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2019 NHL Offseason Thread - Evander Gets Lightweight Suspension (1 Viewer)

@charlieo_conn: My first instinct is that Toronto-Colorado trade is actually pretty fair for both sides. Might be a win in the short term for the Leafs but I'm not sure Barrie is anything more than a rental for them. Neat trade!

@DarrenDreger: Expectation is Kerfoot will file for Arb and based on production will likely earn above $3 mil.

@CapFriendly: Excluding their d-men on Entry Level deals in the minors, Morgan Rielly is currently the only #Leafs d-man on the main roster with a contract past the 2019-20 season. https://twitter.com/CapFriendly/status/1145835336066580483/photo/1

 
Northern Voice said:
Tyson Barrie a Leaf!!!!!!
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I like that trade for Colorado. Spezza deal makes a bit more sense now. 

Edit: Didn’t realize they were eating 50% of Barrie’s salary. Toronto definitely lost some valuable assets but I guess that have a Gardiner replacement/upgrade plus room for Marner. 

 
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That seems like a lot of term for Varlamov. Especially when his AAV screams "You're better than most backups but not a franchise goalie."

 
(Edit: No, Trotz never coached Varlamov in Washington ... so guess there's no connection there.)

 
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4-years for 31yo Varlamov but only offered 2-years to Lehner? Weird. 

Maybe they think Varlamov will be a better mentor to Sorokin. Still not sure who would have given Varlamov even 3 years though. 

 
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JaxBill said:
That seems like a lot of term for Varlamov. Especially when his AAV screams "You're better than most backups but not a franchise goalie."
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It's his injury history of late. He could be struggling a lot in year 4.

 
Hate seeing Barrie go his attitude and play as a teammate made it easy to root for the Avalanche. But this looks like a good deal for the Avs. Avs have the Barrie replacements coming quickly in Makar and Byrum as well as Girard. He's going to ask a lot in FA and Newport management is not an easy agency to do business with(Not a favorite of Super Joe's after the crap they pulled for Ryan O'Reilly and Tysons bridge deal). A contract negotiation had a big chance of turning into a circus and messing with the focus. He had to be traded. So now they have a possible answer for a second line - one that if it pairs Kadri with either Rantannan or Landeskog will be one tough line. Which was something the Avs really missed on the 2nd line. Hopefully Kadri starts playing smarter and a bit more relaxed now that he's out of the Toronto media storm. I'd imagine he's got to be happy.  Kerfoot is a bit of a mystery - he had games that were good. But too often missed easy goals and in the corner he was like Bambi always going down to the ice. IMO no huge loss with the pickup of Burkovsky and Donskoi(who might be a bigger deal once the season starts - I liked him on the Sharks) . It would be nice to find one more star winger. Maybe as the RFAs are signed we'll have a better picture of what they can afford and maybe pickup something at the deadline. Already they were a 12/1 pick and #2 in the West for Cup odds - I imagine they look a little better now. Only caution is that they will be relying on some young kids on the blueline.

 
Honestly, I think the Colorado/Toronto swap truly works for both teams, with each moving out players they were in a position of strength at for players at a position they were weaker at, but Colorado retaining half of Barrie's salary kind of baffles me, other than it's the only way Toronto can make the trade. 

 
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Northern Voice said:
Honestly, I think the Colorado/Toronto swap truly works for both teams, with each moving out players they were in a position of strength at for players at a position they were weaker at, but Colorado retaining half of Barrie's salary kind of baffles me, other than it's the only way Toronto can make the trade. 
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It's only one year. But they should have gotten another 3rd pick or near that IMO

 
Aaron Rudnicki said:
I like that trade for Colorado. Spezza deal makes a bit more sense now. 

Edit: Didn’t realize they were eating 50% of Barrie’s salary. Toronto definitely lost some valuable assets but I guess that have a Gardiner replacement/upgrade plus room for Marner. 
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Colorado has plenty of cap space to absorb that.  

 
rascal said:
Colorado has plenty of cap space to absorb that.  
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they certainly do. but surprised they couldn't get more from Toronto in exchange for helping them out with their cap issues. Kadri is a pretty valuable trade chip though so I suppose it makes sense.

