Well, you have to admit that "I'm counting the days until" sort of implied a shorter attention span.
Thanks for the additional info, I'll read it very carefully.
Confirmed Signing with Link: [CAR] D Tony DeAngelo signs with the Hurricanes (1 year, $1M)
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Chimpradamus
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Yeah, sure, but there are alot of days to count to amount to anything substantial and was more - in my mind - considered a figure of speech. If TDA manages to not get kicked off his final NHL team in his career he has improved and matured as a person. Or he'll luckily enough just not put in the situation to go completely bananas, again. Who knows when it comes to this guy, at this point?Well, you have to admit that "I'm counting the days until" sort of implied a shorter attention span.
Thanks for the additional info, I'll read it very carefully.
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I don’t care about his past. The last 3 years is a sufficient sample size. He is older, at a different place in society being an accomplished star in pro sports etc.
You say that someone can be liked and still be a nightmare. The thing is, nothing points towards TDA being a nightmare at all.
And his on ice play is also proof of this. I don’t think anyone that doesn’t have a background in the game understand how disciplined and consistent TDA is on the ice. There is a reason for why his production and metrics are nothing short of fantastic. Sure there will be cough ups and bad reads, but for a guy that is as offensive as TDA is and play with as small margins as he does — they are really few.
The kid is a hot head and has a big ego for sure. But there are plenty of cancers through out history and I know very well the mess can create and definitely is of the mindset that they aren’t ‘worth it’. I am just repeating what Marc Staal said, everyone seem to think that he is an extreme nightmare but that is just not the case.
In his one year in Carolina, Tony has come off as a more disciplined player than several others on our team who can take an unwarranted retaliation penalty or just a dumb penalty. I'm thinking of Trocheck primarily, but also Ian Cole, and even at times Svechnikov. For what it's worth, Tony's feistiness is a total asset on the team as it helps deter other teams from taking liberties. We get the same competitiveness and TRUCULENCE from Cole and Brendan Smith, but unlike those two Tony is way more of a positive play driver and impact player.
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That's an interesting point. He's one of the first guys to go diving into a scrum, but he's only 7th on the team in his rate of PIM. And that's with over half his PIM coming from fights and misconducts. In terms of minor penalties he's not just more disciplined than Svech/Trocheck/Cole, but also more than Skjei and similar to Necas.
On-ice discipline doesn't seem to be the issue with him at all, it's purely a "stop running your mouth" thing.
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HuGort
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And played like the lion tamer last night.
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Asinine & immoral
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Cardiac Jerks
Asinine & immoral
I suppose anything is possible but I find it hard to believe he’d go from being practically out of the league to garnering an offer sheet a year later.
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They’ll have $23-24M in space. Up against the cap indeed. They’ll have space to do what they need.
Canes shouldn’t have any cap issues until 24-25, when guys like Aho, Teravainen, Pesce, Skjei and Jarvis are up.
TooMuchMan
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The guy is a fringe-elite offensive talent from the blueline, but I don't see how any franchise can or should get past some of his off-ice extracurriculars (which, to some extent, seem to bleed onto his on-ice product).
In many ways this reminds me of the Curt Schilling situation in Boston/the MLB (if you'll forgive me taking this to another sport for a moment)... guy was clearly a HOF player and an all-time Sox hero but if the stuff about him that's come out in his post playing career years came out while he was active - I don't think I could ever root for him or support any team he was on - and that would probably extend to a sizable chunk of fans.
There's reasonable debate as to the depth of TDA's issues/concerns - and whether they go as far off the deep end in his present iteration as Schilling's, now - but an team willing to cope with the potential headache is probably going to ask for a 25-50% AAV reduction baked into his deal. Attacking D of his age are usually making around $100k-125k per point on their deals. If he were a less worrisome signing, that equates to a AAV somewhere between $5.5-7m... but given his history, my guess is he lands somewhere between $4.5-5.5 depending on term.
In many ways this reminds me of the Curt Schilling situation in Boston/the MLB (if you'll forgive me taking this to another sport for a moment)... guy was clearly a HOF player and an all-time Sox hero but if the stuff about him that's come out in his post playing career years came out while he was active - I don't think I could ever root for him or support any team he was on - and that would probably extend to a sizable chunk of fans.
There's reasonable debate as to the depth of TDA's issues/concerns - and whether they go as far off the deep end in his present iteration as Schilling's, now - but an team willing to cope with the potential headache is probably going to ask for a 25-50% AAV reduction baked into his deal. Attacking D of his age are usually making around $100k-125k per point on their deals. If he were a less worrisome signing, that equates to a AAV somewhere between $5.5-7m... but given his history, my guess is he lands somewhere between $4.5-5.5 depending on term.
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How much of an influence have the Canes' vets - Staal, Cole, Slavin, etc. - and Coach Rod had on keeping him focused on hockey? Maybe staying off of the cancerous cesspool of Twitter helped as well.
HuGort
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Fringe-elite as a PP pivot maybe. TDA is not one ounce better than Tyson Barrie who makes $4.5 million. He is at-best average in the defensive zone. It forces a team like Carolina to shelter TDA with Slavin while Skjei-Pesce does the heavy lifting. Against teams with elite 2nd lines he will not hold up (read: Playoffs). That will always limit his market. Unfortunate circumstance as an undersized offensive D who can't hold up defensively.
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HuGort
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They have $20m+ next season but have a bunch of UFA’s and RFA’s to decide on.
GIN ANTONIC
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Tro is basically 100% gone. Nino likely gone as well. Cole gone. That's $13 mil right there. Bear may be traded. Stepan might not be back. Canes have cap space, the questions are just about who they want to keep and for what price.
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GIN ANTONIC
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Yup. Canes have some young forwards that are looking to graduate in Drury and Rees. Kotka will take over a bigger role and next year is the list of Staal’s contract as well.
Core is still well in place but there will be some tinkering for sure.
