Free Agent Frenzy thread

[Winged_Wheel88]

Let's review who the Stanley Cup Champion Chicago Blackhawks lost in free agency:

David Bolland to Toronto. Good bottom six guy who is pesky defensively. But he's also often injured, terrible in the faceoff dot, not a good penalty killer or on the power play and doesn't score enough offensively. He was the worst Hawks player +/- for the season. And at $3.36 million a year, he's not worth the cap hit.

Michael Frolik. Great penalty killer. Terrible hands. Better than average speed. Physical enough, but not a real banger. Never repeated his 20 goal seasons he had prior to becoming a Blackhawks. Not worth the $2.2 million cap hit.

Viktor Stalberg to Nashville. Speed to burn. One of the fastest skaters in the NHL. Terrible hands. Defensive liability. In Coach Q's doghouse during the playoffs and said some not so flattering comments about how he felt about it DURING the playoffs.

Ray Emery to Philadelphia. Good backup to Corey Crawford. Hawks will probably miss him. Nice quiet guy. Definitely not a number one goalie though, even though he is only 30. Slow to react sometimes. Slow after he is down. Was better this season in shootouts than the season before when he was awful. Flyers can't rely on him to bring them to the promised land. It won't happen.

Hawks re-sign Leddy, Rozsival, Handzus and Bickell. Still waiting on Marcus Kruger. Looking to promote Brandon Pirri (AHL leading scorer), Ben Smith, Jeremy Morin and Jimmy Hayes.

Defensive 7 all remaining from last season.

Hawks need a backup goalie at this point, although they have signed Finnish MVP Antti Raata.

At this point (without Rozsival or Kruger or a backup goalie) Blackhawks are $5.8 million and change under the cap.

Nice job.

I'm not going to pass judgement on this post. All I'm going to do is make this gif easier to find for Bruins fans or anyone else who wants it:

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Again, where are these teams getting this money from?

Just Imagine if the cap hadnt gone down this year

 

[forty_three]

Again, where are these teams getting this money from?

Boston moved a lot of Salary. 8m + in cap space before Iggy.


I really can't wait for all those people who wished debilitating injury on Iggy to come here and pronounce him the missing piece.

 

[Darkstone42]

Looking at capgeek, I have no idea how the Penguins are going to manage to stay under the cap next season.

They still need depth forwards for this season, and they only have under $700K to do it.

 

[BOSSMANPC]

Dare we say......Two extra gears?

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

Ok, trying to remember whose now left...

Jagr
Brunner
Cleary
Grabovski
Bryzgalov
Timmay
??????

Still hope?

 

[higgyfan4]

Still hope?

I would rather have Grabs than Brunner at this point. Brunner was too inconsistant last season to justify a big salary bump, IMHO.

 

[forty_three]

I would rather have Grabs than Brunner at this point. Brunner was too inconsistant last season to justify a big salary bump, IMHO.

He should sign with Chicago. He'll be an instant star.

 

[BlueWolfZero]

Boston moved a lot of Salary. 8m + in cap space before Iggy.


I really can't wait for all those people who wished debilitating injury on Iggy to come here and pronounce him the missing piece.

Revisionist history: Better than a morning after confession

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Looking at capgeek, I have no idea how the Penguins are going to manage to stay under the cap next season.

They still need depth forwards for this season, and they only have under $700K to do it.

Cap rumoured to go to 72

So 20 mill to sign 12 players

Dont worry shero is god right ? Lol

 

[higgyfan4]

@georgemalik 17s
There's a lesson in all of this: Aaron Ward Tweets three months ahead of time.

 

[BlueWolfZero]

Looking at capgeek, I have no idea how the Penguins are going to manage to stay under the cap next season.

They still need depth forwards for this season, and they only have under $700K to do it.

Wait, you mean Mario doesn't get a higher cap than everyone else?

 

[higgyfan4]

Again, I forgot Ian White on the UFA list of whose left available. Is he the only UFA defenseman left?

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Again, I forgot Ian White on the UFA list of whose left available. Is he the only UFA defenseman left?

Andrew alberts still out there lol

 

[mattola]

Pierre LeBrun ‏@Real_ESPNLeBrun 5m
Iggy deal: $1.8 M base salary, $3.7 M games played bonus, $500,000 goal scoring/team playoff performance: total $6 M

 

[Darkstone42]

Cap rumoured to go to 72

So 20 mill to sign 12 players

Dont worry shero is god right ? Lol

Haha, we shall see. I can see some options, starting with trades of Orpik and/or Niskanen and relying on a youth movement on defense and the bottom two lines.

Fleury coming off the books in two years will be extremely helpful, though.

Wait, you mean Mario doesn't get a higher cap than everyone else?

Shero's been pretty good at keeping both salary and term down for the most part. The Letang extension (which kicks in next year) is a brutal exception, though...

 

[BOSSMANPC]

I guess the tranny blew on my "Two extra gear" joke.

 

[mattola]

Cap rumoured to go to 72

So 20 mill to sign 12 players

Dont worry shero is god right ? Lol

when is it scheduled to got to 72? over a period of time so when the cba expires they can go through the dance of lockout again lol

 

[Trudem]

I would rather have Grabs than Brunner at this point. Brunner was too inconsistant last season to justify a big salary bump, IMHO.

I have wanted him since he got bought out. I think he could be really good on the wings.

 

[Darkstone42]

I guess the tranny blew on my "Two extra gear" joke.

I guess it wasn't clutch.