WINNERS And LOSERS From NHL Free Agency
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- Now that things have really cooled down after a very hectic first day of NHL free agency, I wanted to go over my picks for the biggest winners and losers so far. If you guys enjoy this type of NHL content be sure to subscribe to the channel if you are new!
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Jeff Skinner - never made the playoffs
Corey Perry - four Cup finals in five years
Unstoppable force meets immovable object
Generates 0 momentum, Edmonton Oilers misses playoffs
@@choppergunner8650 wins the 2025 cup*
@@choppergunner8650 i'd laugh so hard. particularly if it means draisaitl tests free agency next year.
@@Slipings no fucking shot. Oilers had the easy route. Panthers had to defeat 3 of the best goalies in the NHL
@@doaftheloaf ngl, if Draisaitl ghosts in the playoffs again, his market value will drop pretty much like Ekblad's market value. I know this because I'm a Panthers fan 😂 Ekblad is probably worth 3 cents and some pocket lint rn, even though he played amazingly in the finals (read finals as: the games that the Panthers won in the finals)
Logan Thompson requested a trade, and the team accommodated him.
Well they took it personally as he was literally traded right in the middle of his autograph signings
@@freiflug83I saw someone mention the other day that they were part of that signing and he knew he was traded before starting the signing, and decided to go ahead with it anyway
damn anyone know why he requested a trade?
@@watching9317Logan wants to be the #1 goal tender which he would not be in Vegas.
@@watching9317 Only speculation. It seems that management has decided that Adin Hill is going to be the goaltender. I used to play the position, I always thought that Thompson was the better player, but Hill did have that great run for the Cup. I can see how Thompson would want to go somewhere where he would have a chance to compete for the number 1 spot. I think Washington gives him that chance.
If you are ever feeling depressed about your fav NFL,NHL, MLB or NBA team just remember that the Sabres exist.
I’m a Sabres fan 😢
I don't watch any of them woke, racis sports, just hockey
Im a browns and oilers fan, there have been some very dark years.
Sabres and Bills, enough said.
Coming from a stars fan, I’m not surprised that we didn’t look great in free agency. RHD is our biggest need, and they notoriously get overpaid, which did happen.
Look lebushkin is a great d man in his own zone and throws his body well sucks we lost him but guess we did alright replacing him he’s a good defender good guy he gets the puck and doesn’t panic with it he’s a good defensively d man for sure
Call it cope, but I'm just reminding myself that Jim Nill is GM of the Year, and he knows better than we do- even if on paper, these moves look like a total disaster.
Good take. Casuals are morons. These gets aren’t AMAZING but they fill what we need,
@@francescoravenda5070 lyubushkin is decent, bottom pair guy, but 3.25 is a bit much. the duchene and desmith moves were great value. it actually looks solid overall...until you get to dumba. that's the wtf move. no one who's seen him play in the last 3 years can argue he's worth 3.75m even if that was his total salary over two years. they bought out suter just to pick up another suter. the other deals, it's not so much that they're bad value; it's just that none of them address the need dallas has for a top 4 RD. if that's what they were trying with dumba, nill is dumba than a box of rocks.
I dont agree, i really think its looks good the new signings.
Logan Thompson requested a trade. Vegas respected his request.
Good Guys Vegas Golden Knights 😅
Except they cheat. Otherwise, great guys.
Ah yes, trading him in the middle of a signing. Very good move.
they could have gotten a lot more value, as he's starter quality at below league minimum. (min has risen since his ELC was signed.)
He requested the trade. And it wasnt in the middle of a signing. He knew about it that morning and went to the signing because it was a paid Upper Deck event@choppergunner8650
@jimgibbon6982 what rule did they break?
As soon as the Oilers lost game 7, I said they were winning the cup next season. And I stand by that even more now. I could be wrong...but they were good before, and seemed to get better.
I think Edmonton won big time with Arvidsson (play driver) and Skinner (scorer). They will be the team to beat in the NHL next year. Also like the Josh Brown signing as he adds toughness the Oilers lacked.
Don’t forget Henrique
LOL Jeff Skinner career -130.
