Confirmed Trade: [PIT/OTT] Mike Condon for a 5th in 2017

Poochie_D

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Oct 31, 2004
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Good move by JR. Flipping a waiver claim for a pick when you no longer need the player. Mike is on a dirt cheap contract (550k) so it makes moving him rather easy. He's a warm body on the bench that can come in and play some games. He's a better goaltender then he's given credit for IMO.
 

indigobuffalo

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Feb 10, 2011
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Ottawa had no choice.

Condon will be traded later on for a 5th round pick again.

Much more likely placed on waivers though it depends a lot of how/if he gets playing time and also how he does.

He could post a .945 Sv% over 6 games and yeah, they might get to trade him for a pick.

More likely he posts a .901 Sv% over 3 games and gets to hit the waiver wire again.
 

spader

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Oct 13, 2013
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Hoffman was a 5th rounder...

So were these guys:
Grant Potulny
Sean Connolly
Stefan Schauer
Brock Hooton
Tim Cook
Sergei Gimayev
Alex Nikulin
Jim McKenzie
Roman Wick
Tomas Kudelka
Ryan Daniels
Jeff Costello
Freddie Claesson
Robbie Baillargeon
Vincent Dunn
Christian Jaros
Max Lajoie
 

The Old Master

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So were these guys:
Grant Potulny
Sean Connolly
Stefan Schauer
Brock Hooton
Tim Cook
Sergei Gimayev
Alex Nikulin
Jim McKenzie
Roman Wick
Tomas Kudelka
Ryan Daniels
Jeff Costello
Freddie Claesson
Robbie Baillargeon
Vincent Dunn
Christian Jaros
Max Lajoie
and not one of them was a Pittsburgh pick.
 

Riptide

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Dec 29, 2011
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A fifth rounder is worth about as much as a piece of candy.

Yep. I mean it's a free pick and all, so I'm not going to complain. But the odds of that pick turning into an NHL player who plays 200+ games is something like 5-10%. This is why GMs are willing to "hand them out like candy". Even 2nds that people on this board throw around only have something like a 20-30% chance (depending where in the draft) of playing 200+ games.
 

BonkTastic

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Pittsburgh got an asset for a player they lucked into and no longer need, and Ottawa gets insurance at a position that has become incredibly unstable over the last 10 days due to reasons completely out of their control, for the low low price of a 5th round pick.

Win-win, as far as I'm concerned.
 

danielpalfredsson

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Aug 14, 2013
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Hoffman was a 5th rounder...

You have to weigh the value of Ottawa sorting out their goalie situation and being able to assign Dreidger and/or O'Connor to the AHL, and maybe winning a game with Condon in that they might not have won with Driedger or O'Connor in if it comes to that versus the likelihood of a 5th rounder becoming Mike Hoffman.
 

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