East Round 1 Game Thread

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If Tampa Bay fired their coach (and they’re not going to), he’d be unemployed for about 10 minutes. You all need to settle down. I bet it’s the same people that were calling for Clode’s head in 2010.
 
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They also just signed him to an extension 25 days ago. He’s not going anywhere.
 

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If Tampa Bay fired their coach (and they’re not going to), he’s be unemployed for about 10 minutes. You all need to settle down. I bet it’s the same people that were calling for Clode’s head in 2010.
Yeah he won't get canned for this. Not when they were missing one of the top defensemen in the league.
 

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Yeah, when I said I don’t know what to do there, that wasn’t a call to do something big. I literally don’t know how to respond. It’s the dissonance of being a regular season wagon, winning 75% of your games, against the playoff team that, outside of this year’s first period, has lost 6 straight playoff games, and hadn’t looked particularly good in any of them. What you do is dictated by which of those two teams you think you have.
 

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Unless you’re run by idiots, you look at the 82 game sample.

Now I’m not saying nothing should change, I think some questions need to be asked for sure. I mean, the league MVP and your captain never showed up, and your goalie turned into a bit of a pumpkin again. There may be some stuff in that room that we don’t know about that led to this, but I think it was just a tough matchup that got worse when Bobbo finally ditched his playoff yips. I think this was a learning experience for the Bolts, and I expect they’ll be better for it in the long run. Unfortunately in the cap era, long runs aren’t that long.
 

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While an absolute failure, the Lightning will do nothing drastic as the result of the sweep. Their more pressing concern is their cap crunch. Brayden Point and Cedric Paquette are RFA's. Stralman, Coburn, Girardi, and Rutta are UFA's. They have a lot of shoes to re-fill anyways. Getting rid of Cooper would be a great way to waste Stamkos' prime.
 

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Seriously, the cap situation for the Lightning next year is nuts. I also think that Steve Y might have given out more NTC/NMC's than Chiarelli did. Remember when the B's paid Iginla in bonuses that messed up their cap situation the next year? Tampa is in worse. I literally think Kucherov and his 9.5M cap hit (and NTC that doesn't kick in until 2020) might be the logical thing to ship out to create cap space. He's going to win the Hart, and be at his most valuable. See if you can get a top pick, and a couple RFA-controlled assets back in return to turn 1 MVP-level roster spot into 3 above-average ones.
 

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Making a third post cause I'm still going down the rabbit hole of how screwed they are.

Here is a list of every player who is(/should with an RFA deal) make more than 1M on their roster next year.

The untouchables:
Tyler Johnson has NTC
Steven Stamkos has a NMC
Ondrej Palat has an NTC
Alex Killorn has a NTC
Victor Hedman has a NMC

The soon-untouchables:
Ryan Mcdonagh's 7 year, 42.5M extension with a full NTC kicks in on July 1. Until then he has a 10 team no-trade.
Yanni Gourde's 6 year, 31M extension with a full NTC kicks in on july 1. Until then he has no trade restrictions.

Everyone else:
Ryan Callahan has 1 year at 5.8 left and a 16 team no list.
JT Miller has 4 years at 5.25 left
Vasilevskiy has 1 year and 3.5 left before RFA
Louis Domingue makes 1.15 M.

People who need RFA deals (6.3M in space for their two spots, 2-3 D, and 1-2 more forwards):
Cedric Paquette
Braden Point

The trade bait:
Nikita Kucherov's 8 year, 76-million Extension with an NTC that doesn't kick in until after the 2019-2020 season.
 
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Dummy Hoy

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Nice breakdown.

I knew they had a smaller window to win because of the cap, but some of that is looking ugly. I move McDonough for sure, and if Vasilievsky won’t sign a team friendly deal ( he won’t) I ride him out through next season and say sayonara. Off the top of my head that seems decent for Miller, although I’d guess anyone getting him would expect him to play a more major role, and can he?

I mean, they’ve got to pay Point.
 

