Waived: Calvin Pickard placed on waivers by Vegas. (Cleared)

[SenzZen]

Now I'm confused. I guess GMGM prefers a Fleury Subban tandem?

Banking on the Cirque du Soleil crowd favouring acrobatic goalies?

 

[izzy]

this is a moronic move

vegas is going to be bad for a long time probably

 

[Jared Dunn]

I know he's still quite young, but is he really better than McBackup?

Honest question.

At his best? Yeah.

 

[LEAFANFORLIFE23]

As bad a first game as Mase had, I feel like running a Hellebuyck/Pickard tandem would be highly inadvisable.




I know he's still quite young, but is he really better than McBackup?

Honest question.

I mean I know he had a rough year on Colorado last year but who didn't? he also has seasons where he has save % of 930 snd 922 so....... yes

 

[Scott Stevens]

GMGM at it again

Tell me about it. First he passes up on Manson and Vatanen and Dumba, now he throws away Pickard.

Maybe he should wear the Dumba55 shirt.

 

[CorgisPer60]

You can claim a player off waivers and trade them. So long as only one team submits a waiver claim.

An addendum to this is that the team that claimed the player off of waivers has to offer him back to that team under the same rules and restrictions as if they were putting him on waivers, and if they decline, then they can trade him.

 

[Duke Silver]

Save percentage among goalies with >30 GP in the last two years:

Pickard: 0.909
McElhinney: 0.906

Save percentage among goalies with >40 GP in the last three years:

Pickard: 0.913
McElhinney: 0.910

Not a huge difference here.

Tell me about it. First he passes up on Manson and Vatanen and Dumba, now he throws away Pickard.

Maybe he should wear the Dumba55 shirt.

He made deals with those teams to avoid taking those players. Brought back some pretty good young players and 1st rounders.

 

[Soundgarden]

Tell me about it. First he passes up on Manson and Vatanen and Dumba, now he throws away Pickard.

Maybe he should wear the Dumba55 shirt.

No, those players weren't available.

 

[HanSolo]

Tell me about it. First he passes up on Manson and Vatanen and Dumba, now he throws away Pickard.

Maybe he should wear the Dumba55 shirt.

This meme isn't funny anymore. You've been told why those players weren't available.

 

[CupInSIX]

No, those players weren't available.

I would argue that Dumba was available just like Methot and it was a bluff, given the scrambling Minnesota did to move out Scandella. But they did get Tuch, who looks extremely promising at just 21, and Haula re-signed for 3 years.

But yeah Manson could have left as a UFA in 2 years and Vatanen in 3. Better to build around a younger Theodore.

 

[CorgisPer60]

No, those players weren't available.

They were available in the sense that GMGM could have chosen them had he not done separate deals to keep from choosing them. Then again, that also changes who is available from the other side.

Also, this is the GM that literally chose Chris Thorburn - a winger who was UFA come July 1st, and who he had no intention of signing - because he valued moving up 11 spots in the draft for one of his 1st round picks over what the Jets had available. Hard to tell if this is bad by design, or if GMGM is inept.

 

[SUBdrewgANS]

What the hell is Vegas doing?

 

[Jumptheshark]

Not a Pickard fan and I think people believe he is better then he is

 

[Schenn]

Toronto wouldn't pick him up for free. They'd at least want to shed a nothing contract in a trade if they were to take him on.

 

[Snowman]

Avs claim him and add him and fellow Manitoba boy Blake Comeau to Duchene trade for Jacob Trouba and random pieces.

That part made me laugh. As if you'd get Trouba for this offer, but Trouba AND random pieces. You win the thread!

 

[GuitarGuy]

Wow, he can't even crack an expansion team's roster.

 

[Jacob]

Maybe Pickard came to camp in bad shape or something.

 

[Soundgarden]

They were available in the sense that GMGM could have chosen them had he not done separate deals to keep from choosing them. Then again, that also changes who is available from the other side.

Also, this is the GM that literally chose Chris Thorburn - a winger who was UFA come July 1st, and who he had no intention of signing - because he valued moving up 11 spots in the draft for one of his 1st round picks over what the Jets had available. Hard to tell if this is bad by design, or if GMGM is inept.

And they weren't available in a sense that those teams did a deal with Vegas before the deadline to send in the protected list. Anaheim, Minnesota, whomever else trades their players before they lose them for free. Maybe MoredredGK is right and Vegas could have had Dumba, but we still ended up with Tuch and Haula, which isn't a bad move.

You think moving up 11 spots in the draft for a player you didn't even want is a bad move? Especially for a team that started with zero prospects? Any team makes that move 8 days a week.

Just because you don't like GMGM or he's a bad GM, does not mean every move he made was wrong.

 

[ColdSteel2]

GMGM, the smartest man in whatever room he is in, just ask him.

 

[Scott Stevens]

GMGM, the smartest man in whatever room he is in, just ask him.

I asked him and he said to ask Mike Gillis.

 

[Shrimper]

Pickard is going to be claimed for sure, right? Someone with a start who could do with some competition?

 

[Seanaconda]

Weird. Figured he was one of the few guys on the team they would be able to trade

 

[Hivemind]

WTF is McPhee doing?

 

[Batrous]

Could anyone see Boston claiming him?

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

Pickard is going to be claimed for sure, right? Someone with a start who could do with some competition?

I would think. Not sure how Boston fans view Khudobin for example.
I know Pickard has issues, but he is still a serviceable backup goalie. Vegas doing this makes little sense. He is an upgrade to Subban