Confirmed with Link: Canes officially match l'offre hostile from MTL for Aho

[dmonk]

Oh, for the love of God. He was using them to get what he wanted.

There's a difference between being OK in going to Montreal, if your calculated risk doesn't work, and actually, actively, *wanting* to play there instead of here.

Relax, it's only my upset stomach we talking about here. I'll pop a Pepto Bismol or two, and I'll be fine. No need to involve Almighty.

 

[My Special Purpose]

Same reason Rod’s still here.

And JW, if I'm not mistaken.

In all the BS on the Trade and MTL board Aho threads, I came across one post on one of the threads on the MTL board that made a ****-ton of sense in regards to how much cash Dundon will have to front:

Basically, 1 week after the OS is matched, $11M up front bonus due/$700K base for a total of $12M next season. Taking the Canes last reported offer of $7.5M as baseline of sorts, by the end of next season, prior to 7/1/20, the amount of cash out of pocket for Dundon based on the OS vs what they wanted to pay him anyway is 4.5M. (This assumes that Dundon can recoup his upfront investment with the revenue from normal operating income during the year that would normally be allocated to Aho’s salary were it structured like most of he team’s other contracts)

7/1/20 rolls around, another $9M bonus due and $700K base for a total of around $10M or so for the 20-21 season. So roll that forward using the same logic as above, and Dundon is only out of pocket $2.5M (at the end of the 20-21 season) in more than they wanted to pay him anyway. The kicker here is the potential lockout. If there’s a lockout, $9M still due. So without that season’s revenue, that’s where the pain could really be felt. But, all other teams structuring their contracts the same way will feel that pain.

So no lockout, first 2 years of deal projected deal, Dundon is only paying $7M more than he wanted to. Assuming a lockout, that jumps up to $13.5M with no revenues throughout the season to recoup the signing bonus $$$ that must be fronted.

The Seattle expansion fee will net every franchise but Vegas $20M or more. So even with the worst case scenario, Dundon still nets over $6M after the expansion fee, and you get 3 more years of Aho on a team friendly deal.

(Hopefully I didn’t butcher the original idea and that makes sense)

No, you're right. The never-discussed corollary to the "$21 million in the first 366 days" theory, is that after that, there's *still* four years minus a day, for the contract to run. And half the money will already have been paid out. So over the final four years minus a day, Aho will be paid $21 million, or an average of about $5.25 million per season. When you look at the full deal and not just attempt to scare people with comments like "$21 million in the first 366 days," the entire deal actually sets up very well for us.

I wanna listen to a bat*** crazy story

Let me put it to you this way, I met her at church when a former Hurricanes player dragged me there. So I'm stopping short of advocating the "church with Slavin" idea.

 

[Unsustainable]

Something tells me we are going to need an Aho Trade Drinking Thread after all of this

Can’t be traded for 1 year

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

The answer is obvious. It's the same reason I stayed in N.C. when I came here to play baseball for N.C. State. We need to find him a nice Carolina girl and he's ours forever. For his sake, I hope she doesn't turn out to be bat**** crazy, but that's a story for another time. Anybody got any ideas?

IMPORT A CZECH GOLDDIGGER AND YOU ARE GOOD.

 

[Svechhammer]

Can’t be traded for 1 year

As if that would stop the threads

 

[Lempo]

As if that would stop the threads

Or drinking.

 

[vorbis]

Aho is too busy trying to sell his house in Montreal.

poorly thought out move on his part, since July 1 is the unofficial "moving day" for nearly everyone changing homes in Quebec. it's the damnedest thing. moving trucks are literally shipped in from other places in North America to handle the load of business. by selling his house after July 1 he's missing out big time.

 

[Chrispy]

Can’t be traded for 1 year

But can certain things be traded for "future considerations" that would be Aho next summer?

****, I'm giving people ideas.

 

[Lempo]

But can certain things be traded for "future considerations" that would be Aho next summer?

****, I'm giving people ideas.

We can trade a conditional pick that turns into Sebastian Aho if the condition is triggered?

 

[Svechhammer]

I'm seriously wondering how soon we will see our first Aho trade thread after the match is officially done. Do we even last 10 mins?

