Confirmed with Link: Kapanen re-signs for 2 years at $3.2 million AAV

[HandshakeLine]

Cheeks Klapanen

That's his pornhub playlist.

 

[Zbynek]

You can’t put a price on swagger

 

[dogthateats]

I wonder what his podcast is called?

Cool cats and bucket hats with Kappy and Edvin

 

[Peat]

Reality is likely in the middle.

To look deeper at this -

So there's 18 forwards in the .35 to .45 ppg category that contains Kappy and Heinen who've resigned this summer and who played over half the season last year

Kapanen is the second most expensive behind Vatrano.

Heinen is the third cheapest forward, and the two below him are Boqvist who doesn't have arbitration rights and Balcers where I just don't understand why either.

You average out their cap hits and it hits 1.97m (the median is 2.1m) which is more in the middle than I expected. I guess my mind is still a little stuck in pre-covid prices, where Kapanen is just getting a standard RFA hit and Heinen is getting ridiculously shafted.

That said, points aren't the be all and end all, and you can mostly find the guys with long track records (like Kapanen at the top) and guys without much of one (Kakko coming off of ELC) or who are very bad defensively (Donato) are at the bottom. I think if I were to narrow this down to guys who've played 300 plus games and have comfortably over a 100 points and the rest of it, then the numbers would tilt even further towards Kapanen looking a little over, and Heinen looking hella under. Like you ask Capfriendly to find the most comparable contract to Heinen based solely on games and points at date of signing, and it brings back Anthony Beauvillier at 4m or so.

 

[Bowski]

Waste of time and money for all parties involved.
The sad part is no team will want any piece of this garbage player/contract.

2 more years of this reject trying to "find his game".

 

[Zbynek]

Yamamoto signs for cheaper than Kap. After a 20G+21A season.

 

[jmelm]

Yamamoto signs for cheaper than Kap. After a 20G+21A season.

But Kapanen skates really fast and stuff....

 

[Zbynek]

To look deeper at this -

So there's 18 forwards in the .35 to .45 ppg category that contains Kappy and Heinen who've resigned this summer and who played over half the season last year

Kapanen is the second most expensive behind Vatrano.

Heinen is the third cheapest forward, and the two below him are Boqvist who doesn't have arbitration rights and Balcers where I just don't understand why either.

You average out their cap hits and it hits 1.97m (the median is 2.1m) which is more in the middle than I expected. I guess my mind is still a little stuck in pre-covid prices, where Kapanen is just getting a standard RFA hit and Heinen is getting ridiculously shafted.

That said, points aren't the be all and end all, and you can mostly find the guys with long track records (like Kapanen at the top) and guys without much of one (Kakko coming off of ELC) or who are very bad defensively (Donato) are at the bottom. I think if I were to narrow this down to guys who've played 300 plus games and have comfortably over a 100 points and the rest of it, then the numbers would tilt even further towards Kapanen looking a little over, and Heinen looking hella under. Like you ask Capfriendly to find the most comparable contract to Heinen based solely on games and points at date of signing, and it brings back Anthony Beauvillier at 4m or so.

Reading all this infuriates me, because it just makes you realize how f***ing stupid it was to qualify Kapanen.

We could have just elected to not qualify and worst case scenario got him at 1.2 million cheaper. (Or even better, just parted ways there)

The league-wide interest for Kasperi Kapanen does not merit qualifying, then signing him to 2x3.2.

 

[TheGoldenJet]

Reading all this infuriates me, because it just makes you realize how f***ing stupid it was to qualify Kapanen.

We could have just elected to not qualify and worst case scenario got him at 1.2 million cheaper. (Or even better, just parted ways there)

The league-wide interest for Kasperi Kapanen does not merit qualifying, then signing him to 2x3.2.

Agreed, but the sad thing is, it still isn't as bad as the Carter contract.

 

[Jacob]

Who cares. Heinen and Kap at a combined 4.2m is good. That’s 2/3rds of a 3rd line.

 

[Pens x]

Who cares. Heinen and Kap at a combined 4.2m is good. That’s 2/3rds of a 3rd line.

Players got squeezed for team near the cap but we gave out money like Oprah to Kap.

 

[jmelm]

Players got squeezed for team near the cap but we gave out money like Oprah to Kap.

It really is weird because based on the current market and with all the guys unsigned, no other team (except maybe CHI on a 1 year deal) would have given Kapanen more than about $2M, if not a lot less.

 

[Jacob]

I think that contracts are all a little goofed up throughout the league. They are under normal circumstances and then throw in the flat cap and other oddities. I’m not overly concerned with Kap’s hit so long as he plays a role befitting it- he’ll earn it. I thought he’d get 2.5 for 1 year if he stayed but was most likely to be traded.

Entirely possible that Hextall just send out some texts asking other GMs if they were interested in Kap, and at what term/hit would they no longer be interested in him. If 2 GMs expected to have cap room were like “we’ve always liked him, my guys say 3.5 is our limit.” You know it’s likely movable *and* you can fit it in so you get it done. You have to take other things into consideration like he’s a viable top-6 option if there’s an injury AND if the negotiations drag on he’s less likely to get off on the right foot if he’s missing camp or preseason.

Assuming Zucker walks next summer and hoping Kap has a bounceback year in the middle 6 he’s then a pretty cheap top top 6 wing in 23-24 to replace Zuck.

He just needs to play. Sullivan tried to give him the Mike Johnston Perron treatment but that doesn’t work with those kinda players. Put him in situations where he can get involved and touch the puck. PP, PK, with Sid & Geno.

 

[Duffy13]

Well, at least we have our whipping boy for the season in place, can't put a price on that

 

[Pens x]

Well, at least we have our whipping boy for the season in place, can't put a price on that

Archibald, Zucker and Pettersson say hold my beer.

 

[Pens x]

Bump
It
Up

 

[TheGoldenJet]

Bump
It
Up

Bump the Carter one too.

 

[Clare2904]

Did he clear?

 

[Lust for Life]

Did he clear?

Claimed by St. Louis.

 

[TKalltheTime]

 

[Goalie_Bob]

Does he play against the Pens today? Lol. If he does you know he scores the game winner.

 

[dogthateats]

So you are happy for Kappy, but think the cappy is crappy and wonder if teams desire him bc of his pappy?

Damn this post goes hard

 

[Zap Rowsdower]

Does he play against the Pens today? Lol. If he does you know he scores the game winner.

I hope so and I hope he gets 4 goals and give Sully the finger

 

[Pens x]

Let’s hope Kap lights it up. Him flourishing will really make it hard for the remaining sully fan boys to keep defending him.

 

[Colonel Mustard]

Good night sweet prince