 
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Aaron Rudnicki said:
they certainly do. but surprised they couldn't get more from Toronto in exchange for helping them out with their cap issues. Kadri is a pretty valuable trade chip though so I suppose it makes sense.
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Just read a note on the trade - turns out Kadri's contract is a 2M signing bonus on July 1st - 2.5M salary - the bonus of which the Leafs paid on July1 . So the money comes to nearly a wash - not sure how that bonus affected the AAV for the cap in 2020. So it may not be as bad as originally thought.

 
ffldrew said:
Just read a note on the trade - turns out Kadri's contract is a 2M signing bonus on July 1st - 2.5M salary - the bonus of which the Leafs paid on July1 . So the money comes to nearly a wash - not sure how that bonus affected the AAV for the cap in 2020. So it may not be as bad as originally thought.
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Kadri's cap hit is still 4.5, Colorado will only be paying 2.5 this year.

Similar to Toronto paying Zaitsev's 3M bonus before trading him to Ottawa. Leafs have no issue spending money, it's the cap space that's so precious to them, which is what they get with the salary retained for Barrie.

 
Everyone agrees Bergevin's offer sheet was an easy one for the Canes to match. A bit of a "joke" offer as they say. My question is why did Aho's camp agree to it?

 
falguy said:
Everyone agrees Bergevin's offer sheet was an easy one for the Canes to match. A bit of a "joke" offer as they say. My question is why did Aho's camp agree to it?
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Aho wanted a 5-year term (for $9.5MM/year). Canes were only offering an 8-year term (for $7.5MM/year).

This makes him a UFA at age 26, when he can cash in on a monster long-term deal most likely.

It's a fair deal so I assume he was good with taking a bit less to become a UFA as soon as possible. The only downside for Carolina here is the term, but they can easily live with this AAV so Bergevin basically made things easier on Carolina imo.

 
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falguy said:
Everyone agrees Bergevin's offer sheet was an easy one for the Canes to match. A bit of a "joke" offer as they say. My question is why did Aho's camp agree to it?
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Because he didn't think he could get a better deal from the Canes. RFAs generally get less than market value because teams know they don't have much leverage (outside of an offer sheet). So the offer the Bergervin submitted was more favorable to Aho (through some combination of higher AAV, shorter term, and more bonuses) than the one he expected to receive if he negotiated the Canes only, but still way less than his "real" value (which made it easy for Carolina to match).   At the end of the day, Carolina likely ended up with a slightly less favorable contract than they were hoping for, but still a very favorable contract overall. 

 
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in terms of RFA deals signed thus far,

Aho (CAR) - $8.5MM x 5-years
Meijer (SJS) - $6.0MM x 4-years
Karlsson (VGK) - $5.9MM x 8-years
 

still lots of guys to sort out though, and it could take awhile.

Marner (TOR)
Binnington (STL)
Rantanen (COL)
Point (TBL)
Laine (WPG)
Connor (WPG)
Boeser (VAN)
Tkachuk (CGY)
Labanc (SJS)
Trouba (NYR)
Werenski (CBJ)
McAvoy (BOS)
Provorov (PHI)
Rittich (CGY)
Donato (MIN)
Vrana (WSH)
Konecny (PHI)
Buchnevich (NYR)

 
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Aaron Rudnicki said:
Aho wanted a 5-year term (for $9.5MM/year). Canes were only offering an 8-year term (for $7.5MM/year).

This makes him a UFA at age 26, when he can cash in on a monster long-term deal most likely.

It's a fair deal so I assume he was good with taking a bit less to become a UFA as soon as possible. The only downside for Carolina here is the term, but they can easily live with this AAV so Bergevin basically made things easier on Carolina imo.
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Actually, I don't think Bergevin is as much of a donkey as we originally thought.  He front end loaded the deal such that Carolina would have to come up with $21MM within a week of matching.  Bergevin was betting they'd find that difficult.  I still think it was an easy decision for Carolina but I bet they had to scramble a little to find the liquidity.

 
chet said:
Actually, I don't think Bergevin is as much of a donkey as we originally thought.  He front end loaded the deal such that Carolina would have to come up with $21MM within a week of matching.  Bergevin was betting they'd find that difficult.  I still think it was an easy decision for Carolina but I bet they had to scramble a little to find the liquidity.
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$21MM in the first 12 months. Not the first week. Dundon clearly had no problem matching. They laughed about how easy it was for them. 

