The Fantastically Beautiful Joyously Superfun 22-23 Season Celebration Thread

[LeafGm]

Also—maybe it wouldn’t be the worst idea to go to Erik Gustafsson and see if he’s willing to take some shifts at left wing?

The dude does have more points this season than all but five of our forwards (and our premium deadline acquisition, Ryan Foli…I mean, O’Reilly, is hilariously not one of those five players).

 

[LeafOfFaith]

Before the trade deadline, that's one thing. Keefe isn't exactly the guy to play someone he doesn't like when there's no reason for it anymore.

 

[CH1]

Also—maybe it wouldn’t be the worst idea to go to Erik Gustafsson and see if he’s willing to take some shifts at left wing?

The dude does have more points this season than all but five of our forwards (and our premium deadline acquisition, Ryan Foli…I mean, O’Reilly, is hilariously not one of those five players).

he's great at handling the puck when given a bit of space on the pp

if anyone is nearby he often handles the biscuit like it's a hand grenade

 

[LeafOfFaith]

he's great at handling the puck when given a bit of space on the pp

if anyone is nearby he often handles the biscuit like it's a hand grenade

We saw that in like his first shift, when he bumbled the play at the point and paved the way for the breakaway goal.

 

[MindzEye]

McMann an option to fill his role effectively? Sample is small but he look damn good in that sample

I would be shocked if Sheldon didn't settle on a "veteran" like Lafferty (who is nothing but a bottom 6 plug like McMann, but who was actually given an opportunity in Chicago to play regularly....) for the role instead.

He's really not been a big fan of advancing in house options up the lineup unless forced to.

 

[LeafOfFaith]

He's really not been a big fan of advancing in house options in the lineup unless forced to.

More accurate.

 

[Wayward DP]

Yup. Engvall is one of the leaders of our playoff bitch brigade that I've warned about all year so I'm not choked that we moved him being a pending UFA that I wouldn't have re signed and all.

Buuuut. He was still an effective 3LW that we didn't replace with another effective 3LW.

yeah, this is the issue for me. not losing Engvall per se, but replacing him in the lineup with ZAR.

 

[Wayward DP]

McMann an option to fill his role effectively? Sample is small but he look damn good in that sample

I think he's an option, but I don't think he'll be given any real opportunity.

 

[LeafOfFaith]

They still have the ability to shore up their bottom six purely from in house guys dying to get a shot.

Let's see how stubborn and stupid they plan to be about this in the end.

 

[BG]

Doesn't make it better, but Engvall was probably gone in the offseason anyway given the raise he got and the raise he was likely due next season.

 

[MindzEye]

Doesn't make it better, but Engvall was probably gone in the offseason anyway given the raise he got and the raise he was likely due next season.

All the more reason to play the shit out of the McMann's, Steeveseses, Joey's, Holmberg's, etc in the first half of the season. Sure would be nice to know what they are going into next season before we go sign more useless shit for our bottom 6 in free agency.

 

[LeafOfFaith]

And who cares about the offseason now though.

They added Schenn and Gus.

 

[zeke]

Would moving out that $1M still be necessary if you deleted two of those nine defensemen from the active roster though?

Only one.

It was 500K they had to clear.

 

[zeke]

Yes. They could have traded Sandin for just picks and not picked up Schenn. Or moved Holl. Or a bunch of other players.

But they had to move out someone making over $1.1 mil. Thats all I said.

Your math is 100% wrong.

Probably because you're keeping ZAR on tbe roster too.

 

[zeke]

Well trading Sandin for picks + no Schenn woulda done it. Still had to trade Sandin tho. Or Holl would have been fine too. Instead they traded both Sandin and Engvall which was obviously bad. Basically getting Schenn meant they had to trade Engvall even if they didn't get Gus for Sandin.

But of course, they still had some space to do somethign creative in the trade market even after all of that. Trading Kerf, Holl, adding a good forward with retention, etc. But it is what it is. Just win now.

Guys the math is simple.

They didnt have to do anything but drop ZAR and not carry 9 dmen.

No other salary had to go out.

 

[zeke]

12 forwards
9 dmen

480K cap needs to be cleared.

 

[Preston]

 

[leafman101]

You traded Sandin.

that just proves my math right.

 

[Preston]

Well a lot of the rhetoric (not sure if it came from you; probably not) was that they had to trade Engvall after dealing Sandin. As zeke just showed, no they didn't.

 

[leafman101]

Yeah. Sandin alone would have been enough. Getting Gus in the trade made no sense if you are also getting Schenn.