 

[Chrispy]

We can trade a conditional pick that turns into Sebastian Aho if the condition is triggered?

Wait, the draft pick actually COULD be a Sebastian Aho??

This changes everything!

 

[Lempo]

I'm seriously wondering how soon we will see our first Aho trade thread after the match is officially done. Do we even last 10 mins?

The first will be a psyke! thread trading SwedAho.

 

[Roboturner913]

Aho is too busy trying to sell his house in Montreal.

Why would he do that? He can just rent it out now, and in five years when he is 100% guaranteed to sign with them, he'll move back

 

[Roboturner913]

poorly thought out move on his part, since July 1 is the unofficial "moving day" for nearly everyone changing homes in Quebec. it's the damnedest thing. moving trucks are literally shipped in from other places in North America to handle the load of business. by selling his house after July 1 he's missing out big time.

Really? That's crazy.

 

[Chrispy]

poorly thought out move on his part, since July 1 is the unofficial "moving day" for nearly everyone changing homes in Quebec. it's the damnedest thing. moving trucks are literally shipped in from other places in North America to handle the load of business. by selling his house after July 1 he's missing out big time.

Based on the cars on the road when I drove to Florida in 2017, I assumed November 1 was moving day in Quebec.

Or is that snowbird day?

 

[vorbis]

Really? That's crazy.

no fooling Moving Day (Quebec) - Wikipedia

 

[Roboturner913]

no fooling Moving Day (Quebec) - Wikipedia

Jesus Christ.

this is like some Lord of the Flies shit

 

[Svechhammer]

Jesus Christ.

this is like some Lord of the Flies ****

No, this is Forum 26

 

[Svechhammer]

Mtl fan: "why are you delaying the match? what are you hiding? you're really poor aren't you"

Carolina: "we're literally delaying because it annoys you"

Mtl: "No it doesn't I don't care. But clearly you are trying to hide something, no need to get pissy with me!!"

Car: "clearly you're not annoyed"

Mtl: "Stop being so pissy over this. Now tell me why are you delaying!!"

Car: "Seriously? we literally just went over this"

Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

 

[sheriff bart]

The best part is how all the Canes fans are the ones that are in an uproar and acting all upset.

 

[Finnish Jerk Train]

no fooling Moving Day (Quebec) - Wikipedia

It's like this in Boone too, except all the leases start on August 1 to get everyone settled before the school year starts. I would imagine this is common in college towns, but I've never actually looked into what goes on in other ones.

 

[Roboturner913]

The best part is how all the Canes fans are the ones that are in an uproar and acting all upset.

YOU ONLY HAVE 12 FANS AND YOU CAN'T EVEN RE-SIGN YOUR OWN FREE AGENTS!!!

 

[Roboturner913]

I've also never heard/seen/read the word "posturing" so many times in one short amount of time.

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[HisIceness]

My favorite part of all this is how Montreal fans in their minds swear up and down that players consider it an honor to play for Les Habs and that it is every players dream to indeed play for Les Habs, they've done this many times too on this board in the past, saw it in the Max Domi traded for Galyenchuk thread. The truth is that Montreal is the biggest pressure cooker in the league, hell it's one of the biggest pressure cookers in the North American sports landscape. They demand the moon yet maybe one or two of their teams since 1993 has been good enough to be considered a Cup contender.

And yet when guys like PK Subban leave they seem to be relieved to be exiting from that environment.

 

[Roboturner913]

My favorite part of all this is how Montreal fans in their minds swear up and down that players consider it an honor to play for Les Habs and that it is every players dream to indeed play for Les Habs, they've done this many times too on this board in the past, saw it in the Max Domi traded for Galyenchuk thread. The truth is that Montreal is the biggest pressure cooker in the league, hell it's one of the biggest pressure cookers in the North American sports landscape. They demand the moon yet maybe one or two of their teams since 1993 has been good enough to be considered a Cup contender.

And yet when guys like PK Subban leave they seem to be relieved to be exiting from that environment.

They're extremely second rate and have been for a long time. They just haven't admitted it yet.

The Canes (and we're also second rate, don't get me wrong) have been far more competitive in the league in the timeframe since they've existed, and that's with 10 years of being totally noncompetitive.

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