Wings and Vrana come out of arbitration with 3x5.25m, not bad.
Was expecting more when they said the sides were over 2M apart. Our GM wanted to avoid potential arbitration with Vrana with Mantha's cost certainty...and now Vrana is signed for $500k cheaper for the next 3 years. Mantha is going to produce to make that trade not look horrible (although if he ends up doing anything in the playoffs it'll be more than Vrana did his last 2 playoffs).
I'm not one of the guys who thinks the Wings robbed the Caps. Hopefully the change of scenery keeps Mantha from getting lazy, which was one of the biggest knocks against him. That could have just been a coaching issue between him and Blashill too.
Just make sure he doesn't get in to any more stupid fights and break himself again.
Joe Thornton signed with the Panthers today. Interesting move. That team really loaded up this offseason. They should be a juggernaut (again) this coming season.
TBF they got eliminated by TB and IMO it was the hardest win for us. Yea I know NYI took us to 7 but I felt Florida was the bigger obstacle.Honestly they looked prime to make noise last year after their regular season, but it just didn't work out in the playoffs. Maybe they build on it this year.