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Maacoshark:
--- Quote from: 4 Caps on Saturday June 23, 2018, 01:10:59 PM Eastern ---What is interesting is that Colorado has put Orpik on waivers for purposes of buying out his contract. If he clears waivers and Colorado buys out his contract he becomes an UFA and the Caps could re-sign him for 1.25 million and with the money he receives from Colorado he would be making the same as he did last season. If BMac pulls this off that would be amazing.
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That would be a pretty good deal.
Maacoshark:
--- Quote from: Beaglefan2 on Sunday June 24, 2018, 11:45:31 AM Eastern ---Let the clock run out. Signing Carlson to a 5+ year contract at $8 million a year would be a huge mistake.
Let’s re-sign Orpik on the cheap and sign Kempney. Bowey showed good promise last year and Djoos is ok. Then we have Orlov and Nisky and we see if any of our Prospects can provide some depth - or add a free agent.
Carlson had a good year and racked up some stats (funny how that happens in a contract year). For the long term, I really, really don’t want him at a big price.
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Carlson didnt just play well offensively. His overall game was very solid. I really really want us to sign Carlson but I hope its for less than 8 per. Dont want an 8 year deal either. I was hoping for 6 years at around 7.5 mil per season. I bet we give him more just because of the lack of options.
BlackIce:
You can hope all you want, but some other team WILL give him $8 million AAV for 7 years, so he isn't going to be resigned for less money AND less term.
If you don't want Carlson back by committing essentially that much to him, then you don't want him back, period. And I'm not being critical; there is a perfectly reasonable argument that he isn't worth that much, and we should pass on him. The issue, of course, is that we won't be able to replace him with a similar talent through UFA (money only), and replacing him with comparable talent through trade would cost serious assets in players/prospects/draft picks and probably open up other holes on the roster.
DC_1908:
--- Quote from: BlackIce on Sunday June 24, 2018, 01:46:46 PM Eastern ---You can hope all you want, but some other team WILL give him $8 million AAV for 7 years, so he isn't going to be resigned for less money AND less term.
If you don't want Carlson back by committing essentially that much to him, then you don't want him back, period. And I'm not being critical; there is a perfectly reasonable argument that he isn't worth that much, and we should pass on him. The issue, of course, is that we won't be able to replace him with a similar talent through UFA (money only), and replacing him with comparable talent through trade would cost serious assets in players/prospects/draft picks and probably open up other holes on the roster.
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Well with the system we the Cup with, we don’t need to pay a top 5 or 3 point totaling Dman. So replanting him in with that mind could and should work to our advantage.
BlackIce:
Well, it is now 4 pm, well after the time when impending UFA's can begin talking to other teams. We have heard nothing about whether or not Carlson has been resigned, which I interpret as meaning he hasn't. Whether that means that talks have broken down, they are in the final stages of negotiating the crossed t's and dotted i's, there has been a mutual agreement that Carlson will talk to other teams, or whatever, we have no idea, because there seems to be a news blackout.
This situation, even more than the Trotz negotiation, is the linchpin of this offseason; almost everything else the team does this summer, with the possible exception of whatever deal they eventually give Wilson, hinges on what happens in with Carlson. It would be nice if the team would give us a status report, no matter how brief. (Ō_ƆŎ)
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