Confirmed Signing with Link: [STL] D Ryan Suter signs with the Blues (1 year, $775k; +$2.225M in performance bonuses)

[Don Nachbaur 26]

He must really love playing.... for millions of dollars.

Added something at the end, hahahaha

 

[Armourboy]

He’s doing the central division tour. Only four teams to go

Luckily Nashville was on the front end when he was cheap and still good.

 

[lawrence]

Future hall of famer Ryan Suter but man… did he ever looked cooked.

Best of luck to him.

 

[JPT]

Because blues are a contender taking advantage of a loophole….

The Blues are a contender?

 

[WeWentBlues]

Why would the Blues do this? What am I missing?

We're all wondering the same thing

The Blues are a contender?

Satire

 

[BonMorrison]

It must be so sick seeing that direct deposit from three different teams every payday.

 

[JPT]

It must be so sick seeing that direct deposit from three different teams every payday.

His wife is the one who checks the accounts and sees it. His ego is too fragile to constantly be reminded that he’s no good anymore and should retire.

 

[Trash Panda]

His wife is the one who checks the accounts and sees it. His ego is too fragile to constantly be reminded that he’s no good anymore and should retire.

Why the hell would he retire?

Teams keep lining up to offer him millions of dollars, he would be daft to retire.

 

[JPT]

Why the hell would he retire?

Teams keep lining up to offer him millions of dollars, he would be daft to retire.

Performance-wise he should, but yeah fair point

 

[NHL1674]

Ew, gross.

Don’t like this one bit. Bought out by two other teams…aren’t there reports he’s not good for the room?

We already had 5 LD on one-way contracts. Yuck.

There were rumors in Minnesota, and then a former Nashville teammate added fuel to the fire.

Ex-Predators captain Arnott roasts Suter: 'All he would do is complain'

Arnott and Suter played together in Nashville for four seasons from 2006-07 to 2009-10. Arnott said Suter has attitude problems, especially in contrast to Shea Weber - who succeeded Arnott as the Predators' captain in 2010-11.


"The attitude of (Suter) was night and day to (Weber)," Arnott said on The Cam & Strick Podcast Tuesday. "All he would do is complain about how come he's not on the power play, how come he doesn't play enough, 'I can't believe this guy's making this much money.'

"(Weber), he was night and day," Arnott continued. "He wanted to learn, super respectful, played hard, so two different dynamics of mentality of players."

Arnott also claims that Suter's attitude played a part in his departure from the Wild this past summer. Minnesota bought out the remaining four seasons of his contract in the offseason, leaving substantial dead cap hits on the books for the next three years.

"I heard he was a huge distraction in that (Wild) dressing room," Arnott said. "Knowing (general manager Bill Guerin), he's not putting up with that and he's cleaning house."

 

[Frank the Tank]

It appears the guy just dislikes living anywhere near the ocean.

 

[EastVillageBlues]

This definitely could go down as the worst signing of this off-season.

Not only tying up a roster spot with drift wood, but also could tie up a substantial part of the cap the year after next one.

This summer is easily the worst since Army came to town.

 

[Unspecified]

Potentially $3 million for 1 year of Suter is CRAZY talk

 

[SirPaste]

This definitely could go down as the worst signing of this off-season.

Not only tying up a roster spot with drift wood, but also could tie up a substantial part of the cap the year after next one.

This summer is easily the worst since Army came to town.

No offense but this whole post seems pretty hyperbolic. It won't even be close to the worst signing as a ton of teams are going to have anchors signed for a lot of years, this might go down as the most irrelevant signing though.

The $2 something million in bonuses that could potentially be on the cap next year is hardy substantial at all, and also likely irrelevant to a team that won't be spending to the cap anyways.

This summer is already better than last summers IMO and it's not even over yet.

 

[Rafafouille]

Blues have plenty of cap space so unless they make a big add, those bonuses won't carryover. Both Kessel and Perunovich don't seem to be anything so they needed D depth. Didn't bury themselves with any term on a better D. Could've done worse.

 

[ChicagoBlues]

Or a lot of incriminating photos.

This!

 

[JaegerDice]

Ryan Suter has had a great career.

There’s a measure of dignity in accepting when you’re cooked… but I guess nobody told Ryan that.

 

[rumrokh]

Blues have plenty of cap space so unless they make a big add, those bonuses won't carryover. Both Kessel and Perunovich don't seem to be anything so they needed D depth. Didn't bury themselves with any term on a better D. Could've done worse.

Kessel was a big bright spot last year. He continually improved and should be part of the starting lineup in the coming season.

 

[Beauterham]

Blues have plenty of cap space so unless they make a big add, those bonuses won't carryover. Both Kessel and Perunovich don't seem to be anything so they needed D depth. Didn't bury themselves with any term on a better D. Could've done worse.

What?

Guess you haven't watched the Blues closely? Solid 3rd pairing guy who could potentially move up to the second pairing in time.

 

[rynryn]

may the blues be cursed for this. CURSED!

 

[Linkens Mastery]

may the blues be cursed for this. CURSED!

Pretty sure we've been cursed since the Cup Win. Lol

 

[Celtic Note]

On record saying this is dumb for many reasons.

 

[Dr Robot]

I don’t get this but if he sucks then we ship him to the minors and pay him league minimum.

 

[algernon]

2 teams would rather pay him to not play for them rather than having him around and still manages to find a job

How much will he make this season for this contract +bonuses+Stars money and Wild money ?

Is it like 3M here 750K from stars and 5M from wild for 8.75M total

Living the dream.

 

[T_Cage]

CBA needs to do something about the cap circumvention with performance bonuses. Something like "10 games played" for 2mil extra or whatever it usually is isn't really how they're meant to be used, if you ask me. The main function there is not to reward performance, but rather to move a part of the cap to the following year, aka cap circumvention.

It hasn't really been abused enough yet for the NHL to care. If teams start using it on name guys, then you might see something happen

Say Pitt resigns Crosby for 1M + 8M in bonuses for 1gp, then watch how fast that loophole gets closed