Claimed off Waivers: [FLA] Panthers claim D Josh Mahura off waivers from the Ducks

[MMC]

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[StreetHawk]

One of those next wave of Ducks Dmen that never panned out like Larsson and Guhle after the likes of Lindholm, Vats, Fowler, Manson developed into full time top 4 NHLers.

 

[kerrabria]

Should we have any hopes for this guy? I have zero expectations based on his stats.
Don't understand for the life of me why Zito claimed him and tried getting rid of Carlsson, but Zito also acquired Hagg to ensure Carlsson never saw playoff ice.

Florida also now has 12 LHD on NHL contracts, only one of which can play above 6D caliber.

 

[MMC]

Should we have any hopes for this guy? I have zero expectations based on his stats.
Don't understand for the life of me why Zito claimed him and tried getting rid of Carlsson, but Zito also acquired Hagg to ensure Carlsson never saw playoff ice.

Florida also now has 12 LHD on NHL contracts, only one of which can play above 6D caliber.

No you shouldn't, he just isn't an NHL quality player unfortunately.

 

[GreatBear]

Should we have any hopes for this guy? I have zero expectations based on his stats.
Don't understand for the life of me why Zito claimed him and tried getting rid of Carlsson, but Zito also acquired Hagg to ensure Carlsson never saw playoff ice.

Florida also now has 12 LHD on NHL contracts, only one of which can play above 6D caliber.

He is sort of okay on offense, but can't play defense. That is not a good mix for a defenseman. I would probably call him an AHL defenseman who can be called up in a pinch.

 

[AveryStar4Eva]

I think Florida’s strategy is to have as many defence as possible and hope one turns into another Forsling

 

[uncleben]

For those interested, this cost Florida $41,250, paid to Anaheim and not counted against the cap.

 

[Duck Off]

Should we have any hopes for this guy? I have zero expectations based on his stats.
Don't understand for the life of me why Zito claimed him and tried getting rid of Carlsson, but Zito also acquired Hagg to ensure Carlsson never saw playoff ice.

Florida also now has 12 LHD on NHL contracts, only one of which can play above 6D caliber.

Eh, not a ton, but some I guess. I think he could do okay if he plays a very sheltered role with a very stable D partner. We've never been able to provide that to him. Honestly, I'm a little surprised we waived him over White.

 

[mightyquack]

Shocked he was claimed, especially by a team with contending aspirations. One of the worst defencemen I've seen for Anaheim in his own zone, and mediocre offensive ability.

Good luck to him though, couldn't ask to be put into a better situation to maybe have a chance to forge an NHL career given where Florida are versus Anaheim.

 

[biturbo19]

Should we have any hopes for this guy? I have zero expectations based on his stats.
Don't understand for the life of me why Zito claimed him and tried getting rid of Carlsson, but Zito also acquired Hagg to ensure Carlsson never saw playoff ice.

Florida also now has 12 LHD on NHL contracts, only one of which can play above 6D caliber.

How are they gonna do it? By VOLUME!!!!!

 

[bsu]

He will get knocked over with a gust of wind into the arena. He has some offensive ability and can show patience with the puck but yeah he's horrible defensively, soft and weak on his skates. He tries his best to be physical at times but at his stature it usually doesn't work out for him.

 

[HanSolo]

Yeah this claim is wild to me considering the team. Maybe the change in scenery will do him some good but Mahura's development has been in total stasis. When he was first coming up to the Ducks it looked like he had some potential but he hasn't shown any meaningful progression.

 

[scoutclout]

Yeah this claim is wild to me considering the team. Maybe the change in scenery will do him some good but Mahura's development has been in total stasis. When he was first coming up to the Ducks it looked like he had some potential but he hasn't shown any meaningful progression.

This team is severely lacking in bottom 6 dmen and worse yet they need them on really inexpensive contracts. Del Zotto was waived and Carlsson sucks. We'll see who gets cut here but it was looking like a bottom 6 of Kiersted and Gildon so adding a guy with a little more experience probably isn't that bad.

 

[HanSolo]

This team is severely lacking in bottom 6 dmen and worse yet they need them on really inexpensive contracts. Del Zotto was waived and Carlsson sucks. We'll see who gets cut here but it was looking like a bottom 6 of Kiersted and Gildon so adding a guy with a little more experience probably isn't that bad.

