Confirmed Buy-Out [DAL] D Ryan Suter bought out by the Stars

[innitfam]

Everyone is saying that he's totally washed. Is he a league minimum guy at this point or more like 1.2-1.5M?

 

[StreetHawk]

Is this right

So he will get 1.4M from Dallas + 7.3M from the Wild + money from his new contract

So over 9.5M for this season

Suter was due $10 mill for the final 4 years with Minn on his contract. So he got 2/3 of that at $6.67. then he signed for a $3.65 AAV for 4 years. That would be $14.6 mill but next season was $4.3 mill cash. So, he got $10.3 mill, so rounded he got $17 mill so far, and if the buyout occurs, it's like $2.9 mill more. So, he ends up with almost $20 mill when he was due $10 million and would still have another year to get even more than if he had played out his Minny contract.

That is why he didn't waive his NMC as he clearly made more forcing a buyout. Parise, same contract but these past 3 years he's only made like $2.5 mill.

 

[Bleedred]

Everyone is saying that he's totally washed. Is he a league minimum guy at this point or more like 1.2-1.5M?

Depending on what happens with Giordano, I think Suter would be the oldest skater in the NHL if someone signs him and not Giordano. Pavelski and Parise both retired as of this offseason. They were both older than him by about 6 months.

The only player older than him who is under contract is Marc-Andre Fleury. Brent Burns is 2 months younger and he’s better than Suter at this point.

You have to be pretty good to play in the NHL at 40 years old and Suter is not pretty good.

So yeah, he’s totally washed.

 

[DieselPig]

Suter is still serviceable as a 5th/6th dman with a 1 million dollar cap hit

 

[innitfam]

Depending on what happens with Giordano, I think Suter would be the oldest skater in the NHL if someone signs him and not Giordano. Pavelski and Parise both retired as of this offseason. They were both older than him by about 6 months.

The only player older than him who is under contract is Marc-Andre Fleury. Brent Burns is 2 months younger and he’s better than Suter at this point.

You have to be pretty good to play in the NHL at 40 years old and Suter is not pretty good.

So yeah, he’s totally washed.

Perhaps so but seems like he will get a contract as per the tweets in the thread prior. Maybe a bottom feeder with a trade to a contender as playoff depth (even if he was ass in the playoffs, GMs make these kinds of moves all the time).

 

[Bleedred]

Perhaps so but seems like he will get a contract as per the tweets in the thread prior. Maybe a bottom feeder with a trade to a contender as playoff depth (even if he was ass in the playoffs, GMs make these kinds of moves all the time).

Yeah, I'm sure someone will sign him for a year, I just don't know why they would.

 

[Chips]

Hossa exists

Hossa actually had a skin condition. Again, fan nonsense


They were pumping his with meds to control it for a long time, and the side effects were not great. He had no reason to keep subjecting himself to it after he got to the point it didn’t feel worth it/he had accomplished as much as you could want.


The league literally does investigate every LTIR. There’s no reason to assume the worst other than it’s not an every day condition, and fans like to complain.

 

[Vancouver_2010]

i am hoping vancouver could sign him for cheap, depth is never a bad thing

 

[biturbo19]

I'm gonna need him to sign a 1-year deal with someone and get traded at the deadline with retention. So that he can simultaneously be on the payroll of 4 different teams at once.

 

[Bruce Granville]

i am hoping vancouver could sign him for cheap, depth is never a bad thing

McDavid shares your hopes…

 

[DieSendungmitderMaus]

Can't wait for the "Confirmed with Link: Ryan Suter - $900k x 3yrs" thread.

At this point Suter might as well go for it and become the single most bought out player of all time

 

[cheesymc]

Sad… time to hang them up. Had a good career. Time to join the other great 2003s picks.

 

[SeanMoneyHands]

Ryan Suter is not an NHL calibre dman anymore.

 

[Esq]

Low key dirty shithead bought out again. Hate to see it.

 

[dredeye]

Oooof bought out twice

He’s making so much money to not play it’s crazy.

 

[EastVillageBlues]

I think the most shocking thing is that no one came up with some BS excuse to LTIRetire him

Only if they had the foresight to acquire Hossa's equipment....

 

[Lukin1978]

Here's hoping he can make it three times

 

[Vancouver_2010]

McDavid shares your hopes…

but if he is playing for the canucks, he wouldn't be facing McDavid

 

[State of Hockey]

The hyperbole in this thread is astonishing. I can see Dallas needing some extra cash to re-sign Harley and fill out the roster, but make no mistake, they will have to replace Suter. He was an important piece to that team. Dallas' defensive depth takes a hit with this move.

Ryan Suter is not an NHL calibre dman anymore.

Pretty crazy that a player that's not NHL caliber snuck his way into a 3rd-5th defensemen role on a team that nearly won the President's trophy and made it to the Western Conference Finals.

 

[Petes2424]

He’ll end up taking a deal like OEL took this season. If Vegas loses a Dman, the Avs, Edmonton, etc.

 

[Dead Coyote]

Think people are underrating Suter here. Yes, he's no long even half as good as he was. But veteran leadership and mentorship go a long way on certain teams. It's obvious that he's donezo come playoff time and probably no contender should be looking at him as anything more than a stop gap during the regular season if they have a young roster and can replace him with someone in the playoffs and have him ride the bench as a 7th D who can occasionally see use as a set of fresh legs.

But for teams that have a lot of young players and expect an influx of youth, I think he'd be a great pickup for any team that is still in the trying to make playoffs consistently department. He should get signed to a cheap 1 or 2 year deal (maybe 3 at most if he wants to go for the buyout record) and focus on being a bottom pair/7th D to mentor guys. Harley for example said that one of the biggest parts to his growth was Suter's advice and help, and I believe Heiskanen has also said something similar?

I could see him doing really well for Buffalo with all their young D or Utah or San Jose. His on ice performance is one thing, but his leadership and mentorship is worth a lot more value, and if you're a team not expecting to go far anyways those things are way more valuable than getting a better d-man who doesn't help your best defenseman grow as much as Suter will.

 

[lawrence]

He looked cooked against Edmonton, that said, Mcdavid was burning a lot of dmans on their way to the finals.

 

[DRAGO 18]

Penguins would be a good fit. They need some experience

No the hell we absolutely do not, we already have one complete pylon in Graves.

 

[Azzuri]

Suter sucks as a person by a lot of accounts, and probably a bit of a cancer.

But he actually was decent in the regular season. He's a fine #5/#6 on a team that has no deep playoff aspirations. He'll find a contract.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Hossa actually had a skin condition. Again, fan nonsense


They were pumping his with meds to control it for a long time, and the side effects were not great. He had no reason to keep subjecting himself to it after he got to the point it didn’t feel worth it/he had accomplished as much as you could want.


The league literally does investigate every LTIR. There’s no reason to assume the worst other than it’s not an every day condition, and fans like to complain.

You must've forgotten Joffrey Lupul being told to "be on LTIR" by Lou when he went on a really stupid podcast and let it slip that he was healthy to attend camp.

The NHL has idiots working for them, you want anyone to believe shady stuff hasn't happened and been allowed to happen? Also the vast majority still will never buy Hossa's oddly perfect timed allergy to become news.