2023 Off-Season Thread

[MillionDollarCam]

Saw an article on NHL.com about our prospects today.

A couple notes:

- The Canes hope Morrow will join the team this year after his season at UMASS is over.

- Waddell expects Ponomarev to get some games this year.

[KillerKat]

San Jose just got a great deal from pitt. Glad it wasnt from us. 

[Harbingers]

2 hours ago, MillionDollarCam said:

Saw an article on NHL.com about our prospects today.

A couple notes:

- The Canes hope Morrow will join the team this year after his season at UMASS is over.

- Waddell expects Ponomarev to get some games this year.

Yes! Pono!

[Harbingers]

32 minutes ago, KillerKat said:

San Jose just got a great deal from pitt. Glad it wasnt from us. 

What’s the numbers? 

[Harbingers]

34 minutes ago, KillerKat said:

San Jose just got a great deal from pitt. Glad it wasnt from us. 

Holy fug. 

[Harbingers]

With their cap issues too. 

[KillerKat]

Thats just too much hassle for a guy that will make your defense worse.

[MillionDollarCam]

Yeah, glad we stayed away. Only getting $1.5M retained is brutal.

[panthers81]

2 minutes ago, MillionDollarCam said:

Yeah, glad we stayed away. Only getting $1.5M retained is brutal.

My thoughts exactly. That's an awful deal...gave up a lot to get him too. So glad it wasn't the canes. 

[carpanfan96]

That's a god awful trade for Pittsburgh.  Yuck

[Anybodyhome]

And Pittsburgh just got a lot older.... holy fug, look at the age of this team:

[MillionDollarCam]

Well with the EK thing over we can finally start to get our roster together for opening night.

Not much else I’d do but I wouldn’t hate throwing Parise an offer. He played pretty well for a NYI team that plays similar to us so I think he’d fit in well.

Tatar is another option as a depth forward but I’m not sure if his game fits the Canes.

[USDepartmentOfSavagery]

I can’t really blame Pitt for this. In fact, it was probably a smart move on their part. A massive rebuild is on the horizon with or without this move. Might as well give your aging stars a little help before the window is closed shut. 

[backINblack28]

14 hours ago, USDepartmentOfSavagery said:

I can’t really blame Pitt for this. In fact, it was probably a smart move on their part. A massive rebuild is on the horizon with or without this move. Might as well give your aging stars a little help before the window is closed shut. 

I don't disagree with you here, but only because of the way the league works. If they were smarter, they would be selling off their vets, including crosby, right now and starting the rebuild.  Because of the fact that Crosby will likely only wear one jersey in his career--it makes the Caps and Pens do these ridiculous moves that further delay and set back their rebuild starting to always cycle years of 'this run' when last year's team for both Caps/Pens couldn't get WC2 in a very deep division.  I understand not wanting Crosby in any other jersey, but as a small market baseball fan/thinking about it from what happened to the Canes in 09...it's a pretty big price to pay on the back end of their careers as we see with Chicago right now (and they even let Kane/will let JT go)

I just don't see EK changing much. I guess if their goaltending puts together a tandem that performs better than we've seen either of those guys perform--it's possible if you're thinking that FL probably has a huge injury hangover/Bob is probably literally going to drop off the face of the planet. IDC about the pedigree of EK/Crosby/Malkin. The thought of getting Jarry/Ned in the playoffs makes me salivate.

Edited August 7, 2023 by backINblack28