There's only one buyout candidate in this proposal and it's not the Stanley Cup winning 75pt center.
I mean I get HF hates all things Nazem Kadri but seriously, it's a little much.
Between posts like this and people making fun of us for being agist, this has become one of the more fascinating Canes threads in a long time.
No one hates Kadri here. I’m sure there’s been a negative post in here about him but Canes fans haven’t been against him in this thread. It’s purely the contract. Kadri would help the Canes next year, no one doubts that. That’s the whole point. People keep pointing how great he’s been in his early 30’s. Is that a surprise? Isn’t to me. Of course he’s going to be good the first half of the contract. He’s a pretty player still.
Look at Trocheck who left at 29, who is righty (which we’ve publicly said we need), was a guy RBA trusted in all situations and was very popular in the room. He’s a very similar player. He left for a 7 year deal for 5.6 which was only about a million dollar raise. We made little attempt to keep him because of the contract. Which goes in line with what we do over and over. We don’t sign these ufa contracts, especially for older players. The only exception was for Guentzel who clearly was the right player for one, he was a perfect linemate for Aho and just made sense to take a chance. We still wouldn’t go over our offer which was less than 8x8, period. We let our prize trade acquisition go because it was over our line.
We would never trade for Kadri. As fans we like the player but we know our management would never do this. We don’t have cap space for it. Some of us would take the chance maybe with the contract, most of us wouldn’t. I wouldn’t and I like Kadri.
KK isn’t an issue. We still have two years to buy him out cheap and he’s got a great opportunity in front of him with our reset. We don’t need help with Kk.
