2025-2026 Off Season Thread - The Rehappening

[thehabhater]

Pretty much everyone is the Fourth Period now.

The only time a rumor has any legs is when the deal is done and they report it like five minutes before the official announcement, which is why those are 100% accurate all the time. "Hearing so and so is very close to being moved to that team" and then seconds later they announce the trade. There was never any rumor. They just got early wind of a done deal.

Everything else they say is pure bullshit fiction. Knies isn't asking for $10m. Fucking dummy, at least say $8.5m so that people mostly fall for it.

Anyone who maxes out when the cap is shooting up in 3 years, is an idiot

 

[Michel Beauchamp]

Anyone who maxes out when the cap is shooting up in 3 years, is an idiot

A bird in hand is better than two in the bushes (except in Australia...).

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

Is there any chance he doesn't win a cup on another team in the next couple seasons? We all know it's coming if he actually leaves.

He may be a passenger on a team that wins a Cup but he's never going to be the reason a team wins one.

 

[BG]

With a $92.5m cap, a 30g/70pt winger is worth between 8-9mil by my calcs.

 

[Leafin']

Is he a 30g/70p winger without Matthews and Marner?

 

[LeafGm]

I love Knies, but this is a guy with two seasons under his belt, where he scored 15 goals/35 points and 29 goals/58 points playing almost exclusively with two 100-point linemates. The idea he should be paid like some established star first line winger is nuts.

If he wants $10M, let him sit out or sign an offer sheet if someone will give it to him.

 

[leafman101]

I’d be hesitant to give him 8-9 on a long term deal.

$8 is the Nylander contract and he had 2 60 point seasons.

If that’s what he wants go 3-4 x $5 and get a bonus player.

 

[GEEMAN]

Anyone who maxes out when the cap is shooting up in 3 years, is an idiot

Why ....secure your bag now

Max term is going down a year and your gonna risk injury or poor play for the hope of maybe 10% if all goes well

Nobody has a clue what the future holds

This isnt MLB where Judge turns down 200 mil and bags 360 with a great year

To each his own but taking a short term deal at lets say 20 mil total and turning down 90 makes no sense

If your still productive there is more money to make

 

[GEEMAN]

Yeah, you know that the NBA just made major changes to their second appron luxury tax penalties to address your exact point? That is why Boston had their mini "teardown". And I expect more moves like that throughout the league.

Now .....but not back then when many teams couldnt pull of what GSW did for years

 

[GEEMAN]

Amazing that you can type all of that while actually grasping this point.

Amazing.

But no, it definitely effects more than your core players. It effects literally every contract on your roster. Everyone will sign for 8-9% less because they don't care about AAV on puckpedia, they care about take home paycheque.

At a 95 million dollar cap, it's likely operating with a 103-104 million dollar cap.

You must manage the secondary stuff better

Your star core has you by the nuts , stop overpaying or making bad decisions on the bottom 6 and third pair where your cap mistakes are made

Nobody is forcing you hand out trade clauses to slugs or give term to players when plenty are starving for work in August on the cheap

The league is littered with bad contracts and asset management that has nothing to do with tax advantages

 

[LeafGm]

You must manage the secondary stuff better

Your star core has you by the nuts , stop overpaying or making bad decisions on the bottom 6 and third pair where your cap mistakes are made

Nobody is forcing you hand out trade clauses to slugs or give term to players when plenty are starving for work in August on the cheap

The league is littered with bad contracts and asset management that has nothing to do with tax advantages

GEEMAN = Gary?