Checkers IV: Insert Witty Title Here

[DaveG]

Anyone thinks Necas will stay in Charlotte all year so we don’t have to protect him in the expansion draft?

I've been thinking that for a couple months now. Mind you I figured the season was lost back in December (it still might be) but I have to think that keeping him from having to be protected to keep him away from Seattle is an idea running through managements head if they're going to go 4-4-1

 

[A Star is Burns]

A lot will change in two years and change. I just don't think it's worth it to over plan at this point. And Lempo's point is a good one. We should be careful not to foster ill will unnecessarily.

 

[CanesFanBudMan]

If you’re going for the playoffs and you think he will help bring him up. Spoiler alert:... the canes do not make the playoffs. Let him stay in Charlotte and gain confidence and experinace playing pro on American ice. It’s not like he’s too good for the AHL... yes he’s one of the better players, but he’s not running the league.

 

[A Star is Burns]

It's not like he can't do both. As long as we make a paper transaction like we did with Fleury last year at the deadline he can get more acclimated to the NHL game, which even if it doesn't lead to playoffs for the Canes it could certainly help us with that goal for next year, and then send him down for the Calder Cup playoffs.

 

[Unsustainable]

I've been thinking that for a couple months now. Mind you I figured the season was lost back in December (it still might be) but I have to think that keeping him from having to be protected to keep him away from Seattle is an idea running through managements head if they're going to go 4-4-1

4-4-1 makes sense, and keeping him down to save a spot.

Aho, Turbo, Svech, Staal
Slavin, Pesce, CDH, Hamilton

 

[Canes]

4-4-1 makes sense, and keeping him down to save a spot.

Aho, Turbo, Svech, Staal
Slavin, Pesce, CDH, Hamilton

 

[Unsustainable]

JR, the gift that keeps on giving

 

[DougieSmash]

Will Luostarinen, Sellgren and Mattheos join the Checkers next season?

 

[Joe McGrath]

Will Luostarinen, Sellgren and Mattheos join the Checkers next season?

Mattheos will, he’s got nowhere else to go. The other two flip a coin.

 

[Canes]

JR, the gift that keeps on giving

Hopefully we'll have added another forward that's good enough to protect basically forcing us to buyout Staal

 

[GoldiFox]

Canes will have the assets to pay Seattle to lay off their top-4 while also protecting 7 forwards.. Like Anaheim and Minnesota during the last round. Add picks/prospects to an already interesting piece like Fleury.

 

[DaveG]

I think Eetu signs if only to acclimate himself to the North American game next season

 

[spockBokk]

Canes will have the assets to pay Seattle to lay off their top-4 while also protecting 7 forwards.. Like Anaheim and Minnesota during the last round. Add picks/prospects to an already interesting piece like Fleury.

How great would it be to actually have 7 forwards worth protection...Aho, Teravainen, Svechnikov, Staal, Neiderrieter,... ... ... ... slim pickings....maybe Kuokkanen and Gauthier are worth protecting in 2 years, but really, I think getting to 7 roster forwards to actually protect would be an accomplishment in and of itself.

(Assuming Necas will be exempt...)

 

[Lempo]

Staal can voluntarily waive the protection though if he so wants; he'll be allowed to do it for the Expansion Draft purposes only without having to waive the whole NMC for good, and the it would continue to bind the Kraken afterwards if he got picked.

 

[Lempo]

I think Eetu signs if only to acclimate himself to the North American game next season

Nov 2018 (in Finnish):



Artturi Lehkonen's dad thinks Eetu is 21-22 months away from NHL (at that time). Needs skating speed, skating stamina, skating skill, defense. When you get the chance, you'll need to get the dressing room's acceptance, and they value guys doing the winning things; and you need to be the coach's pet, not by kissing his ass but by hard athleticism from shift to shift.

Sami Kapanen's KalPa is a great place for a prospect, he's a keen coach doing things and system that benefits the young aspirants, helped Artturi a plenty.

Eetu bought a bottle of Smurf lemonade on the late night bus journey back home, next day Sami brought a transparent mug with twenty lumps of sugar in it to the practice to make a point.

