Keith from Cary?KEITH PRIMEAU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!
Keith from Cary?KEITH PRIMEAU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!
Yep, it’s Bear and Lane Pederson, with the Canes retaining $400k for a 5th rounder.Sounds like it might only be a fifth round pick coming back to the Canes...
With all the heavy lifting you do in here to make sense of all the cap stuff for all of us you get a free pass!!!!---edit, I don't know why the math was twisting me in circles today ---
That $400k retained doesn't impact anything cap wise for us. We are ok either way when Pacioretty returns and could keep the current roster as is.
I think it was just the uncertainty of the 5/6 spot with De Haan coming in and just playing really well. With Vancouver taking Pederson's hefty $750K I don't mind this at all; sometimes you gotta break a few eggs to make an omelette which you want to eat out of a Stanley Cup.Canucks cannot just add Bear to their current roster, they would be over the cap. They could make room by sending Dman Jack Rathbone (waivers exempt) down, or any of forwards Andrei Kuzmenko, Vasily Podkolzin, Nils Hoglander or Nils Aman all of who are waivers exempt.
Canes wouldn't have wanted an NHL body back.
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Ok, OR, per Elliot Friedman, the Canes could retain some of Bear's contract, which apparently is what they did.
So its Bear, $400k retained + 'an AHL player' for as of yet known draft pick.
Which to me begs the question 'why did we even qualify Ethan Bear? I guess we will see what the pick is, but paying what in the end amounts to a bit over $500k in actual money + whoever this 'AHL' player is for whatever this draft pick is doesn't sound like great business.
He’s taken 97 faceoffs so far. Necas has taken 54 but we don’t know how many of those were by design and how many were becuase KK was kicked out. KK is winning 54.6% of his draws, Necas is at 50%. There is only 1 “regular” center below 50% and it’s Staal at 48%.KK has been kicked out of the circle a lot. The Islanders game it seemed one the linesman was basically out to get him. Not saying that KK doesn't cheat in the circle, but I will say he needs to watch his whining about getting kicked out because of it becasues that just makes it worse.
Correct, the STH entrances have gone the way of the dodo. The explanation/excuse is that there are too many now to process through a single door.Not that it’s a big deal but it’s my first game this year and it appears the STH entrance is no more? Rookie mistake; switched sides of the arena this year and the wrong lane of my new entrance into the parking lot shoved me all the way around to my side from last year. Oh well, go canes!
The Corsi numbers were surprising, but the bottom line is putting the puck in the net. And Martinook hasn’t helped Aho’s line do that.Interesting article in The Athletic today on Martinook's play so far this season. Also addresses a frequent complaint about Roddy's frequent use of him on the top line. Here's part of that conversation:
“They don’t know what they’re talking about,” the coach said of critics. “If that’s what they’re saying, they have zero knowledge of hockey because the only reason he’s there is because somebody’s not doing their job.”
Brind’Amour goes on to say that it isn't about productivity - it's about changing the dynamic and that it happens almost every time.