2020 NHL Off-Season Thread

[ScubaSteve]

Janmark was indeed a person who played hockey for the Stars.

[ToddM]

Watch him score 25 goals on Dylan Strome's wing.

[Troy McClure]

The Stars can't afford Janmark at that salary, and Kiviranta fulfills the same basic role for a lot less. And if we're going to talk about depth players, I think Pysyk is a much better overall depth player than Janmark, at a much better price.

Yeah, they can't have Janmark (2.25), Comeau (2.4), and Cogliano (3.25) all on the roster to do the exact same job. They've already been down the road of having 1/4 of the forward group taking up a combined $7.9 million and getting single digit goal scoring out of each of them. Keeping Janmark only works if Nill could have found a way to dump Cogliano.

[ToddM]

Yeah, they can't have Janmark (2.25), Comeau (2.4), and Cogliano (3.25) all on the roster to do the exact same job.

Don't forget Dickinson.

[B Kat]

Pietrangelo to Vegas. 7years 61.6 mil, 8.8 mil per. Rico!

[Troy McClure]

I get it. The one thing they were lacking against the Stars was shots from the point.

[Jason]

[slaps]

Hell yeah. A top four defenseman for a third round pick? That makes a lot of sense. The odds of getting a player like Schmidt with a third round pick are infinitesimal.

[Jason]

[Knives Out]

Marleau is only 45 games away from breaking Howe's all-time games played record. I hope he does it.

[Jason]

[Knives Out]

[Math]

My stupid guesses about pending FA:

Pietrangelo: stays in STL
Hall: back in NJ
OEL: stays in AZ
Crawford: stays in CHI
Lundqvist: retirement
Ryan: NSH
Fleury: CAR
Turris: PHI
Khudobin: COL
Holtby: stays in WSH
Dadonov: CAR
Hoffman: NYR
Grandlund: VAN
Grabner: ANA
Athanasiou: Europe
Abdelkader: KHL
Nametsnikov: stays in COL
Schneider: Europe
Krug: stays in BOS
Simmonds: TOR

Just a reminder on how clueless I am. My power predictions terribly suck so far at 1 on 13.

[cdanew]

That's some accountability there Math!

[Knives Out]

Leafs sign Jumboner Joe (1-year x 700k).

Fack?

[Jason]

[Troy McClure]

Can they score their combined age in points in a full season?

[wonko80]

Weird to have both Thornton and Spezza.

[ScubaSteve]

Weird to have both Thornton and Spezza.

You couldn’t ask for a better NHL center combo...in 2011

[Math]

I'm still trying to understand that signature but I keep on failing.

[Troy McClure]

DIGBY, I'm so glad he's retiring. DIGBY, it's so dumb that the NHL has one guy be the voice of the entire league for every national broadcast of note for twenty years. Winter Classic? Doc. All Star Game? Doc. Stanley Cup? Doc. Olympics? Doc.

[wonko80]

Seems like it was time. It wasn't just the most recent finals with him in his living room that had issues.

[Jason]

[Troy McClure]

This is a cool idea. More teams should openly embrace their geographic hockey history.

[ScubaSteve]

How about the word STARS in the shape of an open-top presidential limo?

[wonko80]

blolz

[ScubaSteve]

Also, shouldn’t those Seals marks belong to the Stars?

[Troy McClure]

Also, shouldn’t those Seals marks belong to the Stars?

The NHL owns all of these defunct trademarks. The successor teams no longer do.

[ScubaSteve]

I was hoping that would draw you further offsides than it did.

[wonko80]

The Stars wearing a Dallas Blackhawks jersey would be great.