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andyt

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There have already been some moves, but let’s use this as things heat up.

Ottawa sends Tarasenko to the Panthers for a 2024 conditional 4th rounder , that becomes a 3rd if the Panthers win the Cup and a 2025 3rd rounder. Ottawa retains 50%

Tarasenko had a NTC, so he controlled where he was going.
 
andyt said:
There have already been some moves, but let’s use this as things heat up.

Ottawa sends Tarasenko to the Panthers for a 2024 conditional 4th rounder , that becomes a 3rd if the Panthers win the Cup and a 2025 3rd rounder. Ottawa retains 50%

Tarasenko had a NTC, so he controlled where he was going.
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If they're smart ... big if ... then that slides Cousins down to a grunt line role where he belongs. And makes them truly dangerous on the top two offensive lines. Tarasenko isn't the player he once was, but he's aging into a very, very good setup guy on the wing.
 
Dreger says Ducks sending Henrique to Edmonton. Return TBA.

Edit: Sam Carrick and a 7th rounder are also headed to Edmonton. Anaheim gets a 2024 1st and conditional 5th rounder
 
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Avs send Ryan Johansen to Philly for dman Sean Walker. Flyers also getting a 1st and putting Johansen on waivers? Johansen is on waivers. Avs also get a 2026 5th rounder. The 1st to the Flyers is 2025.

Weekes says Slugs sending Casey Mittlestadt to the Avs for dman Bowen Byram.
 
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andyt said:
Dreger says Ducks sending Henrique to Edmonton. Return TBA.

Edit: Sam Carrick and a 7th rounder are also headed to Edmonton. Anaheim gets a 2024 1st and conditional 5th rounder
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Smart get for the Oilers for once. Even if Henrique never gets it going offensively, he's going to add D up the middle.
 
andyt said:
Avs send Ryan Johansen to Philly for dman Sean Walker. Flyers also getting a 1st and putting Johansen on waivers? Johansen is on waivers. Avs also get a 2026 5th rounder. The 1st to the Flyers is 2025.

Weekes says Slugs sending Casey Mittlestadt to the Avs for dman Bowen Byram.
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One decent year in the last five still getting Johansen paid ... and dumped ... and paid again.

If Byram can stay healthy that might work out well for the Sabres, who avoid a new contract for a guy who might well have peaked in Middlestadt. For the Avs, who desperately need support scoring, that works. They can figure out the next contract later. For now they've got to figure out how to get past Vegas and Edmonton in the playoffs and need the depth they weren't getting from Johansen.
 
cmaleski2 said:
Mittlestadt for Byram is a heck of a hockey trade for both sides. Talent for Talent, forward for Dman.
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I agree, that is the type of solid hockey trade that you can appreciate in the midst of the some of the expiring contract dreck that floods the airwaves this time of year. We can call this trade refreshing...
 
Tampa got involved in the Henrique trade too. The sent unsigned goalie prospect Ty Taylor to the Ducks, retained 25% of Henrique’s cap hit and picked up Edmonton’s 2025 4th rounder. If the Oilers win the Cup, the pick moves to 2026, which seems backwards. The Ducks sent Taylor to Edmonton. I’m not sure how the Lightning still had Taylor's rights, they drafted him out of the BCHL in 2018, he went to New Hampshire for 3 seasons, playing a total of 21 games before moving to Grant MacEwen College in Edmonton For 2021-22. He also played 1 game for ECHL Orlando that season, moved to Scotland for 2022-23 and is back in the US at SPHL Evansville this season
 
The NHL never use to live in a world where so many draft picks two and three years down the line were moved, that use to be the calling card of many OHL/WHL/QMJHL teams for years. Things have changed in the NHL a bit in that regard, kicking the can two more years down the road for a pick that takes sometimes another 2/3/4 years to develop is a long term project that most of these old GM's never had the time for!
 
andyt said:
...I’m not sure how the Lightning still had Taylor's rights, they drafted him out of the BCHL in 2018, he went to New Hampshire for 3 seasons, playing a total of 21 games before moving to Grant MacEwen College in Edmonton For 2021-22. He also played 1 game for ECHL Orlando that season, moved to Scotland for 2022-23 and is back in the US at SPHL Evansville this season...
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capfriendly.com shows Ty Taylor's 'must sign by' date as 'indefinite', which is much like the Canes and Jacob Kucharski. I haven't 100% figured out how that comes to be the case. It must have something to do with the fact that they were US college players who signed with another pro team before becoming an NHL UFA.

Neither Ty Taylor or Jacob Kucharski ever became NHL UFAs. They were still on the reserve lists of the teams that drafted them at a point in time they signed a pro contract. I think that makes them defected players

(CBA 10.2.b.i.B)
who, never having been under contract to any Club, but as to who the NHL negotiation rights now or at any time hereafter shall reside in any Club, has contracted or shall contract with such an unaffiliated club.
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For a college kid that leaves school while still having eligibility and signs as a pro somewhere prior to reaching NHL UFA status, they enter defected player status. They remain in that status until their pro contract with the unaffiliated league runs out and we enter the 'offseason'. Once that happens, the team retaining that player's rights has 60 days to sign them or they become a UFA. I think the indefinite part really applies as long as that player remained under contract with some other pro team. Once their contract with another team expires (the offseason for that league), that starts an actual 60 day signing clock. I think the player has to ask the commissioner to take them off the defected player list to start that clock?

None of this really matters of course for Ty Taylor or Jacob Kucharski, neither is going to sign NHL contracts anytime soon.
 
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cmaleski2 said:
capfriendly.com shows Ty Taylor's 'must sign by' date as 'indefinite', which is much like the Canes and Jacob Kucharski. I haven't 100% figured out how that comes to be the case. It must have something to do with the fact that they were US college players who signed with another pro team before becoming an NHL UFA.
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Whatever the case may be, I think both Taylor and Kucharski will get to the NHL the same was as you and I do…as paying customers.
 
Seattle sends Alex Wennberg with 50% retention to the NY Rangers for a 2024 2nd round pick and 2025 4th round pick.
 
cmaleski2 said:
Seattle sends Alex Wennberg with 50% retention to the NY Rangers for a 2024 2nd round pick and 2025 4th round pick.
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Makes sense for NY. While neither were lighting up the scoreboard or anything, they miss the positive possession play of Chytil and Wheeler a lot. Wennberg is an unreliable finisher but he's a good fore checker and puck retriever. For a team that has grown increasingly reliant on their transition play, this is the kind of guy they needed to add to the mix.
 
CanadaCanes said:
The league really needs to shut this shit down.
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He still counts against the cap, just not against the 23 man roster. They’re gonna have to move someone out to add Hanifin, they’re at 23 now. Stone and his lacerated spleen and Lehner are providing cap relief on LTIR
 
The Hanifin deal isn’t done yet, per Eric Francis the holdup is finding a 3rd party to take on salary.
 
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