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Carolina Hurricanes 2024 Summer Talk ... press the reset button?

With the Jarvis signing including deferred signing bonuses, the Canes have themselves set up cap wise to just about perfectly maximize LTIR when the time comes to do so.

An initial roster of:

Aho, Svech, Jarvis, Necas, KK, Martinook, Staal, Roslovic, Carrier, Drury, Robinson, Jost, Lemeiux (Fast IR),
Orlov, Slavin, Burns, Walker, Gostisbehere, Chatfield, Honka

Freddie, Kochetkov

Puts us at a cap hit of 87,981,754. Then Fast can be placed on LTIR and the Canes will effectively have almost the full $2.4 million in LTIR space to use later on if we choose.

I just used Honka above to maximize LTIR, he would not be on the team of course. There are multiple permutations the Canes could use and if we are willing to risk losing Jost or Lemieux via waivers, we actually can get even closer to $88 million in cap hit than my example before putting Fast on LTIR.

I don't expect the Canes to actually use Fast's LTIR space if we don't have to, but its good business to maximize the available LTIR at the beginning of the season just in case we do. Canes are set up to do so.
 
OK ... with the roster basics done, what's next?

I'm guessing, like CM, that Carolina will want to avoid locking themselves into using Fast's LTIR space until it provides max benefit. If they play the roster correctly, they can get under the cap and maybe even bank some additional space to then spend either on a mid-season trade or at the deadline. So I'm not expecting them to go straight out and acquire another NHLer to soak up the LTIR space.

I am expecting them to maybe be a bit more aggressive with PTOs. With a potential top 9 forward slot available and only a couple of rookies in play for it, maybe they take a PTO flyer on a guy like Keven Lebanc if he hasn't been signed by camp open ... or maybe Dom Kubalik. There's been plenty of speculation about a PTO for Kailer Yamamoto and I could see that as well. If nothing else, that would provide some camp competition for guys like Nadeau, Robidas and Blake. Or not. Who knows? I do think a PTO for Yamamoto would make sense.
 
jeffbear said:
OK ... with the roster basics done, what's next?

I'm guessing, like CM, that Carolina will want to avoid locking themselves into using Fast's LTIR space until it provides max benefit. If they play the roster correctly, they can get under the cap and maybe even bank some additional space to then spend either on a mid-season trade or at the deadline. So I'm not expecting them to go straight out and acquire another NHLer to soak up the LTIR space.

I am expecting them to maybe be a bit more aggressive with PTOs. With a potential top 9 forward slot available and only a couple of rookies in play for it, maybe they take a PTO flyer on a guy like Keven Lebanc if he hasn't been signed by camp open ... or maybe Dom Kubalik. There's been plenty of speculation about a PTO for Kailer Yamamoto and I could see that as well. If nothing else, that would provide some camp competition for guys like Nadeau, Robidas and Blake. Or not. Who knows? I do think a PTO for Yamamoto would make sense.
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I thought I saw on Twitter in the last few days that the Canes are the only team that haven’t signed anyone to a PTO. Yamamoto is only 2 years removed from a 20 goal season, all it costs is perfume money, right?
 
Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of his (lack of) motor, but Yamamoto has proven he can play with high end guys without getting in the way. That's not nothing if you have a scoring line wing slot open.

Then again, it wouldn't shock me if Tulsky just doesn't want to muddy the waters for his kids. I'm just thinking the additional cap flexibility might make a bigger PTO swing an option.
 
No more shrimps please, Yamomoto is essentially that same size and stature of too many guys the Canes already have in Suzuki, Nadeau, Blake, etc. If they are going to go the PTO invite on any of these guys still looking for a chance...I like JB's previous mention of Kubalik or LaBanc. I actually thought the Canes might take a flyer on a PTO for a guy like Zadina before he signed in Switzerland late last week, he might have been able to find some chemistry with Marty Nachos and was young enough to try and see if Brindy could get something untapped from him.

The really old dinosaurs like JVR and Patches do not make much sense for the Canes.
 
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I definitely would be a 'No' on Kailer Yamamoto for multiple reasons -

* The already mentioned lack of size. The guy is 5'8" 153 pounds. Sure smaller players can succeed, but he is small and not very productive, which is a crappy combination. Johnny Gaudreau (RIP) was 5'9" 163 and infinitely more productive

* From what I've seen of Yamamoto's game, he fully needs high end linemates to be any good (and not just any high end linemate, a stiff like Leon Draisaitl isn't good enough).

Yamamoto has that 21-22 season where he scored 20 goals and had 41 points that seems to indicate that he is a productive player, but to me there is a huge asterisk hanging on that season. The month of March 2022 Yamamoto played 15 games. He scored 8 of his 20 goals and had 6 of his 21 assists in that one month. If we pop open the shift charts for those games, he was playing with Connor McDavid and Evander Kane during that stretch. Kind of good linemates to have.

In April 2022 they moved Yamamoto to play with Draisaitl and Hyman and his production fell off the cliff (14 games, 2 goals 6 assists). In 2022-23 he was playing with Draisaitl and Kane to open the season and went scoreless in his first 15 games.

I don't have time to break out just how pedestrian his numbers were when not on Connor McDavid's line, but seriously, if you dig through his games over the 21-22 and 22-23 season, his offensive stats are brutal when not playing regular shifts with McDavid.

I think most of Yamamoto's career offensive success is owed to the periods he was on Connor McDavid's line.

His 16 points in 59 games for Seattle last season didn't do anything to dispel my opinion. I think he would be a black hole playing with Aho or (who is our 2nd line center....KK, Drury?)
 
Yeah, I'm just more thinking about guys with NHL experience they could bring in to push that rookie crop of forwards than I am about actual roster fit.
 
Actually, despite the two-year extension that was signed in August 2023, the Triangle Business Journal is reporting that the name of the building is changing...

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For those of you without access to the TBJ, highlights in the article are that the PNC name will go elsewhere in what is expected to be named the Lenovo Center. The Champions Club will become the PNC Victory Club and the club level will be renamed the PNC Club Level.

Also, the trailer for EA Sports' NHL 25 game shows the Canes playing in the Lenovo Center...


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw0APrAqgDs
 
HeyKurtz said:
Actually, despite the two-year extension that was signed in August 2023, the Triangle Business Journal is reporting that the name of the building is changing...

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www.bizjournals.com

For those of you without access to the TBJ, highlights in the article are that the PNC name will go elsewhere in what is expected to be named the Lenovo Center. The Champions Club will become the PNC Victory Club and the club level will be renamed the PNC Club Level.

Also, the trailer for EA Sports' NHL 25 game shows the Canes playing in the Lenovo Center...


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw0APrAqgDs
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Bring back the RESA!
 
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If EA leaked this, it's the first good thing they've done in years (for fans), but someone gonna get fired.
 
polarbare said:
If EA leaked this, it's the first good thing they've done in years (for fans), but someone gonna get fired.
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As with most things with this club, they could avoid this kind of thing by releasing their own information first every once in awhile. I know Dundon doesn't have a great relationship with the press (the business press in particular), and Warf started his career with the Canes being one of Karmanos' media guard dogs, but holy crap guys ... there's like 5 journalist types in this market who give a damn. Call a presser, make your announcements, get it over and done with. They still treat every single thing like some sort of vital state secret. This could also be on Lenovo. They're weird about this kind of thing too.
 
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