Free Agency - Where Do They Go?

I bet we go all out on Garrison and sign Latendresse for cheap.

Top-4 D, Top-6 F at a Melnyk approved price. Not ideal but doable.

I'm very excited. The way I look at it, we're adding talent to an already exciting lineup.

Hoags wrote:I bet we go all out on Garrison and sign Latendresse for cheap.

Top-4 D, Top-6 F at a Melnyk approved price. Not ideal but doable.

Makes sense actually. We need Garrison or Carle or someone of that ilk though.

Want Garrison really badly. I feel he's the hybrid offensive and defensive guy we need.

Parenteau>>>> OTT
Konopka>>>>> Caps

Zach Parise - Detroit Red Wings
Ryan Suter - Colorado Avalanche
Filip Kuba - Detroit Red Wings
Jiri Hudler - San Jose Sharks
Matt Carle - Edmonton Oilers
Martin Brodeur - New Jersey Devils
P.A. Parenteau - Ottawa Senators
Jason Garrison - Vancouver Canucks
Alex Semin - Chicago Blackhawks
Jaromir Jagr - Calgary Flames
Shane Doan - Phoenix Coyotes
Dustin Penner - Anaheim Ducks

Garrioch tweeted that we are $10.something from the floor. Is that true? That's what Capgeek is showing, but with a 16-man roster. I know we have way more than that under contract. So $10M for 7 potential roster spots -- I guess we can't do it just with ELCs?

PAP will land in Ottawa today. I can;t get out of bed I am so hung over

Pencil in Foligno for around $1.8M, JOB should get a raise to around $800, and Silfverberg is $900K. That gets us $3.5M and our forward ranks are full (13).

Boro's $610 takes us just over $4M and we still need a 6th and 7th defenseman with $6M to spend.

AA trade typically involves an exchange in cap-hits so that wouldn't do. I guess they could take on a bad contract, but we might as well just overpay a UFA on a short-ish term. The Murrays definitely need to go shopping in a couple of hours. We could $5M at Garrison, which apparently is what he is asking. But that wouldn't be enough.

Any rumors out there?

NEELY wrote:PAP will land in Ottawa today. I can;t get out of bed I am so hung over

LOL.

Lots of Twitter talk that the first two years of Parise's deal will be in the neighbourhood of $24 mil.

Also on Parise: apparently, he will let NJ know at 10am-ish if he's heading to UFA. And, there's suddenly talk of OTT being a bidder on Parise, although the front end of his supposed desired deal is going to frighten away more than a few GMs.

wprager wrote:Pencil in Foligno for around $1.8M, JOB should get a raise to around $800, and Silfverberg is $900K. That gets us $3.5M and our forward ranks are full (13).

Boro's $610 takes us just over $4M and we still need a 6th and 7th defenseman with $6M to spend.

AA trade typically involves an exchange in cap-hits so that wouldn't do. I guess they could take on a bad contract, but we might as well just overpay a UFA on a short-ish term. The Murrays definitely need to go shopping in a couple of hours. We could $5M at Garrison, which apparently is what he is asking. But that wouldn't be enough.

Any rumors out there?

Noooo chance. More like 2.5 to 3 mil min.

rooneypoo wrote:

NEELY wrote:PAP will land in Ottawa today. I can;t get out of bed I am so hung over

LOL.

If you drove by Lynx Stadium yesterday at any point... thats why I am hung over. That might be the best party Ottawa has ever thrown.

NEELY wrote:

rooneypoo wrote:

NEELY wrote:PAP will land in Ottawa today. I can;t get out of bed I am so hung over

LOL.

If you drove by Lynx Stadium yesterday at any point... thats why I am hung over. That might be the best party Ottawa has ever thrown.

?

What, did you take in a Fat Cats game, and get loaded there?

NEELY wrote:

wprager wrote:Pencil in Foligno for around $1.8M, JOB should get a raise to around $800, and Silfverberg is $900K. That gets us $3.5M and our forward ranks are full (13).

Boro's $610 takes us just over $4M and we still need a 6th and 7th defenseman with $6M to spend.

AA trade typically involves an exchange in cap-hits so that wouldn't do. I guess they could take on a bad contract, but we might as well just overpay a UFA on a short-ish term. The Murrays definitely need to go shopping in a couple of hours. We could $5M at Garrison, which apparently is what he is asking. But that wouldn't be enough.

Any rumors out there?

Noooo chance. More like 2.5 to 3 mil min.

Oh, I'm ok with $up to $2.5M, actually, but $3M is a little high He's still terribly inconsistent. For $3M I want him to go-go-go all the time and not coast for 5 games out of every 10-15.

Anyhow, $2.5 (Foligno), $0.900 (Silfverberg), $0.800 (JOB), $0.610 (Boro), $5 (Garrison) and $0.650 (Gryba) will give us a 23-man roster about $200K over the floor. If we think Garrison is the one we want we can definitely get him by overpaying. Would you rather throw $6.5M at Suter and go with a 21-22 man roster?

rooneypoo wrote:

NEELY wrote:

rooneypoo wrote:

NEELY wrote:PAP will land in Ottawa today. I can;t get out of bed I am so hung over

LOL.

If you drove by Lynx Stadium yesterday at any point... thats why I am hung over. That might be the best party Ottawa has ever thrown.

?

What, did you take in a Fat Cats game, and get loaded there?

Nothing fat about anything at that place yesterday lol... unreal how good that party was. Avicci is just stupid good.

Some interesting Twitter tidbits on the Sens, from Buffet:

Bruce Garrioch ‏@SunGarrioch

Jesse Winchester has passed his baseline test. It would appear he's going to go to free agency. NYR and COL will be interested. #Sens

The Senators and Leafs are among several teams that have contacted the SJS about D Doug Murray. Burke made an offer for Murray at the draft.

rooneypoo wrote:Lots of Twitter talk that the first two years of Parise's deal will be in the neighbourhood of $24 mil.

Also on Parise: apparently, he will let NJ know at 10am-ish if he's heading to UFA. And, there's suddenly talk of OTT being a bidder on Parise, although the front end of his supposed desired deal is going to frighten away more than a few GMs.

I hate to say it, but there are rumours of an 8 year deal with Pittsburgh where he gets a cap hit of 7.

But if GMs are scared off by the first two years of his contract, I hope to Dung we're in on this. Not that he'd sign here anyway I don't think.