I've noticed a decided lack of contrition on the part of everyone who was sure Perreault was going to be exposed 'cause lol Jets. Not that I'm surprised.
Two ways to read this, I think:
Either, Enström's agent protests too much and Enström's keen at the idea of getting out of town. As hesitant as Cheveldayoff has been to give out restrictive ones, trade clauses are something to hold on to for a city that's always panicking about whether or not players want to be there.
Or, this is some indication that waiving was Enström's best chance at being a Jets next year and in the future. Suggesting that a buyout was in the cards.
To expand here:
Very interesting last line from Boden, too. The second exclamation point sort of removed any possibility of McPhee taking Enström to play for the Knights until the deadline. Brand new team in new market--are they going to take a guy who so vehemently doesn't want to go there? There's still a possibility of them taking him to flip right away, but any acquiring team would need to be quite confident that his scoring is going to come back and he will play close to 82 games for that $5.75m. I'm not sure any teams should be confident of that.
I believe that ARZ wants Stepan as well, so could be something between ARZ and NYR involving both Raanta and Stepan. Chyka sure love his trades.
Maybe but where in this deal does Chayka get to take on dead salary/cap?
Sure he trades a lot, but they're all awful deals if the team is supposed to be any good.
So, Doug Murray thinks that:
1) There was a good possibility that Mueller was going to get selected by Las Vegas.
2) Whatever he now stands to lose is worth less than 49th overall (Boston's St. Empniak pick!!!!) and the difference between 143rd and 98th. Pretty minimal damage, if that's the case. I wouldn't trade Daňo for that, ordinarily.
Interesting.