Yep, probably the highest return ever for a pending UFA. I guess that’s $8 million extra dollars to go shopping…This is about as good a return as you ever see for the rights to a UFA.
That's an amazing return the afternoon before ufaWTF!!! It's on the Canes website so it's not just speculation. For a 3rd round pick - when? - not even a warm body. Even if Jake stated to Tulsky that was his intention a decent player should have come back.
You don’t get decent roster players for pending UFA’s…WTF!!! It's on the Canes website so it's not just speculation. For a 3rd round pick - when? - not even a warm body. Even if Jake stated to Tulsky that was his intention a decent player should have come back.
It’s a 2025 pick. And yeah, getting that so Tampa could give him the 8th year is a tidy bit of business.That's an amazing return the afternoon before ufa
You’re right he has to be on your active roster before the deadline for 8!They can't give him 8 years.
The one weapon the Canes will continue to try and use is cap space, if $8 million was allocated to Jake and Dundon leaves that $8 million on the table to use then there always enough teams looking to get out from under a contract at times, some owners just want to shed big contracts to save money but at least we have an owner willing to use that same space and dollar amount to try other things…hard to fall in love with players long term but certainly never boring here when it comes to change and trying new ways to skin a cat. Like Brian Burke use to say to anyone that would listen every year…”there are more mistakes made by NHL GM’s on UFA signing day than any other day of the year”!Not that we need a reminder, but priority #1, 2, 3 and 4 for most UFAs is money. It's OK for the Canes to continue to play the valuation game with player contracts as long as the understanding is that we will rarely, if ever, be able to retain our higher end UFAs. In a rapidly rising cap world especially.
I won't worry about Guentzel and Necas being gone assuming that Canes have a great plan for replacing the 60+ goals they would have scored next season.
Well, I doubt the plan is to fill with in house kids, so we'll just have to see how it plays out. Tampa gave up re-signing Stamkos, Sergachev and a 3rd rounder for one day of negotiations with Guentzel and whatever is left of McDonagh. It's not Carolina that's under the gun here. They've got the whole off season to cook.Not that we need a reminder, but priority #1, 2, 3 and 4 for most UFAs is money. It's OK for the Canes to continue to play the valuation game with player contracts as long as the understanding is that we will rarely, if ever, be able to retain our higher end UFAs. In a rapidly rising cap world especially.
I won't worry about Guentzel and Necas being gone assuming that Canes have a great plan for replacing the 60+ goals they would have scored next season.