BTW Mike, the hurricanes were willing to match any contract that Guenztel wanted. In fact, according to their local beat reporter Cory Lavalette, this is how it went down: In the middle of last week, Guenztel's agent asked the Hurricanes if they were willing to do an 8x8. Early morning on Thursday, Tulsky agreed to that term and was willing to structure the contract however his agent wanted. After agreeing to do the deal, Guenztel ghosted the Hurricanes until SATURDAY (Day two of the draft) where he told them he did not want to sign there. Conveniently, on this same day we saw Tampa Bay clearing cap by trading Sergachev. The next day, on Sunday, they traded his rights to TBL for a future third round pick All in all, Carolina got screwed more than anything, and in my opinion, it is clear and blatant tampering by the Lightning.
I love your videos and I know its gonna sound biased because I am a blues fan but Armstrong has made some great moves to get deeper. He has fleeced Columbus and ottawa maybe Dallas too, but I think they should be higher man.
I think that Vegas has had an underated offseason. It definitely hasn't been great, but the playera they signed and traded for were not expensive and are going to be able to be really good this upcoming season, the 2 that stand out to me being Samsonov for 1.8 mill and Doropheyev for only 800k, which is a steal considering his chemistry with Stone
@@MikeBartner I also really don't think that Thompson could have landed better than that. Don't forget he asked for a trade and Washington was the only option if McCrimmond wanted to be nice. He's undrafted, has solid numbers sure, but not that proven so far. At best we could have gotten a 2nd, but 2 x 3rds is actually market value to me. Especially with the pickup they did with the 3rd they got this year, Moysevich looks like a solid future goalie. Not to mentiont that the Alexander Holtz deal is such a steal
Your vidoes are amazing mike but don't you think they would be more intersting or easier to watch if you had some sort of gameplay or hockey clips in the background (only a tip from my pov maybe people don't agree)
Washington are making big moves just to be a wildcard team, they improved the team, sure, but they aren’t that good still lol it’s taking them to no man’s land.
Man you traded for PLD and drafted Parascak way too high. Yes they had some very good moves as well but also bad one. Meanwhile every Islanders move was good to great (Eiserman, Reilly and Duclair). This isn't about who did the MOST (like Nashville), it's more who hit on the highest % of the moves they could make relative to expectations.
I agree with Carolina. I really like their draft, solid cheaper options in free agency. Guentzel is the only thing I wish they got done. Id put them in Good. Could go up or down depending on the Necas thing and Jarvis deal
Canes fan. I’d definitely put us in meh for now but I at least like the work on defense. Guentzel screwed us over, they offered him everything he wanted and he ghosted us. Still salty. That re-signing would’ve put us in solid imo
One factor to mention is that no one wants to come to Buffalo. What respectable free agent would do that? All they have is the draft. Players avoid the Sabres like the plague
On one hand hate the rangers didn’t make any big changes but seeing some of the contracts I’m happy they didn’t overpay for someone who’s 31-34 years old
I like what the Devils did but not enough to put them in the top tier as a fan. Devils didn't fill a hole in their top 6 yet and don't look to have cap space to.do.so. I also think they got hosed on the Cotter trade (though something strange may be going on with Schmid given that he was no QO'ed there). They also undersold Marino even if they made up for it by not giving too much to get an upgrade in Pesce (note the lack of NTC clauses in his contract). You could say that I'm.quibbling but they did come into this off season with a fantastic cap structure and I think it's worth holding Fitz to a standard of needing to fill in every hole to earn the top grade. He could still fill that hole with a trade, but it will be tough to do so with where his cap space is right now. Instead he brought in Tatar (at a great contract bang for buck) a career mid-6 player (production more third line) who never does anything in the playoffs and is coming off of a rough season.
Tbh i dont think canucks got worse. They needed a top 6 winger for petterson which they got. The forward core got alot deeper and getting rid of mikheyev is huge. I would argue the D core stayed the same. Losing zadorov sucks but overpaying for him would also suck. Not having ian cole play 3rd imposter for us is great but to replace them with forbort and dehsrnaise is a big gamble
It sucks to say but my bruins had an awful offseason I really hope letourneau lights it up at bc next year and we will have that going for us at least but besides that I just don’t see us winning a Stanley cup any time soon and we need more prospects
Ottawa definitely belongs in the bad tier. they didn't trade Joseph FOR a 3rd, they gave away a 3rd WITH Joseph to dump his contract. sheer fucking lunacy. while slightly over-payed, Joseph was one of the most consistent and hard working players last season.
Ok no shot Isles are in great. I dont care if they had a "better offseason than the past few years" it DOES NOT change the fact that they have almost 0 direction, and that Lou doesnt make very good moves. Bias placement and not putting Chicago in at least good is wild (im a caps fan).
