like wanting to buy Michael J. Fox’s purple underwear from Back To The Future, but you can’t because you spent all of your money buying his auto-lacing sneakers and a full scale DeLorean. You missed out on the underpants but you still have way cooler stuff in your collection, so maybe you don’t need the place where his balls were resting. 

[devlman]

1 hour ago, Nicomo said:

I’d imagine Boqvist will get a shot before either of those guys. It took McLeod until he was the age Boqvist is now to really look like an NHL player so who knows. I’m not giving up on him yet. 

Absolutely. Boqvist looked like he was figuring it out second half of last season. He can absolutely be an effective piece this season.

[mfitz804]

Just now, devlman said:

Absolutely. Boqvist looked like he was figuring it out second half of last season. He can absolutely be an effective piece this season.

I think that plus McLeod keeping pasce or improving would be the two things I want to see out of our bottom 6 as currently situated. 

[mfitz804]

3 minutes ago, MB3 said:

you're really, really good at being really, really, really dumb.

that's "can't fit him under the cap". it's not "we cannot afford to re-sign our best players"

I wouldn't call him dumb, personally, but that's exactly the distinction that I mentioned he doesn't understand, that he insisted he does understand.

Suffice to say, he does not define "cap hell" the same way we do. 

[mfitz804]

1 minute ago, MB3 said:

aggressively, confrontationally incorrect. 

I think I really like this phrase. 

[Satans Hockey]

As said a couple pages back I also fall into move on from Zajac camp. We'll have plenty of new guys and the younger guys stepping up to make this team their own. No more retreads. 

[mfitz804]

4 minutes ago, Satans Hockey said:

As said a couple pages back I also fall into move on from Zajac camp. We'll have plenty of new guys and the younger guys stepping up to make this team their own. No more retreads. 

Let’s also point out that I’m not sure Zajac is even looking to come back. He implied that part of why he left is because the team got so young and he is old and he felt out of place. I don’t think he would be looking to put himself back into that situation. 

[Devil Dan 56]

16 minutes ago, mfitz804 said:

Let’s also point out that I’m not sure Zajac is even looking to come back. He implied that part of why he left is because the team got so young and he is old and he felt out of place. I don’t think he would be looking to put himself back into that situation. 

There is also the possibility that he is considering retirement. He doesn't seem interested in being away from family or uprooting family. It wouldn't shock me to see him an office job with either us or the Isles. 

[mfitz804]

5 minutes ago, Devil Dan 56 said:

There is also the possibility that he is considering retirement. He doesn't seem interested in being away from family or uprooting family. It wouldn't shock me to see him an office job with either us or the Isles. 

Valid point as well. Having had to struggle to get in the lineup with the Isles, he may not want to deal with that again.