Grading NHL Free Agency’s Winners & Losers

[@BadnewsMathews]

Sid teaching hockey on another planet was the best line of the ep.

[@busorenkin55]

7:35 Sometimes the best moves are the moves you don’t make. They can use their cap space to get picks and bad contracts from an over the cap team like Washington or Edmonton.

[@Dayv018]

Caps won't need to make any moves to be under the cap if Oshie is done (which he sounds like he is).

[@joanna78.Lightning]

Love Day 1 content!!! It’s crazy and fun!!! Thanks guys!

[@busorenkin55]

3:00 Carolina pivoted to Walker and Ghost Bear isn’t that big of a drop off tbh especially with how much Pesce and Skeji are making. I think it was a lateral move that helps them stay competitive on that blueline

[@Danglebot]

oilers put together the best forward group in the post cap era and they get an honorable mention 😂

[@lukekuusisto6655]

Empty netters are the biggest oiler hatera

[@RileyClarke-d9y]

I know this is a joke but enough

[@ivancalderon1551]

Those Tampa teams had a better forward core lmfao what

[@Danglebot]

@ivancalderon1551 150 point scorer in mcdavid, 120-130 in drai, 50 goals in hyman, 80 points in nuge, 60-70 and 25 goals in both skinner and arvi and that's not even getting to the rest of the group. Tampa had a top 1% goaltender and overall better D but the closest to this forward group is maybe the avs team that won the cup with mac and makar making 8 mill combined

[@therealjdizzy]

@@Danglebot50 goals from hyman but if he ever leaves or davo is hurt he’s a 25-30 goal scorer

[@mikeb.2925]

People are overlooking that this is Washington's 50th year. Of course they want to be a winning team throughout their 50th season. They're spending big money to market the hell out of the franchise before Ovechkin retires. Nobody comes to see a team that isn't competitive. It makes sense they put together a plan to be aggressive and improve with so much on the line this season. You don't want to be celebrating and embarrassed at the same time.

[@kylejohnson5493]

I know leaf fans ( the delulu ones) will think anything management does is gospel. As a panthers fan I will tell you this: Stolarz and OEL WILL NOT replicate what they did with the panthers. They signed prove it deals and they deserved both to get paid for the work they did this season. However after guys leave the cats for the bag to other teams they don’t end up performing near their contracts now I want them to do well but don’t think that Florida will lose sleep that OEL and Stolarz left

[@markguarino1638]

Tampa still runs fl lmao 😂

[@kylejohnson5493]

@@markguarino1638 Tampa is a 1 line team with an aging d core… Florida has everyone (mostly the core) locked up way down the line Tampa has more cups but Florida is the better team on paper and on the ice currently have a nice fourth 😉

[@markguarino1638]

@@kylejohnson5493 yes sir you to buddy be safe

[@dak2515]

As a Blackhawks fan, gotta say it was disrespectful not to mention tuevo 😂

[@tylergruen9948]

The Avs signing Jonathan Drouin for 1 year at 2.5m is one of the best signings of free agency. I donno how you could get better than Sam Reinhart and his deal but, yakov trenin who got traded to the Avs, put up 17 points the whole season, gets a 4 x 3.5m contract. Drouin just put up his best season with 56 points and could have easily (donno if it was offered but based on free agency, easily a 5x5) that has to be one of the best deals of free agency and for both parties. With the cap situation in Colorado, I bet they asked him like, hey we love you and want u hear, but we donno how things shake out with landy and nuke so if I give us one year, we gonna give you the best offer once we know next year, please stay for one more year. It’s great for the Avs but I’d put my money on that Drouin puts up 70 points this year and next year signing him is gonna be almost impossible but….im so glad we have him for one more year

[@ericjrose2012]

Penguins did basically nothing yesterday also, brought in few players but nothing overly helpful yet again, the scooby dubas era is already 0-2 in my opinion

[@christopherrhorer5192]

Saying rob Blake needs to go is getting old. Marc Bergevin has yet to make a good move since he’s arrived.

[@blinkyshake]

Red wings being the first loser is so fucking sad.. had big hopes

[@alexraezydel]

Honestly, what are the Sabres doing 🙃

[@nathan18725ify]

As a blues fan I’m furious with Armstrong and how he’s running this team. For the past 3-4 years defense has been the #1 problem it’s been no secret and yet he hasn’t done a damn thing to fix it. We have nearly 20 mill in cap space, ya I’m glad he didn’t overpay anymore long term bad contracts but come on to miss out on chychrun ( for a prospect and 3rd ) and to not make a move on brannstrom I mean wtf are you doing doug. Every team in the central got better and we got the same old mediocre roster dipshit Armstrong knows is bad.. 😂

[@Mooseman327]

One of Barry Trotz' best moves was signing Andrew Brunette as his head coach. The guy can coach. He goes to the Devils as an assistant and they have their best team regular-season points year ever. He leaves the next year, and the Devils collapse right back to where they were. So, Trotz pantsed Devils GM Fitzgerald two years in a row. Signing Brunette and then stealing Marchessault from right under Fitzgerald's nose.

[@troymachine]

Wtf are you talking about. The Devil's bad season had nothing to do with an assistant coach. Having $30 mil on ltir, 2 19y/O's running the defense and horrible goaltending was. At one point for 2 weeks 1 1/2 lines were made up of AHL comeups

[@hannahtex6768]

Dallas fan here. Jim Nill is clearly an incredible GM. But I’m having a really hard time trusting the process on this one. Not one player we signed did I think was a good move. I was neutral on some. But most I had an actual WTF reaction to. If Tanev wasn’t willing by to sign anything but a 6 year, I’m glad we let him walk. But I think we didn’t have a good back up plan in place, and every other shut down, Right Shot D man has been snagged.