Confirmed with Link: Kailer Yamamoto bought out

[redwings8831]

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[JediOrderPizza]

Tight cap?

 

[redwings8831]

 

[SimonEdvinssonAtSix]

I assume with this buyout announced we will get a Kostin signing update here shortly.

 

[Holden Caufield]

Tight cap?

The buyout terms are whatever.
We paid $1M to acquire Kostin for free. Good business.
Yamamoto was clearly a dump and not Detroit’s target.

But yes, the ‘tight cap’ comment makes no sense. Unless Detroit has a few brinks trucks lined up for Tomorrow and are planning to make it rain like Oprah.

 

[redwings8831]

But yes, the ‘tight cap’ comment makes no sense.

I think Dreger meant across the league and not Detroit specifically.

 

[Henkka]

The buyout terms are whatever.
We paid $1M to acquire Kostin for free. Good business.
Yamamoto was clearly a dump and not Detroit’s target.

But yes, the ‘tight cap’ comment makes no sense. Unless Detroit has a few brinks trucks lined up for Tomorrow and are planning to make it rain like Oprah.

Maybe Yzerman is gonna use all cap space for UFAs.

And trades for DeBrincat and Swayman, makes all possible moves.

 

[Detroit Knights]

The buyout terms are whatever.
We paid $1M to acquire Kostin for free. Good business.
Yamamoto was clearly a dump and not Detroit’s target.

But yes, the ‘tight cap’ comment makes no sense. Unless Detroit has a few brinks trucks lined up for Tomorrow and are planning to make it rain like Oprah.

if we paid 1m to acquire kostin then it wasn't for free............

 

[Holden Caufield]

I think Dreger meant across the league and not Detroit specifically.

Detroit ‘Couldn’t make moves to make it work’.

The only move necessary was simply don’t file the buyout papers.

I’m all the way good with the buyout! Just weird comments here. Which could foreshadow some big moves.

 

[Ricelund]

if we paid 1m to acquire kostin then it wasn't for free............

Sure, it was just entirely inconsequential.

 

[norrisnick]

Huh...

Who could have seen this coming?

 

[Holden Caufield]

if we paid 1m to acquire kostin then it wasn't for free............

I meant in terms of Hockey assets/picks/prospects ect.
Not my money. I don’t care about Illitch’s bank account.

 

[jkutswings]

Please tell me there's a significant move still coming. Because buying him out before he even plays a game here, when there's a boatload of cap space, makes zero sense.

 

[Frk It]

Why not bring him to camp and see if he can crack our top 9? Not like we have the best forward group in the league or are pushed up to the cap.

Guess this has no move has no bearing on adding DeBrincat or not.

 

[Puck5]

The player reportedly did not want top play here, simple as that.

 

[Konnan511]

The player reportedly did not want top play here, simple as that.

Source?

 

[Detroit Knights]

Source?

Yeah, you can't just say that acting like you know things without putting the source up.

 

[Puck5]

Source?

spector was tweeting about it right after the trade, i don't have the link atm. His camp was not a fan of going from playoff team to bottom feeder etc. etc.

 

[SimonEdvinssonAtSix]

Please tell me there's a significant move still coming. Because buying him out before he even plays a game here, when there's a boatload of cap space, makes zero sense.

There is also Contract limits and Roster limits to think about.

 

[Henkka]

Too bad.

Maybe there's some better coming in than him.

 

[Barry Amsterdam]

wings legend

 

[Spitfire11]

spector was tweeting about it right after the trade, i don't have the link atm. His camp was not a fan of going from playoff team to bottom feeder etc. etc.

What an entitled little ****

 

[ShelbyZ]

The player reportedly did not want top play here, simple as that.

Pretty dumb if true... Had he not been bought out, he would've likely been a 1 year rental since he's unlikely to get a $3.2M qualifying offer next summer unless he shows dramatic improvement. Would mean he would be moved at the TDL or free to sign wherever as a UFA next summer AND have whatever taxes didn't take of his $3.2M salary in his bank account.

 

[Frk It]

spector was tweeting about it right after the trade, i don't have the link atm. His camp was not a fan of going from playoff team to bottom feeder etc. etc.

Well the playoff team didn’t want you so…..

 

[Run the Jewels]

I figured he'd be a Fabbri level addition that adds scoring depth but whatever. Kostin was apparently the guy we wanted and buying out Yamamoto was the sweetener. Works for me.