Colorado Offers

[GM Office Q]

Oskar Osala: Default contract, 3 years
Daniel Paille: Default contract, 3 years
Andy McDonald: Send to arbitration
Craig Anderson: Send to arbitration

[GM Office Q]

Ryan Whitney: Send to arbitration (Pending the trade is completed)

[GoJetsGo]

Oskar Osala
Current salary: 2,062,500
Bracket: 72, 25% increase

New base: 2,062,500 * 1.25 = $2,578,125

Specialist: 350k
Devals: SH, -100k

Total salary: $2,828,125

Daniel Paille
Current salary: 1,500,000
Bracket: Under 70, 0%

New base = current, 1,500,000

Specialist 350k
Devals: SH, PL -200k

Total salary: $1,650,000

[GM Office Q]

I think Osala had a TO (which wasn't in the original list), if true in that case I'll extend him one season at his current rate.

[Virtual Jarmo]

Paille is 29. He should go to arbitration.

[Virtual Jarmo]

Paille is 29. He should go to arbitration.

Since we're pressed for time, let's say 1.75M for Paille. Thoughts?

Need your Andy McDonald arb.

[Virtual Jarmo]

An award has been determined in the Craig Anderson arbitration.

Length: 3 + TO
GM proposal: 1.2M; comps: Bishop, Niemi, Dubnyk, Pogge, Ersberg, McElhinney
Agent proposal: 1.5M; comps: Bishop, Ellis

Quinn provided this lovely graph:



Also, this mathematical jargon:

After the plot was made, a second order polynomial was used to find a "market value (M.V.)" in the relationship between OA/CON and cap hit. The M.V. is shown as the black curve line and is accurate enough that four of the seven goaltenders (including Anderson's theoretical contract which actually slightly increases the M.V.) lie within 15% of it. According to the estimated M.V., Craig Anderson warrants a contract worth $750,000, but based on his service to the organization, we are willing to meet the requirement and offer him a contract worth $1.2M (60% above his estimated M.V.). Not taken into consideration for the M.V. estimate is is age, but of the seven goaltenders listen, Anderson is the oldest and this would only diminish his M.V. estimation.

An offer of $1.2M average annual value is well above the estimated "market value" for backup goaltenders. The goaltenders selected to be as comparable were players with a consistency much higher than his overall rating, as is the case with Craig Anderson. They must also be within five years of age. To account for both attributes, a weighted overall rating called 'ADJUSTED OVERALL' was determined by the simple formula displayed on the x-axis of the chart. This formula implies that the overall rating is worth more than the consistency rating by a 5:3 ratio. This is of course an estimate only and some teams may value overall more or less, but based on past performance of goaltenders with a much higher consistency than overall rating, this is the ratio I will be working with this offseason to find a replacement for Anderson should the $1.2M offer be insufficient.

Because of the epic nature of Quinn's proposal, I can't help but give him the benefit of the doubt.

Quinn, you can accept/reject Craig Anderson at 1.2M per for 3 + TO.

[Commish Bub(NYR)]

Holy crap that's a lot of work for a backup goalie.

[Calgary.Flames]

Chapeau!

[GM Office Q]

Colorado will accept the extension with Craig Anderson and reject the extension for Daniel Paille.

[Virtual Jarmo]

The rights arbitration hearing for Ryan Whitney is complete.

Length: 3 + TO
1st attempt: 4.75M
Arbitrator number: 5.25M

90% of the arbitrator's number of 5.25M is 4.725M, so Ryan Whitney will be signed for 4.75M for 3 + TO.

[GM Office Q]

Please sign the following plugs to the default ELC, two-way:

C Nicolas Petan (U20)
C Maxwell Reinhart
C Gaetan Haas
R Andrew Fritsch
R Johan Alcen
D Jonas Holos
D Jens Hellgren
D Teemu Eronen
G Juuse Saros (U20)

[Virtual Jarmo]

ELCs offered.

[GM Office Q]

Decline arbitration and send to UFA:
Philippe Dupuis
Taylor Pyatt
TJ Hensick
Kyle McLaren

Sign to default contract extension:
Gabriel Bourque - Max length + Two Way
Cameron Reid - Max length + Two Way
Maksim Mamin - Max length + Two Way
Ryan Hayes - Max length + Two Way
Jens Hellgren - Max length + Two Way

Make the following offers:
T.J. Galiardi - $793,750 + Max length + Two Way
Jamie McGinn - $1,425,000 + Max length + Two Way
J.T. Miller - $3,312,500 + Max length
Oskar Osala - $3,143,750 + Max length
Gabe Landeskog - FRANCHISE + $6,037,500 + 10 years
Brandon Saad - $3,150,000 + Max length
Nikita Gusev - $2,450,000 + Max length
Drew Doughty - $7,062,500 + Max length

Players going to arbitration:
Kevin Klein
Dennis Wideman
Scottie Upshall

UFA players:
Milan Hejduk - will not be re-signed
Saku Koivu - will not be re-signed
Zdeno Chara - intend to re-sign

[GM Office Q]

Make the following offers:
Drew Doughty - $7,062,500 + Max length

Forgot there was a team option on Doughty. I'll use that instead.

[GM Office Q]

Drew Doughty - TO
Kevin Klein - TO
Jamie McGinn - TO
Cameron Reid - TO
Simeon Varlamov - TO
Kyle Chipchura - TO

JT Miller - $Formula + Max Length
Chucko - $Formula + Max Length
Osala - $Formula + Max Length
Landeskog - $Formula + Max Length + Franchise
Gusev - $Formula + Max Length
Galiardi - $Formula + Max Length + Two Way

[CapsGM]

J.T. Miller - $3,212,500
Kris Chucko (UFA1) - $762,500
Oskar Osala - $3,143,750
Gabriel Landeskog - $6,150,000 (with franchise tag)
Nikita Gusev - $3,550,000
T.J. Galiardi - $492,188