The SC finals are in the rearview and the longest season in NHL history is put to bed.
The NHL Awards are handed out on Thursday night and the draft begins Friday night at the Sphere in Vegas.
The off-season is expected to be a busy one with the first salary cap increase since COVID. The players association opted to leave salaries as is instead of accepting a pay cut during the COVID season(s) and to do that they basically borrowed against future earnings, which suppressed the cap at the current levels.
Anyway, lot of activity could happen between now, the draft and free agency. Several big names rumored to be on the trading block.
Trevor Zegras (MTL and NYR among those named as "interested")
Martin Necas
Patrik Laine
Linus Ullmark (just traded to OTT)
Nikolaj Ehlers
Maybe Mitch Marner and more and then there is buyouts, FA, etc.
Here is the Ullmark trade FWIW:
TRADE ALERT: The #Sens have acquired G Linus Ullmark from @NHLBruins in exchange for (Boston’s original) ’24 first-round draft pick (no. 25 overall), C Mark Kastelic and G Joonas Korpisalo. As part of the transaction, the #Sens will retain 25% of Korpisalo’s remaining salary.… pic.twitter.com/0xRMxi8wZS
— Ottawa Senators (@Senators) June 24, 2024
He plays like a Tkachuk.
Good fortunate for vegas.
He may need some development, but I like his compete, I love his shot, and he can be physical.
CAR trades pick 27 to CHI for 34 and 50.
Pierre LeBrun
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Habs got 4-5 trade offers today for pick No. 5 but nothing that moved the needle enough
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Buium has some elite offensive traits but his defensive work is a bit of a liability. Given his profile not upset Devils passed on him and given they have Nemec and Casey with puck handling push up ice ability, never mind Hughes on left side as well. Silayev is a potential unicorn.
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If Silayev is there. Buium would have been interesting too. Buium is probably closer to playing in the NHL, I think I would have gone with him or traded the pick but you can't beef with drafting another potential Zdeno Chara.
Buium has some elite offensive traits but his defensive work is a bit of a liability. Given his profile not upset Devils passed on him and given they have Nemec and Casey with puck handling push up ice ability, never mind Hughes on left side as well. Silayev is a potential unicorn.
You think Buium is a defensive liability? I didn't see that in college or INTL, but everyone sees something different. He does not have prototypical D size, but that metric has been slowly changing. I view Buium as similar to McAvoy, a little better offensively and a little worse defensively but should be similar if he develops.
that said, Silayev has the quality I like most in a defenseman, he's "hard to play against" some times people don't realize how much an advantage being 6'7" provides for a D - especially if he uses a long stick. The reach is insane - made even better by the fact he skates like he's 6' 2" so it's not like he's got long lumbering strides. forwards need to make their moves much sooner against him. It changes a lot.
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If Silayev is there. Buium would have been interesting too. Buium is probably closer to playing in the NHL, I think I would have gone with him or traded the pick but you can't beef with drafting another potential Zdeno Chara.
Buium has some elite offensive traits but his defensive work is a bit of a liability. Given his profile not upset Devils passed on him and given they have Nemec and Casey with puck handling push up ice ability, never mind Hughes on left side as well. Silayev is a potential unicorn.
Yeah true. From what I read Buium isn't necessarily liability on D just his offensive skills are ++. I agree though Silayev if he develops his skills could be exactly what they're missing. Saw some video of him hitting. The Devils haven't had someone like that in over a decade. Maybe since Stevens retired. I'm excited.
And for the record, as maligned as he was Cole Eiserman gave the best interview of anyone they spoke to.
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If Silayev is there. Buium would have been interesting too. Buium is probably closer to playing in the NHL, I think I would have gone with him or traded the pick but you can't beef with drafting another potential Zdeno Chara.
Buium has some elite offensive traits but his defensive work is a bit of a liability. Given his profile not upset Devils passed on him and given they have Nemec and Casey with puck handling push up ice ability, never mind Hughes on left side as well. Silayev is a potential unicorn.
You think Buium is a defensive liability? I didn't see that in college or INTL, but everyone sees something different. He does not have prototypical D size, but that metric has been slowly changing. I view Buium as similar to McAvoy, a little better offensively and a little worse defensively but should be similar if he develops.
that said, Silayev has the quality I like most in a defenseman, he's "hard to play against" some times people don't realize how much an advantage being 6'7" provides for a D - especially if he uses a long stick. The reach is insane - made even better by the fact he skates like he's 6' 2" so it's not like he's got long lumbering strides. forwards need to make their moves much sooner against him. It changes a lot.
