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Trade deadline 2024: March 8
Beaglefan2:
Very surprised by the poor return on the Tarasenko trade, so maybe the Mantha deal wasn't too bad. I bet Jensen is next, now that they resigned Sandin - or Edmundson who I think is certain to get traded. I was hoping for a second round pick for him, but now maybe we are lucky to get a third.
BlackIce:
There are two parts to the trade deadline movements: what the sellers get from the buyers; and, what happens to the sellers in the standings after they make whatever moves they are going to make.
Right now the Caps are in a tight group of 9 teams that look to be just below playoff level, unless somebody in this group gets extremely hot extremely soon. They are all between 63 and 68 standings points, and are all closer to each other than they are to the playoff teams above them, or the 7 worst teams below them. As part of this cluster, the Caps could finish anywhere between 8th from the bottom and 16th from the bottom - i.e., the "best" non-playoff team. So it seems that unless the lottery gods shine on them, they will be picking no higher, and probably lower, in the upcoming draft than they did last year.
This really feels as if the Caps are getting stuck in the beginnings of a cycle of mediocrity. They have already left the Ovechkin era, in that Ovie is just another player at this point so he doesn't define the team's fortunes as he did previously. So even into a transition era, the Caps aren't bad enough to really be in the running for the next wave of very best players who will help to define the upcoming hockey generation. They'll be stuck with a bunch of "guys."
richkrt99:
I dont think the Mantha trade was awful. Anything we got for him was a bonus....he was gone for nothing end of season. Retaining 50% of his salary for 1/4 of the year is peanuts.
richkrt99:
Welp....Edmunson is gone....to Toronto for a 3rd round and a 5th round. Thats not much.
Retaining half his salary is again....peanuts. 1/2 of about 25% of the year of 1.5
https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/capitals-acquire-2024-third-round-pick-and-2025-fifth-round-pick-from-toronto-for-joel-edmundson
Mickstix:
3rd and 5th for Edmondson aint bad. Lots of picks we're acquiring, but none where we need them (top 10). Guess we just need to pray we hit on a diamond in the rough nobody saw coming. Very very hard to do, but I guess anything is possible. Cause like Ice said, we're in an endless loop of mediocrity for the foreseeable future.
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