Article: Taking Advantage Of the Salary Cap Increase Starts With Extending Brock Faber

[Will D. Ness]

50 minutes ago, OldDutchChip said:

Faber can wait his turn. 

The notion that Faber's contract is exclusive is a fantasy.  Sorry bud, no getting around it.  You need to demonstrate it with something tangible outside of your own head before you can call it reality.

Anyways, I appreciate where you coming from.  Kap is the window of opportunity for which everything should be engineered around.  I'll leave it at that.

[OldDutchChip]

7 hours ago, Citizen Strife said:

Panicking a year down the road is just going to make you stir crazy.  The answer is simple.

 

Kap leaves, and the Wild get nothing out of it: Well fuck, sucks to be us

Kap leaves, and the Wild recoup what they can: Well, they did what they could.

Kap stays: Well fuck, guess we're good then.

 

Whatever happens happens.  You're act as if the team isn't trying to bend over backwards to keep him AND stay competitive.  I would love to keep Kap forever, but if it doesn't happen, there are way bigger things in the world to worry about...like a meteor coming to kill us all or something, or just paying rent and getting food.  It's just a hockey player.

I am saying instead of panicking a year from now, we actually plan for the now NOW

• Kap leaves, and the Wild get nothing out of it: Well fuck, sucks to be us
• Kap leaves, and the Wild recoup what they can: Well, they did what they could.
• Kap stays: Well fuck, guess we're good then.

Great planning! Cheers. 

[OldDutchChip]

6 hours ago, Will D. Ness said:

The notion that Faber's contract is exclusive is a fantasy.  Sorry bud, no getting around it.  You need to demonstrate it with something tangible outside of your own head before you can call it reality.

Anyways, I appreciate where you coming from.  Kap is the window of opportunity for which everything should be engineered around.  I'll leave it at that.

The notion that Faber's contract is exclusive is a fantasy.  Sorry bud, no getting around it.  You need to demonstrate it with something tangible outside of your own head before you can call it reality. Can you please elaborate here? I was not aware that Faber has to sign anything this summer and we can take our time with him. I thought he will become restricted free agent and we can do it once we iron out the situation with our NUMBER ONE PRIORITY SUPERSTAR. Is it not so?

[Willy the poor boy]

I'm surprised KK hasn't asked for a trade already. He sees what this GM has been doing and he's got to be shaking his head and asking, WTF? All this shit going on behind the scenes also, well, the players know what's going on there to.

[FredJohnson]

The NHL salary cap jumped by around $5 million from $83.5 million to $88 million for this upcoming season. That gives cap-strapped teams like the Minnesota Wild a little bit more breathing room. 
 

How is the NHL cap calculated? (Are the Wild being low-key punished STILL for the Suter-Parise deals by keeping the cap low?)

[FredJohnson]

21 hours ago, OldDutchChip said:

he will become restricted free agent and we can do it once we iron out the situation with our NUMBER ONE PRIORITY SUPERSTAR. Is it not so?

Wouldn't a long-term deal for our best d-man be a positive for KK97?

[OldDutchChip]

2 minutes ago, FredJohnson said:

Wouldn't a long-term deal for our best d-man be a positive for KK97?

i don't think Kap will care much on who plays for Wild after 2026. he will be gone by then since people prioritize Faber, Rossi, precious prospects and future draft picks over him. 

hooray for continuous mediocracy. go for it, give faber 10 or 11 per and rossi 6 or 7. i give up. 

[FredJohnson]

4 minutes ago, OldDutchChip said:

i give up. 

[TheGoosesAreLooses]

On 6/15/2024 at 4:28 PM, Pewterschmidt said:

#imdownwithodc 

Keeping 97 here and happy is Guerin’s 1st 2nd and 3rd priority.  I believe Guerin understands this but I’m not sure he’s got the brains to pull it off, so we end up with a batch of Carson Lambi who peak as a seventh d man, when we deal 97 at deadline 

 I’d much rather have 97 here long term than 30 can’t miss prospects we may or may not ever see in wild jersey.  

While I agree with the sentiment that I want KK around. I don't agree we say f*ck you to all our upcoming players. Sign Faber at 8 or 9, he's going to be worth it as the cap goes up. Keep and pay Rossi 3-4mil bridge deal which is far less than some are paying a 40pt 200ft player. Even if this year was his ceiling, that is a solid deal. 

I agree with the no big buys in FA this year. Cash will still be tight, but we could pickup some depth scoring to support our first line. 

Guerin better have his eyes on more than just keeping Kap, that better be top priority but it shouldn't be tunnel vision on that goal. There is absolutely zero reason we can't continue to develop players and keep Kap happy. This idea that we better tear apart the team so we can stack two lines is wrongheaded. I've yet to see a Stanley in the hands of a team lacking depth yet everything out of ODC's mouth is to strip any depth we have for a couple big swings. It isn't how you build a cup winner, or a dynasty for that matter.

Guerin still has a team to run, even if Kap heads up the road. I would rather we still have some semblance of talent if that happens, not 2 rental players making big money.

[TheGoosesAreLooses]

On 6/16/2024 at 8:32 AM, Pewterschmidt said:

#anotherodchottake

#fathersdayedition

is that brodin nugget true?!?   Fletcher s busy trading the future for veterans at end of his time.  Fenton flushed the johannsen pick.  And guerin&co took dmen early and often (hunt might be a regular this year).  Wow that’s quite a long 0-for streak 

No it isn't. Gustav Olofsson was drafted in 2013 playing for Seattle. Louie Belpedio drafted in 2014 playing for Philly. Carson Soucy playing for Vancouver. For crying out loud we drafted Matt Dumba after Brodin. 

#hotgarbagetake

We also didn't draft any defensemen in the top 5 rounds from (Gustav Olofsson) 2014-2018 (Filip Johannsson) so that will stall out the prospect pool.

[mnfaninnc]

This is where we disagree:

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That doesn’t mean they should give David Perron a four-year deal. That would be the worst. The smart move would be to go after a low-risk, high-upside guy like Jakub Vrana or Ondrej Kase. If the Wild can find the right short-term deal for a guy like Riley Smith, that would be just fine. 

No way should we give Perron a 4 year deal, just a 1 year and see how it works out. But the other guys, I'm not really sold on any of them. Vrana might be a decent try on something close to league minimum. Again, a 1 year deal.

What I'd rather do is play the youngsters. See what they've got. Accumulate cap space and if we can still be in contention (which would require reasonable health from the current roster) we could swing big at the TDL. Perhaps we pick up a guy who we can then extend. 

For instance, the Canes went through a year where they tried Kotkaniemi at 2nd C. He's really a 3rd C, but Jordan Staal is also. He didn't work out, so they were able to acquire Kuznetsov to take over that spot. I don't really like Kuz, but he was a great addition for a 2nd C. Kotkaniemi was then demoted to 4th C and Carolina was extremely strong up the middle. They've got another year left of Kuznetsov too. 

We complain about our goaltending, but the Canes had worse goaltending issues most of the year. Yet, they were always in position for a playoff spot. That's where I see this team, in a position for the WC spot. A couple of late additions can boost that too, if the kids aren't working out.