I like the sound of Backlund. He seems to be injury prone too though.
That's the point of C depth.
Backstrom, Kuzy, New3C -> should be capable of playing top-6 C
Beagle, Latta, Stephenson, Laich -> bottom-6 C
Bura - emergency one
I like the sound of Backlund. He seems to be injury prone too though.
If GM Treliving called and offered Hudler, Colborne and Russel for Johansson, Laich, Bowey and a conditional 1st (making it to the SCF). Would you do it?
Caps could ice
Ovechkin-Kuznetsov-Oshie
Hudler-Backstrom-Williams
Chimera-Colborne-Wilson
Burakovsky-Latta-Beagle
Orpik-Carlson
Alzner-Niskanen
Orlov/Schmidt/Russel
Holtby
Grubauer
Well... after all, we can place a bid for Hanzal and keep adding until they bite.
Backlund seems to be another solid candidate. As far as I understand Backlund isn't some core player for them. And their position right now is far from certain. They could bite for a good price too.
That's 2 we can agree on, right?
Khurshudyan reports Sill has been recalled from Hershey: https://twitter.com/ikhurshudyan/status/681962247028105216
Gagner on waivers. Man, idk, Caps gave up some good picks at deadline last season for literally nothing. Maybe it would've worked out better if they claim pretty skillful guy for free and put Laich on waivers instead so the roster finally would not have any passengers?...
And who is gonna take laich?
Sill's recall doesn't bode well for Latta, I think. It looked to me like Latta hurt his hand in the fight.
Nobody of course. But i guess they could send him to Hershey ffs and save something like $2,5M under the cap this season by taking him off of the roster even before midway of the season. Am i right?
They would only save 950k by sending him to Hershey. The rest of his 4.5M would count against the cap.
H/T RMNB:
@mayorNHL: Interesting tidbit... Hearing at least three NHL teams watching Mike Richards court situation closely - including #Oilers and #Caps
The Sharks are supposedly the other team and they may have the advantage since his junior coach is behind their bench. This backs up the thinking the Caps were interested in Stoll recently and are in the market for a vet 4C PKer type. Not much risk if it's for the minimum I guess.
So we added a goon for Wednesday...
Caps don't need anything right now including this POS...this would wreck team chemistry IMO.
POS? what did he do, other than take drugs for his own benefit.
Hard partier in Philly, well-paid passenger for Kings 2nd Cup, multiple trips to rehab, and not very good at hockey any more. He may be a decent, kind human being ... but in hockey terms, and regarding his value to an NHL franchise right now, i'd agree with the POS characterization. I think it would be an awful, awful move.
You don't touch the Holtbeast!Khurshudyan reports Sill has been recalled from Hershey: https://twitter.com/ikhurshudyan/status/681962247028105216