Confirmed Signing with Link: [ANA] Lindholm signed (6 years, $5.25m AAV)

[Hunter368]

Good deal, congrats Ducks.

IMO offer sheets are a very low threat in today's NHL. I don't think it was ever much of a threat.

 

[Vinegar Strokes]

Perfect. Now please keep Fowler as well. If Fowler keeps playing the way he's started this season, and Hampus continues to improve, the Ducks will have two number 1 defenders for the next two seasons.

 

[WhatTheDuck]

Also can demote one of Stoner/Theodore and then we're good to go.

 

[inthe6ix]

Sign and trade for Trouba?

 

[Hunter368]

For the folks who were so certain their team would get Lindholm on an offersheet, how do you like your crow prepared?

Which team thought that? Offer sheets are very low risks now a days

 

[GoJetsGo55]

Sign and trade for Trouba?

 

[thedoughboy]

Cap friendly has updated all! The ducks now have -1,419,803 worth of capspace with LTIR relief from Despres. No one has been sent down yet, and no one else has been put on LTIR.

Repercussions?

 

[mouser]

Considering they haven't dropped Thompson to LTIR yet means if this is "official" official, they are over the cap.

Anyone know what the penalties would be for this?

That said, if they drop thompson to LTIR they will have enough room to fit lindholm in.

Steal of a contract as well.

There are no penalties. The NHL won't officially approve the contract until the team first makes cap space to do so.

We'll know by 5pm EDT what moves the Ducks made to free up space. I doubt LTIR'ing Thompson will be one of them.

 

[Curufinwe]

It wasn't pretty, but the Ducks ended up with a bargain deal.

 

[WhatTheDuck]

Which team thought that? Offer sheets are very low risks now a days

There were fans from various teams who were pretty certain they would be able to pry him away. I won't paint an entire fan base with the same brush, but more of it came from a few Buffalo fans than anywhere else.

 

[CupofOil]

Damn, that's a steal for Anaheim. Lindholm held out for this? Anaheim must have been lowballing him something huge if this is the number they settled on.

I can't believe that Seth Jones makes more than Lindholm and that Ekblad makes $2.25M more although that came with more term.

This should bode well for whichever team gets Trouba.

 

[Trxjw]

Nice deal. Congrats, Ducks fans. Must be a relief.

 

[AppsSyl]

This is good. The more reasonable deals being signed makes the Ekblad deal look like more of an outlier than a benchmark. Happy for Anaheim, but still hoping to sang one of their D from them in a move.

 

[teckaholic]

I am so torn. Theodore had his best game of his career last night and DO NOT want him sent down. Hell even Stoner has been playing well lately. If anything, I would want Bieska to go down but that is not happening.

 

[dracom]

I'm going to be the dumb one that asks the really stupid question here. How doesn't any team offer sheet him for $7,500,000. He's easily worth first, second and third-round picks from a good team that won't draft high.

because OS are a bad idea and GMs don't like using them. Which is something I've been saying for months now.

 

[Vipers31]

Damn, that's a steal for Anaheim. Lindholm held out for this? Anaheim must have been lowballing him something huge if this is the number they settled on.

I don't think the Ducks started much lower than this, maybe at Rielly's $5.0M, but they probably just never much too far away and had this amount as a line in the sand, which had been reported to exist. I suppose Lindholm/Lemieux did the math on how much money had been lost already and Murray being a tough guy to pinch dollars from, even with the season going on the way.

 

[dracom]

What an amazing deal! I'm curious how we are going to fit this under the cap for good. Just send some cheap contracts down to make it work?

 

[Curufinwe]

What an amazing deal! I'm curious how we are going to fit this under the cap for good. Just send some cheap contracts down to make it work?

Trade Fowler.

 

[dracom]

Which team thought that? Offer sheets are very low risks now a days

Ugh so many different fans of different teams thought they should do it. Sabres,Jets,Devils,Canes, Kings, Leafs. Tons of posts about people OS our RFAs to screw us over. It's just funny how we were told that if we didn't get Lindholm sign soon it was bound to happen.

 

[Brewsky]

Just picked him up in Fantasy, hopefully he'll be ready for Anaheim's game tomorrow.

 

[WhatTheDuck]

What an amazing deal! I'm curious how we are going to fit this under the cap for good. Just send some cheap contracts down to make it work?

We have enough room with Etem, Tokarski and a Dman sent down.

 

[WhatTheDuck]

Just picked him up in Fantasy, hopefully he'll be ready for Anaheim's game tomorrow.

Don't count on him being in the lineup for a couple weeks, doesn't have a valid visa.

 

[SCP Guy]

And the award for worst agent goes to.....Claude Lemieux



Nice deal congrats Ducks!

 

[InfinityIggy]

Great looking contract. Nice to see the Ducks patience pay off.

 

[Number1RedWingsFan52]

Sign and trade for Trouba?

Hahaha, Good one.