Too low on Philly, getting mitchkov over 2 years early is such a huge win for them, then also not making any horrible free agent adds, luchanko was a reach but it wasn’t egregious. If you calculate it out helenius and luchanko would have had similar point production if they played in the nhl last year. Luchanko is 17 and led his ohl team in scoring, his team was not good either he was their best player at 17. They also got good value picks in Powell and bruhonen. Berglund was an interesting pick but their off-season was no less than good/solid. They aslo added another first round pick in 2025 which is supposed to be a deep draft so I would argue it was good
Im not a fan of your placement of the pens. They got good value with their 2 2nd round picks, they got a 2nd with Hayes for nothing (Hayes is overpaid at 3.5 mill but its not even that bad, he could bounce back) and they traded Reilly Smith for more than the gave up to get him (which non of us thought was going to be possible). They made some pretty low risk signings to improve the bottom 6 which was the problem last year. Its nothing fantastic, but I think its better than both teams in bad as well as Detroit, Buffalo and Philly.
I'm a Bruins fan and we signed the players we needed and we always improve goalies so Korpisalo is gonna be good. We may have slightly overpaid Zadorov but Matt Grzelcyk was making 4 million. All we have left to do is pay Swayman
How is Ottawa in solid after 2 horrible trades and meh draft? Signing pinto was great but doesnt justify them being in solid. Blues were solid. Solid draft, solid signs and solid trades. Joseph trade was big win. Hayes trade was a win too, who wants to keep 30 point guy with 7m AAV. Second round might be a lot but without it they couldn't sign Buschnevich.
Boston for bad? They addressed everything that they needed to do? Lindholm is a great top 6 guy… zadorov helps Bostons stacked defence out. Korpisalo is kinda useless but he’ll probably play better than he did in Ottawa. Boston always improves goalies
@@LucasSChiefsLightning they got a high level center prospect for a goalie who would have played 25 games and none in the playoffs. The last time Lindholm had NHL linemates he scored 40 goals
18 vids in a week ur on fire dude good shit
Thanks Tyler, love putting the work in and pumping out videos for yall!
glazing the habs lately and I absolutely love it, keep it up your the best hockey content creator by far
Oilers in good and not great when they signed Arvidsson, Jeff skinner and resigned Henrique for only 10 mill is wild lol.
Fr 2 top 6 players and a veteran depth piece for 10 mil. And that’s not great??
Do you think the oilers should make a trade to address theIr D?
Mike what are your thoughts on my Avs only signing Drouin to a 1 year deal, and him taking less to stay with the Avs
Very good deal Cam!
Bro put Nashville in solid💀
BTW Mike, the hurricanes were willing to match any contract that Guenztel wanted. In fact, according to their local beat reporter Cory Lavalette, this is how it went down:
In the middle of last week, Guenztel's agent asked the Hurricanes if they were willing to do an 8x8. Early morning on Thursday, Tulsky agreed to that term and was willing to structure the contract however his agent wanted.
After agreeing to do the deal, Guenztel ghosted the Hurricanes until SATURDAY (Day two of the draft) where he told them he did not want to sign there. Conveniently, on this same day we saw Tampa Bay clearing cap by trading Sergachev.
The next day, on Sunday, they traded his rights to TBL for a future third round pick
All in all, Carolina got screwed more than anything, and in my opinion, it is clear and blatant tampering by the Lightning.
That third round pick was hush money
Carolina was STINGY with guentzel in the beginning... they are llike that look at the coachs contract
Tier List Tuesday! Woot! 🎉
100% putting NYI in great is biased af. Solid at best.
They hit on every move lmfao
@@MikeBartnerto a biased fan, sure. Yet to be proven. We will see if you’re still saying that when you miss the playoffs again.
Oilers gotta be in great imo, the skinner arvidsson signings+keeping the entire third line overrides the bad draft to me
lets go Devils 👹
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I love you Mike you been my go to for hockey lately
Thank you!
God amazing rankings
I love your videos and I know its gonna sound biased because I am a blues fan but Armstrong has made some great moves to get deeper. He has fleeced Columbus and ottawa maybe Dallas too, but I think they should be higher man.
We're focusing on defense for the future in the draft this season.
I think that Vegas has had an underated offseason. It definitely hasn't been great, but the playera they signed and traded for were not expensive and are going to be able to be really good this upcoming season, the 2 that stand out to me being Samsonov for 1.8 mill and Doropheyev for only 800k, which is a steal considering his chemistry with Stone
Agreed we all knew they'd lose everyone, idk why everyone is shocked.