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They won’t trade Kucherov. They’d be insane to. He’s a bargain at $9.5 AAV.

My guess is they figure out a way to lose Callahan (attach a pick/prospect and send him on his way, they have 16 teams to work with), and then maybe move one of the Miller, Palat, Killorn, Johnson group. Callahan plus one of them frees up ~$11 million. That plus the $6 they already have gives them $17 million to get their business done with Point and bring in 2 defensemen. They will have more if the cap goes up.
 

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They'll attach a pick to Callahan to get one of the other 15 picks to take him. If Killorn will waive, he'd be the next to go but I doubt the combination of an interested team and him waiving surfaces. They'll likely have to sacrifice Gourde instead, who should have really solid value, as well as RFA Pacquette.

They have ~$150k in overages anticipated this year, so the cap penalty won't be too bad. Assuming the upper limit goes up $1m or so to $80.5m here's how they shape up for next year:

Cirelli - Stamkos - Kucherov ($18.73m)
Palat - Johnson - Miller ($15.55m)
Killorn - Point - Joseph ($5.17m + Point)
Martel - Verhaeghe - Erne (All RFAs)
XX

Hedman - Cernak ($8.57m)
Sergachev - McDonagh ($7.65m)
XX - Foote ($0.925m)
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Vasilevskiy - Domingue ($4.65m)

Total prior to RFAs: $61.25m

Estimates for RFAs

Point: $8.5m AAV to match Stamkos
Erne: $1.2m AAV
Martel: $700k one-way
Verhaeghe: $850k one-way

Total inc. RFAs: $72.5m
Buyouts: $1.833m for Matt Carle (ouch)
Overages: $0.2m

Open spots: 13F, 3LD, 7D with at least $6.5m in cap space. Who knows, maybe they keep one of Gourde or Pacquette around - but they are far from screwed IMO
 

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Not sure if this is heresy, but I like Tirico's NHL pbp a touch better than Emrick.
 

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Not sure if this is heresy, but I like Tirico's NHL pbp a touch better than Emrick.
I like Tirico doing hockey. He never really stood out to me as bad or good doing basketball for some reason. Maybe the faster pace helps him?
 
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The Tampa organization is getting owned by the Columbus organization. In the AHL, Syracuse (TB affiliate) was the second best team in the regular season. Cleveland (Columbus affiliate) snuck into the playoffs on the final day of the regular season. Cleveland is now up 2-0 on Syracuse in their first round best of 5 series, with the next two in CLE.
 

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Who do we want to win the Wash/Car series?

I haven't watched a ton of hockey this season, so I assumed we wanted Carolina to advance over Washington. But I've heard a few folks talk about the speed in Carolina posing a problem for the B's if they were to meet later in the playoffs.
 

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To be fair, the puck was covered under the goalie. Feels like the right call, you can’t just push the goalie into the net with the puck.
 

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Hockey officials are the only people on the planet who can retroactively determine intent based on no evidence.

I agree generally but the goalie had no clue about it. Hard for me to say he had it in any sense of the word.
 

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I get that it should have been blown dead but it wasn’t. That’s really hard to take if you’re the Caps.
 

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Oh who the knows anymore what the goalie interference rule is.

Whoa, great redirect.
We didn’t get that far. They waived it off for intent to blow the whistle. The real fun would’ve been if on the review they changed to to a goal. Then the Canes challenged for GI. The review after a review. Yahtzee.
 

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Playoff hockey is so fun. I listened to NHL radio a lot in the car today. They were patting the Canes on the head and engraving participation trophies.

Then they had to drop the puck and play the game.
 

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We didn’t get that far. They waived it off for intent to blow the whistle. The real fun would’ve been if on the review they changed to to a goal. Then the Canes challenged for GI. The review after a review. Yahtzee.
Ha! I was watching on mute, so I missed the explanation.

But wait. It gets more confused. Just came across this on The Twitter from Elliotte Friedman of HNIC: Call in Situation Room was that Ovechkin pushed Mrazek’s pad into the net.