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Forum: Armchair-GM2 hours ago
Thread: Shufflin Dice
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Mr_Canoehead</b></div><div>I am more confident that Jets management will shop Ehlers than the Isles will shop Pulock, but I don't follow the Isles. Has there been any speculation (or rumours) among beat writers about Pulock?

Edit: Couldnt get the isles *handshake* jets logo to look right so deleted it.</div></div>

I mean, there’s never really any rumors around a Lamoriello team, so most of us just throw stuff at the wall and see what makes sense. Lou did have an interesting quote on clean out day tho: “We love loyalty. But it can’t impede progress.”

Pulock is one of the more move-able players in my eyes - still young enough to have more good years than bad left on his deal, with a reasonable cap hit. I could see him or Adam Pelech being moved out this summer, but lean Pulock because Noah Dobson and Scott Mayfield are already signed for next season, while LD only has Alex Romanov and Sam Bolduc under contract.
Forum: Armchair-GM6 hours ago
Thread: Shufflin Dice
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Robinho3799</b></div><div>I feel honored to be called that way from you :)

I'd also like to see Kaliyev to be involved in there much more than Thomas</div></div>

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>OldNYIfan</b></div><div>As my esteemed friend Robinho3799 intimates, because Akil Thomas is right-handed and has some nice skills, he may have a place on the Kings roster next season as #4RW if Trevor Lewis finally retires. Los Angeles would probably happily substitute Arthur Kaliyev here. I think that Patrick Roy is the perfect coach to unlock Kaliyev's potential.</div></div>

I think Wahlstrom for Kaliyev is where a potential deal lands, but wanted to get the temperature on another on of the Kings’ glut of young forwards. Thanks for the input!
Forum: Armchair-GM16 hours ago
Thread: Marner to the sun
-Said upthread, but yeah, the Hawks aren't retaining for 6 years on Seth Jones for one year of Marner. You also have to consider that Marner has a full NMC and is entering a contract year - do you think he's going to approve a one year deal to a rebuilding team in advance of his new contract?

-If I'm Minnesota, this isn't getting me to move Gus. They can still run him and MAF next year with Wallstedt getting more development time in the AHL; they really have no depth elsewhere in the org (Hunter Jones put up an .890 SV% in the ECHL this year) and there's nothing here that makes me feel like Bill Guerin is gonna put himself in a position to have to backfill that depth in free agency.

-Gonna assume that the former Coyotes are on Kampf's partial NTC. I don't know how easy he is going to be to move, with that 3x$2.4M left on his contract.

-I can't imagine a team giving up a pick for a guy like Timmins - he's basically gonna sit in the press box for 2/3 of the season no matter where he goes. The best you can hope is someone flips you a similar 13th/14th forward type.

-I'd take this value for Pulock (future 1st/B+ prospect/decent replacement) but I don't know if he waives for the Leafs.
Forum: Armchair-GM16 hours ago
Thread: random stuff
-Don't think the Sens have the cap space to add Pageau at full freight, so I don't think you get him moved this way.

-Turning 2x$7M of Lee into 1x$9M of Zuccarello doesn't make the team better to me. Lee has started to show his age, but getting a guy 3 years older doesn't really change the potential decline issue here. Plus, a lot of Zucc's value comes from being a power play setup guy for goalscorers like Kaprizov, Boldy, and JEE - 28 of his 51 assists (and 33 of his 63 overall points) came on the man advantage this season. You're either making him a redundancy by putting him on PP1 with a distributor like Barzal, or you're muting his impact by running him on PP2 with lesser finishers like Engvall &amp; Pageau (or I guess Iskhakov on this team.)

-Giving up a 1st for Sharangovich feels like a big overpay, and that's before you add Finley &amp; the 3rd. His goalscoring spiked this year on a hard-to-repeat 17.3% shooting number, and as good as his offensive numbers are, his defensive numbers are typically worse. Despite being basically even in CF%, the Flames were outscored 64-41 at 5v5 with him on ice this season - while part of that is bad goaltending, his lines have always bled high danger changes at a higher rate than normal chances. I think he'd just be another Pierre Engvall on this team.
Forum: Armchair-GMYesterday at 8:33 p.m.
Thread: Would NYI do this
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Feelers4Ehlers</b></div><div>I rather have Pageau because he is a right shot centre. He could play right side and have Perfetti play centre. But if that doesn't work out then move Perfetti to the left side and find another RW. If there needs to be an upgrade would NYI have any interest in trading for Dobson if Connor is in play? Pulock locked in long term already and Dobson will probably want the same or more when his current contract is over.</div></div>

Connor was a 0.94 PPG player this year as a winger; Dobson was a 0.89 PPG player as defender. There would have to be much, much more value coming back to New York in that kind of trade.