@@MikeBartner I also really don't think that Thompson could have landed better than that. Don't forget he asked for a trade and Washington was the only option if McCrimmond wanted to be nice. He's undrafted, has solid numbers sure, but not that proven so far. At best we could have gotten a 2nd, but 2 x 3rds is actually market value to me. Especially with the pickup they did with the 3rd they got this year, Moysevich looks like a solid future goalie. Not to mentiont that the Alexander Holtz deal is such a steal
Your vidoes are amazing mike but don't you think they would be more intersting or easier to watch if you had some sort of gameplay or hockey clips in the background (only a tip from my pov maybe people don't agree)
No im doing something else while listening to the videos
NYI in great and WSH in good you’re really biased and thought you were better than this.
Washington are making big moves just to be a wildcard team, they improved the team, sure, but they aren’t that good still lol it’s taking them to no man’s land.
Man you traded for PLD and drafted Parascak way too high. Yes they had some very good moves as well but also bad one. Meanwhile every Islanders move was good to great (Eiserman, Reilly and Duclair). This isn't about who did the MOST (like Nashville), it's more who hit on the highest % of the moves they could make relative to expectations.
Lmao Just getting PLD should bring you down to fucking ass tier
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I agree with Carolina. I really like their draft, solid cheaper options in free agency. Guentzel is the only thing I wish they got done. Id put them in Good. Could go up or down depending on the Necas thing and Jarvis deal
Bro the Pens are clearly going through a slow rebuild and Columbus should be Great since they signed me, the GOAT.
Mike habs respect❤️🐐🐐🐐
Canes fan. I’d definitely put us in meh for now but I at least like the work on defense. Guentzel screwed us over, they offered him everything he wanted and he ghosted us. Still salty. That re-signing would’ve put us in solid imo
One factor to mention is that no one wants to come to Buffalo. What respectable free agent would do that? All they have is the draft. Players avoid the Sabres like the plague
Make some trades then, also the Sabres have gotten all of their recent players to sign long term so they're not Winnipeg level.
@@MikeBartner lol. I wish our organization was that competent to make a decent trade.
On one hand hate the rangers didn’t make any big changes but seeing some of the contracts I’m happy they didn’t overpay for someone who’s 31-34 years old
Agreed
People don’t seem to understand this is not just about free agency, it’s INCLUDING the draft lol
Bart, I’m missing Kemba rn 😢
PAAAAAIIIINNNNN
Oilers signed Jeff Skinner too
I hope this doesn't sound snarky, but you are The Hockey Guy for grownups.
The Habs drafted well in the first round, but were terrible in the other rounds. Minnesota and Calgary drafted well throughout the entire draft.
I like what the Devils did but not enough to put them in the top tier as a fan.
Devils didn't fill a hole in their top 6 yet and don't look to have cap space to.do.so. I also think they got hosed on the Cotter trade (though something strange may be going on with Schmid given that he was no QO'ed there). They also undersold Marino even if they made up for it by not giving too much to get an upgrade in Pesce (note the lack of NTC clauses in his contract).
You could say that I'm.quibbling but they did come into this off season with a fantastic cap structure and I think it's worth holding Fitz to a standard of needing to fill in every hole to earn the top grade. He could still fill that hole with a trade, but it will be tough to do so with where his cap space is right now. Instead he brought in Tatar (at a great contract bang for buck) a career mid-6 player (production more third line) who never does anything in the playoffs and is coming off of a rough season.
What was Boston supposed to do stand pat and do nothing ?
Not overpay a 2C and third pair dman
@@ShaanHarikathat’s how free agency works
Besides 7.75 and 5 ain’t bad they could’ve easily asked for more
Standing pat and doing nothing was far better than throwing 13m down the drain for guys who don’t move the needle
Came here to hear about my boys in burgundy and blue. "Solid. They resigned Drouin. We'll see what they do with Nichuskin." That's all???
Don't quite get what the Ducks are trying to do because they have the big cap space available and not doing much with it.
Tbh i dont think canucks got worse. They needed a top 6 winger for petterson which they got. The forward core got alot deeper and getting rid of mikheyev is huge.
I would argue the D core stayed the same. Losing zadorov sucks but overpaying for him would also suck. Not having ian cole play 3rd imposter for us is great but to replace them with forbort and dehsrnaise is a big gamble
Minnesota Wild are in trouble
They have good players but every team in the division got better
Capitals took on the full PLD contract don’t forget
This guy doesn’t know how good Aube-Kubel is
It sucks to say but my bruins had an awful offseason I really hope letourneau lights it up at bc next year and we will have that going for us at least but besides that I just don’t see us winning a Stanley cup any time soon and we need more prospects
Boston got Zadorov because of Sam Bennett 😂
Ottawa definitely belongs in the bad tier. they didn't trade Joseph FOR a 3rd, they gave away a 3rd WITH Joseph to dump his contract. sheer fucking lunacy.
while slightly over-payed, Joseph was one of the most consistent and hard working players last season.
