News & Notes XLIV: Revenge of the Seth

[chaz4hockey]

Carrier has never played more than 71 games in a season and in his last 4 seasons he's played 52 (Covid year), 63, 55, and 39 games. Not sure this is surprising at all. My son seemed to think he had a non-contact injury but I haven't heard anything about that.

Non contact injuries have hated us for years.

Although down the lineup, Carrier is a guy that we needed to replace Noesen. Let’s hope he is not out too long.

 

[HisIceness]

Isn't Carrier here for 6 years? That's not a good start

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Isn't Carrier here for 6 years? That's not a good start

Shouldn’t be surprised that the organization that has a history of committing to guys with an injury problems did it again.

 

[WreckingCrew]

Shouldn’t be surprised that the organization that has a history of committing to guys with an injury problems did it again.

Kase, Gardiner, Father Finn, Freddie, Patches

Then we have the unfortunate career ending injuries of Wiz & Pitkanen that were no-contact injuries

 

[CandyCanes]

It is interesting to hand a guy with injury history & one that's not a core player a 6 year deal.

Hope he's okay. As we got 6 more years of this.

 

[spockBokk]

I see Pesce back on the familiar shelf:

https://x.com/i/web/status/1836848706274087115

 

[A Star is Burns]

Meh, it was an odd contract as far as length for Carrier but it's not one that would ever really cripple a team even if he never plays a game (not expecting that, just using the extreme). Especially if the cap continues to rise as expected. In theory, we are supposed to have youth that can backfill if any issues arise. Plus, it's hockey, most guys have injury history even if they haven't missed time for it.

Of course, all we really have are vague updates so far, so this could all be something minor.

 

[chaz4hockey]

Shouldn’t be surprised that the organization that has a history of committing to guys with an injury problems did it again.

Sometimes discounted/value players are valued properly and not worth a purchase.

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

carrier was worth more than 2 million a year. we paid for middle of the road price for a top end depth scorer. it took 6 years to make it happen and worth the risk based on his injury history as his cap hit is 2.25% of the cap. he'll be worth more than 2 million a year even playing 40-50 games in the season.

 

[AhosDatsyukian]

Meh, it was an odd contract as far as length for Carrier but it's not one that would ever really cripple a team even if he never plays a game (not expecting that, just using the extreme). Especially if the cap continues to rise as expected. In theory, we are supposed to have youth that can backfill if any issues arise. Plus, it's hockey, most guys have injury history even if they haven't missed time for it.

Of course, all we really have are vague updates so far, so this could all be something minor.

what would his cap hit be per year if we waived him and he cleared and we sent him to AHL? pretty small I believe. not expecting that to happen any time soon just agreeing that while the 6 years was weird it's a somewhat negligible cap hit. Of course things like that do add up though so it leaves us with less margin for error on other contracts.

 

[A Star is Burns]

what would his cap hit be per year if we waived him and he cleared and we sent him to AHL? pretty small I believe. not expecting that to happen any time soon just agreeing that while the 6 years was weird it's a somewhat negligible cap hit. Of course things like that do add up though so it leaves us with less margin for error on other contracts.

Feel like I remember hearing recently that the buriable amount is in the $1.2-1.3 million range at this point.

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

what would his cap hit be per year if we waived him and he cleared and we sent him to AHL? pretty small I believe. not expecting that to happen any time soon just agreeing that while the 6 years was weird it's a somewhat negligible cap hit. Of course things like that do add up though so it leaves us with less margin for error on other contracts.

League minimum (775k) + 375k, 1.150 mil. His cap hit would be 850k. Far too early for that though