I'd rather not. I like Granlund but he's not a center and we really don't need him on the wing.Hopefully it's us. We need a 2nd line center - errr...
I'd rather not. I like Granlund but he's not a center and we really don't need him on the wing.Hopefully it's us. We need a 2nd line center - errr...
I'd rather not. I like Granlund but he's not a center and we really don't need him on the wing.
More my fault than yours. It is, unfortunately, not an uncommon idea in some corners of the internet.It was sarcasm/joke. /sigh
He agreed to waive it for NYI specifically, which reportedly is the only team he's been asked about.Did he really waive his NTC? And if so, is he just a player that no team really sees as a value to them for a potential Cup run?
Did he really waive his NTC? And if so, is he just a player that no team really sees as a value to them for a potential Cup run?
Source, because he absolutely did not say that in his 30 thoughts posted yesterday.Per Freidman wgr:
islanders wild deal was
koivu
Parise
for
Ladd
1st
Bellows
koivu wouldn’t waive
Source, because he absolutely did not say that in his 30 thoughts posted yesterday.
If Koivu was part of the deal, it was dead before it leaked. Because Koivu made it clear two days before the deadline he wasn't waiving.
It's at 17:40Don’t have a time stamp, but it’s somewhere in the middle portion.
02-27 Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman with The Instigators
Ok, so it was an extremely early iteration of the deal if true.It's at 17:40
Because of the recapture risk? Maybe. It depends on how well-founded the idea of the Wild calling the league's bluff in a worst-case scenario is. Seems a little far fetched to me, but I guess you never know.Ok, so it was an extremely early iteration of the deal if true.
Would have been a terrible deal for the Wild.
Because of the recapture risk? Maybe. It depends on how well-founded the idea of the Wild calling the league's bluff in a worst-case scenario is. Seems a little far fetched to me, but I guess you never know.
It also seems unlikely that the actual deal would have been that simple. I'm not sure what sort of language they would/could come up with to juggle cap and manage contingencies, but there'd probably be something along those lines in there. It's hard to know what to think about it without more details.
I don't at all disapprove of moving on from Parise, though.
Because of the recapture risk? Maybe. It depends on how well-founded the idea of the Wild calling the league's bluff in a worst-case scenario is. Seems a little far fetched to me, but I guess you never know.
It also seems unlikely that the actual deal would have been that simple. I'm not sure what sort of language they would/could come up with to juggle cap and manage contingencies, but there'd probably be something along those lines in there. It's hard to know what to think about it without more details.
I don't at all disapprove of moving on from Parise, though.
I'm kind of skeptical on the Bellows part of this, which sounds like a guess based on the Minnesota ties. He's the same age and has AHL numbers similar to Sokolov's, and I don't think anyone here is holding their breath on Sokolov being a big part of the team's future.Partly. Also partly that Bellows is fairly irrelevant to us. And that a later 1st + Bellows shouldn't be enough to bridge the gap between trading ~30 goal, ~50 point NHL player for a buyout candidate to only save ~$3M in cap space.
Because of the recapture risk? Maybe. It depends on how well-founded the idea of the Wild calling the league's bluff in a worst-case scenario is. Seems a little far fetched to me, but I guess you never know.
It also seems unlikely that the actual deal would have been that simple. I'm not sure what sort of language they would/could come up with to juggle cap and manage contingencies, but there'd probably be something along those lines in there. It's hard to know what to think about it without more details.
I don't at all disapprove of moving on from Parise, though.
I have no regrets about Suter at $7.5m
I've also heard that Parise will be a hard guy to LTIR unless he has a serious injury. He wants to play until the end of his deal, so if his back acts up but it's manageable he will refuse LTIR.I'm very curious about this whole recapture penalty scenario and how it plays out. If the Wild and Russo are so sure the NHL isn't going to enforce the cap recapture, then I imagine we'll be able to hear the mob marching from Vancouver demanding to know why the NHL punished them and let the Wild off the hook (I'm sure they won't care that the Canucks penalty was far more manageable than the Wild's potential penalty).
I've also heard that Parise will be a hard guy to LTIR unless he has a serious injury. He wants to play until the end of his deal, so if his back acts up but it's manageable he will refuse LTIR.
It's one of the things I love about him as a player. The nonstop motor and relentless style, but that kind of thinking does tend to screw over most athletes that follow that path.The trick would be keeping the back pain "manageable"....because speaking from experience, back pain gets tougher to deal with the older you get...couldn't even imagine the pain Parise will be going through when he hits 40 yo.