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Confirmed with Link: Canes acquire Dylan Wells from Edm for Future Considerations
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WreckingCrew
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I assume this means we're not qualifying Ned and this is our way of exposing a goalie? Or we're about to get Ned signed and using our protection slot on him?
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Anton Dubinchuk
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Bye bye Helvig?
He's arbitration eligible, and the theme of the offseason seems to be "don't go to arbitration."
Helvig would've been our only eligible goalie otherwise (assuming we are protecting Ned).
He's arbitration eligible, and the theme of the offseason seems to be "don't go to arbitration."
Helvig would've been our only eligible goalie otherwise (assuming we are protecting Ned).
Anton Dubinchuk
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I don't think this is about Ned, because if we qualify him we will protect him, and if we don't he doesn't qualify for the exposed goalie.
I think this means we won't qualify Helvig, and need another eligible goalie to expose.
WreckingCrew
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Gotcha, all these rules make my head spin a bit. Though I don't know why you wouldn't just qualify Helvig, he's at least a capable goalie, this Wells dude sucked even in the ECHL
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I would say this has a lot more to do with not wanting to QO Helvig than Ned. I think we can say Helvig’s days here are done
Anton Dubinchuk
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Helvig goes to arbitration when we try to pay him league minimum, and Dundon clearly has a bone to pick with arbitration this offseason.
Given Helvig has a 0% chance to make any impact on the roster whatsoever, I think Dundon not wanting to pay more than league minimum for a back-up AHL goalie/ECHL starter is reasonable.
We may just qualify the guy, offer him a 1-year league minimum deal, and if he balks we say "thanks for being our expansion draft guy" and part ways.
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So I assume then Wells isn't arbitration eligible? That would make more sense then. Does the QO affect the ability to give a two-way contract? I'd hate to "accidentally" waste a roster spot on this guy, but if he's making AHL salary and stuffed in the minors, it's a "who cares"...if he's even making $500k that seems like a waste. Though I guess it's better than stupid arbitration going "Yea Helvig gets $1M" for some asinine reason.
Anton Dubinchuk
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Not only would we risk paying more in the 2-way contract (the AHL salary), Helvig also had some legal troubles this year and we may just not want him around.
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So we got him just so that we can expose ourselves
CapFriendly says Wells needs 2 more seasons to be arbitration eligible; he signed his ELC at 19 (4 years pro required) and has only 2 pro seasons.
This definitely says Helvig won't be qualified. Protect Ned, Mrazek or Reimer will be dealt with after the expansion draft (or after UFA day) and Wells is exposed to meet the goalie requirement.
Beck Warm is exempt as a newly signed ELC.
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Shallow wells?
About sums up what I think of the new guy
cptjeff
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About sums up what I think of the new guy
Is that a council of Wells?
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We're exposing him so we can save ourselves...
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Svechhammer
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A fellowship of wells. A.... Wellowship, if you may
Waddell:
"We acquired Dylan Wells as an RFA we could qualify; seeking someone to expose for the expansion draft.
With that done, can someone tell Tlusty to stop calling me?"
DaveG
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Yep, exactly this
Warm is exempt as a first year pro, and the only other option was re-signing Mrazek or Reimer to expose them, which the players aren't about to do, or to qualify Helvig, who we flat out have no interest in having around any more.
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All’s Wells that ends wells. Having said that this move excites me south of the border very little
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