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2019 NHL Off Season News Thread

TheBigKahuna said:
I'll be shocked if Reimer is a Cane still by October.
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Reimer would be a hard guy to trade at this point, Tampa has 4 established goalies now under contract in Vasilevsky, Curtis Mac, Louis Domingue and now Mike Condon, so I'm sure anyone looking for a backup would rather have the affordable Louis Domingue over the expensive Reimer. It looks like our old friends Cam and Darling are both still looking for work too...:couch
 
Most of the chatter around the league leans towards Ward retiring. Darling is almost certainly going to end up on a minor league contract, if he's playing this season at all.
 
cmaleski2 said:
I'm going to make this prediction now.
None of Zach Werenski, Kyle Connor, Patrick Laine, Matthew Tkachuk, Brock Boeser, Charlie McAvoy, Mikko Rantanen, Mitch Marner, or Braydon Point are going to be signed until September. At least 5 of them will not be signed until after camps starts. At least 3 of them will not be signed when the regular season starts.
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Looking good so far. Aho would have been the 10th RFA on this list if not for the Habs (thanks again!). Just 27 days until September and 42ish days until camps open. If everyone is waiting for Marner to sign, well, everyone is still going to be unsigned when camps open.
 
cmaleski2 said:
Looking good so far. Aho would have been the 10th RFA on this list if not for the Habs (thanks again!). Just 27 days until September and 42ish days until camps open. If everyone is waiting for Marner to sign, well, everyone is still going to be unsigned when camps open.
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Which is fine ... I guess. I just have a hard time seeing teams that actually have a shot at winning something, like Winnipeg, heading into camp with that much difference making talent sitting on the sidelines due to anything other than injury. If this is the new trend in the NHL, then I guess I'm actually impressed at teams holding the line on salary creep for a change, but it's gonna take some getting used to.
 
cmaleski2 said:
The Rangers have elected to buy out Kevin Shattenkirk.
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He signs with Tampa, 1 year/$1.75 million. CapFriendly shows them with 9 dmen and only 10 forwards. They still need to sign Point and Erne but they have almost $9.4 million in cap space.


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andyt said:
He signs with Tampa, 1 year/$1.75 million. CapFriendly shows them with 9 dmen and only 10 forwards. They still need to sign Point and Erne but they have almost $9.4 million in cap space.


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Is it just me, but how the hell does Tampa seem to keep signing player after player and extension after extension and never run out of money or cap space? It's an embarrassment of riches in talent but at some point they are going to be in cap hell no?
 
CanadaCanes said:
Is it just me, but how the hell does Tampa seem to keep signing player after player and extension after extension and never run out of money or cap space? It's an embarrassment of riches in talent but at some point they are going to be in cap hell no?
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Maybe next year, when Vasilevskiy’s extension kicks in. They have $67.4’million committed to 13 players. If the cap stays relatively stagnant, they might have trouble. Don’t forget, they still need to sign Brayden Point this year too. If he gets an Aho-sized contract, that eats most of what they have available this year and they’ll need to hope for a big cap bump next year.


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andyt said:
Maybe next year, when Vasilevskiy’s extension kicks in. They have $67.4’million committed to 13 players. If the cap stays relatively stagnant, they might have trouble. Don’t forget, they still need to sign Brayden Point this year too. If he gets an Aho-sized contract, that eats most of what they have available this year and they’ll need to hope for a big cap bump next year.


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Point isn't sitting around waiting for Marner to set the market just for giggles. He wants more than Aho got, for sure. And yes, Tampa will be in Cap hell next summer if the Cap doesn't spike significantly ... and it almost certainly won't. This season is their window and by all accounts, they're going to go hard at it and figure out next year later.
 
jeffbear said:
Point isn't sitting around waiting for Marner to set the market just for giggles. He wants more than Aho got, for sure. And yes, Tampa will be in Cap hell next summer if the Cap doesn't spike significantly ... and it almost certainly won't. This season is their window and by all accounts, they're going to go hard at it and figure out next year later.
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They only have $9.4 million this year and only 10 forwards signed. It’s not like they have a lot of room this year either, depending on what they sign him for. Of course, they could go the Sharks/Lebanc route and sign him to a below market value contract with a wink and nod for next year.


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I've always found Shattenkirk underwhelming. Seems like he is one of those d-men who is "best available" at the deadline and then teams pay too much and it just gets to be a mess. The player's "best available" aura lasts longer than the reality.
 
Boardwork said:
I've always found Shattenkirk underwhelming. Seems like he is one of those d-men who is "best available" at the deadline and then teams pay too much and it just gets to be a mess. The player's "best available" aura lasts longer than the reality.
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Talk about coming back down to earth, Shattenkirk went from a 4 year, $26.6 million contract with the Rags with an AAV of $6.65m to a $1.7 million one year deal. Still owed almost $6 million over the next 4 years from the Rangers on the buyout so he should be able to still feed his family ok!
 
Boardwork said:
I've always found Shattenkirk underwhelming. Seems like he is one of those d-men who is "best available" at the deadline and then teams pay too much and it just gets to be a mess. The player's "best available" aura lasts longer than the reality.
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He's basically John-Michael Liles ... only he's 2 inches taller, 20 pounds heavier and obviously has a better publicist.

Still, if Shattenkirk can find any confidence at all, he'll help Tampa as a support power play guy. They've been getting some of that from Sergachev but he's erratic.
 
ThinIce said:
Well, this is interesting: Wild GM search update: Hurricanes’ Don Waddell, Penguins’ Bill Guerin latest to interview.
https://theathletic.com/1119016/201...guerin-latest-to-interview/?source=dailyemail
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Hopefully this is just the Aho offer sheet strategy. Waddell is currently without a contract in Raleigh. Maybe he is just trying to spark Dundon to ink him to a new contract. I assume that if Waddell really wanted out, Dundon would have shown him the door by now, as is his modus operandi.
 
Unless the Wild were going throw insane money at Waddell, the Canes GM job is still a better gig when you look at the current state of the rosters, prospects and future of the orgs. Not to toot our own horn, but that Wild team as a whole is a mess compared to the Canes from where I sit today.
 
You have to hand it to Dundon. What other team would kind of just let the contract of their GM expire like that. On Waddell's side of things, how many GMs would just kind of keep doing the job without a contract?

Conventional is not the word to use to describe on the Canes are doing things now. Have we been paying Waddell under the same terms of his expired contract for the past month (I guess we have to be?) If we let Waddell move on to another team, who is going to be the GM?
 
Conventional is not a word that will be used to describe how the Canes do things EVER ... at least not with Dundon calling the shots. May as well buckle in and get used to be being different.

Waddell has benefitted strongly from the reputation bounce he's gotten from being the Canes GM over the last year, but let's not get caught up in the idea that Donny somehow found a genius potion somewhere in the dusty back rooms of the PNC's hockey offices. He didn't. He's still the same old not so Dandy Don that got the Canes job because he was the only one willing to let his owner engage in his "collaborative management" approach. If he's eventually hired by the Wild ... Dundon will find another guy and move on. The biggest concern probably will be how much of a battering the Canes take in the press in the meantime ... although that honestly doesn't matter either. The hockey press will probably never get used to Dundon's way of running the franchise so the Canes will get battered on the regular for the foreseeable future either way.
 
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