@@kalenluckand janmark and brown!…I think Kane will be on ltir for the beginning of the season!
Nashville had a great free agency if they win a cup in the next 2 years. After that they’ll live to regret giving Stammer, Marchessault and Skjei the term they did.
You said Matt Duchene instead of Matt Dumba lmao
matt duchene is under dumba on that list so i think he meant what he said
this channel spews trash. he's probably asian reading a script that is trash
The Kings overpaid for a borderline AHLer and bottom pair d-man (Edmundson), and our only somewhat decent signing is a forward (Foegle) who's numbers were definitely filled mostly because he played alongside Draisaitl.
We wasted our cap space essentially on players with a lot of questions. It's diabolical. Unless they are serious on playing the youngsters massive minutes this season, I can't see an argument where they can get back to the playoffs.
Honestly I almost feel bad for you Kings fans. My team having suffered for a long time with horrible management is hard to deal with. Rob Blake was an amazing player, but he's sure horrible being a GM in my opinion. He's running the Kings into the dirt with some of these trades and signings he's doing.
McLovin (Foegle) is definitely a hard worker I was sad to see him go but I think he will work out good for you guys
@@deanm3464 His numbers look solid but as I said, I think most of that is because Drai was his linemate. I certainly guarantee at the very least a drop in production.
@@walker68175they almost never played together. He scored 20 goals with zero PP time.
@@mikeoilfan Alright then, but it's honestly worrying that Foegle is the best signing on paper. The reliance on the youth movement is extreme, and these youngsters must deliver or else we're cooked.
I just feel overall that the front office threw their hands up after the playoff exit. We miraculously got out of a bad contract, but we didn't capitalize on the cap space created. Rob probably sees that there's nothing more that can happen with Kopitar, Drew, and the rest of this core. So they signed these guys as stop gaps.
I have no clue how you don’t include the caps in this video when the moves they’ve made have made them 1000% more competitive than they were lastcyear
PLD and Chychrun are both liabilities, but good luck with that.
As an Oiler fan, us and Nashville won day 1. Pumped the season is 97 days away.
as a kings fan, i was completely shocked we went for Edmundson. not happy with it at all. when i was watching the playoffs, i felt like i noticed him getting beat a lot, which is not a good sign. love Blakey, but i have a feeling his job is in danger now and wouldn’t be opposed to it.
I watched nearly every playoff game... but I don't remember Edmundson at all. Clearly not an impactful enough for that contract.
Blake needs to go. There were waaaaay to many names to swing for and he didn't land us shit. Plus resigning Trevor Lewis? Unreal.
habs fan. we had to eat half his contract to trade him at all. how tf did he get a RAISE? for FOUR YEARS.
if the dubois trade didn't prove it last year, this signing does. rob blake is BAR NONE the dumbest GM in hockey. he managed to unload PLDiva on the crapitals, but he probably thinks that with the corpse of darcy kuemper that he's solved his goaltending. he hasn't. it's worse than last year.
you could have got foegele for a million less. oilers fans repeatedly put him in trade talks as salary filler.
unless byfield has like a 100 point season or something, the kings are missing the playoffs this year, and perhaps by more than 10 points. maybe then the kings will see that blake, and his mentor bergevin, are ruining their team. four years ago you had easily the league's best prospect pool. apart from byfield and maybe clarke, you've squandered it all.
speaking of byfeild, i'd seriously consider sending an offer sheet his way. and i'm a habs fan. it's not like we're good yet.
Blake heard someone say that Edmonton is a lock for the Stanley Cup so he signed Edmundson.
You talk as if you could do better... Let's see it, big boy...
Great review man!!!
I felt the same about most of these teams, and this review was spot on!
Disagree on the Red Wings. You want Stamkos at 4x8? Yzermans biggest fault has been overpaying free agents so I much prefer this over another future but out candidate.
It’s all one and two year deals meaning the wings will be able to take a swing again next year instead of locking down some 34 year old for too much money. Maybe they could have got Pesce if not for D signings last year. There’s a few guys that would have been nice but not with any term.
