Keirik

Georgiev doesn’t get a top 6 winger, top 4 d, or a first rounder. No way. If he did, he would have last trade deadline. Maybe you get a salary dump top guy but Rangers are in no position for that.

I won’t watch it lol. I’ll just wait for the texts of excitement when we get it

There’s always one gm that takes someone they shouldn’t.......Lias........:(

My worry is that it literally says the arbitrator isn’t even allowed to consider the cap in any way or team’s finances. If it’s third party then good chance it’s being done by someone that isn’t even familiar with the cap in the first place and instead is only considering comparable contracts from performance. Anyway to round it back to Fast, it’s these other problems that really makes me see little way Fast stays on this team unless he isn’t expecting anything over 1.5m or so which is actually a tad less than he made.

Right. I think the difference is ADA has arbitration rights himself so he has a bit more leverage. I’m not too worried about him from this playoffs just because everyone looked like dog poo. Personally I think ADA is pretty important to our future. They just really really need to get rid of dead wood contracts somehow.

We are getting first overall anyway . Trust.

I sort of agree with a lot of guys are going to get squeezed because the money just isn’t there but I don’t really see how there is too much of a difference between ADA and Hughes/Makar offensive wise. ADA had more goals and points than either. He’s 4 years older but it’s not as if he’s currently in his prime or at the tail end of it. He also has arb rights. The old NHL mindset was that is where you get paid but the more recent trend is to pay a bit more now to lock up those years and hopefully have a slight discount. I just don’t see how a Quinn or Makar are in that lock of “dudes gonna get paid” but a 24 year old ADA who already took a one year deal is in any different category. I know they are rfa after next year but I don’t expect the cap to go up much next year also.

Possible, but I’m pretty sure ADA is in for a good 5.5-6.5m salary too and he’s currently Makonde under 1m. Here’s a little something I found on the process. Some helps, some really hurts like not being able to bring up salary cap situations. https://www.liveabout.com/nhl-salary-arbitration-explained-2778981

I don’t know. Strome had 59 points, one less that guys like Tavares and Toews, same amount as a Hoffman, Nylander, and one more than a Gaudreau. I can’t see him not getting 6m.

If they plan on keeping Strome and Ada they both likely would get 6m or so by arbitrationnor somewhere in that area. If it came down and both got around 6.5 then they literally have under 2m left for cap space for anything else. I just don’t see a spot where Fast stays here personally. It’s probably why they will keep Lemieux with his 1m or so cap hit over a guy like Fast. Technically McKegg and Digiuseppe also are ufa and rfa so their roster spots needs at the least attention too. This flat cap screws a lot and they need help buy out wise.

Yeah but I was simply saying they have a good amount of guys up for contract. It wasn’t a list based on importance in the first place and fast is a UFA which we all know costs a good chunk more than a similar player in rfa status.

Sergei Bobrovsky 6 more years!

Way to cherry pick lol

We are going to have less than 15m in cap space and have Georgiev, ADA, Strome, Lemieux all RFAs and Fast UFA. If they aren’t buying out or finding miracles, how are they affording Fast of all people?

Never scored 15 and never had 35 points, so he’s not been that previously. Under AV he pretty much averaged under 15 minutes albeit barely. Last two years he jumped to mid 15s to 16+ For 29 points in 3/4 of a season, so I’m sure an agent will look at that as an average for increased performance thus more money than he is worth to us.

In 422 career games Fast has 1 career pp point? I know he’s not on the pp units but you’d think just by chance he would get out there considering how much he plays. Only 4 career short handed points. Anyway, having said that he’s reliable and dependable. The problem I have is that his minut3s might be a bit inflated thus giving his point total a bit higher than we would want via ufa years. He will be a nice fit on a team ready to wi.

Lol shit, I didn’t even realize he meant the following year. Thanks Drew!

That’s next offseason. They play in 21/22

I know but he wasn't getting 8m or anything like that and he wasn't a Ufa.

The Miller trade was only a head scratcher becusse of age and cost since he was young and cheaper. He wasn't the hockey player he is now. I liked him though so I never really wanted him to leave but it is what it is.

If we are going to blame Oliver for this offensive display in the postseason then if Panarin wins the Hart, i better see David accept the trophy lol Sometimes the players just dont perform. It's just that simple.

I?d be very careful just throwing every egg into the Shesty backup. By no means do I think he?s not the real deal, but a ton can happen. Georgiev would be nice to keep just because of the idea he has to sign this bridge deal. Two years is a long tine in the hockey world and we are better having him over Henrik for those two years even if the buyout + re-up for Georgie equals out. Besides, maybe it?s just me, but this team plays it?s worst when Henrik is in goal, at least fro, the eye test. It?s just time to move on in my opinion.

The dead cap of 1.5 really isn’t a big deal to me if it ends the distraction, let’s them keep one more player, and just finalizes all of this.

I’m sorry, I really see very little chance he’s on this team next year and honestly, I think it’s for the best just to get a total clean slate.

Welcome to the site. Good observations.