2017 free agency thread

Postby **Fire0nIce228** » Sun Jul 02, 2017 6:59 pm

Marleau to the leafs for a laughable amount of money and time.

Postby **NTP66** » Sun Jul 02, 2017 8:12 pm

https://twitter.com/TheFourthPeriod/sta ... 8723297280

The Caps only have $4.6m in cap space with only 15 players signed.

Postby **shmenguin** » Sun Jul 02, 2017 8:25 pm

Not much of a discount for the birdman.

Postby **Robot B9** » Sun Jul 02, 2017 8:43 pm

Marleau to the leafs for a laughable amount of money and time.

3 years / $6.25 per...

Postby **Orlando Penguin** » Sun Jul 02, 2017 9:10 pm

Montreal shelling out a lot of cash for a goalie who has only ever watched the Stanley Cup Final on TV.

YouTube · Postby **mikey** » Sun Jul 02, 2017 11:29 pm

He is also the best goalie in the NHL...

Postby **shafnutz05** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 6:39 am

Not much of a discount for the birdman.

I thought Kuznetsov would get 7...that's a steep price.

Postby **shafnutz05** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 6:40 am

Marleau to the leafs for a laughable amount of money and time.
3 years / $6.25 per...

Not to mention a full NMC. Lord.

Postby **count2infinity** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 8:37 am

Schultz on playing with the Penguins: "It's been unbelievable. It's obviously the best two years of my life... I wanted to come back. It was always Pittsburgh. I'm excited to come back and help the team as much as I can."

Cool.

Postby **columbia** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 8:44 am

I don't know why the **** I thought Cole was a UFA this year. Anyway, I'd like for him to stick around too.

Postby **NTP66** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 8:45 am

He'll be sticking around, for at least one more season.

Postby **grunthy** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 9:07 am

He is also the best goalie in the NHL...

Well now he will be the best goalie on a team with zero depth. Congrats.

YouTube · Postby **mikey** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 9:18 am

They had zero depth when he wasn't making money...it's just not a well managed club...they protected their only ticket to the dance, I can't say I blame them...Price erases a lot of mistakes for them...

Postby **columbia** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 9:21 am

I'm shocked by the....price, but they're not going to get better by going cheap in net.

Postby **count2infinity** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 9:43 am

If they didn't give him that, I wouldn't be surprised if someone else would have... like mikey said, they protected their best shot at doing something with their team. A goalie can drag a team to the playoffs and possibly through them. Can't blame them for paying him.

Postby **Pavel Bure** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 10:08 am

Man it'd be nice to get Dumo and Sheary for less than 4M each. Maybe 3 year bridge deals.

Postby **count2infinity** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 10:11 am

My one co-worker who is a wings fan, and enjoys hot takes on most things says we severely overpaid for Schultz.

Postby **Jim** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 10:15 am

My one co-worker who is a wings fan, and enjoys hot takes on most things says we severely overpaid for Schultz.

"severely" is a bit much, but she isn't wrong in concept.

Postby **NTP66** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 10:18 am

Paying $5.5m to a guy who just came off a 51 point season (in 78 games)? She's just wrong.

Postby **Pavel Bure** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 10:41 am

My one co-worker who is a wings fan, and enjoys hot takes on most things says we severely overpaid for Schultz.
"severely" is a bit much, but she isn't wrong in concept.

9 d-men scored 50 or more points last year. He's paid market value which if we look at the contracts handed out so far is just fine. We can't expect every player to take a discount just because.

Postby **Beveridge** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 10:44 am

My one co-worker who is a wings fan, and enjoys hot takes on most things says we severely overpaid for Schultz.

My response would have been, "Mike Green"

Postby **Pavel Bure** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 10:47 am

My one co-worker who is a wings fan, and enjoys hot takes on most things says we severely overpaid for Schultz.
My response would have been, "Mike Green"

Serious question, what happened to him? Was heading towards being one of the best offensive d-men in a long while to a MASSIVE drop off.

Postby **NTP66** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 10:49 am

He had a bunch of injuries after his big season and never seemed to recover.

Postby **meow** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 11:05 am

They gave him the big contract and expected him to play more even strength time - to which he responded with, "what's even strength?"

Postby **the wicked child** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 11:30 am

Did someone say Mike Green?