Yzermandius19

That's what the Clippers are for. Unless he wants to stay in Toronto because he believes in Masai, which would be sweet. His personality is reminiscent of a humble hockey player, who is soft spoken, keeps his head down, works hard, and leads by example, which is a super rare thing in Basketball. What's not to love?

Barrie has his flaws, but until he get overpaid in UFA, those are totally worth putting up with, especially at $2.75 million cap hit, he costs the Leafs less than Ben Chiarot money ffs. After he hits UFA, not so much, Barrie at like an $8 million AAV is way too pricey.

Either get better at it, or do it less, one or the other, or like Marchand, do both.

Would be nice if he makes like Marchand and starts toning that sh*t down, at least a little bit, but I won't hold my breath.

Sakic to Dubas during the Kadri trade:

Definitely did him a huge favor retaining half the salary, but we have cap room to spend, and since we got the deal we wanted, might as well retain some of the salary seeing as they don't need the cap room next year. A favor that doesn't hurt the team to help solidify a relationship that could bear fruit down the road and the Avs get what they wanted on top of it, can't ask for much more than that, happy to do you the favor.

Barrie and Kerfoot were expendable, bringing in a 2C as good as Kadri is worth it, the retained salary literally means nothing to Avs, we don't need the extra $2.75 million cap space next year. The Avs either are just as good this year, or slightly worse off than before the trade, but for two years after that or more, they'll be much better off, having dealt Barrie for Kadri, and freeing up space for higher upside forwards on the rise than Kerfoot. Praise Dubeezus and Sakic, hockey trade city. Dubas got the better end of the deal, I think, but both sides are better off.

Zadorov resigns for 1 year at $3.2 million. Betting on himself instead of vying for a longer term deal.

Could they have though? Barrie and Kerfoot were expendable, and the only other option near Kadri's level that I am seeing might not have been acquirable due to Ken Holland's degenerating skills as a GM. The longer the Avs waited, the less trading for a Barrie rental would have gotten them, especially if he gets hurt, which he's been known to do. Trading Kerfoot later probably would have gotten them less as well, people think he has more upside than he does, another year of similar production would have made him less valuable and had less GM's dreaming on his upside, plus as a small dude who isnt afraid to go to the dirty places, he could get hurt too quite easily, he's just tough and can play through it, but that could harm his production and hurt his value too. Both guys seem about as valuable of a trade asset as they are going to get, when Sakic moved them, their value will only go down as more time passes. I think Sakic made the right call, at the right time. Sakic isn't the type of guy to panic and move guys if the return isn't right either, I'm guessing this was the best deal available and a better deal wasn't going to be forthcoming, or at least Sakic believes that to be the case.

I don't know, but the RNH trade never materialized for a reason, it's not like the Avs weren't considering it. I don't think they sat there and thought Kadri is better than RNH, I'm guessing the hold up was on the Oilers end. Wasn't RNH on a line with McDavid and Draisaitl for most of last year anyway? Those are inflating his numbers too, maybe the Oilers think they can get more for him because of that sexier stat line playing with two 100 point players. Ken Holland has gotten a lot worse at this GM thing, maybe we are underestimating his new found incompetence and he's degenerating more and more with each passing year.

RNH would have worked too, but his contract isn't as movable as Kadri's. That's kind of a wash given the extra cap hit and lesser term, perhaps a slight upgrade and maybe the Oilers wanted more for him than the Leafs did for Kadri.

I don't think they could have gotten more, what 2C could they gotten with more value than Kadri by trading Barrie and Kerfoot and retaining half of Barrie's salary? They need someone to play 2C until Newhook is ready, and should the Avs turn around and move Kadri his contract is cheaper than most legit 2Cs. I don't think the Avs made a mistake, it's possible, but they might have hit a home run too if he gets back to being a 30 goal scorer. Kadri will allow time for the cake to bake on Newhook, Kadri seems like the perfect stop gap 2C to me given the cheap contract, it's not like they were going to get a 1C in return for a Barrie super rental and Kerfoot, and I'm not seeing the better options than Kadri that teams would be willing to part with and can still yield a good return if the Avs decide to move them. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough though, who are these better 2C options the Avs could have traded for?

I definitely think The Avs are going to miss Barrie more than the Leafs will miss Kadri, but the Avs would have missed Barrie after one more season anyway, might as well get a return instead of letting him go for nothing, or resigning him and getting less when he's overpaid and trying to move him and having to retain even more salary when they will need it after this year. Especially when he can bring back a legit 2C in return. The Avs fans can shit on this trade all they want, you won't see me doing that unless Kadri under performs and does start to fall off sooner than expected.

Well that's not encouraging, but 20 games is a small sample size, and goal scorers can be streaky, maybe it was just bad timing. Maybe it's all Marner, but if he can score 44 points as a 3C and get almost 20 goals, I feel safe in assuming he can get 50+ as a 2C over a season, and at least 20-25 goals, and wasn't far off those totals even without Marner in an obvious down year he's likely to bounce back from. He's certainly a big upgrade on Soderberg or Kerfoot in those roles, and he's cheaper than the former, and not much more expensive than the latter.

