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Mid season grades?

Well Burns after a tough start has settled in nicely, Svech hopefully having a cool period now and not in playoffs, Chatfield has surprised me, Aho is Aho, Necas wants to get paid, Staal immense, Martinook for the ages. Goal tending hurts my brain.

Fun team and this a fun part of this forum.

Stay healthy, sign a scorer, go fuging win it

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I would take a physical winger who can bang and score and a 3rd paring defenseman at the trade deadline please and thank you. Don’t think we are going to outbid NJD nor should we for Meier. He will elevate their already potent offense. Need to keep up in the eastern conference arms race. 

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I like the mid-season assessment idea. I'm already looking at how to improve going to next season because, frankly, this season's roster is set with the exception of adding Timo Meier, Tarasenko or Kane (which is my least enticing option).

Canes need a 2C, no question. KK is on the hook for the next 4 years at $4.8M and, although he is fairly consistent and reliable, the reality is he's not worth what he's making. But, he's only 22 and does RBA see something we don't?

Turbo has one more year on a $5.4M contract and I think he could be a trade option. He's flashed this year and had some timely goals of late. But, let's be real, he'd rather pass the puck than shoot it. I can't tell you how many times he's passed up a shot when it's there.

I believe those 2 guys are the biggest names on the roster who someone else may want.

Goaltending? Both guys are UFAs after the season and our netminders seem to be either very good or bad, with not a lot in between. When Andersen is healthy and his head is right, he can be a top goalie in the league. Raanta is and will forever be a #2, although another team may want him as a #1. Couple goalies have been hurt recently, don't be surprised if Raanta is part of a trade and Kochetkov finds himself as the #2. Wouldn't that be interesting?

Surprises thus far: Martin Necas, after getting benched a couple times last season, being moved around the lineup, he's blown up this year.

Jalen Chatfield. Nobody saw this coming. Nobody. And what a pleasure it has been to watch him play at this level.

Stefan Noesen. At 29, he's finally getting to play at the top level and he's making the most of his opportunity.

Can the Canes win 55 games this season? (21 of the remaining 31?)

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10 minutes ago, Anybodyhome said:

I like the mid-season assessment idea. I'm already looking at how to improve going to next season because, frankly, this season's roster is set with the exception of adding Timo Meier, Tarasenko or Kane (which is my least enticing option).

Canes need a 2C, no question. KK is on the hook for the next 4 years at $4.8M and, although he is fairly consistent and reliable, the reality is he's not worth what he's making. But, he's only 22 and does RBA see something we don't?

Turbo has one more year on a $5.4M contract and I think he could be a trade option. He's flashed this year and had some timely goals of late. But, let's be real, he'd rather pass the puck than shoot it. I can't tell you how many times he's passed up a shot when it's there.

I believe those 2 guys are the biggest names on the roster who someone else may want.

Goaltending? Both guys are UFAs after the season and our netminders seem to be either very good or bad, with not a lot in between. When Andersen is healthy and his head is right, he can be a top goalie in the league. Raanta is and will forever be a #2, although another team may want him as a #1. Couple goalies have been hurt recently, don't be surprised if Raanta is part of a trade and Kochetkov finds himself as the #2. Wouldn't that be interesting?

Surprises thus far: Martin Necas, after getting benched a couple times last season, being moved around the lineup, he's blown up this year.

Jalen Chatfield. Nobody saw this coming. Nobody. And what a pleasure it has been to watch him play at this level.

Stefan Noesen. At 29, he's finally getting to play at the top level and he's making the most of his opportunity.

Can the Canes win 55 games this season? (21 of the remaining 31?)

I have hopes KK will become the eventual 2C. He’s younger than Svech and if he does become the 2C, that contract is highway robbery. I’d also like to Necas get a shot there but he needs to work on his FOs. The team has a lot of flexibility with the cap and assets to go after an elite rental or a Meier type player via sign and trade. This team could look very different in a couple of years. This should be the year you go all in.  

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3 hours ago, USDepartmentOfSavagery said:

I would take a physical winger who can bang and score and a 3rd paring defenseman at the trade deadline please and thank you. Don’t think we are going to outbid NJD nor should we for Meier. He will elevate their already potent offense. Need to keep up in the eastern conference arms race. 

 I am all on board for obtaining a hard charging, physical winger 

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3 hours ago, Anybodyhome said:

I like the mid-season assessment idea. I'm already looking at how to improve going to next season because, frankly, this season's roster is set with the exception of adding Timo Meier, Tarasenko or Kane (which is my least enticing option).

Canes need a 2C, no question. KK is on the hook for the next 4 years at $4.8M and, although he is fairly consistent and reliable, the reality is he's not worth what he's making. But, he's only 22 and does RBA see something we don't?

Turbo has one more year on a $5.4M contract and I think he could be a trade option. He's flashed this year and had some timely goals of late. But, let's be real, he'd rather pass the puck than shoot it. I can't tell you how many times he's passed up a shot when it's there.

I believe those 2 guys are the biggest names on the roster who someone else may want.

Goaltending? Both guys are UFAs after the season and our netminders seem to be either very good or bad, with not a lot in between. When Andersen is healthy and his head is right, he can be a top goalie in the league. Raanta is and will forever be a #2, although another team may want him as a #1. Couple goalies have been hurt recently, don't be surprised if Raanta is part of a trade and Kochetkov finds himself as the #2. Wouldn't that be interesting?

Surprises thus far: Martin Necas, after getting benched a couple times last season, being moved around the lineup, he's blown up this year.

Jalen Chatfield. Nobody saw this coming. Nobody. And what a pleasure it has been to watch him play at this level.

Stefan Noesen. At 29, he's finally getting to play at the top level and he's making the most of his opportunity.

Can the Canes win 55 games this season? (21 of the remaining 31?)

Would be awesome to package Turbo in a deal for O`Reilly.

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Might as well discuss trade possibilities. The question isn't if we make a trade, it's when and for who. With us being legit contenders and sitting on a bunch of cap space with Patches on LTIR we will 100% make some moves to fill that cap space. I think it'll be something like McCabe and maybe Toews or O'Reilly without us having to give up a ton, but I wouldn't rule out a bigger move for a Larkin/Meier/etc. I have a feeling whatever trade we make will be a bit out of left field. No one expected Tro, Skjei, Vatanen, Domi until they were announced basically. We may decide we mostly like our group but we wouldn't let that cap space go to waste. If we're not adding players I could see us accumulating some picks by retaining as a 3rd team on other deadline trades. Kinda like Florida did for us/CBJ on the Domi trade last year.

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