My only real disappointment is Ghost signing for so cheap in Carolina.
To be fair I think us wings fans thought ghost was going to be a whole lot more expensive.
I'm still wondering why Yzerman basically gave away Walman. I know that Raymond and Sieder need new deals but the cap space for that is there. If he put all his eggs in the Trouba basket and is currently striking out on that, not only would that surprise me but it would also make me question his competence.
And someone needs to tell him that signing 2 below average goalies, wont make 1 good one.
@@NothingToPointOut24 I think Walman has been overrated by the fan base because the year he came in he was the only decent producer outside seider on the blue line.
That doesn’t mean he was good or even very productive though. 43 points in 145 games. He looked alright next to seider for a time but it’s no coincidence that walmans best season was seiders worst. They spent all last year juggling the d.
I suppose you could put him on waivers but then a team like Toronto or Boston could pick him up. If he does turn it around you’d rather it be far away than somewhere that could affect your playoff chances.
How the prospects taken over the last few years develop is what will decide Yzerman and the teams date.
Thompson requested a trade
Why?😭
To be honest with buffalo having that much cap space they had left they could have kept skinner. Sure he was overpaid but they didn’t bring in anyone with big money. They should have traded one of their young forwards to get a really good player like Necas or Zegras. They have a lot of good pieces in their team & hopefully they don’t dig themselves more into a grave
Should've kept him and gave him the C....and still get a top tier FA with our money, but no we're r3tarded
They traded him for the same reason they let Rinehart, Okposo, Girgensons, Mittelstadt, etc. go. To show players that if they actually come to Buffalo and it doesnt work out they'll treat you well and give you the opportunity to go to a real contender. There is almost 0 reason for any player to come to Buffalo otherwise.
@@Tony525_ Make a guy who plays half of hockey the captain? I’d make Zach Benson captain before Skinny.
By getting rid of him they avoid the inevitability of Lindy strangling him on the bench after witnessing his defensive effort.
All I have to say is: play La Bamba, baby!
EDMONTON GOT JANMARK FOR LESS THAN 1.5?????
Janmark agreed to sign for less cus he wanted to play for the oilers again
@@paradoxgaming5182Players taking discounts to play in Edmonton. Pinch me, I'm dreaming about hockey again.
Stars are big losers underratedly. Hopefully Nill has a trade up his sleeve or something with all this cap space we have
100 disagree
@@heathclark318 how? this looks horrible
Ngl, I dunno HOW the Stars fumbled the bag so hard with this.
Dumba hasn't been good in years, and that contract is crazy. He is lucky to play third pair, and might be worth 1M a season.
I dont agree, i really think its looks good the new signings.
That Joel Edmundson contract makes no sense. Marc Bergevin definitely had an influenced on that signing 😂
Great transition between the Kings segment and the Oilers segment 👍
As a Ducks fan, I don’t even know what free agency is.
I'm excited for the retro jersey. Love that orange
While I agree, the ducks have some elite prospects that will need paying, the last thing they need to do is bring in someone with term and a big aav.
as a mtl fan. i feel your pain friend
just wanna encourage you as you continue to pump out content like crazy right now. keep up the good work.
I'm happy for Brossoit he deserves to be a starter there though, He was loved here in Winnipeg
Sharks is a winner all we did was add good players around macklin celebrini
what a transition between LA and Edmonton. just makes me appreciate this channel even more
The devils offense:
Hughes, Hischier, Meier, Bratt, Palat, Mercer*, Tatar, Lazar, Bastian, Noesen, Noesek, Cotter
Defense:
Hamilton, Pesche, Hughes, Nemec, Sieganthaler, Dillon, Macdermod
Goaltending:
Markstrom
Allen
Daws
The devils forward group is insane, thr defense is so much better.
And the goaltending, I mean come on.
This might be, on paper, from top to bottom, the best Devils team of all time
Just for comparison sake I would say they are second best on paper to the early 2000s teams featuring Arnott, Elias, Sykora, Holik, Mogilny, Gomez, Madden etc up front and Stevens, Niedermayer, Rafalski on D with Brodeur in net.