 

[WreckingCrew]

Nov 2018 (in Finnish):



Artturi Lehkonen's dad thinks Eetu is 21-22 months away from NHL (at that time). Needs skating speed, skating stamina, skating skill, defense. When you get the chance, you'll need to get the dressing room's acceptance, and they value guys doing the winning things; and you need to be the coach's pet, not by kissing his ass but by hard athleticism from shift to shift.

Sami Kapanen's KalPa is a great place for a prospect, he's a keen coach doing things and system that benefits the young aspirants, helped Artturi a plenty.

Eetu bought a bottle of Smurf lemonade on the late night bus journey back home, next day Sami brought a transparent mug with twenty lumps of sugar in it to the practice to make a point.

1) I NEED to know what "Smurf lemonade" is (is that street slang for some sort of drug).
2) WHAT IS THE POINT HE WAS TRYING TO MAKE? You can't just say he brought a transparent mug with 20 lumps of sugar to make a point without saying what the point was...we're all just sugar lumps in a glass? Metaphor for humanity?

 

[Lempo]

1) I NEED to know what "Smurf lemonade" is (is that street slang for some sort of drug).
2) WHAT IS THE POINT HE WAS TRYING TO MAKE? You can't just say he brought a transparent mug with 20 lumps of sugar to make a point without saying what the point was...we're all just sugar lumps in a glass? Metaphor for humanity?

1) pear-flavor thingy to take kids' (parents') money through merchandizing

2) plenty sugar not sportsy

 

[WreckingCrew]

1)

2) plenty sugar not sportsy

I'll be honest, I was hoping Smurf Lemonade was a translation error...I'm not sure whether to be sad it's not, or to be happy that Smurf Lemonade is a legit thing...

 

[Surrounded By Ahos]

Finland is such a weird place.

 

[MinJaBen]

1) pear-flavor thingy to take kids' (parents') money through merchandizing

2) plenty sugar not sportsy

How is it not blue?!?

 

[WreckingCrew]

How is it not blue?!?

Blue Smurf + Yellow Urine = Green "Smurf Lemonade"?

 

[Lempo]

How is it not blue?!?

I'm pinkish pale on the outside, but if squeezed into pulp I assume it'd be reddish.

Then the marketing department would decide if it needs to be artificially altered a bit, and then they would do that.

 

[MinJaBen]

They should have call the stuff Kermit.

 

[My Special Purpose]

Fluery will score his first NHL goal against us

I wish there was a way to bet on stuff like this.

Anyone thinks Necas will stay in Charlotte all year so we don’t have to protect him in the expansion draft?

No. He may stay there depending on what our forwards look like after the trade deadline, but I don't think the reason for him being/staying in the AHL has anything to do with the expansion draft more than two years away.

The contract negotiations are a two-way road, though. If I as an agent was feeling that my player was unwarrantedly kept down and I was being dwindled out of my own percentage, I would bring it to the team's attention that the unjustly lost money will be sought to be recovered in the following RFA contract.

The teams are really more concerned of the Accrued Seasons for UFA purposes (42+ games) than the 10 game limit, and it also sounds like a bad policy to annoy your expected future superstar by gaming his contract to your own benefit and his harm. Them boys are kind of competitive and proud, and would take it badly if they felt they got snubbed in the call-ups and a lesser guy was recalled instead.

It happens in MLB all. the. time. Talk to Kris Bryant, Rick Porcello, any number of guys who had free agency delayed a season by manipulation of their service time. In an average year there are 183 service days in a major-league season, 162 games and 21 off days. If you accrue 172 days in any season, it is considered a full year. Six full years gets you to free agency. Five years and 171 days does not.

 

[Discipline Daddy]

I'm pinkish pale on the outside, but if squeezed into pulp I assume it'd be reddish.

Then the marketing department would decide if it needs to be artificially altered a bit, and then they would do that.

Further proof that Lempo is the greatest poster on the Canes board, and perhaps HFBoards in general. It is amazing this is your 2nd language (or 3rd/4th?).