Problem is I and quite a few others would argue that he DID earn a spot - he definitely outplayed Perry in camp and arguably Podkolzin as well (and Skinner, but that's not a fair comparison, Lavoie was never going to take Skinner's spot).
I knew he wouldn’t clear waivers. Apparently the management didn’t learn from the double offer sheet fiasco and seem content to continue pissing away young, cheap talent.
Sure. We’ve lost a lot of prospects this summer. Holloway, Broberg and a couple years ago we lost Kesselring. They’re all NHL players now and some pretty good ones. Lavoie had a great camp and seems NHL ready. He had some very good games and he played good with Leon. Losing more young prospects with decent ceilings is never a good thing.
Sure, but at the end of the day its kind of meaningless. Our team had 2 spots for grabs and Lavoie didnt make it.
Kesselring doesnt crack a line up that isn’t Arizona, he’s a josh brown level player. you’ll see him crash and burn this year. Broberg and Holloway were lost because their value doesnt equal what they bring to the table and lavoie was waived because he wasn’t good enough for the nhl roster.
Basically, long story short. Savoie has Bonuses on his contract so if he is up day 1, you can use LTIR more effectively than if he was brought up AFTER the team is in LTIR. Its some weird cap manuevering. Like technically Kane will be placed on LTIR but the team will not be using any of the space cause we don't need it. BUT if Savoie was to be recalled after we are in LTIR then his contract+bonuses get allied to the cap calcualation, but if he is on the roster for even a day before that happens, only his actual salary is applied.
Personally I'd keep both in the AHL.
Ah yes, forgot about that.
The oddly specific AAV for Wright makes me think it’s also a cap maneuvering move where he’s going to be on the season opening roster to get them as close to the cap ceiling as possible.
Interesting, might be right as it does seem a bit high too given his past results