One interesting aspect for Buffalo -- Malensteyn and Aube-Kubel played together on the fourth line with Washington. It will be interesting to see if they reproduce that in Buffalo.
Reproduce what? 25 points each?🤣
Canes made some good signings but IDK if they are currently the contenders that they were last season. Pesce was severly mised in their series against the Rangers and now you take away Skeiij, Guentzel, Terovienen and Noesen
They'll still be good cause they always are, and I think that they will make some nice moves during deadline time that make them better. But right now the downgrade on D and losing two pretty key offensive pieces is pretty substantial.
It was smart of them to lockup Slavin longterm and I love Chatfield and Martinook.
One thing you gotta keep in mind about the Sabres is the Jeff Skinner buy out really hamstrings them next year - and the year after. 2 years from now the buyout penalty is over $6M in cap hit. If the Sabres spent to the cap this offseason they would be worse off down the road - they are literally handcuffed for 2 years with that buyout.
When you look at the cap penalties I'm not even sure the buyout made sense tbh. especially when you don't land any players and don't spend any of the money. you may as well have just kept skinner
detroit is not a loser lol I'm thrilled we aren't overpaying people and letting the youth play
Cam Talbot, if he plays well, could be good too. Split time with Lyon, or Husso depending what's going on there.
Goalie situation is a head scratcher but I agree I'm not worried about letting our prospects play
I think a lot of people are underestimating the hole the Wings ended up in after chasing the consecutive playoff appearances streak for so long. A long slow rebuild was to be expected imo. Letting the youth play and not swinging for the fences on long deals for aging stars is definitely not a bad thing given where they’re at.
Biggest winners teams that didn't over pay 😅
My caps did pretty well, but I think Chicago and Nashville killed it this offseason
Caps off season has been good for sure!
Love the Matt Roy and Jakob Chychrun moves!
@@CapsCoverageMatt Roy move was terrible and so was the PLD trade. I’m a huge caps fan and I’m finding it very frustrating seeing what bmac has been doing. For every good move he makes he makes two bad ones after that. Not to mention we’re 14 mil over the cap and will probably have to give up prospects and picks to dump a contract.
@@Ignite_Intensity193 I can't say that I like the PLD trade, but I think it was a move that the team had to make, it was the only way to move Kuemper without retaining salary or adding a sweetner. While very risky and something I probably would not have done, I understand the thinking behind it. Matt Roy is a very steady defenseman who is an analytics darling with some of the best WAR numbers for his position. Despite being more expensive, he provides more offense than Jensen, is younger and still fufills Jensen's role as a penalty killer who moves the puck well. Oshie is very likely going to be on LTIR which will solve the salary cap issues.
@@CapsCoverage we have an elite prospect pool that no one is willing to admit, we’ve hit on every pick in the last 4 years in the first 2 rounds. They need to stop trying to play for ahl dominance and play our young guys in roles where they can succeed. It’s also insane the term Roy is on that’s gonna run into when this team inevitably has to rebuild and we’re not gonna be able to sign franchise pieces moving forward with all these shit contracts. Why not keep kuemper he sucked but we just picked up a longer worse contract for a center when we already had our two top six centers moving forward.
My Sharks have been killing it!
No caps eh? Damn, feels bad man
That central division is tough
my capitals are not usually active during free agency. cant believe the moves that we made
Dude as a kings far idk how Rob Blake still has a job. He found a way to get us out of that ridiculous PLD contract that HE put us in, just to do this? So many big names on the market and this is the shit he pulls. Dreading October honestly
I would begrudgingly call the Hurricanes the biggest winners of free agency. The price tags that they were able to secure Gostisbehere and Walker for were crazy low.
Although it wasn't a signing I'd also like to shoutout my Caps for the Chychrun trade!
The Slavin extension is also an incredible signing. Very cheap cap hit for arguably the best defensive defenseman in hockey. Getting him for 8 years at 6.5m is incredible.
jensen and a 3rd. wtf are the sens thinking? they fleece the b's on ullmark then decide they have to pay it forward?
this won't rescue the crapitals. your core is older than joe biden.
