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I'm pretty surprised how much the players are giving up in this CBA. Lower contract terms, no more deferrals, extended rights on prospects, more regular season games and limits on signing bonuses are all pretty big wins for the owners. Players got... a more relaxed dress code.

Well there goes the last advantage big market teams had.

You always gotta be a little skeptical of offensive numbers for players on a team where defence is optional. That's my biggest red flag with Peterka right now. Entirely possible he keeps putting up points but it wouldn't be the first time a guys numbers were inflated just by playing big minutes...

I don't think there's a GM in the league who would take Peterka over Knies though. This is still a laughable return for the guy but something about Peterka feels a little suspect.

This is a big reason why I've done a bit of a 180 on Lorentz after these playoffs. Dude's just too nice.

6 is the minimum, but some teams do as much as 8 still.

This is the kind of trade I would have made in mid/late July if other options didn't work out and we had cap space to burn. I do think Kane will be very motivated to prove people wrong in what is very conveniently a contract season too and can see him putting up some solid numbers (certainly...

He was declared eligible, HHOF doesn't care about the contract stuff.

Fair enough. My pre-free agency period hopes are to be at least a 100 point team (but probably not much higher) but also to significantly improve the teams 5-on-5 play. Being 29th in the league, ahead of only Anaheim, San Jose, and Chicago, in CF% was pretty embarrassing. There's ways we can be...

Man I'm kind of shocked he made it in over Carey Price, especially after all these years of snubs to what I'd consider lesser selections. Good for him though. Long overdue.

I think this feels a little extreme. This isn't like when Columbus lost Panarin for nothing. If there's a team anywhere that can afford to lose an elite talent for nothing (which again I do stress sucks) it's one that still has 2 other elite talents already on the team. This is probably a...

I liked this take on what should be a prime focus on the offseason, and while yes it sucks to see Marner walk for nothing there is something to be excited about when it comes to actually being able to afford having Lawson Crouse-type players on the team instead of a bunch of $10mil+ forwards and...

If Seravelli is saying something like this without being certain that's a pretty bad look for him. If this is in any way true the Leafs should probably be asking the league if they even care a little bit about tampering or not.

I'd love to get Crouse. We've talked a lot of Hyman here of course today and I think he'd basically be a solid poor man's version of Zach. Can easily flip between being a big part of checking unit with Laughton to jumping into the top-6 as a 3-time 20 goal scorer. I didn't quite realize how down...

Looking at Hyman a little more, these are his stats while playing alongside Matthews and Marner in his last 2 seasons (using games played where the trio played a minimum of 6 5-on-5 minutes together, although most of these had them playing 10+): 19/20: 29 GP, 11 goals, 11 assists, 22 points. 82...

I think he's still young enough that it makes total sense for a team like Philly to take a chance on him. If you can get him back to his 21/22 and 22/23 seasons they're laughing. If not they're out a (rather good) 4C and a couple of picks (which they have lots of) and he doesn't get qualified...

I think Poehling's had a couple solid seasons with Philly (heck, unless Laughton really steps up next season you could argue we would have been better off going after him), but yeah that still feels like a very light return on Zegras. Surprised they didn't give him a chance to play under...

I don't think anyone on the planet would argue that Hyman reaches the numbers he's had with Edmonton (particularly the 22/23 and 23/24 seasons of course) without having McDavid as his centre. But McDavid's also played with a lot of wingers over his career and no non-Draisaitl player has had that...

It doesn't seem like he's getting any attention anywhere (likely a result of his season ending very early due to injury) but I really do think Anthony Mantha could be a sneaky good pick-up. I also don't hate the idea of getting Evander Kane for free, assuming it comes after the first wave of...

Not crazy to think they'd even earn more money there as opposed to playing on a likely two-way deal in the minors.