Same team just spent $3.8MM to buy out Marleau. There was zero chance they’d let Aho walk for that deal and the draft pick compensation. 

 
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Aaron Rudnicki said:
$21MM in the first 12 months. Not the first week. Dundon clearly had no problem matching. They laughed about how easy it was for them. 

Same team just spent $3.8MM to buy out Marleau. There was zero chance they’d let Aho walk for that deal and the draft pick compensation. 
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Yeah, that was it for me, they had just shown they were willing to literally buy a draft pick. Plus Dundon lit money on fire with that stupid football league I won't pretend to know the name of. And Carolina just had their most profitable season in years with the playoff run.   $$ not an issue for Canes right now.

 
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Aaron Rudnicki said:
$21MM in the first 12 months. Not the first week. Dundon clearly had no problem matching. They laughed about how easy it was for them. 

Same team just spent $3.8MM to buy out Marleau. There was zero chance they’d let Aho walk for that deal and the draft pick compensation. 
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But I think the $11.3M signing bonus for Year 1 is due within one week of the Canes matching the offer. Then the Year 2 signing bonus would be due within seven days of the anniversary date next July. The rest is the "paltry" $700K annual salary spread out over the season.

 
Dickie Dunn said:
But I think the $11.3M signing bonus for Year 1 is due within one week of the Canes matching the offer. Then the Year 2 signing bonus would be due within seven days of the anniversary date next July. The rest is the "paltry" $700K annual salary spread out over the season.
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Anyone who thinks an NHL owner (whose team just made the conference finals and spent $4MM to literally buy a draft pick) can’t come up with $11MM to keep their best player is out to lunch. Bergevin was played. 

 
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Aho signed the offer to be a free agent in 5 years.  Canes wanted 8 years.  As a fan I wanted Aho locked up but 5 years is a long time.  Happy it's done.

 
Aaron Rudnicki said:
Anyone who thinks an NHL owner (whose team just made the conference finals and spent $4MM to literally buy a draft pick) can’t come up with $11MM to keep their best player is out to lunch. Bergevin was played. 
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That was a weak ### attempt by Bergevin but I still contend letting somebody else negotiate your star player extension is bad business.

 
Aaron Rudnicki said:
Anyone who thinks an NHL owner (whose team just made the conference finals and spent $4MM to literally buy a draft pick) can’t come up with $11MM to keep their best player is out to lunch. Bergevin was played. 
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Oh, absolutely. All indications are the Canes were thrilled with the deal. Just noting that they weren't spreading the entire $21M out over a year.

 
Sharks get a bargain as Kevin Labanc signs for 1 yr 1 Mil. They have 5.3 mil left under cap and Dylan Gambrell is only remaining RFA. Including Gambrell sharks only have 10 forwards signed.

Hmmm. I wonder if there are 2 aging former Sharks forwards who might be available.

Seemed appropriate

 
4 x 3.5MM for Ferland in Vancouver.

Man, he really hurt himself by not signing something with Carolina earlier. Not a bad pickup for Couver at that price.

 
Matt Cullen retired today, quite the career.   He had a pretty cool retirement video on NHL.com.   Hoping he coaches my kids peewee team next year now!

 
Aaron Rudnicki said:
4 x 3.5MM for Ferland in Vancouver.

Man, he really hurt himself by not signing something with Carolina earlier. Not a bad pickup for Couver at that price.
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Their additions this offseason are

6'8" 229 lbs (Myers)

6'1" 218 lbs (Miller)

6'1" 217 lbs (Ferland)

6'2" 199 lbs (Benn)

Some big dudes to surround Petterson, Hughes, Baertschi, etc...

 
The Athletic article on the ten worst contracts is pretty interesting. I'll post the list later but does anyone want to take some guesses who's on there?

 
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