I dont think anyone realizes the Buffalo CANT sign good players. They all have NMC and NTC to avoid Buffalo. Tbh this is almost the best they could possibly do.
This has been one of the best weeks of my life as a capitals fan
Sharks signed a free agent on free agency day. This marks a big improvement from the previous 20 years.
How was the caps not on your list of winners??
This was just signings, not trades.
Hi Ohnyquvist, I wanted to say that you have quickly become one of my favorite yters. Before I thought you had a bit too much bias towards the Red wings but you've gotten a LOT better at that and honestly, I love your content. Imho my top 3 hockey youtubers might go Johnny Hawkey, You, and Stick on the Ice. For the people who say where is Eck? He's a bit too whinny at times, a lot more recently, and for THG I'm not THAT analytical and he sometimes bores me (I have a sometimes VERY short attention span)
Eck doesn't bother me as a personality, but I'm convinced he hates the Stars, no matter what he says.
@@ilznidiotic Yeah he seems to never cover you guys or the Canes (only when we are doing ass or in highlight reals he will) Honestly before he wasn't as whinny. recently he became really annoying.
Honestly this felt like Jim Nill saying he wants more size and aggressiveness on the back end. Ultimately I think that cost us a couple games in the playoffs. Something needed to change with this team as it clearly wasn’t enough from the last season
From a Nashville fan, the rebuild won't really be that bad. Nashville went out and got all of those pieces without having to give up premium assets. They still have some top prospects like Askarov, Tomasino, Kemell, Molendyk, Wood, and more plus they still have 2 first round picks in the 2025 draft.
If all goes according to plan with Askarov (who likely becomes Saros's "back-up" in a year or two), Nashville can do the 1A/1B dance like Ullmark and Swayman did for a few years with Askarov likely taking more of a the starters net role when he is 26 which is when Saros took it from Rinne. Yeah, Saros will be a really expensive backup, but Nashville will have the cap space to make it work. They did it with Rinne who was a 5M back-up, they are going to do it with Saros
They did all of these moves with 11.8M in dead cap space, so their cap flexibility comes back with the 25-26 season. Nashville looks like they could be competitive for a very long time.
Good analysis. I was behind a full rebuild the last couple of seasons but Trotz is a wizard.
i thought calgary did pretty good, happy with the offseason Conroy and the flames are having.
Can’t believe Utah wasn’t on this? Unless you already did a video solely on that I missed, as a hawks fan I love the moves. I think personally I would have rather had Domi back instead of Bertuzzi but still love the signing, anything is an upgrade needed for Bedard
Would be fun for you to do a video like this with all the teams and a take on playoff team or not.
Kings fan, I want Rob Blake gone so badly. Jacob Moverare and Andreas Englund had much more success in that LHD role and we just overpaid for a 3rd pair LHD that is statistically worse than both of them which is not saying a whole lot. Really hope we make a splash for a top 6 forward at some point this season while still signing Spence and Byfield.
Blake said they have had an eye on Edmundson for awhile which I don't get; much rather have had Brendan Dillon tbh.
How the hell do you leave the capitals out of this video?!
5:40 yessirrr Carolina has that gift of making mid players fit their system. They’ll be fine
Which Matt Murray there are now two goalies in the NHL with that name.
The way I see it, if the front office of a team is too active early in free agency, there’s a high likelihood they’ll be overpaying players and may suffer buyers remorse at some point. Not always the case but it’s kind of like buying the latest and greatest golf driver at $600 and then your buddy gets the same one that slightly used but works just as well the following year for $350. As an Avs fan and with them being handcuffed right now by the uncertainty of both Landeskog and Val, love they were able to sign Drouin for another year which will allow them to sign him to a longer term contract next season. The waters are quite murky though and they could either be a top dog if all the stars align or just a very middle of the pack squad.
Besides the pld trade (which i hope works in our favour) the caps have done really well too.
