The Blues have been busy. In the last 2 days, they signed forward Samuel Blais to a 2 year/$3 million extension and dman Marco Scandella to a 4 year/$13.1 million extension. They’re already in a cap pinch next year if Tarasenko comes off LTIR. With his salary, they’re at 13 forwards, 5 dmen and 2 goalies and a $78.5 million cap hit. And one of the dmen under contract isn’t Alex Pietrangelo, who’s in the last year of a 7 year/$45.5 million contract. They have 4 forwards and 2 dmen with some form of No-Trade Clause, including Justin Faulk, who will be beginning the 7 year/$45.5 million contract he signed after the trade.
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CanadaCanes
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Interesting to see them lock up yet another defenseman to a 4 year contract, I thought that the Blues would want to see what happens with Pietrangelo before deciding on anyone else. Maybe that means they let him walk in free agency, he will command a kings ransom, likely Drew Doughty type money on a new contract.
A 30 year old, right shot dman who averages 16 goals a season and captained a Cup winner. I can’t imagine there would be a market for him. /sarcasm
Unless Pietrangelo took a big hometown discount, I don’t think the Blues could afford him anyway. Pietrangelo has a $6.5 million cap hit on his expiring contract. Karlsson signed for 8 years/$92 million, Doughty 8 years/$88 million. All of them within 5 months of each other in age. But with an uncertain cap situation, he may not find that kind of money this summer.
The Blues have been planning on life after Pietrangelo for pretty much two years now, although I'm fairly sure they thought Faulk would play a bigger role in the next version of the D Corps than he's capable of. Something about that guy makes otherwise sane GMs over estimate his abilities. He's human fool's gold.
IMO Pietrangelo isn't going to age particularly well and is going to cost some team a lot of money and cause a lot of heartache. The league is moving towards mobility being as big a factor as versatility on the blueline and that guy's mobility is right on the line. As he gets old and loses a step, he's one that will drop quickly ... and even though we've all seen it a million times before, being a great team guy and a solid leader will naturally lend itself to a veteran player being over-slotted. That's the NHL in a nutshell. Look the part and have the career numbers and you'll end up being over-paid and over-utilized eventually. And because it's a name brand player with presumed quality, the analytics people will get pilloried for pointing out his flaws by the "just watch hockey" people. "How the hell can you say Jared Spurgeon is better than Alex Pietrangelo? Are you stupid?" Wash, rinse, repeat.
IMO Pietrangelo isn't going to age particularly well and is going to cost some team a lot of money and cause a lot of heartache. The league is moving towards mobility being as big a factor as versatility on the blueline and that guy's mobility is right on the line. As he gets old and loses a step, he's one that will drop quickly ... and even though we've all seen it a million times before, being a great team guy and a solid leader will naturally lend itself to a veteran player being over-slotted. That's the NHL in a nutshell. Look the part and have the career numbers and you'll end up being over-paid and over-utilized eventually. And because it's a name brand player with presumed quality, the analytics people will get pilloried for pointing out his flaws by the "just watch hockey" people. "How the hell can you say Jared Spurgeon is better than Alex Pietrangelo? Are you stupid?" Wash, rinse, repeat.
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Jeez ... I thought that happened a while ago. I guess not.
Paulie Walnuts
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from twitter:
NHL players have deferred their decision on the last paycheque until May 15. Sense is this will allow more time for the NHL and NHLPA to figure out if there will be games this season... Players have been debating whether to forgo some or all of the last paycheque to help escrow
NHL players have deferred their decision on the last paycheque until May 15. Sense is this will allow more time for the NHL and NHLPA to figure out if there will be games this season... Players have been debating whether to forgo some or all of the last paycheque to help escrow
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Sabres owners are not good to work for. Called a toxic environment. I guess that totally crap fan base should have crap owners.
I would think not paying a bonus that is in a contract is breach of contract. but maybe the contract has a clause that allows them to skip bonuses.
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I would think not paying a bonus that is in a contract is breach of contract. but maybe the contract has a clause that allows them to skip bonuses.
As Pegulas face business challenges, employees describe a ‘toxic culture’ at PSE
The Athletic interviewed 39 current and former full-time employees by telephone, text and verified direct message.
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Sabres owners are not good to work for. Called a toxic environment. I guess that totally crap fan base should have crap owners.
I would think not paying a bonus that is in a contract is breach of contract. but maybe the contract has a clause that allows them to skip bonuses.
As Pegulas face business challenges, employees describe a ‘toxic culture’ at PSE
The Athletic interviewed 39 current and former full-time employees by telephone, text and verified direct message.
They also own the Buffalo Bills, Rochester Americans of the AHL and Buffalo Bandits and Rochester Knighthawks of the National Lacrosse League.
Paulie Walnuts
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But they had to stop work on their super yacht!!
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Players get their escrow money this week.
NHL Central Registry rejected the contract. Columbus will have to wait until the beginning of the free agency to re-file.
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CanadaCanes
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Kim Pegula's primary organizational goal was maintaining her family's"lifestyle" and she would not compromise that at the expense of maintaining employees jobs. Some employees basically were quoted as saying "I'm getting laid off before the Pegula's cancel those trips to Tahiti"...what a toxic culture that must be to work in!
They should have stopped after the $100 million donation to Penn St. to upgrade their hockey program to Division I.
The thing is ... welcome to the vast majority of the people who own professional sports franchises. The Pegulas are a bit more brazen than some, but the whole lot of them are basically a society of Robber Barons.
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Or before.... I know, progress, progress, and all that, but that move was the leading domino that exacerbated the haves/havenots gap and led to the unraveling of a couple of old traditional conferences, affecting my favorite program.... I admit, a selfish viewpoint, and now my school is doing the same to the Alaska and Alabama outposts, but the Pegula's have been "on my list" for a long time.
They had kind of outgrown the ACHA. Alabama Huntsville has always been an outlier, but after being at the Southeast District girls tournament years ago, there has been hickey in Huntsville for years, going back to the Germans that worked on munitions during WWII.
The Alaska schools need more west coast teams to move up, so there can be a west coast league. Arizona St. did it, there is no reason why some of the California schools that play club hockey can’t move up too.