Around the NHL: Part XV - End the Damn Season Already

[ReggieDunlop68]

I dont understand why people dont want to just wait till next year to see if we can trade them with one year on their contract or just wait out the 2 years. I know we want our young players to have the ability to come in and succeed but again they need to be ready to take those spots and again we are not going anywhere for the next few years. Let those contracts run out and gain around 16-18m in cap space. If we buy them out we are on the hook for nearly 6m with Girardi, Staal and Smith for the next 4 years. Why kill that much cap space when we will be ready to compete then and need the cap space to sign our own players and potential free agents? It makes little to no sense.

Because people these days have the short term memory span of a gold fish, and an equally horrid knack for future projection planning.

Everything people are bitching for flys in the face of everything they've been birching about over the last 10 years, so I can only assume not even the foggiest notion of cause and effect crosses their early arthritic thumbs as they slam their thoughts into social media.

 

[Chalfdiggity3]

If it turns out our youngsters are ready and do succeeds now, do you really have a choice? I'm not advocating they just bite the bullet and buy them out immediately.

There is always a choice. Make Staal and Smith sit in the press box and you can trade shatty with retention. Buying them out is short sighted. The rebuild is about the long run and success of the team not just for next year.

 

[Chalfdiggity3]

Brooks claimed this.

He said they offered him at 50% but teams wanted the Rangers to also take on a bad contract in return which also makes no sense and would defeat the purpose of the Rangers making such a move in the first place lol.

Uncle Larry is a hack and i do t read him anymore. The guy was always against the rebuild and writes these things to get click bait. He is another ekland now

 

[hi]

NHL Draft Confidential: 10 most interesting anecdotes from...

Katie Strang posted some fun stories from draft interview questions. Here's one about Kevin Hayes an anonymous player.

‘Did you take a **** on a car?’

It was the 2010 combine and one of the top draft-eligible prospects was the talk of the NHL community, not so much for his play but for some of the alleged antics that earned him a substantial suspension from his team that year. When word started to trickle out about what he had done, it spread like wildfire, with teams scrambling to confirm whether the grisly (or at least gross) details were indeed true. Did this player really get caught, pants down, defecating on a car in a moment of teenage hijinks?

“That’s all anyone wanted to know,” said one person who attended the combine that year and knew the question every team was asking: ‘Hey, we heard you **** on a car.’”

One team executive remembers the player being savvy enough to tacitly acknowledge the act while artfully dodging further questions. Another remembered him being much more outright with his transgression.
“We didn’t even have to ask,” the executive recalled. “He walks in, very confident, sits in the chair, no hello’s, no ‘how are you doing?’ no breaking into (small talk). He just said, ‘Yup, it’s true. I **** on my girlfriend’s car.'”
The entire scouting staff dissolved into laughter and struggled to make use of the rest of their time. Each time they’d try to revert back into serious question mode, they’d howl and giggle again.

“I’ve never seen anything like it before and nothing like it since,” the exec said. “It was absurd. I mean he did handle it well for a kid who crapped on a car.”

A handful of other team staffers whose clubs interviewed him gave him credit for owning up to what was an embarrassing-albeit-uproarious topic.

“He’d say, ‘Yeah, you make some mistakes. You live and you learn,’” one person with knowledge of the situation recalled.

The player did not necessarily live and learn: He got caught relieving himself in public again while in college and, after forgetting his pants at the scene of the crime, had to sheepishly return to retrieve his clothes. Luckily for the player, the car owner was a season ticket-holder for the team he played for and opted not to press charges; instead, he simply asked that the mess be cleaned up.

Not sure if 31 post or Onion

 

[Jaromir Jagr]

I think I'm the only one who feels Rangers should stay away from Trouba and Panarin at this time.

I feel there are quite many of us.

 

[broadwayblue]

Would you pay a 29 year old Crosby 11 mil for 8 years if you had him? Yeah you would. Karlsson is just as good. He’s a generational player. Not a franchise player. A generational player.

That's true about his talent. But what's unknown is how many games he will play at that level going forward. Is he really going to be worth 11M/year in 3 or 4 years? What about in 5 or 6? Happy that contract is someone else's problem.

 

[n8]

re: Karlsson. This is like the entire rest of the NHL right now.

 

[NYSPORTS]

I dont understand why people dont want to just wait till next year to see if we can trade them with one year on their contract or just wait out the 2 years. I know we want our young players to have the ability to come in and succeed but again they need to be ready to take those spots and again we are not going anywhere for the next few years. Let those contracts run out and gain around 16-18m in cap space. If we buy them out we are on the hook for nearly 6m with Girardi, Staal and Smith for the next 4 years. Why kill that much cap space when we will be ready to compete then and need the cap space to sign our own players and potential free agents? It makes little to no sense.

A rebuild is not supposed to take 18 months so I agree, let the contracts run one more year. I hope the Rangers don’t dress Staal. One year makes a huge difference cap wise and it’s not like the Rangers are desperate for space now anyway .

 

[NYSPORTS]

I think I'm the only one who feels Rangers should stay away from Trouba and Panarin at this time.

I would have no issue passing on both. The kids are not ready IMO. Flash forward two years and the kids will be in better position while i’d bet against Trouba and Panarin although both appear much more healthy than the Stevens, Robataille, Bure, Gomez, Drury, Redden type

 

[haohmaru]

I'm not on board with the assets that LB is suggesting are required for Trouba. No thank you.

The trade-kreider-for-assets-and-sign-Panarin makes more sense to me. Costs you only money, you're upgrading at wing, Kreider is a pending UFA next year so deadline fodder anyway unless you sign him, etc...

So glad Karlsson looks like he's staying in SJ - that contract is going to be a disaster if it is what it sounds like it is.

 

[n8]

Looking at another angle with the EK65 signing.

Maybe this opens the door for "The Talk" with Hank to ride off into the sunset of SJ for a couple cup runs.

EK65 back to SJ could be a double down blessing for Gorts & Co.

except I don't view the Sharks as a very asset rich team. And if they don't resign Pavelski, I'm also confused by the direction of there team from that point on.

 

[Larrybiv]

Nobody will be happier it lias' turns into r.o.r. but I don't see it either. But even if he gets to half of what ror is.. I'll be happy.

Half of ROR? What is that? RC? Get it?

 

[MyLoveIsBlue]

 

[FJB]

8 years, $11.5m AAV for one ankle?!

 

[Kaapo Cabana]

Flyers got Justin Braun for a '19 2nd and a '20 3rd.

Good deal for them. 2nd and 3rd round picks are pretty much useless for a team in their position right now.

 

[Blue Blooded]

Flyers got Justin Braun for a '19 2nd and a '20 3rd.

Good deal for them. 2nd and 3rd round picks are pretty much useless for a team in their position right now.

Indeed, they dump off a bad contract and get picks in return to boot. Heist.

 

[Raspewtin]

Love this deal for the Flyers because Braun is hot garbage

 

[n8]

Trouba trade vs Braun trade.

 

[will1066]

Bolts extend Coburn two more years. Yeesh.

Sens sign the Duke 1 yr, 1.65M. Not bad for the Sens. Maybe the Duke breaks out finally.

 

[Leonardo87]

Bolts extend Coburn two more years. Yeesh.

Likely means Stralman and Girardi are both gone.

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

 

[Machinehead]

Braun sucks. They're already in AV Mode.

 

[Leetch3]

 

[Machinehead]

I mean, he's still a really quality player.

 

[Leonardo87]

Kevin Hayes about to close in on deal. 7 million, 6 or 7 years