Canes took huge advantage of the size inefficiency. So many teams looked at Florida as the bar that they spent all sort of cap space on not-very-effective but large/tough defensemen. Guys like Dumba and Lyubushkin may have been liabilities last year, but they were also big and mean which meant their UFA values were just fine. Carolina signed guys who were undervalued because they were smaller but with great analytics.
Nothing to criticize about their spending, but their backend still got weaker
They need depth scoring for sure
Washington?
and the central remains stacked sheesh
Coming from a Lightning fan, Dumba barely deserves 1 million, let alone 4. I wouldn't have kept him for league minimum. Not sure what Dallas was thinking.
From ur logic I presume Suter should play for free then
@@bobross6318 that's too much for suter.
7:19 You said Duchesne instead of Dumba, but other than that little slip, great video and summary. 👍🏼
Logan Thompson wanted out of Vegas that’s why he left
He's going to start and show to be a top 10 goalie in Washington
Devils and preds made some MOVES.
Im so tired of the Samsonov slander he played two seasons with the leafs 1 and 1/2 seasons he was good last year he was the worst goalie in the league at the start of the year. At the end of the year he was top 5.
Jim Nill lost his fucking mind
As a devils fan, I cant wait for the next season. We got help on the back end, dougie is back, the schedule announcement video was peak, we have a goalie, now all I can do is hope injuries don't derail the season again. Im also hoping for dawgson to resign because I love that man.
Hawks stacked man
Tarasenko to Red Wings
This offseason was a diaster for St Louis...they've gone from the best to the 2nd worst team in the Central in 4 years.
As a Habs fan. Im 100% satisfied what we did. Definitely not a WINNER since we didn't really make any moves but a winner to me. We really didn't need any signings this season. We should try and let our young guys like Hutson Slafkovsky etc... Get more minutes. Next season we need more movement. But a 8x$7.3m for Slafkovsky is an A+ move and Barre-Boulet is an A+ move just for the fact we got another Quebec born decently young forward for a minimum. We didn't lose anything getting him. We just get a deph forward in the NHL who could put up 10 and 10 in a 70 game season.
Love you videos man keep them coming. Wondering what you think of Laine 50% retained to NJ Devils to play on Jacks wing. Not sure what it would cost but its noted Laine wants out and with two years left at 8.7 but retention and picks prospects maybe roster player like Bastian and Foote to CBJ. Food for thought
As an Avs fan, I fell very conflicted about our free agency. I know we didn't have a ton of cap space, but we really didn't do a whole lot to improve our team, and lost a lot of deadline acquisitions that we gave up some good capital for. Wished we could've gotten Stammer.
The way I see it as an Avs fan myself. If they can get past and figure out Val's situation, and by some miracle, have Landy back at full force, the Avs will still be cup contenders. The longer they drag out the what ifs, the worse the teams gonna get. Despite all that they'll still make the playoffs, the offense is still top tier, but doesn't matter who they sign or who they trade for, the depth (lack thereof) and the cap space being taken away by players not even playing is becoming the Achilles Heel of the team, meanwhile teams like Chicago, Nashville, and Edmonton are getting stronger and deeper, the Avs aren't matching them competitively.
There wasn't the slightest chance of Stamkos signing with the Avs, especially after the Middlestadt contract. I don't understand where the idea even stems from
That Lyubushkin deal is awful. He's not worth even half of that cap hit.
Bouche got absolutely pasted to the boards on a hit by Matt Rempe, what surprised me is he actually got back up.
that's not the worst deal they gave a dman. they bought out suter to get another suter (dumba).
I'd say Anaheim doing nothing is a pretty big L while Washington picking up some studs could put them in the winner column in my book.
I feel like you nailed the picks though, disappointed Steve Yzerman hasn't done more for Detroit but it makes sense with who they need to sign coming up
Great vid, agree with all but the comment of Foegele. He was signed at 2,75m for 3 years, and only in his last year he was able to justify the contract.
He was pretty bad the first 2 years and very streaky. Also there`s a reason why he was the healthy scratch at one point during the playoffs.
Nashville for sure did great, they will gain a lot of offense and should be a contender now.
Canes did really well, but Walker and Gostisbehere are bot good puck movers, with defensive flaws in their game. Still, having them for 6,8m combined should be a steal.
