It's absolutely unacceptable that they couldn't have resolved this from August to now in time for the affected teams to adjust for Cap implications before the season ended.
While they should have gotten it done, I don't think it would have helped either team all that much. I'd argue the retention slot would have been a bigger deal than the cap.It's absolutely unacceptable that they couldn't have resolved this from August to now in time for the affected teams to adjust for Cap implications before the season ended.
I don't think they could have known that in October, however. It turned out that both teams were also-rans. And Philly could LTIR his portion anyway, so had an easier work-around than we did. But still, even just the extra retention slot IS significant. What is their plan, will they now rule on it after July 1st or just sweep it under the rug and hope nobody notices? It's $4M of real money that we're paying him. That alone should be significant to ownership. That's like our whole annual playoff revenue if we made the playoffs.
I think if they rule against Johansen and in favor of the Flyers the teams should actually get some kind of compensatory draft pick or something. We could have used that retention slot to get one at the TDL. 
For Preds any savings are just found money. It’s ridiculous this has dragged on, but whether RyJo was fit to play feels more like a Flyers issue. We knowingly used our retention slot when we dealt him and had no expectation to get it back.I don't think they could have known that in October, however. It turned out that both teams were also-rans. And Philly could LTIR his portion anyway, so had an easier work-around than we did. But still, even just the extra retention slot IS significant. What is their plan, will they now rule on it after July 1st or just sweep it under the rug and hope nobody notices? It's $4M of real money that we're paying him. That alone should be significant to ownership. That's like our whole annual playoff revenue if we made the playoffs.
Wow, only 62. From what I've read he was battling an illness of some sort but never saw which illness. That's just tragic. I know they probably won't read it here but condolences to his family.
Okay, thanks! He is not playing tonight.
Trotz doesn't think anything he has done was a bad move. Players just aren't pulling their weight and playing like they are supposed to.
Tomasino finished at 23pts in 50 games with Pittsburgh. Tough to parse these kinds of numbers, really... he got 13:27 average icetime with the Pens, also including 1:31 PP time, (6 of his 11 goals were GWG with Pittsburgh which landed 2nd on the team behind Crosby).
None of them really belong on a contending team. They are all gap-fillers. Just different kinds of gap-fillers? Tomasino is more skilled and can produce more points, but also still not really at a rate that I would lock into my top-6 on a contending team? )
He's still very young IMHO. He should become a solid mid-6 sort of forward given a reasonable chance and development process. I'm not saying that's super-duper amazing, but it's not a total draft whiff either. He looked really good in the last game of the year and was very noticeable.Tomasino finished at 23pts in 50 games with Pittsburgh. Tough to parse these kinds of numbers, really... he got 13:27 average icetime with the Pens, also including 1:31 PP time, (6 of his 11 goals were GWG with Pittsburgh which landed 2nd on the team behind Crosby).
So I don't know... it's kind of like with us before he got totally sidelined... decent-ish production for his icetime/linemates/opportunity. But not eye-popping. Not quite forcing anybody's hand if he is also playing kind of soft and meh defensively?
He's a generically skilled-enough player to play in the NHL and get 0.5ppg. Which obviously is a lot better offensively than our grinder guys who get 0.25ppg. There is an argument that our Smith/McCarron guys getting 0.25ppg do additional things physically or defensively. I frankly don't really see it. Sure they get DEPLOYED in those situations. But also still suck at execution in those roles, right?
End of the day, I'm kind of thinking I don't really want ANY of McCarron, Smith, OR Tomasino on my team?
I should add.... it's different though when you produce numbers like Tomasino has at a young age... and there is legitimate hope of maybe developing something more out of him. There is NOTHING more coming from the other guys. But Tomasino is kind of getting towards the age now also of graduating out of hoping for something more? (That might be our fault for messing him up --- but nevertheless?
I feel he's been making some good plays for Montreal. More good than bad certainly. He'll always be on the smaller, slighter side as a defenseman. So when Tom Wilson takes a run at him and crushes him into the boards, it's easy to criticize his physical presence, and there is no doubt he has those limitations. He can still make highly skilled defensive plays, clean passes, and block some shots. So a great pickup when all it cost them was a warm body who was sitting in Montreal's pressbox.
I'm glad it worked out for Carrier, and certainly it goes to show how bad Montreal's defense was that he can be looked on as such a key acquisition for them. But I still wouldn't reverse that trade from our side either.
Only way to stop legal hits from causing injuries is to remove hitting. When you have the variances the NHL does in height, weight, and strength someone is always going to get injured.
