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Ullmark will be 31 in July and will be due for a raise on his current 5M after next season

Makes sense to sell high if Swayman is their guy, they'd get a good return for a recent Vezina winner and free up cap space to allocate elsewhere

I'd take it and be done with it 12.5M won't be what it is now in a few seasons as the cap continues to climb Draisaitl and McDavid will raise the bar for top tier contracts soon anyway

When he signs there will be 3

12+ because that's what he's gonna get

Full circle, it'd be fitting, he belongs in LA as much as anywhere It'd be a good add for them

They have a good shot at coming out of the central, they may very well be The difference between them, Colorado, Winnipeg and us is that the aforementioned three teams have been playing playoff hockey or going deep (Colorado, Dallas) in recent years whereas this is our first crack at the playoffs in a while I root for the Canucks but the Stars are a very good team, bringing in Tanev addressed their biggest team weakness, top 4 RD

But do we really need him?

I kept telling folks Tanev made a lot of sense for Dallas and there it is

He could never, we have too many hands whereas he only has two

I suspect that each mod has their small group of favourite posters, I like to think I'm one of Ribs's favourites I envision them witnessing me stirring the pot every once in a while and just shaking their head On the other hand, I suspect I kinda toed the line between entertaining Vintage and driving them a little nuts

There's no escaping ghosts Mostly because @Ghostsof1915 is in every other thread at some point

5-4 Kings Fiala

I'd argue that most stars probably get paid full value, and that many of them do in fact take the biggest pay day they can. MacKinnon did, Matthews did, Nylander did, Dahlin did. Hughes will, Makar will, Draisaitl will, McDavid will. The team knew going into the season what Elias's stance was, they can be frustrated all they like but it's not as if they weren't aware of what he stance was. I don't think Elias ever wanted to be captain, I don't think that has anything to do with negotiations. He's never been keen on dealing with the media, why would he opt to do it every other day as a captain? Hughes was the best option, he bridges the gap between vets and youngsters and straddles the line between being laid back and competitive better than either Pettersson or Miller. More than likely Pettersson didn't want it, and Miller is better suited being able to focus on hockey and not having the media burden that comes with being a captain in a Canadian market.

I think market value would dictate that he is probably worth closer to 12M imo, but that's because market value is always shifting. Nylander is the closest, and most recent, comparable and is likely the one Pettersson's agent will use. Market value for franchise players shifts, and what some guys get is also dependent on when their contracts expire. Matthews just raised the bar for franchise, top of the league players with his 13.25M contract. McDavid will shift it again his deal is up. Draisaitl will shift it before McDavid, his deal is up after next season. Some folks will point to Pastrnak, that's been an ongoing discussion within this thread as well. But Pasta signed last season on March 2nd, 2023. He didn't have the incoming cap jump to bump up his pay, Pettersson does. The rising cap will always disrupt past contexts, because contracts for top players will always rise alongside the cap. It's the same thing with MacKinnon, who folks also point to. But the context there is he signed under a Covid flat cap that wasn't seeing sizeable jumps back on September 20th, 2022. He didn't take a discount either. Folks will argue Pettersson shouldn't get more than either player as if things are black and white, when context will tell you than things aren't black and white. Folks argue that 12M is for top of the league, top 5 tier players. Pettersson is already in the top of the league bracket, but 12M may not be top of the league money 2-3 years into Pettersson's next deal. Pettersson will almost certainly get the same or more than Nylander whether folks like it or not unless his deal is like 2-3 years, and even then he might.