Guys I haven't been playing much attention to the state of the Panthers roster

 

[StreetHawk]

Guys I haven't been playing much attention to the state of the Panthers roster

Very top heavy. Barkov at $10, Matt T. at $9.5, Bob at $10, and Ekblad at $7.5. Total for these 4 players is $37 million of the $82.5 mill cap max. $45.5 mill left for the remainder of the roster.

Add in Reinhart at $6.5, Hornqvist at $5.3, Bennett & Carter V. combined for $8.5, that's another $20.3 mill. Add to the top 4, it's $57.3 mill. $25.2 mill left for upwards of 15 players to make a 23 man roster. Their A club is up in Charlotte, so not next door to paper guys down to the A.

That's why they need cheap depth.

 

[violaswallet]

Very top heavy. Barkov at $10, Matt T. at $9.5, Bob at $10, and Ekblad at $7.5. Total for these 4 players is $37 million of the $82.5 mill cap max. $45.5 mill left for the remainder of the roster.

Add in Reinhart at $6.5, Hornqvist at $5.3, Bennett & Carter V. combined for $8.5, that's another $20.3 mill. Add to the top 4, it's $57.3 mill. $25.2 mill left for upwards of 15 players to make a 23 man roster. Their A club is up in Charlotte, so not next door to paper guys down to the A.

That's why they need cheap depth.

top heavy isn’t the main problem: 6.6M dollars in buyouts to Yandle and Darling are. Without that, we could have kept Marchment and added say Kulikov

 

[lwvs84]

He's a pretty good defenseman if used properly. Proper use is in the AHL.

 

[quackquackquack]

I really wanted to like Mahura but he's so frustrating (like lots of recent ducks prospects.) There will be a couple games where he'll bomb in a one-timer or wheel all the way up the ice coast to coast but other than that yuck

 

[Dr Beinfest]

everyone who rejoiced about buying out Yandle…
This cap hell and humorous lineup is your prize.

 

[StreetHawk]

top heavy isn’t the main problem: 6.6M dollars in buyouts to Yandle and Darling are. Without that, we could have kept Marchment and added say Kulikov

Given the asset cost to mo

everyone who rejoiced about buying out Yandle…
This cap hell and humorous lineup is your prize.

given the price tag of cap dumps would have cost Fla the best remaining draft picks.

 

[Laus723]

everyone who rejoiced about buying out Yandle…
This cap hell and humorous lineup is your prize.

So, we should’ve just kept Yandle? I’ll take the cap hell.

Humorous lineup? You just into spicy takes now?

 

[Dr Beinfest]

given the price tag of cap dumps would have cost Fla the best remaining draft picks.

We can certainly talk about the dumb acquisitions at the deadline (which were in fact all dumb). That’s more of a tangent though. I didn’t really suggest we should have traded him with picks instead (but it was an option to explore).

We should have done was dealt with our problems. For a team that had issues all season long icing an NHL-ready 6th or 7th defenseman, having an able-bodied Yandle buried in ice time was hardly that much of a downgrade from some of the shit we saw. Moreover we literally finished in first place. If Yandle was truly that impactful buried in the lineup, well, we had plenty of performance in-season to offset that. Our playoff result would’ve been no different.

But why hold onto him a whole season I suppose would be the real question here. His negative trade value thereafter gets a lot less negative when his total cash owed gets down to $2.2 million. That’s when you can start dangling the 2nd round picks to bottom-dwelling teams in the off-season who might have cap but not cash like Arizona. Most importantly though is that his buyout this year would’ve saved nearly $600k in cap hit this year if he was bought out now instead of last year. Anyone doing the math and planning ahead will have identified that this was the optimal year to buy out and that’s the paradox of his contract structure with its final year.

Anyone who looked at our books a year ago should have saw this coming. We traded Weegar with Huberdeau not to get the better player but for the simple reality that there was no way, after selling all those picks, that we would ever be cap compliant. It’s decisions like Yandle’s buyout that are what people want, but not what the team needs long term.

 

[GermanSpitfire]

 

[Mogo]

I did not expect anything and thought he was just picked up because injuries we has at the time

Been a pleasent surprise. Love his shoot first mentality too

 

[TopShelfWaterBottle]

Either he’sa good chance of scenery guy or how bad it goes to show Dallas Eakins is a horrible developmental coach

I could see either option