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2019 NHL Off Season News Thread

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For Athletic subscribers, Dom Laspellcheck's latest column ranks all of the teams and whether they have improved or not during the offseason based on Game Score Value Added metric...

https://theathletic.com/1084921/2019/07/19/how-much-has-each-team-improved-this-offseason/

He has the Canes as basically flat, with the Ranjerks improving the most and Columbus dropping the most.
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Some of them are...curious. Caps +2 wins primarily because Orpik retired? Ottawa +2 which is attributable to dumpster diving in Toronto and picking up...Ron Hainsey? The Canes are down a little because McElhinney is better than Reimer?

Florida +5.6 smells right. Bob alone is probably worth that. Columbus -7.5 sounds steep but if Bob is most of Florida’s increase, he has to be offset here.


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Lot of chatter that Milan Lucic for James Neal straight up is happening.

---edit--- Conditional pick and Edmonton retaining salary....
 
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Rangers sign RFA dman Jacob Trouba, 7 years/$56 million. He came off a 1 year/$5.5 million contract signed with Winnipeg.

Rangers sign Phil DiGiuseppe to a 1 year/2 way contract. He gets $700k in the NHL and $125k in the AHL.


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The Rangers actual payouts to Panerin and Trouba are a combined $26 million this season. They also are paying Brad Richards $1,055,556 this season and every season through 25-26 (part of their buyout of his contract in 2014).

So yeah, from a salary perspective, rebuild is over. The Rangers are above the cap now and still riddled with lots of holes both on offense and defense. They are better than they were when they closed out last season, but they got a lot more work to do.
 
cmaleski2 said:
The Rangers actual payouts to Panerin and Trouba are a combined $26 million this season. They also are paying Brad Richards $1,055,556 this season and every season through 25-26 (part of their buyout of his contract in 2014).

So yeah, from a salary perspective, rebuild is over. The Rangers are above the cap now and still riddled with lots of holes both on offense and defense. They are better than they were when they closed out last season, but they got a lot more work to do.
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Rangers also haven’t re-signed Buchnevich or DeAngelo yet. If they don’t re-sign DeAngelo, Adam Fox or Libor Hajek are on the 3rd pair.

CapFriendly doesn’t show Richards’s buyout but it does show a $3.61 million buyout for Dan Girardi that goes down to $1.1 million for 2 years after that. They also have a $300k buyout for Ryan Spooner for the next 2 years.


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andyt said:
Rangers also haven’t re-signed Buchnevich or DeAngelo yet. If they don’t re-sign DeAngelo, Adam Fox or Libor Hajek are on the 3rd pair.

CapFriendly doesn’t show Richards’s buyout but it does show a $3.61 million buyout for Dan Girardi that goes down to $1.1 million for 2 years after that. They also have a $300k buyout for Ryan Spooner for the next 2 years.


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If Adam Fox plays 30 games with the Rangers, the Canes get the extra second round pick from the Rags as the condition of the Fox trade. That would set the Canes up nicely yet again for the 2020 draft that would have a pair of first round picks and a pair of second rounders in what is said to be a better draft pool then this past summer!
 
For those of you who travel to Toronto, Gretzky's Restaurant is closing its doors this summer. A condominium is taking over the block...
 
All these teams with cap trouble, and bad contracts makes me worry about when our blueline starts needing new deals. We will not be able to keep but about half of them.

I hope we have AHL depth ready to step in soon.
 
TheBigKahuna said:
All these teams with cap trouble, and bad contracts makes me worry about when our blueline starts needing new deals. We will not be able to keep but about half of them.

I hope we have AHL depth ready to step in soon.
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That is why having Pesce signed through 2023-2024 and Slavin signed through 2024-2025 is huge for us.


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Brad Richard's buyout was a compliance buyout so it doesn't count against the cap, just the Ranger's bottom line.. They had to pay him his signing bonuses then 12 years of that $1.055 million per. A long 12 years.

And yes 1000 times on the above post. If you got a very good Dman like Pesce locked up for 5 more years at an AAV well below his production level's market value, it has to be some kind of too good to be true return before you deal him.

Not to worry, when the new TV deal is in place the salary cap is heading north of $90 million provided the NHL and NHLPA don't screw up bargaining again.
 
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cmaleski2 said:
Brad Richard's buyout was a compliance buyout so it doesn't count against the cap, just the Ranger's bottom line.. They had to pay him his signing bonuses then 12 years of that $1.055 million per. A long 12 years.
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It could be worse. The Mets owed Bobby Bonilla $5.9 million but they agreed to pay him around $1 million a year every year from 2011 to 2035. I'm sure he doesn't mind getting all that extra money even if it's deferred. (and yes I know about the time value of money)
 
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