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Forum: Armchair-GMMay 6 at 4:20 a.m.
Thread: Cant play with 5 D next year
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>TheMooterus</b></div><div>Honestly, I don't think you re-sign Pavelski. Love what he's done for the Stars, but the last 6 weeks have me real concerned that Father Time is catching up with him. I'm not against re-signing him, but I'd rather see that $3M go towards re-signing Duchene or adding a player to fill his role on the roster.

Also not sure I see Harley getting a 7 year deal. He's been solid, but if history shows us anything it's that Nill doesn't typically hand out long term deals immediately after an ELC (unless you're Miro Heiskanen). Robertson, Hintz, and Oettinger all produced at a high level for longer than Harley has this season &amp; they all received bridge deals. For Harley, you're looking at a 3-4 year deal &amp; if I had to guess, it's probably going to come in somewhere around what Oettinger got on his contract.</div></div>

While I don't disagree with your Pavs notion, I think whoever we sign to his post should a) be relatively cheap and b) come off the books quickly as guys like Johnston and Oettinger need big money contracts quite soon. I think Duchene is going to get better offers elsewhere that we can realistically offer. Benn and Lindell coming off the books within a year certainly helps keeping those guys, but we need to be mindful that the overall money we're paying doesn't break the bank imo. If they can muster a way for it to happen, I would LOVE to get some proven playoff performers in, like Marchessault or maybe Stamkos...but I don't consider this realistic.

Harley offer is more or less "wishful" thinking but I'd love to see the guy getting inked to a long term deal that would pay itself back later down the line, Klingberg esque. I think Harley would be worth such an investment. I do agree tho that it's more likely it'll be a shorter contract with less years in it.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 29 at 2:15 a.m.
Thread: Marner to Vegas
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Tderps08</b></div><div>Vegas has a few defensive pieces ready to take the next step (whitecloud, hague) which wont be as good as theodore but they can allow for it to happen and go out and get an 100 point scorer (with some salary retained for one year atleast) to replace some of the missing points in marchy and everyone. he’d fit in well with stone and eichel and without immense pressure cuz theyve already won a cup unlike Toronto he’d absolutely shine come playoff time just book it</div></div>

I wouldn't bank on that. No one is denying Marner's a great player, but he has had one weakness throughout his entire career and it's showing up when it truly matters.

Add that to the fact you'd be moving two of the most consistent playoff performers you have (Marchessault and Theodore) to a player like that and I think overall as a team Vegas is taking an L here.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 28 at 4:35 p.m.
Thread: Marner to Vegas
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>carter_mackenzie24</b></div><div>Knights will lose Marchesaualt and one of Mantha or Stephenson so you get Marner with retntention for a year and give up a d-man who will get 8 mill about. So I think because of the offensive they are going to lose I think it makes some sense or they keep their team which is probably more likely</div></div>

Solving the issue of losing Marchessault/Mantha/Stephenson by trading Theodore, who is harder to replace, to an asset that's costing TWICE as much as Theodore does for the final year, just seems very counterintuitive to me.

Toronto is imo a great example of what happens to a team whose is in terms of payroll very constrained due to having several players costing almost $9M or more. Acquisition of Marner would mean that Vegas is investing almost half of their cap to Marner, Eichel, Stone and Pietrangelo - and considering they won the cup by having immense depth, this just further increases the counterintuitiveness to me.