Maybe liability is too strong of interpretative word. He’s just not a defensive matchup guy. He has admitted he has to improve his decisionmaking and tactics in defensive zone. His offense was so good and so often a weapon used by coaches I don’t think they, and then he really put enough work into preparation and tactical responsibility with what he’s going to face at NHL level. That said he’s going to MIN where if they put him with Faber that’s a dynamite duo with Faber looking like a top D. You let Buium run like a horse up ice and create.
Was surprised Flyers passed on him but they’ve gotten so burned by their D picks going back 15-16 years now, not sure if they just have a different idea on their D corps and developing their timeline differently.
NRD
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I can’t believe Drury is on the precipice of trading Trouba
NRD
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I can’t believe Drury is on the precipice of trading Trouba
Brooks is reporting it’s close to done to Detroit
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or has some info:
NRD
@NHLRumorsDaily
I can’t believe Drury is on the precipice of trading Trouba
Brooks is reporting it’s close to done to Detroit
Good for Trouba. Gets to go home.
Yeah the fact that he may be the best skater drafted last night is insane at 6'7. Most mocks had him going #3 to Anaheim. He slipped a bit in the one or two that had Anaheim going someone else. I think there was one I saw where he got to 10. I guess the Russians are pretty volatile with their draft spots being as you can't really scout them much. By the way I read an old report where Pat Verbeek scouted Sennecke a lot late so it really isn't a shock they took him.
Sad to lose pj as a Ranger fan with Trouba gone.
Sad to lose pj as a Ranger fan with Trouba gone.
At 5m per year, just not at 8. That salary retention comes in right around where we always said he should be paid! Although if what he was in the playoffs is an indication of the player he’s starting to become then shedding that 5.5 off the cap is worth it, even if you don’t get much in return. Drury is not messing around. But Trouba gets to return to Michigan on an up and coming team. Seems fair, if it does go down.
The Rangers captaincy is becoming a curse though. Would be three straight that got traded
Sad to lose pj as a Ranger fan with Trouba gone.
lol, you still have Fox, Kreider, Miller, Vesey, Lindgren, Jones, just drafted Emery, have Perreault and Berard in the system, off the top of my head - I like all the American players.
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Brett is proving right that Trouba had value.
Sad to lose pj as a Ranger fan with Trouba gone.
At 5m per year, just not at 8. That salary retention comes in right around where we always said he should be paid! Although if what he was in the playoffs is an indication of the player he’s starting to become then shedding that 5.5 off the cap is worth it, even if you don’t get much in return. Drury is not messing around. But Trouba gets to return to Michigan on an up and coming team. Seems fair, if it does go down.
The Rangers captaincy is becoming a curse though. Would be three straight that got traded
Yeah, that's what I said. I thought Trouba had a ton of value in the $4-6 range. I think someone else argued he was a $1-2m player.
Part of the issue with the captaincy is that they're giving to guys who aren't THAT good.
Callahan and Trouba are/were good, but other teams give it to their elite players.
I've never heard this.
Trocheck or Fox may be the default captain.
Sounds like Devils are shopping Marino to do same and also dangling Holtz around still.
Buffalo Sabres
@BuffaloSabres
🚨 TRADE 🚨
We have acquired forward Beck Malenstyn from the @Capitals
in exchange for the 43rd overall pick in the 2024 NHL Draft.
Details: http://bufsabres.co/3VCR6KI
Sounds like Devils are shopping Marino to do same and also dangling Holtz around still.
Seeing a lot of smoke about Kane returning. Could be a direct swap of locations between the two
the announcements in the sphere are being made while the broadcast crew is talking and you can't hear both.
They did this yesterday too a little but more time for 1st round so it was less frequent and noticeable.
Wow.
Caps doing some work this off-season.
Wow.
Well there’s a cap clear move to try and keep Stamkos. But that’s a huge hole on back end now.
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trades Sergachev to the Utes for Geekie and a few picks.
Wow.
Well there’s a cap clear move to try and keep Stamkos. But that’s a huge hole on back end now.
Tampa should be in tear it down mode. It's over for them.
Devils on the clock.
Devils on the clock.
Took a Russian G. Mikhail Yegorov.
I thought it was a weird trade/signing, basically big $$ and picks for someone that was not a scorer.
I think they go for Pesce and also add a F.
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They do have an ocean of cap space now though. Probably over 20 mill.
I think they go for Pesce and also add a F.
Yeah this trade may put them in position to go for Guentzel too.
picking off the USNDTP glue guys.