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It's their right side that's been gutted though with Carlson, Trouba, and Gudas all leaving via free agency. They still have LaCombe and Mintyukov on the left side which is really decent. But yeah pretty bizarre offseason for them so far. I'm surprised they didn't move McTavish for a RHD...

Confirmed to be another one-way deal, which certainly makes the decision to stay a lot easier.

It's both (well success, not necessarily money). Developing prospects in a losing environment just isn't a good idea. And again without veterans at least somewhat leading the way a team will get stomped in the AHL. There's no real way around that. It's also not just one way or another. You...

Yeah I've always liked Hardy and was glad he stuck around during the post-Dubas exodus. Especially since as I've said before I really get the feeling that Treliving sort of downgraded his role while he was here in favour of people like Clancey and Doan.

Guys like Cowan, Danford, AA, Villeneueve don't get to experience what winning an AHL championship feels like without guys like Lettieri and Shaw and Mermis and Benning, all guys who won't get another sniff at the NHL again probably. You can't have success in the AHL with just prospects leading...

There was talk Lettieri was KHL-bound, so nice to see him back. Good AHL programs need guys like him.

$9mil for a guy with 64 points next season. Sure didn't get them any kind of discount eh.

7 and 1 look close enough too. It's almost too perfect really.

Maybe, he's not exactly a heavy-eating PK minute defenceman either of course. But regardless of that I think that will definitely need to be put on the back-burner for now as he's likely off the market until at least midseason.

Can we play some forwards on D? But yeah that's certainly an area of concern as of right now, especially with Stecher likely not being an everyday defenceman. Raddysh, Rielly, OEL, Andrae all didn't really kill penalties with their teams last season. Hopefully like you said that's something...

I'm not crazy about the top-6/bottom-6 method, especially against some of the other top teams in the East. But for whatever its worth, I do think this is a group of players better suited to going that route than we've seen in the past here. But I don't think it's a guarantee that's how our...

Ah, was really hoping he wouldn't go there. Stupid Metro teams.

I've definitely always been on team #12 for McKenna, so hopefully this puts that into motion. 27 here is retired, so is 9 (he's worn that with Canada).

Two LHD both signing for very reasonable figures all around. Surprising.

Plugging Andrae in at $2mil and McKenna at $1.025miil (not including bonuses which he'll hit some of) this is our current roster and cap situation (lines are mostly just for show): Knies-Matthews-Roslovic McKenna-Tavares-Nylander Cowan-Paul-Sissons Joshua-Blueger-Duhaime Lorentz McCabe-Raddysh...

I wouldn't find him as 13th forward. Extremely likeable guy at least. But yeah he's expendable now and much easier to move than Joshua.

This makes me think they definitely have him pencilled in the top 6... somewhere. Guessing it looks like: Knies-Matthews-Roslovic McKenna-Tavares-Nylander Cowan-Paul-Sissons Joshua/Lorentz-Blueger-Duhaime

Nah that's something to start the "minor signings" thread with. He's an AHLer.

Hopefully Paul can re-discover his goal scoring chops yeah. They disappeared after the two against us. Cowan on a line with Paul and Sissons would be interesting.

Paul, Sissons, Blueger, Duhaime... something tells me Chayka doesn't want Matthews killing penalties anymore.