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Post by brandonmoose on May 9, 2023 10:16:23 GMT -7
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Post by nash on May 9, 2023 10:53:00 GMT -7
Terrible. At least he won a Cup if this is career threatening.
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Post by Belfast on May 9, 2023 12:01:17 GMT -7
Yeah this sucks. For him personally as a human being I feel terrible. A freak accident could cost him his playing career which he obviously loved.
For me, it means I lose my top line LW for at least 2 years, possibly permanently. It sucks that we don't have any kind of protection for this. We dont have an LTIR so that we can replace a guy that valuable, but we can't predict the future either. That trade now sucks donkey ass for sure though, but without crystal balls, those are the risks you take I guess.
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Post by nash on May 9, 2023 13:38:17 GMT -7
For me, it means I lose my top line LW for at least 2 years, possibly permanently. It sucks that we don't have any kind of protection for this. We dont have an LTIR so that we can replace a guy that valuable, but we can't predict the future either. That trade now sucks donkey ass for sure though, but without crystal balls, those are the risks you take I guess. What sort of protection are you thinking for this Daniel? Is this protection for missing a player who gets injured by replacing them with something similar which Colorado may try to do with the additional 7 million in cap they had this season and in the upcoming season? |
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Post by Belfast on May 9, 2023 14:25:04 GMT -7
I wasnt thinking of any proposal or anything. I just meant that since we don't have the options to call up people from the AHL, or to sign similar replacement FA's because we dont have that kind of system in place, nor pool to draw from.
We don't have a salary cap, or access to a full league of upcoming FA's from other teams. I would have no idea even how to approach a general idea on how to protect teams from having lost top players due to injury.
I'm sure there are ideas that could be floated, but do they hurt the league more than help it would be the question. If there's no risk involved, then do any trades actually occur, or do guys just settle for whatever method of protection we could come up with, whether that be making a card for a LTIR guy that's 3/4 of his last years totals, or if it's a replacement player that's a tiered player, like a generic 1st, 2nd, 3rd line winger or center, or a generic 1st or 2nd pairing line D...then there's no downside to taking on players or trading for them if you're guaranteed to always have enough guys to play your lines.
Obviously trading is our only option, and I trade more than most, but trying to deal with Landeskog, Wilson and Nichushkin this year will be a tall task, especially since I am losing positional ratings on top of the injury issues. I know our teams are deeper, but losing two or three top player for a whole year, or two in my case, can really hamper a teams window. Larry also suffered from this recently, I'm sure lot's of guys have. Maybe not quite to that extent, but injuries happen. It's just unfortunate luck that we have to try and work around is more what I meant.
Just frustrating when you sacrifice youth and draft capital to build a core and then 2-3 of your top 6 are summarily out for a year or two. I don't think there's anything that we can do, nor do I really think there's anything we should do at this point, as far as regulating LTIR's. We can't predict them so we just have to live with them I guess.
I merely meant that from my personal position, it really sucks to try and replace that much production. Gonna be a hard slog and I'll likely have to give up far more value than I might normally, in order to keep the team competitive. It's not a league wide epidemic, just so happens that we've experienced a bit more of it in the last couple years than usual I think.
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