The Chychrun trade is also cancer.
he was an absolute liability, -31 or something
HAWKS WIN !!
Bostons was definitely solid. They'll get the most out of Lindholm, Zadorov
Ok no shot Isles are in great. I dont care if they had a "better offseason than the past few years" it DOES NOT change the fact that they have almost 0 direction, and that Lou doesnt make very good moves. Bias placement and not putting Chicago in at least good is wild (im a caps fan).
Sharks gonna be a wagon…in a few years lol
i hope the stars dont get much worse lollllll losing tanev sucked but no way we were signing him for 6 years
Does the english language not have a “J”. Frej
The pronunciation is correct lol
@@MikeBartner Hell nah buddy. Thats not how you say it
@@MikeBartner You are better of just saying frey at that point
Too low on Philly, getting mitchkov over 2 years early is such a huge win for them, then also not making any horrible free agent adds, luchanko was a reach but it wasn’t egregious. If you calculate it out helenius and luchanko would have had similar point production if they played in the nhl last year. Luchanko is 17 and led his ohl team in scoring, his team was not good either he was their best player at 17. They also got good value picks in Powell and bruhonen. Berglund was an interesting pick but their off-season was no less than good/solid. They aslo added another first round pick in 2025 which is supposed to be a deep draft so I would argue it was good
Im not a fan of your placement of the pens. They got good value with their 2 2nd round picks, they got a 2nd with Hayes for nothing (Hayes is overpaid at 3.5 mill but its not even that bad, he could bounce back) and they traded Reilly Smith for more than the gave up to get him (which non of us thought was going to be possible). They made some pretty low risk signings to improve the bottom 6 which was the problem last year. Its nothing fantastic, but I think its better than both teams in bad as well as Detroit, Buffalo and Philly.
I'm a Bruins fan and we signed the players we needed and we always improve goalies so Korpisalo is gonna be good. We may have slightly overpaid Zadorov but Matt Grzelcyk was making 4 million. All we have left to do is pay Swayman
Fair I don't hate the guys they signed fit wise, just the contract.
@@MikeBartner Oh but I don't think they are as bad as some other ones
@@justinspiewak1482zadorov is legit a bottom pairing dman and Lindholm is a second line center
@@Bruh-lf3sk What pair was Zadorov on this past season
@@justinspiewak1482 not a good one
And Arizona’s offseason. Well. It was a offseason, not a good one,but I mean, still a offseason. And their last.
How is Ottawa in solid after 2 horrible trades and meh draft? Signing pinto was great but doesnt justify them being in solid.
Blues were solid. Solid draft, solid signs and solid trades. Joseph trade was big win. Hayes trade was a win too, who wants to keep 30 point guy with 7m AAV. Second round might be a lot but without it they couldn't sign Buschnevich.
The Ullmark trade was way more important than Chychrun or Joseph
Fair point, forgot Ullmark @@MikeBartner
well now Sens resigned Pinto
Boston's was not that bad
Boston for bad? They addressed everything that they needed to do? Lindholm is a great top 6 guy… zadorov helps Bostons stacked defence out. Korpisalo is kinda useless but he’ll probably play better than he did in Ottawa. Boston always improves goalies
The nerds as always say the bruins did bad . And every year they finish with 100+ points and in the playoffs
@@RyanM0526and then he puts the islanders at great! They did almost nothing 😂😂😂
An old team that will probably be stuck in mediocrity for while
Elias Lindholm had no business getting the term or the AAV that he got. That's a ridiculous contract. And the Ullmark trade wasn't good.
@@LucasSChiefsLightning they got a high level center prospect for a goalie who would have played 25 games and none in the playoffs. The last time Lindholm had NHL linemates he scored 40 goals
@@RyanM0526 So it was smart to pay a center nearly $8 million per season whose production is dependent on his line mates? Okay.
I think Boston is ranked too low and Islanders ranked too high, but solid list overall.
Bruins didn't do to bad pal
You’re a pretty biased leaf hater, these guys can’t do anything right 😂
God awful ranking
HAHAHAHAHAH lets elaborate on that and I'll happily explain it instead of a blank statement
How?
This guy is an oiler hater lol
Damn bro that’s a bit harsh
Explain how coward
Your bias is showing.
You are crazy out of the gate with the Bruins. Stopped watching then.
Bruins didn't do to bad pal