Devils also did really well, Pesce is a great signing.
Oilers - their forward group got better, while their D still has the flaws, especially 2nd RD is a weak spot.
Also they are over the cap, so right now they would need to move Ceci or park Kane on LTRI.
Skinner was paid 9M/y, not 8M
Does your overview of the Red Wings being losers from free agency change after the Tarasenko signing?
Skinner gets sleepy on defence
Knob will have him backchecking by Halloween
Carolina's blue line may look solid but their offense definitely got weaker with Guentzel and Noesen gone. I'm curious what they'll do with Necas..
Thoughts on the Canucks’ moves?
The dark age of the Buffalo Sabres continues.
I'll be surprised if skinner and arvidsson play 50 games combined.
Matt Murray was signed by the Leafs, not Nashville. FYI
7:17 matt Duchene signed twice??? Lol
Don't forget Vegas signed Hanafin and Hertl before playoffs.
I can agree with some of these for sure but i think you for sure got one wrong and missed two that were poor poor poor.
1. Detroit. They dont have to go and get anyone they're developing players and there is no real rush in that. "Asking prospects to make big jumps," is exactly how you want build a franchise. Either the kids do it and you sign them up and continue winning, or they don't, you dont't sign them but you're still bad and are getting good draft picks because of it.
2. Boston and Anaheim should be here. Trading that goalie to Ottawa for a worse goalie. And those long contracts for Zadorov and Lindholm are both kinda rich dont you think? If Lindholm is a 40 goal guy 7.5 is great. If Zadorov is dominant like in the playoffs thats great. But those are HUGE ifs...
Anaheim should be here because they dont know what to do. Gibson is still there and their jettisoning a bunch of the young talent they do have. Mark my words, they will be the Buffalo of the west in no time.
I hate being a Sabres fan it’s actually depressing
Hope you guys can turn it around next season. You fans have been through enough
we just have to build from within and scraps from other teams or overpay...always underdogs
As a Canucks fan I feel a kinship with Sabres fans. We’ve both had some dark times but nothing lasts forever!
GM Kevyn Adams is too conservative, like how we repeatedly said about Ron Francis, but I guess he's now kicked that bucket
Thanks for Jeff skinner
As a dux fan leaving them off the losers list is wild.
Any of the long term deals, we won't truly know if it's a good deal or not for years and years
What do you think about the Slafkovsky deal?
in two years it'll be one of the league's biggest bargains.
Resigning Patrick Kane, and not being saddled with the Stamkos contract in a couple years when he's less productive and they are competing for the cup, makes the Red Wings a winner. Should have held on to Walman but I expect they thought they were making room for Trouba.
I want Nečas to go somewhere else than Carolina. They didn't really gave him the chance to shine at the top line, Martin needs to feel being appreciated in order to be consistent.
I love the oilers signings, retained the guys they wanted to retain and added 2 middle six forwards which might make them the best and deepest offense in the whole league. (I swear I didn’t mean to copy you lol, I typed this before watching and then you basically said the same thing lmaoooo)
Skinner is a first line winger, and Arvidsson is top 6
I think it depends which player you get out of them (I think they’re both a bit inconsistent) but on the oilers being next to drai and McDavid we should be getting the best out of them which I think for both of them could be 30 goal, 70 points seasons.
@@KASSIANOWNSYOU that being said though as an oilers fan id love for them to prove my middle 6 comment wrong and bring a 40 goal 80 points season and put us at top dogs of the west
Seattle is another big loser. Really overpaid for Montour and Stephenson
Yeah, I don’t hate the players I think they got a little bit better. But the contracts are definitely risky.
Skinner was making 9 million a year
Right my bad.
Didn't think the Caps had a good start to free agency?
TJ Brodie lol good luck
The number one loser was Columbus. They hired a new GM to do exactly what Jarmo was famous for. Over paying a good, not great player. Why fire the old GM only to continue the same strategy?
Stetcher is a two year contract.
6 likes in 1 minute…bros washed. Jk love you Ohnyquist