2023 Off-Season Thread

[Rocky Davis]

1 minute ago, MillionDollarCam said:

Patches to Washington, gross.

Let's see if he can stay healthy.  He may be ready at the start of the season.

 

[MillionDollarCam]

Just now, Rocky Davis said:

Let's see if he can stay healthy.  He may be ready at the start of the season.

 

I highly doubt he’s ready and even if he is I wouldn’t put him out there until January. Coming off two ruptures, you need a full year at least.

[MillionDollarCam]

More grit on the way, Carolina is closing in on Michael Bunting / 3 year deal.

[MillionDollarCam]

Canes current roster:

Svechnikov - Aho - Jarvis

Teravainen - Kotkaniemi - Necas

Bunting - Staal - Fast

Martinook - Drury - Noesen

Ponomarev

Slavin - Burns

Skjei - Pesce

Orlov - Chatfield

Coghlan

Andersen

Raanta

Kochetkov

 

We still need a high end forward and I think that will be acquired via trade. Skjei and Pesce are probably both on the block and from the sound of it, the Canes are still interested in Karlsson and still plan to acquire TDA.

Edited July 1, 2023 by MillionDollarCam

[MillionDollarCam]

Duchene to Dallas, 1YR/$3M, nice deal for them.

Not a whole lot left that I like on the FA market. Just Bertuzzi, Killorn, and Tarasenko.

[Panthers Fan 69]

I love the canes moves today! 

[Rocky Davis]

Have read where we are interested in Bertuzzi. 

A couple of mentions around Tarasenko who didn't have a great season last year, but was very good the year before.  He's either done or will rebound...probably too expensive for us to find out.

Hard to figure out how we can afford Karlsson unless a lot of salary is retained. 

We still need a scoring forward and it almost has to come via trade now.

[carpanfan96]

Ya dont give orlov 7.75aav for 3rd pairing. There's trades coming for sure. 

He's a top pair defenceman 

Edited July 1, 2023 by carpanfan96

[MillionDollarCam]

Sounds like a Karlsson deal is close, either Pittsburgh or Carolina.

[carpanfan96]

They could probably use the LTIR on Svech as well, depending on how long they think he'll be out for. 3.8m in cap space right now with all the signings 

Edited July 1, 2023 by carpanfan96

[MillionDollarCam]

So Canes are sitting at $2.8M in cap space but if we acquire TDA then we basically have no cap space left.

It sounds like the Canes are still interested in Karlsson and if my numbers add up, one of Pesce or Skjei (probably Pesce because Skjei has a NTC) could be included in the deal to get it done cap wise. San Jose would have to retain 50%, another team would need to come in and take an additional 25%, and the Canes would get Karlsson with around a $3M cap hit. Canes would probably then turn around and ship whoever is left over from Pesce and Skjei for a forward.

Line-Up would be:

Svechnikov - Aho - Jarvis

??? - Kotkaniemi - Necas

Bunting - Staal - Fast

Noesen - Martinook - Teravainen

Drury

Slavin - Burns

Orlov - Karlsson

Chatfield - TDA

Coghlan

Andersen

Raanta

Kochetkov

 

At that point the only thing needed would be a LH 7th defenseman who we could pick up on a PTO.

 

[MillionDollarCam]

Just now, carpanfan96 said:

They could probably use the LTIR on Svech as well, depending on how long they think he'll be out for. 3.8m in cap space right now with all the signings 

Good point.

[MillionDollarCam]

Killorn headed to the Ducks. Big name off the board.

[MillionDollarCam]

So just Tarasenko and Bertuzzi really left in free agency.