The Official 2025 Offseason Thread: No childhood photo, no deal

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On Rasmus Andersson. CJ names LA, Columbus, St. Louis, Ottawa, Vegas and Toronto as teams that checked in or have/had interest. Says trade might be tougher in the immediate term now that the draft has passed.

Detroit had been mentioned before by others. He makes sense but I don't know if you can move a 2026 first at this point and the ASP / Danielson tier of prospects is probably a reasonable ask that's too much for my tastes. I don't think he'd go for Wallinder + 2nd.

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Joe Veleno got bought out by Seattle

Hope he didn't buy real estate there

Wonder if he comes back to Detroit on a league minimum

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From TSN, this is an absolutely dire free agent period

Leafs eyeing Pezzetta, talking with Lorentz
While Mitch Marner's future remains top of mind for the Toronto Maple Leafs, it appears Michael Pezzetta could be on the team's radar once the market opens Tuesday.

TSN Hockey Insider Pierre LeBrun reports it would not surprise if the Leafs show interest in the 27-year-old winger. He did not record a point in 25 games with the Montreal Canadiens this past season, logging 24 penalty minutes.

The Toronto native has 15 goals and 38 points in 200 career games, all with the Canadiens.

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From an Athletic "here's what you missed" free agency update

The Red Wings landed goaltender John Gibson from Anaheim in exchange for Petr Mrazek and two draft picks (a second and a fourth-rounder). Prediction: Detroit is by no means done, as word is it has something big planned for the next few days.

Don't know if Bryan Rust qualifies but he's a Michigan Boy, on a reasonable deal, and would be a top-six winger while Bear develops. A Wings fan on The Athletic floated a top-ten protected 2026 first and a D prospect (like Wallinder / Buium).

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Red Wings have traded Vlad Tarasenko to Minnesota for future considerations

On one hand, sorry Caco

On the other hand, LOLOLOLOL

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Matias Maccelli is being traded to Toronto.

[linseman]

yzerman redeeming himself so far but i figure he's gotta do something questionable tomorrow (my guess is overpaying mikael granlund)

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Granlund seems like a guy who could flip back to bad on the Wings, really don’t want him

Athletic Wild fans seem optimistic that Tarasenko will rebound there, that he can score 20-25 goals again. Good luck with that!

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Russo says this takes the Wild out of the scoring winger market (Boeser). Tarasenko’s slated for their second line.

[Cacophony]

Russo says this takes the Wild out of the scoring winger market (Boeser). Tarasenko’s slated for their second line.

Christ. Just lighting the savings from Parise/Suter hits on fire. What a dumbass Guerin is.

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The situation with Rasmus Andersson has some layers to it, to be sure.

The 28-year-old right-shot top-four Calgary Flames defenseman doesn’t have a full no-trade clause (he has a modified one), but the 2026 unrestricted free agent’s ultimate hammer is that he controls which team he would be interested in extending with as part of a trade-and-sign scenario.

And as of Monday, the team that tops his list, league sources told The Athletic, is the Vegas Golden Knights.

Which explains why Vegas and Calgary have had numerous discussions over the past week, but still no trade has been made, as the Flames clearly haven’t been excited yet with what the Golden Knights have put on the table.

It makes sense that the Flames believe they should get more in a trade if Andersson is signed to an extension as part of it (he’s got one more year on his deal). But Andersson appears to be a little picky in where he would sign, which is obviously his right, as he would be forgoing a chance at unrestricted free agency 12 months from now.

I get that he wants to play in Vegas but what the hell do they have to trade?

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Defenseman Aaron Ekblad signs an eight-year deal with a $6.1 million AAV with the Florida Panthers.

That’s a super low AAV vs. what I expected. Term is an ooof though.

[nick]

Fuck off Vegas

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Free Agent predictions:

Marner: Vegas (8 years, 12M per)

Well I was right about this one, wrong about Ekblad to Anaheim

Guess Marchand moves on now

[nick]

Apparently Marchand is close with Florida

[nick]

On a six year deal…

Fuck off Florida

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5.2 AAV?

I really didn’t think they’d keep all three

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Nicolas Roy to Toronto

The trade is one for one

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Provorov back in Columbus, 7 years 8.5 per

I didn’t particularly want that bigot but man who’s the next best defenseman after Gavrikov (who seems like a wink wink lock for the Rangers)

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Is Pius Suter now a top five UFA?