JB gonna do some next level play to convince arbitrator he's worth more than 4.5M so we can decline.

Kappa

Hall to Buffalo for 1yr at $8 mil

let the dominoes fall

^ crappy city tax right there!

Hahah Hall is so full of shit saying he wants short term because of the flat cap and that he’s tired of never playing in the playoffs and then he signs in Buffalo??? Lol

He's there to play with Eichel. If Buffalo doesn't make any progress, Eichel is asking for a trade lol.

Toffoli goes to Montreal 4x$4.25M

Kev

How did we not match that?

Wtf I feel like we could afford that???

Or are they wanting Hoglander to play here? Seems way too early for him... shit man... nevermind we also lost our second pick and Madden from that deal

As a refresher, the trade with LA was:

VAN: Toffoli

LA: Tim Schaller, Tyler Madden, 2020 second-round pick and a conditional 2022 fourth-round pick.

The conditional 2022 fourth-round pick was based on Toffoli re-signing with the Canucks.

Kev

I been defending Benning but at that money he should have been back... this is pretty terrible news. The team is significantly worse going into next season :(

With the Toffoli signing, I feel he never had the intention to stay. There's no way we cannot match that.

Toffoli was Benning’s job preservation insurance to maintain having a good shot at making the playoffs when Boeser got injured.

He was a somewhat expensive rental that happened to have fit in and paid off more than anticipated. If it weren’t flat cap year Toffoli would’ve stayed IMO.

You missed the part where Toffee stated publicly that he wanted to stay then

Balls

7.9m remaining with pending contracts for Virtanen + Guadette + the fact we need at least one more right defencemen tells you exactly why we didn't sign Tofolli. It's a simple numbers game, Benning isn't as dumb as some of you make him out to be.

7.9m - 3m for JV - 2m for AG = 2.9m cap remaining. The fact is we weren't gonna sign any of the UFAs unless some of the bad contracts got moved

Hall also stated he wanted to win :lol players lie

in all seriousness, don't mind these non-signings, keeping flexibility for our core is priority #1

if we sign one of Tanev, Marky, or Toff and lose even more wiggle room for 2021 offseason, THEN we'd really run GMJB out of town

Pietrangelo signs a seven year, 61.6 million contract with Vegas.

Schmidt to van

Expensive but a legit top 4 dman for minimal trade assets.

5 years left at 5.95mil

the guy will come in and put 20-30 pounds on Petey and Hughes with his PED's

kidding aside, rather have him than Tanev for ~1.5M more really

Limited NTC, no signing bonuses.

dude shoots left, are we banking on the fact that he could play right side or...?

he typically plays the right side...so he'll be an opposite shot RD

alright, we'll see how he does then.