MillionDollarCam

Questions like this is why we’ll see a CBA before it’s all said and done.

Which should take the elite talent out of the transfer portal assuming school’s sign guys for the duration of their college eligibility. That’s about the only good thing I can think of that might come from this.

Personal opinion is that Westwood and Diani are a little redundant. I’d like to see more attacking players in the middle but for the past few years, regardless of the coach, they essentially prefer two CDM’s and one CAM (which we don’t even really have). Westwood would be fine as a lone CDM, as would Diani. But I’d want a better two way CM next to one of them along with a DP CAM.

That was just momentarily. On the first, second, fourth, and fifth goal, Necas was playing RW.

I haven’t seen him playing center? He’s being centered by Kampf with Kubalik on the other wing. Even the Czech Republic’s lineup shows him at RW.

Necas is still on the wing for the Czech’s, he’s being centered by Kampf and Kubalik is on the other wing. Also, keep in mind, IIHF rinks are bigger than NHL rinks, that’s definitely beneficial to a player like Necas.

Think we are DP CAM and DP striker away from competing.

Another draw, just need to get to the summer so we can get some transfers in to help the cause.

Think questions like this among other things is why we’ll see a CBA in a couple years. Eventually I think we’ll see college athletes, at least the elite one’s, signing contracts.

Abada and Bender on the bench tonight, guess both are healthy.

A CBA will be coming in the next few years. Also, I suspect the other 27 conferences to eventually break away from the NCAA and form some other entity because the NCAA approved the settlement without giving any thought to the little guys. I suspect we’ll then see a group of teams outside of those 27 conferences that are on board with paying players join together and create a 5th power conference to go along with the P4. Basically G5 schools that generate $50M+ in revenue (JMU, Fresno, Boise, UNLV, Colorado State, SDSU, UConn, Liberty, USF, Memphis, ECU, etc.).

I think it could still be Tulsky. The search could just be a formality in the same way that Morgan took over the Panthers. I think if Tulsky wants the job then it’s his.

His contract was expiring, Dundon only pays a premium if he feels like you are the best at what you do and rumors are that Tulsky was the puppet master.

Hopefully Tulsky gets the job.

This makes the most sense. The Canes need to cut salary in a Necas trade, not add it. Adding a Brady Tkachuk or a Travis Konecny would be nice but we are eventually going to run into cap issues if we don’t start getting contributions from guys on ELC’s.

Aho?

Hoping that Nikishin is the next Sergei Zubov.

It’ll be interesting to see if he’ll be moved. I know there’s been talks on and off about him getting moved. Have to think we’d be interested if he’s available considering we were interested in his brother.

Landing Reus, regardless of his age, would be massive for the Crown. He’d be an elite MLS player and we’d finally have a CAM.

He’s not, he’s under contract for next year.

He’ll cost a first round, second round, and third round pick (RFA compensation). Not sure I’m okay with that.

There’s zero chance Freddie is not here next year. You can’t find a goalie less than $4M on the market and Fred’s buyout would still carry a cap hit of over $1M. I get fans want to just up and get rid of players but that’s not how the NHL works.

Just for the sake of discussion… Would anyone be interested in Necas+++ for Brady Tkachuk? Maybe Martin Necas, Jack Drury, Jayden Perron, and a first round pick for Tkachuk? Jake Guentzel ($8.2M) - Sebastian Aho ($9.75M) - Seth Jarvis ($4.5M Bridge) Brady Tkachuk ($8.2M) - Felix Unger-Sorum ($831K) - Andrei Svechnikov ($7.75M) Bradly Nadeau ($918K) - Evgeny Kuznetsov ($3.9M) - Stefan Noesen ($2.5M) Jordan Martinook ($2M) - Jordan Staal ($2.9M) - Jesper Fast ($2.4M) Jaccob Slavin ($5.3M) - Brent Burns ($5.28M) Dmitry Orlov ($7.75M) - Jalen Chatfield ($3M) Brady Skjei ($6.5M) -Scott Morrow ($916K) Frederik Andersen ($3.4M) Pyotr Kochetkov ($2M) Buyout - Kotkaniemi ($835K) Obviously a lot of guys would have to take discounts but that could be a fun team.

Team is performing better than expected. Dean Smith has this defense playing at a high level and we’re finding ways to win. Kahlina is also playing like the best GK in the MLS at the moment. We’re also doing this with injuries to our best player in Liel Abada and our starting RB in Jere Uronen. Ben Bender is also expected back soon and while I’m not super high on him, he did have 2 goals and 1 assist in 45 minutes of play for Crown Legacy in a conditioning game. We also have two open DP slots that we are expected to use in the summer. We’re currently in sixth in the east and if we can hover around that line until reinforcements arrive in the summer, we might be able to make a push toward the top four and get a home playoff game.

Hopefully some people do some nice messages for those guys just in case. Those three definitely deserve our appreciation.