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

Raddysh may well be awesome and a legit #1.

I'm wary, but if we do sign him i'd be hopeful.

I'm not really interested in Andersson tbh. I haven't looked closely but i don't think vegas has helped his nerdies at all, and he's not used in parcitularly big or tough minutes. But he's got definite name recognition that probably inflates his price too.
The problem with Raddysh is that if teams believe he's a legit #1, that doesn't come up in free agency that often, so you're probably looking a lot more like the 10m+ range. Heck, it wouldn't shock me to see some random team go up higher on him, someone with cap space and hoping the breakout is real.
 
Bruins pre-Cassidy

2014-15: 82gms, .585pts% - out of playoffs
2015-16: 82gms, .567pts% - out of playoffs
2016-17: 55gms, .527pts% - julien fired

with Cassidy

2016-17: 27gms, .685pts% - got them into playoffs,1st round
2017-18: 82gms, .683pts% - 2nd round
2018-19: 82gms, .652pts% - Cup Finals
2019-20: 70gms, .714pts% - 2nd round
2020-21: 56gms, .652pts% - 2nd round
2021-22: 82gms, .652pts% - 1st round

Post-Cassidy

2022-23: 82gms, .823pts% - 1st round
2023-24: 82gms, .665pts% - 1st round
2024-25: 82gms, .463pts% - out of playoffs



Vegas Pre-Cassidy

2019-20: 71gms, .606pts% - 3rd round
2020-21: 56gms, .732pts% - 3rd round
2021-22: 82gms, .573pts% - out of playoffs

With Cassidy

2022-23: 82gms, .677pts% - Won Cup
2023-24: 82gms, .598pts% - 1st round
2024-25: 82gms, .671pts% - 2nd round
2025-26: 74gms, .541pts% - cassidy fired

Post Cassidy

2025-26: 8gms, .938pts% - 2nd round in progress
 
To be clear, I'm all in on the McKenna train.

But what kind of offer would make you think twice about moving the #1OA?

A team I keep circling back to is the Rangers. High pick, in a rebuild/retool but with definite assets we could use.

#1OA
Joshua
Macelli

To the Rangers for:

Fox
Miller (maybe Trochek?)
 
To be clear, I'm all in on the McKenna train.

But what kind of offer would make you think twice about moving the #1OA?

A team I keep circling back to is the Rangers. High pick, in a rebuild/retool but with definite assets we could use.

#1OA
Joshua
Macelli

To the Rangers for:

Fox
Miller (maybe Trochek?)


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The problem with Raddysh is that if teams believe he's a legit #1, that doesn't come up in free agency that often, so you're probably looking a lot more like the 10m+ range. Heck, it wouldn't shock me to see some random team go up higher on him, someone with cap space and hoping the breakout is real.

Oh i expect the prices will all be insane.
 
Raddysh may well be awesome and a legit #1.

I'm wary, but if we do sign him i'd be hopeful.

I'm not really interested in Andersson tbh. I haven't looked closely but i don't think vegas has helped his nerdies at all, and he's not used in parcitularly big or tough minutes. But he's got definite name recognition that probably inflates his price too.

Serious question though....if not Andersson, who? Are you seriously expecting 37 yr old Tanev to 1) Be not dead 2) be good 3) To not die in the pursuit of being good? Not filling the top 4 with good defenders in the summer is how you end up overpaying for Brandon Carlo's at the deadline and even if you don't think he's necessarily worth the contract he's going to get, he's still a very good #2 defender.
 
To be clear, I'm all in on the McKenna train.

But what kind of offer would make you think twice about moving the #1OA?

A team I keep circling back to is the Rangers. High pick, in a rebuild/retool but with definite assets we could use.

#1OA
Joshua
Macelli

To the Rangers for:

Fox
Miller (maybe Trochek?)
Only way I move the #1OA is if McDavid asks out of Edmonton.
 
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