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Subbanator7667</b></div><div>He's a 40 point center making 5 million and is 31 years old, on a contender, he's most definitely a 4C and will be that for the rest of his career. That's not a bad thing, he's just over paid and a team taking him on has to know that's his role</div></div>

Pageau's a 3C/PK1 on nearly every team in the league; Pulock has been a 20-22 minute guy for the last 6 years on a team generally regarded to be a strong defensive squad. I think the value here is more or less even, with the Isles maybe needing to add a little more - to me, it's about two teams trading to fit needs. Winnipeg gets two strong defensive players who are not necessarily black holes offensively, while New York gets two more offensive-minded players to try and achieve their lifelong dream of scoring more than 2 goals in a playoff game.
Forum: Armchair-GMSun. at 8:22 p.m.
Thread: time for change
let's look at this deal.

on one side, you have:

-Brock Nelson, one more year left at $6M AAV. He's scored 107 goals in the past 3 seasons, averaging a 37-34-71 line per 82 GP. He's been a good playoff performer in his career, with a 27-23-50 line in 78 career playoff games. He's generally regarded as one of the better 2Cs in the league.

on the other side, you have:

-Nick Abruzzese, a soon-to-be 25 year old with 11 career NHL games under his belt who did not manage to crack the Leafs' NHL lineup once this year;
-Calle Jarnkrok, a career 30-35 point type guy who turns 33 before Opening Night and still has 2x$2.1M left on his deal;
-Connor Timmins, a guy who has been the 7th/8th D on Toronto for the past two seasons;
-a late 4th-round pick

Would -you- take this deal if you were the one giving up the useful player?
Forum: Armchair-GMSun. at 12:24 p.m.
Thread: Kent Hughes Realistic 2024 Offseason
Based on trade value charts, the deal seems fair - #18OA for #26OA &amp; #78OA works out to a slight overpay on the Shuckers' chart and a slight underpay Dom@theAthletic's chart (I will -never- remember how to spell that last name.) Adding Struble makes this deal a win for the Isles in a vacuum.

But since we're not in a vacuum and we have to look at each team's needs, I think the Islanders decline. They have LD1 &amp; LD2 set, so Struble is at best a 6th/7th D on this team - not a position that you would want to really target, especially when you have a pending UFA on your roster who has proven to be a good fit in that spot, and who probably won't cost much more than Struble's cap hit next year. Add in the fact that nearly every major publication ranks the Islanders' farm system in the bottom 5 of the league, with not a ton of NHL-projected talent in the pipeline, and I'd say I'd rather go ahead and keep the higher value pick and get a player more likely to be an impactful NHL player.
Forum: Armchair-GMSat. at 1:01 a.m.
Thread: Core 4 shakeup
-Horrible deal for the Leafs. Sanheim is a fine player, so is Farabee; but Marner is a franchise-level player. I might be able to see the logic in Farabee/Sanheim/2nd for just Marner; the fact that you're adding in one of the Leafs' best prospect in Minten plus Robertson and a pick makes this deal A W F U L for the Leafs.

It's not trading a dollar for 4 quarters; it's trading a 5 dollar bill for a pair of quarters and a nickel.

On the other hand, I'd argue that both Kampf and Jarnkrok wouldn't be trade targets for the teams you have acquiring them here (Sharks already have Nico Sturm doing what Kampf does, and the Isles don't need another bottom-6 forward). Value isn't awful but looking at who's signed for 2024-25, I don't see any reason thy these teams would make those deals.
Forum: Armchair-GMSat. at 12:55 a.m.
Thread: Using cap space to get more assets
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>LuckyMoneyPuck</b></div><div>I have tried to ask NYI fans what they would think the value of Lee 50% retained is. But never got an answer.
I think if they could get Lee 50% retained he would be a nice fit on the penguins. He's the one older player I would be ok with them brining in, because of his style of play. He's gonna have a future like Maroon eventually. Always able to find that 4th line role if he wants it. Sill is there, and the physical play is there too.</div></div>

Lee is one of those hard to value guys because he's the team's captain - he's scored 20+ goals in 8 out of the last 10 seasons (only a mediocre sophomore season and an injury-shortened 2020-21 had him under 20) and he's a community leader in addition to being the locker room leader. I think that Lee has a spot on the Island til his contract runs out; that being said, I see the value here and it's something I would personally think long and hard about.
Forum: Armchair-GMSat. at 12:41 a.m.
Thread: The only players of interest for Guhle
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Habs_22_14_20</b></div><div>Complementary top 6 wingers can be added via trade (Lehkonen/Hagel), drafting top 10 you should draft potential star players (McDavid/MacKinnon/Rantanen/Makar/Draisaitl,etc.).</div></div>

I mean, I don't fully disagree, but it's worth mentioning that the players you listed here are former #1, #1, #10, #4, and #3 overall picks. Rantanen is kind of the exception to the rule there - you can easily point to guys like Scott Glennie, Dylan McIlrath, Zach Hamill, Nikita Filatov, Olli Juoelvi, Lias Andersson, Michael Dal Colle, Griffin Reinhart, Vitali Kravstov, and so on as guys drafted in that #4-10OA range that completely flamed out.

I mean, hell, if you wanna do the "redraft" gimmick for the names you mentioned, it's worth mentioning that Hyman is 10th overall in goals scored for his draft class and Lehkonen is 25th overall in his class for overall scoring - you could make a strong argument that if you go back in time and draft those years all over again with the knowledge of how they've both turned out that both guys would be borderline lottery picks at worst. I get what you're saying about the type of player you want to get with a lottery pick, but the truth is anything outside the top 2/3 picks has a pretty decent chance into turning into nothing.