NHL 2022 Offseason

[Majingir]

Leafs offseason on their road to 2023 round 1 game 7 loss had begun.

Giordano signed to a team friendly 2 year deal.

And Spezza announces his retirement and immediately joining the Leafs front office as special assistant to the GM.

[Majingir]

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Stars trade Bishops contract and a 7th pick to Sabres.

4.9m cap hit which puts Sabres closer to the cap floor.

3.5m in actual salary is worth only a 7th rounder? I'd definitely have asked for way more.

And it's another reminder of how the NHL cap system is a joke. You're forcing rich teams to be stuck under a hard cap, thus limiting how much they can spend/how much players can earn, while teams who don't care to spend can get away with adding dead money to reach the floor.

[slickdtc]

NHL 2022 Offseason

Looking like The John Tortorella Experience is coming to Philly...

Honestly, I don’t even know how to fix this team. Torts has a rep as a hardass so I assume that’s what they’re going for. I feel like they’ve tried different coaching styles and the results have all been the same. Maybe next one will be a super young guy, haven’t gone that route really.

Will be 7th coach in 10 years for the Flyers. I believe that includes interim coaches (2) so not as bad as it looks but sheesh. Even worse, all those coaches deserved the axe besides maybe Berube, who went on to win a Cup with
STL after another former Flyers coach was fired (Hitchcock) there. The life of a Flyers fan, lol.

[rdnk]

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Torts in Philly should be fun. Honestly the downside is limited, it either works or the fallout is so nuclear that it causes changes throughout the organization (a la Vancouver).

Still don't understand why Boston fired Cassady, good hire for Vegas I suppose.

Sabres will put Bishop on IR and pay $0. It allows Buffalo to hit the floor and gives Dallas some more flexibility, since they cannot put guys on IR until the start of the season.

[slickdtc]

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We could probably use a total blow up in the front office. I think right now a prerequisite to work for the Flyers is you had to play for the Flyers with how much alumni is in high level positions. Not all are bad, but it’s become a joke at this point.

I had so much hope for the crop of young players we had coming up, but now those young guys are 5-7 years in to their career and we’ve gotten worse results as a team then before they were here. Feels like we totally whiffed on the last half decade of potential we had.

[Majingir]

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Weber's contract to Vegas for Dadonov.

Not sure how this exactly helps Vegas. Dadonov had just 1 year left on his deal.

[Keirik]

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Weber's contract to Vegas for Dadonov.

Not sure how this exactly helps Vegas. Dadonov had just 1 year left on his deal.

They must know Weber has zero plans to return at any point so it’ll just by LTIR and cap relief.

[Majingir]

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They must know Weber has zero plans to return at any point so it’ll just by LTIR and cap relief.

But that's the thing though.

Dadonov is just on the hook for 1 more season. So his cap would've been off the books next offseason, which I imagine is better than needing to use LTIR in the future seasons. How does that save Vegas money beyond this season?

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Tampa dumps McDonagh on Nashville.

Kings pick up Fiala for a 1st.

[Majingir]

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So the Habs DIDN'T take Wright....
The Devils DIDN'T take Wright either!

Coyotes get booed for the ASU decision and then DON'T take Wright either!

4th pick time, Bettman announces 2 trades involving Montreal, crowd goes crazy thinking Habs are getting pick #4 and getting Wright all along.. except they dont trade for that pick.

And Seattle comes in and gets Wright at 4.

Has anyone who so many said is going #1 ended up not going in the top 3 before?

Leafs dealt Mrazek and 25th for the 38th pick. Someone actually took that cap dump. With the news that Avs aren't signing Kuemper, makes me wonder if Leafs target him now.

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I've never seen that before. The closest surprise to this I remember was Cam Fowler dropping in the 2010 draft. Dude was a lock to go 3rd or 4th and then fell all the way to 12th.

[Majingir]

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I've never seen that before. The closest surprise to this I remember was Cam Fowler dropping in the 2010 draft. Dude was a lock to go 3rd or 4th and then fell all the way to 12th.

Every year theres someone who seems like a lock for a top 5 or 10 spot and drops. But not someone who was the likely #1 pick.

[Kobalt]

NHL 2022 Offseason

Bobby Margarita had Slaf at #1 so it isn’t too surprising. Wright was always the guy with the highest floor while other players had higher ceilings, willing to bet Wright isn’t in the top 5 when they do the redraft years down the line

That said, long suffering Kraken fans have every reason to be excited about Beniers-Wright combo

[Instant C1a55ic]

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Not overly surprised with Wright dropping a few, my 15 and 11 year old sons threw a fit as he was always the #1 pick in NHL 22 lol

Glad Dylan James, the USHL rookie of the year from the Sioux City Musketeers got selected at #40. Too bad its by the Red Wings, but I see no harm in being an Avs fan, and cheering on a single player from the Wings.

[Majingir]

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Yet another "feel old yet" moment.

Some of these draft picks are talking about watching Connor McDavid, Auston Matthews "when they were growing up".

Some of these draft picks weren't even teenagers when those guys entered the league!

The cutoff birth date for eligibility on this draft was the day before the 2004 lockout! Next years draft class will feature people born during the lockout.