The Loss of Broberg and Holloway Gripe Thread

[bucks_oil]

Team should have at least swallowed their pride on Holloway. Getting a 3rd for him was a complete joke and his contract was easy to fit in. I could understand not matching on Broberg but even then I would have matched and found a way to make the cap work like every other team seems to do.

Holloway was possible… Broberg was not. (Unless you want to lay out your moves that made it so)

It’s fine to be critical, but do not reinvent history.

 

[McShogun99]

Holloway was possible… Broberg was not. (Unless you want to lay out your moves that made it so)

It’s fine to be critical, but do not reinvent history.

They had the cap space after the Ceci trade and by putting Kane on LTIR before the season started. The problem was they couldn’t accrue cap space unless they waited until the season started to put Kane on LTIR.

Now the 2 things we’re looking for at the deadline is exactly what Holloway and Broberg provide and they would have provided us that for years.

 

[bucks_oil]

They had the cap space after the Ceci trade and by putting Kane on LTIR before the season started. The problem was they couldn’t accrue cap space unless they waited until the season started to put Kane on LTIR.

Now the 2 things we’re looking for at the deadline is exactly what Holloway and Broberg provide and they would have provided us that for years.

Yes, but the choice was LTIR Kane

AND be sure he wasn’t coming back (which all rumblings then and now were we aren’t sure)…

Then what?

He comes back post deadline so we can’t really even make a trade to get rid of salary.

The fact is was started the season with a 21-man roster and 875k in cap space.

To sign even Holloway meant trading Janmark a month after signing him or sending Perry to the AHL. Then they could squeak Holloway in.

The only scenario that allowed Broberg was doing both of the above + Kulak, or going nuclear with RNH or Hyman… or using Kane’s LTIR, again not knowing if he’s coming back.

Both just wasn’t a realistic option… they were already painted into a corner

 

[McShogun99]

Yes, but the choice was LTIR Kane

AND be sure he wasn’t coming back (which all rumblings then and now were we aren’t sure)…

Then what?

He comes back post deadline so we can’t really even make a trade to get rid of salary.

The fact is was started the season with a 21-man roster and 875k in cap space.

To sign even Holloway meant trading Janmark a month after signing him or sending Perry to the AHL. Then they could squeak Holloway in.

The only scenario that allowed Broberg was doing both of the above + Kulak, or going nuclear with RNH or Hyman… or using Kane’s LTIR, again not knowing if he’s coming back.

Both just wasn’t a realistic option… they were already painted into a corner

Other teams seem to have no problem dealing with the cap. The team knew that Kane wasn’t coming back until near the end of the season regardless of what they said. They have the option of moving Kane now that it’s March 1st or there’s the option of moving Kulak. It was very possible but they should have just moved on from Broberg at the draft since they already knew he wanted out. They tried the strong arm tactic and it backfired.