I don't know how much evidence there is of any off-ice issues with Joseph. Certainly I haven't seen much of anything besides a few posters here mentioning he liked to party.
Personally I don't give a crap if he likes to have a good time post-game considering he was arguably the hardest working Senator during his time in Ottawa during actual games.
I mention Perron because I would have signed Amadio at 2.6M x 3YRs regardless of what we did with Joseph. That's a fair contract for a guy who should be a solid 3rd line forward for us. I had more of a problem with the Perron signing. He's old, Joseph out-scored him at even strength last year, and he doesn't bring the same assets to the table that Joseph did - mainly speed and forechecking ability - which are attributes we now lack in our lineup.
Exactly my initial analysis, so obvious even for people who do NOT watch hockey
Seriously, there better a GOOD reason why we had to get rid of Joseph and sacrifice a draft pick we desperately need MORE of.
One of my other takes all along was that we needed MORE players like Joseph, not LESS which seems pretty obvious looking at this team. Need more speed, more fire in our bellies, more PK ability, more intensity, forechecking, hard working habits.
Branstrom can't make any team he goes to. Keeping him at 2 million would have been insane.
A small, offensive minded defenseman who can't score does not help this team when they lose their best defensive defenseman.
Yeah but he was talking now and Brannstrom has a 0.9 AAV now. By letting him go, the 2 M$ QO disappeared
And for how much people say Brannstrom can't score, only 99 D-men have had more ES Pts than him the last 2 seasons combined... which is about 3 D-men on average so he was like 4th in ES scoring on the average team
They need another jensen or zub. Not branstrom
Actually, I'd say that they would need a not injury-prone Zub and a younger Jensen instead. And ideally another top-4 RHD so Zub is on the 2nd pairing and Jensen on the 3rd
I'd take Brannstrom easily over Hamonic, JBD or whoever else we have in the AHL