It’s unfortunate but I think we squandered our chance to trade Driedger in December/Early January by only playing him once while we were hot.
They do bring up a good point that we may have been purposely keeping Chris as a back up option for the rest of the year too.
It was Joey’s show for sure, but 3 good games out of Chris instead of one and we could have shopped him to a handful of goalie-hurt teams from his NM clause.
I am really afraid we are seeing Chris’s last season in our system. Gru will be nearly impossible to trade, and has a more strict no move clause than Chris for now. I see people saying shop Gru, but that is horrendously unrealistic because of his no move clause and contract size. Love him or hate him Gru is likely gonna stick around so might as well support him when he plays.
I don’t think the front office has as m y goalie concerns as we do as fans. They are in their roles for a reason so I trust them. I think we’re gonna use the raised cap space next year to retain Joey, keep key players we can and then maybe shuffle the D around more than we want this off season.
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I’m surprised they only talked about walking driedger and no one else. Including part 1 I could see bellmare, driedger and even eberle being let go to free agency. Bellmare is very close to retirement at 38, driedger for the contract has not been good and eberle is not performing at the level that he was the last two years, I think we could get a good trade offer for eberle but bellmare and driedger are hard sells.
Shultz I think stays though unless Ryker becomes more proactive in the offensive zone,if we Ryker develops to become a threat offensively then we could see a top line of Dunn and Ryker which would be exciting, I could see dumo being sent out for Ryker taking his spot, he hasn’t been great nor bad just sorta average and it could be good to give the young gun a permanent spot to improve his game.
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Sadly agree with these…
It’s unfortunate but I think we squandered our chance to trade Driedger in December/Early January by only playing him once while we were hot.
They do bring up a good point that we may have been purposely keeping Chris as a back up option for the rest of the year too.
It was Joey’s show for sure, but 3 good games out of Chris instead of one and we could have shopped him to a handful of goalie-hurt teams from his NM clause.
I am really afraid we are seeing Chris’s last season in our system. Gru will be nearly impossible to trade, and has a more strict no move clause than Chris for now. I see people saying shop Gru, but that is horrendously unrealistic because of his no move clause and contract size. Love him or hate him Gru is likely gonna stick around so might as well support him when he plays.
I don’t think the front office has as m y goalie concerns as we do as fans. They are in their roles for a reason so I trust them. I think we’re gonna use the raised cap space next year to retain Joey, keep key players we can and then maybe shuffle the D around more than we want this off season.
I’m surprised they only talked about walking driedger and no one else. Including part 1 I could see bellmare, driedger and even eberle being let go to free agency. Bellmare is very close to retirement at 38, driedger for the contract has not been good and eberle is not performing at the level that he was the last two years, I think we could get a good trade offer for eberle but bellmare and driedger are hard sells.
Shultz I think stays though unless Ryker becomes more proactive in the offensive zone,if we Ryker develops to become a threat offensively then we could see a top line of Dunn and Ryker which would be exciting, I could see dumo being sent out for Ryker taking his spot, he hasn’t been great nor bad just sorta average and it could be good to give the young gun a permanent spot to improve his game.
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