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The Official 2026 Off-Season Thread: Revenge of the Nerds

leafman101 said:
Also Chayka specifically said they want to give the Marlies opportunities to earn a spot, so they aren't blocking Villeneuve/Danford with a "good #6" that costs $3.5 million and isn't a fit.
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Interested to see what Ethan MacKenzie does now that he's drafted and AHL eligible. He may prefer AHL over college.

That would have the marlies with at least these guys with imo nhl potential:

Chadwick 21 --- Villeneuve 24
MacKenzie 20 --- Danford 20
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And obviously at his age keeping Villy in the AHL is pretty useless. If you think he has nhl potential it's time to take a look even if he's mostly in the press box.

And also some other young guys i feel might be semi interesting:

Smith 22 --- Sharpe 23
Hundley 21 --- Borgesi 22​

And that's before any other minor league additions Chayka might make.
 
LeafGm said:
That just sounds like his opinion. And not like we haven’t discussed here what an ideal trade centerpiece Harley would be.

It still comes down to where Werenski wants to play, though. And what we’ve got to hope for is that Werenski would prefer coming to play here with Matthews over going to a Robertson-less Stars team.

And who knows—maybe there’s the bones of a three-way deal there where Columbus ends up with Harley to replace Werenski, Knies goes to Dallas to replace Robertson and we get Werenski.
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That's a direct bite of my post pages ago.

You will be hearing from my lawyer🖕🏼
 
I noticed that we did draft a centre after all, I was wrong (the guy in round 5)

while that is nice, our centre depth is pretty poor after AM at the moment.

a top 9 C is a must by EOD Wednesday

and are we pencilling in Groulx as 4C? or?
 
We have no problem contracts.

Closest things would be Domi who might be out long term and irrelevant and Maccelli who doesn’t even have a contract and hopefully doesn’t get one from us.
 
If Dakota Joshua was a ufa he'd probably get 3m but for like 3-5 years. 3.25 for only 2 more seasons is probably actually below market value, which is crazy to say. Definitely not a problem contract.

Mo's is a bit more complicated because if he's as bad as he was last year, then yeah it's an issue.
 
Preston said:
If Dakota Joshua was a ufa he'd probably get 3m but for like 3-5 years. 3.25 for only 2 more seasons is probably actually below market value, which is crazy to say. Definitely not a problem contract.

Mo's is a bit more complicated because if he's as bad as he was last year, then yeah it's an issue.
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Though it’s basically impossible for him to be as bad as last year. He’ll be behind Raddysh, Tanev is back, Carlo/Benoit are gone, so no more having to play with turds in a Biff system. His xgf wasn’t that much worse than other years, but his gf was way worse which I think again speaks to the catastrophic effects of being under Biff.

He’s going to have a very good year if we just leave him be back there. Honestly, my big worry is whether Tanev can be Tanev again and if we should be adding a guy now on the assumption that he’s not.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
Though it’s basically impossible for him to be as bad as last year. He’ll be behind Raddysh, Tanev is back, Carlo/Benoit are gone, so no more having to play with turds in a Biff system. His xgf wasn’t that much worse than other years, but his gf was way worse which I think again speaks to the catastrophic effects of being under Biff.

He’s going to have a very good year if we just leave him be back there. Honestly, my big worry is whether Tanev can be Tanev again and if we should be adding a guy now on the assumption that he’s not.
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It's fine that you're confident in his recovery, but what I mean is that much of the league will have to see it to believe it before they find the contract particularly tradable. Or at least tradable for value.
 
Preston said:
It's fine that you're confident in his recovery, but what I mean is that much of the league will have to see it to believe it before they find the contract particularly tradable. Or at least tradable for value.
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I just don’t believe there’s anywhere but up for him at 32 and not having lost a step visibly in terms of skating, durability, etc. moving from Biff to Hiller will be huge for him.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
I just don’t believe there’s anywhere but up for him at 32 and not having lost a step visibly in terms of skating, durability, etc. moving from Biff to Hiller will be huge for him.
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By definition, it's more likely nowhere but down from him as a 32 year old. But I get what you're saying.
 
zeke said:
I'm pretty willing to wipe last year from the slate for everyone, regardless of age.
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This is what I keep emphasizing. Last year doesn’t count for shit. It was a trainwreck and usually there’s no one doing all that well in trainwrecks.

And 31 isn’t usually an age where a good player just drops a cliff.
 
I'm not talking about potential for bounce back years. They had a coach that slashed his head open and received 96 stitches from "working out." Of course there's bounce back potential. I'm just speaking about the context for the article and I see a case for Mo's contract being problematic at this stage.
 
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