I never said he was losing a step, I said trade him because he has value as a legit 2C on a sweet contract, that is stuck in a 3C role that he's overpaid and over qualified to fill, and he could net the Leafs a sweet return, which he did. Waiting until his next contract would have netted the Leafs a much smaller return, I didn't say trade Kadri because he's falling off, I said trade him because he has value to other team without two 1C's. He didn't produce because of the reduced role and worse line mates, not because he's slowing down. He'll start slowing down eventually, but like I say, I expect that after his contract expires as opposed to during.

I don't think he's slowing down just because he got knocked off Marner's line, you read way too much into a down year that you should have seen coming and explains his drop off in production without him having to lose a step to account for it. By the end of his contract, he might start to slow down, but I think that is more likely after the contract expires than before.

Well sure, dick move by Kadri, total cheap shot, but he shouldn't have gotten suspended more than a game. Parros is a bigger asshole than Kadri, No Hit League bullsh*t. I've seen worse cheap shots get no worse than a game, the league has it out for Kadri, they way overdo it on the repeat offender tip. Like Marchand got 5 regular season games for throwing a deliberate flying elbow to the head that he leaped into, but Kadri gets suspended an entire playoff series for a hit that should have gotten him one game at most, that's some bullsh*t, even the repeat offender thing doesn't account for their Kadri hatred.

Meh. Neither suspension should have been more than a game, the NHL are just assholes. It would be nice if he didn't take dumb penalties and league didn't have it out for him, but as far as I'm concerned the NHL is to blame for those ridiculous suspensions. George Parros is a dick, I blame him more than I blame Kadri, that's for sure.

To the Leafs maybe, like I say, Bednar isn't going to break up the top line just to get Kadri going, he does it to get MacKinnon and Rantanen going, then he puts them back together. He did it before Kadri, and it worked like a charm, doing it after Kadri, should make it work even better when they mix it up. I don't see Bednar overdoing it just to get Kadri going, that's not his style. Think Bruce Cassidy breaking up the Bergeron line at times, Bednar plays it in a very similar way, he doesn't do it get Krejci going, he does it to get Marchand and Bergeron going.

Bednar won't do it long term, think Bruce Cassidy moving Pastrnak off the Bergeron line, only to put them back together. In the playoffs, both MacKinnon and Rantanen did just fine producing when they were broken up, it's a good plan B when the top line isn't dominating. Now when the Avs do it, Rantanen or Landeskog will be playing with a better second line, so should be even more effective change up going forward, Kadri will be a boon when they do it. Bednar won't do it just to get Kadri going, he'll do it to get MacKinnon and Rantanen going.

Yeah, might take a little time to adapt to that and I am a little worried about him being hothead. Putting Rantanen on his wing could help him get going when the Avs break up the top line, which they do quite often, Bednar is like Cassidy when it comes to that, especially when the top line doesn't have it's mojo and needs a shake up. So if he needs a Marner like playmaker to really get going, Rantanen can do that, at least on a temporary basis every now and then.

Maybe, but he's much easier to provoke when playing the Bruins than any other team, Kadri might take a dumb penalty against other teams, but might not go so far as to get suspended in the playoffs when not playing the Bruins. Ever since that Game 7 comeback, I think the Bruins being in his head is a big part of why he gets those playoff suspensions, he played pretty good against Washington three years ago without doing anything that stupid, IIRC.

True Kadri can be overmatched at 2C, especially against teams with a sweet one-two punch, like the Bolts, Leafs and Pens, but more often than not, he's the superior 2C. He is a hothead who the NHL loves to over punish, it's true, but the juice is worth the squeeze for the Avs, even though it wasn't for the Leafs. Kadri is still better than Kerfoot even when they produce at a similar rate, and the Avs need the goals. Kadri shoots the puck, Kerfoot does not, simple as that. Kerfoot is a better fit on the Leafs and is a little cheaper, but the extra $1 million in cap hit is something the Avs are more than willing to pay for the extra goals. Kerfoot ain't much of a PP guy himself, because when he's on the ice, the defense gives him shooting lanes and shuts down the passing lanes knowing he's not going to shoot, it lets them cheat reliably without getting burned very often.

He'll cut back more of the third lines ice time, and only a little of top lines, but combined that could net him a minute or two of extra ice time, he ain't going to play 20 minutes a night or anything, unless MacKinnon gets hurt.

Colorado played MacKinnon like 22 minutes a night because they had a crap second line that wasn't much better than their third line. Now their second line has been upgraded notably, so I imagine they will get more ice time this season than last season. 17-18 minutes a night is probably what Kadri will play. Overplaying the first line is probably why they were so banged up at the end of the year, now that they have a second line, I'm guessing they'll have the luxury to dial it back a smidge.