Minor Transactions - 2018 Offseason

[Bates]

Watch any Coyotes games in last couple years? Duclair is a limited one way nhl'er and not someone the Leafs need to waste their time with. 

Please no, no effort.

I'd much rather give Duclaire a whirl.  Throw him on the 4th line in place of Leivo?

Low risk, high potential reward.  I believe he has good underlying numbers.  Worst case, he's relegated to 13th forward.

And, it would be for a low term, low cap hit contract, obviously.  Something that's buryable if needed.

 

[Guilt Trip]

Watch any Coyotes games in last couple years? Duclair is a limited one way nhl'er and not someone the Leafs need to waste their time with. 

Please no, no effort.

I'd much rather give Duclaire a whirl.  Throw him on the 4th line in place of Leivo?

Low risk, high potential reward.  I believe he has good underlying numbers.  Worst case, he's relegated to 13th forward.

And, it would be for a low term, low cap hit contract, obviously.  Something that's buryable if needed.

If he was anything worthwhile, the Hawks wouldn't have dumped him..

 

[Kin]

High compete level or no, Duclair signs with the Blue Jackets for 1 yr, 650k.

 

[louisstamos]

Pat Maroon to the Blues - 1 yr, $1.75mil.

 

[Frank E]

Pat Maroon to the Blues - 1 yr, $1.75mil.

That's a deal...wake up Dubas!

 

[Kin]

You can quibble about the term or aav on the Bozak and Perron deals a bit but the Blues are having a pretty good off-season.

 

[herman]

Pat Maroon to the Blues - 1 yr, $1.75mil.

That's a deal...wake up Dubas!

Can't beat the siren call of ending your career playing for your hometown team, eh?

 

[Kin]

Can't beat the siren call of ending your career playing for your hometown team, eh?

Pfft. Then where are his Blues bedsheets?

 

[Frank E]

You can quibble about the term or aav on the Bozak and Perron deals a bit but the Blues are having a pretty good off-season.

Yeah, I think they've loaded up quite nicely.  It's Bouwmeester's last year of his contract, and hopefully Fabbri has a good year after being off last year.

 

[herman]

Can't beat the siren call of ending your career playing for your hometown team, eh?

Pfft. Then where are his Blues bedsheets?

I couldn't find the sheets, but got these instead:

 

[herman]

The news I've been waiting all summer for with bated breath is finally here!

https://twitter.com/NHLCanes/status/1017414712718393344

 

[herman]

https://twitter.com/blueshirtbanter/status/1017755364404625408

How should we cheer for this guy?

 

[cabber24]

Dumba for 5 years at $6M per is a solid deal for Minnesota. I would kill for a Dumba. Jealous. These guys just don?t become available.

 

[Frank E]

Yeah, there goes the Dumba idea.

I was looking at Detroit's cap crunch right now, and they've still got to sign Larkin, so I looked at their RD, and Kronwall is interesting with only 1 year left on his deal at $4.75m.

 

[Guru Tugginmypuddah]

Yeah, there goes the Dumba idea.

I was looking at Detroit's cap crunch right now, and they've still got to sign Larkin, so I looked at their RD, and Kronwall is interesting with only 1 year left on his deal at $4.75m.

What a Dumba idea. 

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Kronwall shoots left and is bad. Very bad.

 

[AvroArrow]

Trouba awarded 1 yr @ 5.5M.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Dumba for 5 years at $6M per is a solid deal for Minnesota. I would kill for a Dumba. Jealous. These guys just don?t become available.

It's a funny signing. The Wild probably wish he didn't hit that 50-point mark this season.

 

[Coco-puffs]

Dumba for 5 years at $6M per is a solid deal for Minnesota. I would kill for a Dumba. Jealous. These guys just don?t become available.

It's a funny signing. The Wild probably wish he didn't hit that 50-point mark this season.

What about it makes it a funny signing? 

 

[CarltonTheBear]

What about it makes it a funny signing?

The second part of my post.

Dumba's coming off a 50 point season. Prior to that his career high was 34 (albeit in only 2.75 seasons). Getting to that big 5-0 mark is huge for a defenceman, and that milestone itself probably bumped his salary up quite a bit.

Also the Wild could have bridged Dumba for 1-year after his ELC, but elected to go with a 2-year deal. If they went with a 1-year deal then I'd imagine his AAV would have probably been closer to $4.5-5mil on a long-term deal.

It wasn't necessarily a criticism of Dumba or the contract (although I'm probably not as high on him as others), just funny how some teams have to negotiate long-term deals after a player puts up one big season (like Dumba's), while other teams get to negotiate long-term deals after a player puts up one bad season (like say Kadri's). It's just a funny business when you think about it. I mean the Wild didn't achieve anything last season, so privately they probably wish Dumba had another 35-point year before breaking out.