Summer 2025: NHL Offseason

[French Collection]

1 hour ago, dudacek said:

There are a lot of teams with the cap space left for Rust and Rakell, and not many other choices of that caliber on the market available for futures.

Adding either would elevate my hope meter, but I have a strong suspicion demand will escalate the price beyond anything Adams will be willing to pay.

Many teams are not cap strapped like the post Covid years. KA’s failure to weaponize his extra cap space for 5 years is the straw that broke my camel’s back. Whether adding for a playoff run or taking on salary for picks/prospects, those days are gone.

[Taro T]

4 minutes ago, French Collection said:

Many teams are not cap strapped like the post Covid years. KA’s failure to weaponize his extra cap space for 5 years is the straw that broke my camel’s back. Whether adding for a playoff run or taking on salary for picks/prospects, those days are gone.

Yep.

Billionaire owners and ran one of the lowest team salaries in the league every year but the 1st year Adams was the GM (and apparently this year too; but will wait until all the dust settles to say that for sure) and never ONCE took on a bad salary for a prospect or a pick nor acted as the intermediary in a 3 way trade to take on salary for a prospect or a pick.

And every single time that cap space that they hoarded every year evaporated the day the regular season ended.  Wouldn't it have been nice to have 2 more 2nd round picks, 1 more 3rd and another Savoie that could've been moved for players to help today?

But courtesy of buying out Skinner in a season they didn't have to and in a season they didn't bother replacing his salary, they're running with $4MM less cap space than they could've and next year they run with $6MM less cap space.

Soooooo frustrating.

They may get lucky one of these years; maybe even this one.  But planning on getting lucky when you aren't Leonardo DiCaprio probably isn't the best plan.

[Flashsabre]

https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/oilers-acquire-isaac-howard-from-lightning-for-sam-oreilly/
 

I think I like O’Reilly better but Oilers probably see Howard stepping in the lineup right away.

[Flashsabre]

Jarmo, lock Adams in a closet and get in on this.

[Archie Lee]

3 hours ago, Taro T said:

Yep.

Billionaire owners and ran one of the lowest team salaries in the league every year but the 1st year Adams was the GM (and apparently this year too; but will wait until all the dust settles to say that for sure) and never ONCE took on a bad salary for a prospect or a pick nor acted as the intermediary in a 3 way trade to take on salary for a prospect or a pick.

And every single time that cap space that they hoarded every year evaporated the day the regular season ended.  Wouldn't it have been nice to have 2 more 2nd round picks, 1 more 3rd and another Savoie that could've been moved for players to help today?

But courtesy of buying out Skinner in a season they didn't have to and in a season they didn't bother replacing his salary, they're running with $4MM less cap space than they could've and next year they run with $6MM less cap space.

Soooooo frustrating.

They may get lucky one of these years; maybe even this one.  But planning on getting lucky when you aren't Leonardo DiCaprio probably isn't the best plan.

Agree with everything but the Skinner part. It’s true they did not need to buy him out last year. But, the buyout cost this year and the next 3 years is nearly identical to what it would have been had they waited until this year to do the buyout. 

[GoPuckYourself]

12 minutes ago, Flashsabre said:

Jarmo, lock Adams in a closet and get in on this.

Please, we just got rid of contracts so Pegula could save more money, no way is he taking money to the cap ceiling that would mean he's trying!