Confirmed Signing with Link: Adam Mascherin signs with Skellefteå AIK, SHL, goes to Sweden
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violaswallet
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As a Florida fan, I'm still annoyed he never signed, so good riddance
Have a great year in SHL then try and parlay that into a 1-way deal at the NHL level?
I really thought he stood a good shot at being a middle six scoring winger, and I still think he’s bailing too early.
Still a decent prospect - and I am surprised that there aren't more players that go to Europe to boost their NHL chances like this - you get to see another part of the (hockey) world, probably get paid as much as you would riding highways in the US. and play at a higher level, too.
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Surprising as a Stars fans I thought he had a real shot at making the team this year. However, we still get to keep his rights and he gets another year to develop without the threat of going through waivers
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As a Kitchener Ranger I really liked him. He has a great shot. His skating wasn’t the best but I figured that his shooting would get him some NHL time. He has had a solid AHL career so I am surprised that he is not sticking around for another year or two.
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Where ? The top 9 will be ( in no particular order ) Hintz , Robertson , Pavelski , Benn , Seguin , Gurianov , Radulov , Faksa , Kiviranta and then have a checking line of Raffl-Glendening-Comeau.
He is not a checking line defensive player and he's not beating out the top 9 . He'd have to fight to get injury callups with waiver exempt prospects.
He migth have asked for a 1-way deal and the Stars just can't provide him an opportunity for that this year.
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Likely as a heathy scratch, but if he performed well I could have seen Raffl getting scratched and Kiviranta moving to the checking line
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Stars like to do the AHL-NHL limbo with some of their healthy scratches. Can't do that with someone requiring waivers. Caamano and Hanley both require waivers. I think the 3rd extra will be someone waiver exempt ( Gardner still is by the way ) . I personally think Mascherin was unhappy with the AHL salary he was offered. Pretty sure he wanted at least L'Esperance AHL money ( 250k ) . Was that on the table ? Dunno maybe not.
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Well if Benn does play center as was sort of indicated before free agency then the second line LW could have been a possibility for him or Damiani (cap savings reasons). A bit more of long shot with Faksa/Glendening at 3/4C, you are right.
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I think the main sticking point must've been money. Stars don't give RFA's without arbitration rights that aren't really NHL players more than ~100k on two-way deals if they're send to the AHL. I'm looking at what Caamano , Gleason , Gardner and Point got on their deals. Their AHL salaries are all around 100k . I don't think Stars offered more for a guy who has zero NHL experience.
Sure he had a nice AHL season last year but how much is that really worth ?
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Yeah for sure that could’ve been a sticking point. Went through re-draft and grinded out low salary AHL years.
I would still bet that an (realistic) okay length NHL call-up gig would have netted him more than the Swedish league salary.
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You are missing the point. 99% of the people opinions on the guy in this thread never saw him play
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My comment was based on the title showing the team, league and then adding Sweden at the end. Like he is going to play in the SHL while being in Dallas or something.
