Confirmed with Link: Flames sign Jake Bean (2 years, $1.75m)

[JurassicTunga]

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[Mobiandi]

Bye Kylington I guess

 

[User1996]

Not the type of player I thought Craig would be after when he said he wanted a D.

 

[Bounces R Way]

I mean it was probably happening sooner or later

found our Oesterle replacement

 

[Double Dion]

This is the one I don't really see the fit for. I liked him in junior, but that was 7 years ago now. We have plenty of 6-8 type defensemen. We have plenty of young guys coming. Would have liked Lafferty at that deal he went to Buffalo on. Mantha was a good signing, Lomberg is fine as a depth/culture guy. The goalie I think has upside. Not seeing it with Jake.

 

[Ace Rimmer]

I see this as a bit of a reclamation attempt. Buy low, no risk.

Defensemen sometimes take a few seasons to put things together at pro speed. Is that the case here? Maybe, but if not, it's a short contract.

 

[Fig]

Calgary kid reclamation project. Hope it works out.

 

[Freaky Styley]

Where does he slot in next year? Chance he gets 2nd pair time if all goes well?

Weegar - Andersson
Bean - Miromanov
Bahl - Pashal
Hanley
?

 

[Deen]

Where does he slot in next year? Chance he gets 2nd pair time if all goes well?

Weegar - Andersson
Bean - Miromanov
Bahl - Pashal
Hanley
?

Anything outside of Weegar and Andersson being in the top 4 is fluid.

 

[Lunatik]

Where does he slot in next year? Chance he gets 2nd pair time if all goes well?

Weegar - Andersson
Bean - Miromanov
Bahl - Pashal
Hanley
?

he can play RD, so probably 3RD with Bahl as 2LD and Solovyov as 3LD

 

[TheHudlinator]

Would have preferred Kylington

 

[Nanuuk]

Former 1st Round pick (2016 13th OA). Somebody saw something in the kid at one time.

New team, new coaches. He'll come along. Also has more career takeaways (66) than giveaways (59) which is always a good sign.

I'm ok with this signing.

 

[Volica]

Would have preferred Kylington

Same is Oliver was willing to take the two year deal and under 3.5.

 

[TheHudlinator]

Same is Oliver was willing to take the two year deal and under 3.5.

Money doesn't really matter and Kylington is a better gamble

 

[Volica]

Money doesn't really matter and Kylington is a better gamble

I mean, money does matter if this GM plans on weaponizing it.

 

[TheHudlinator]

I mean, money does matter if this GM plans on weaponizing it.

We have what 21 million in cap space hard to imagine we couldn't spare a couple million for a much higher ceiling guy

 

[Rubi]

I really haven't paid much attention to Jake Bean's career so I thought I would check out the scouting report on Capfriendly.
Pretty meh. Not quite sure why Conroy grabbed this guy as a free agent.

 

[Fig]

He was born on 6 9
O/D zone starts of 69
Compete consistency of 69

Nice!

 

[Khrox]

Under 2 mil cap hit, young enough that he can develop more still (while we've been lucky with guys like Kylington, Rasmus, and Hanifin, it's not uncommon for defenseman to start finding their game in the late 20's), but also cheap enough that we have to pressbox him because he gets outplayed, it's not a huge deal.

 

[InfinityIggy]

Pretty baffling that they gave him 2 years tbh, but given our situation it likely wont matter.

 

[InfinityIggy]

Money doesn't really matter and Kylington is a better gamble

The issue is probably Kylington wanting a bunch of term, I bet they were in the same ballpark on cap.

 

[Lunatik]

Pretty baffling that they gave him 2 years tbh, but given our situation it likely wont matter.

With Hanley's contract expiring and Pachal being an RFA with arb rights, it does provide a little insurance

 

[Ace Rimmer]

I really haven't paid much attention to Jake Bean's career so I thought I would check out the scouting report on Capfriendly.
Pretty meh. Not quite sure why Conroy grabbed this guy as a free agent

Someone has to be here to help the team hit the cap floor.

With managed expectations, (third pair PP / offense guy) he'll be tolerable until the team's approaching competitiveness again.

If lucky, he has a slower development curve and turns out to be the player who was drafted.

 

[Volica]

Pretty meh. Not quite sure why Conroy grabbed this guy as a free agent.

Calgary guy.
Was pretty highly touted only a couple years ago.

1.75M over two years is not only manageable, but a contract you can bury more than 50% of in the AHL if need be.

It's also impossible to gauge players coming out of Columbus. There's something in the water there.

 

[Rubi]

Someone has to be here to help the team hit the cap floor.

With managed expectations, (third pair PP / offense guy) he'll be tolerable until the team's approaching competitiveness again.

If lucky, he has a slower development curve and turns out to be the player who was drafted.

I would rather the Flames had taken a chance on someone such as Erik Brannstrom who was a UFA and ended up signing a 1 yr $900,000 contract with Colorado. I gotta think Brannstrom has more upside than Bean. Its a bit of a mystery to me. I don't know... maybe Conroy signed Bean as a favor to Jake's dad.