I would trade Hamilton while he still holds some value and could get us a decent return. I don’t think the Devils are far off or have the issue of cap space if moving on from Hamilton.
1. Trade Dillon, Hamilton, Tsyplakov and get just north of $15mm in cap space.
2. Re-sign Gritsyuk and Nemec and sign Silayev. Sign or trade for a veteran LD who can be rotated in and out of the lineup with Silayev.
3. Fire Keefe. I think his time here is up based on the players exit interviews and how they played that final game.
4. The trickiest part, get a proven top 6 Winger to play with Jack/Bratt. This drops a lot of players down and creates a deep team.
Then the GM can decide on our goalie situation. But assuming we ride with Marky/Allen, we would have about $29.5mm to spread across re-signing and signing Nemec, Grits, and Silayev, adding 1 top winger, 1 4th line C (Keep Bjugstadt as an extra C for depth,) 1 more depth forward and 1 more LD. I’d assume Grits and Nemec each get around $5mm, and Silayev gets a rookie deal. We would have about $16.5mm left to spread across an extra forward (~$1mm,) a 4C (~$2.5mm), and leaves about $13mm for the top forward and another LD.
You could have a team that looks like this:
Bratt-Jack-X
Mercer-Nico-Meier
Brown-Glass-Gritsyuk
Noesen-X-Hameenaho
Extra: Bjugstadt-X (could be Cotter or someone new)
Luke-Pesce
Siegs-Nemec
X-Kovacevic
Silayev
Markstrom-Allen
Very solid forward group in the top 3 lines, 4th line is much improved. Depth is better. Only real issue on offense is that a lot of Right Wingers are forced to play LW (Brown, Mercer, and Noesen.) I could see us trading one of these guys for a natural LW, likely Noesen. Defense will have question marks and require that the new coach can use our players better and that Nemec and Luke take steps forward, and that Kovacevic can get back in form. And of course, the biggest question mark is Markstrom.
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Ty Smith comp for Nemo is insane
Midnight_Mustard
Interesting idea trading Nemo, I don’t think that does us a lot of good going forward especially if the new GM also trades more D men. We don’t have replacements so what’s the thinking there?
How does it factor into the Quinn discussion over the next 12-16 months? It’s not an unsolvable puzze but takes a smart team to make calculated moves
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I would trade Hamilton while he still holds some value and could get us a decent return. I don’t think the Devils are far off or have the issue of cap space if moving on from Hamilton.
1. Trade Dillon, Hamilton, Tsyplakov and get just north of $15mm in cap space.
2. Re-sign Gritsyuk and Nemec and sign Silayev. Sign or trade for a veteran LD who can be rotated in and out of the lineup with Silayev.
3. Fire Keefe. I think his time here is up based on the players exit interviews and how they played that final game.
4. The trickiest part, get a proven top 6 Winger to play with Jack/Bratt. This drops a lot of players down and creates a deep team.
Then the GM can decide on our goalie situation. But assuming we ride with Marky/Allen, we would have about $29.5mm to spread across re-signing and signing Nemec, Grits, and Silayev, adding 1 top winger, 1 4th line C (Keep Bjugstadt as an extra C for depth,) 1 more depth forward and 1 more LD. I’d assume Grits and Nemec each get around $5mm, and Silayev gets a rookie deal. We would have about $16.5mm left to spread across an extra forward (~$1mm,) a 4C (~$2.5mm), and leaves about $13mm for the top forward and another LD.
You could have a team that looks like this:
Bratt-Jack-X
Mercer-Nico-Meier
Brown-Glass-Gritsyuk
Noesen-X-Hameenaho
Extra: Bjugstadt-X (could be Cotter or someone new)
Luke-Pesce
Siegs-Nemec
X-Kovacevic
Silayev
Markstrom-Allen
Very solid forward group in the top 3 lines, 4th line is much improved. Depth is better. Only real issue on offense is that a lot of Right Wingers are forced to play LW (Brown, Mercer, and Noesen.) I could see us trading one of these guys for a natural LW, likely Noesen. Defense will have question marks and require that the new coach can use our players better and that Nemec and Luke take steps forward, and that Kovacevic can get back in form. And of course, the biggest question mark is Markstrom.
Ty Smith comp for Nemo is insane
Interesting idea trading Nemo, I don’t think that does us a lot of good going forward especially if the new GM also trades more D men. We don’t have replacements so what’s the thinking there?
How does it factor into the Quinn discussion over the next 12-16 months? It’s not an unsolvable puzze but takes a smart team to make calculated moves