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2025-2026 Off Season Thread - The Rehappening

As of right now:

Marner --->
Pacioretty -> Maccelli
Holmberg -> Roy

But we have acres of capsapce to try and fill in that gap. Minimum $7m even without getting rid of Krokkampf, closer to $11 if we do.
 
manny said:
Regular season team gets a bit worse without Marner, but it’s not the difference between winning the division and not making the playoffs.

Playoff team gets better. Pretty much anyone else getting 20+mins per game and all the powerplay time will outproduce Marner in elimination games. Kampf on PP1 and on Matthews’s wing probably does it. Addition by subtraction for the games that count IMO.
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Maybe if we delete the other members of the core 4, we will do even better.

Everyone lulling themselves with this false narrative of even the worst Marlie being better than Marner in the playoffs.
 
Ignoring cost, who is maybe likely available?

- Horvat and move Tavares to W?
- Kyrou was allegedly out there
- Buyers remorse in NJ with Meier?
- Zibanejad and move him to W
- Kadri and move JT to the W
- Anders Lee...but having back to back captains go to Toronto might be bad optics over there
- Trochek
- Rust
- Rakell
 
MindzEye said:
Ignoring cost, who is maybe likely available?

- Horvat and move Tavares to W?
- Kyrou was allegedly out there
- Buyers remorse in NJ with Meier?
- Zibanejad and move him to W
- Kadri and move JT to the W
- Anders Lee...but having back to back captains go to Toronto might be bad optics over there
- Trochek
- Rust
- Rakell
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I'd aim for a young guy. Who are the good up and coming scorers on ELCs that a team lacking on D might stupidly trade for Carlo?

We should basically be looking to pull off another Schenn for JVR deal imo. Forget the old guys that don't come via ufa. Get a young core piece and then fuck it, play Myers on that bottom pair until you get some decent vet D at the deadline to shore up the third pair.
 
Volcanologist said:
I like the Horvat idea, but not sure how we're getting him
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We're not. These older guys will cost too much and require firsts.

We should focus on trading a brand name Carlo for a relatively unproven kid who has shown early good production.

Heck, unless the Isles want Carlo for Horvat in order to replace Dobson, but they can't be that stupid, can they? Carlo and Robertson?
 
zeke said:
It's pretty funny that after all those years of "too many high paid forwards!!!", the one thing we all clearly want right now is a high paid forward.
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I ideally want the ELC forward. The new JVR. Getting another Knies type when young in exchange for Carlo, before he comes off the ELC and is due his $8m. I feel like there are enough stupid GMs out there who would overvalue a still young RHD making peanuts for another two years and give up a young forward who may or may not be amazing. Obviously this is where our scouting needs to hit a home run though, in identifying that guy.
 
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