Waived: [ANA] Ducks waive Adam Henrique (Clears)

[Perennial]

Doubt he gets claimed. From Detroit POV I would maybe do Henrique and a 2nd for Nielsen

Take a look at the players who are set to hit UFA the summer Nielsen comes off the books, and then ask yourself if you think Detroit would be better off with 5.8 million in cap space, or 5.8 million tied up on Henrique

 

[Leonardo87]

It’s a little shocking. Henrique is coming off one of his best seasons, scoring 27 goals in 71 games on a struggling Anaheim team. I thought they would give him more time to find his game, since the entire team or most of it has struggled to score. So there might be more to the story here.

 

[Perennial]

I'm at a loss for why fans of Detroit and Vancouver are suggesting Nielsen or Eriksson be moved for Henrique...

They're finally nearing the end of having those bad contracts on their roster, and they want to move them for another bad contract with twice the term

 

[Theodore450]

In 2 years from now any player who is not a superstar heading into UFA at age 28 is not even going to get a contract

Disagree. Skill is changing this has nothing to do with age. At 30 mcdavid is still getting paid

 

[Ciao]

You would have to think the Ducks worked the phones to trade him, without success, before placing him on waivers.

It's possible there's a deal in place, perhaps with retention even, if he clears waivers. Sometimes a player's value increases after clearing waivers, but I have a hard time figuring that out here.

 

[Wingsfan 4 life]

Is it just me, or does it seem there's been more than the usual hefty cap hits hitting waivers this year? Barely a month in, too.

 

[JT Kreider]

Disagree. Skill is changing this has nothing to do with age. At 30 mcdavid is still getting paid

Good thing McDavid is a superstar

 

[Richiebottles]

I wonder if a deal around Byron for Henrique (Retained) would work?

it would allow the Habs to let Danault to walk as UFA.

 

[ujju2]

Except, Henrique was actually good last season. Neal has been garbage for a while.

Neal scored 19 last season and was on the league's best PP...

Oilers are happy to keep the shorter contract.

 

[sasha barkov]

Neal scored 19 last season and was on the league's best PP...

Oilers are happy to keep the shorter contract.

Only reason was because he was w McDavid . Rico produced more on a worse team with worse players

 

[ujju2]

Only reason was because he was w McDavid . Rico produced more on a worse team with worse players

Maybe, maybe not. Point is, they're both horrible contracts, and Henrique isn't enough of an upgrade on Neal to take the extra year. Hell, maybe the Oilers buy out Neal this offseason, that wouldn't surprise me either.

 

[McDonald19]

Neal scored 19 last season and was on the league's best PP...

Oilers are happy to keep the shorter contract.

Doesn’t mean he isn’t a garbage 5 on 5 player. Henrique was a good all around player last season. Capable of playing on PK, PP, 5 on 5, center or wing. He just fell off a cliff this season for some reason, possibly due to Covid...

 

[StreetHawk]

In 2 years from now any player who is not a superstar heading into UFA at age 28 is not even going to get a contract

Then it would be wise for RFAs to not sign away any UFA years on their 2nd contract. Try to hit UFA no later than 27.

 

[CanadienShark]

Wtf. Huh?

 

[StreetHawk]

Many teams have been handcuffed into long term deals knowing the last couple years would be trash. Hopefully the market changes and the contracts are more reasonable.

The only logical solution is for teams to eat a higher cap hit for shorter term.

Instead of $36 mill for 6 years you do $33/34 mill fo 5 years to get to $6.6 or $6.8 mill per season.

You basically look at the cash outflow of the contract. Whatever is left as base salary for the final year, eliminate that amount and divide everything else by 1 year less to get the higher AAV.

 

[ManwithNoIdentity]

Doubt he gets claimed. From Detroit POV I would maybe do Henrique and a 2nd for Nielsen

Henrique still has 4 years left after this, hell no

 

[MMC]

Why are people offering up completely washed up players that haven't been good in years? Henrique would've scored 30 goals last season if not for the stoppage in player and was our leader scorer, the team has no interest in moving him out for garbage. He is maybe 1 million overpaid at most, 30 goal scoring centers are 100% worth a $5 million contract in UFA (Kevin f***ing Hayes got 7), even with the reduced cap, we aren't going to trade him for crap just because he's struggled for not even a third of the season, in which he still has more points than f***ing Mika Zibanejad.

 

[sasha barkov]

Why are people offering up completely washed up players that haven't been good in years? Henrique would've scored 30 goals last season if not for the stoppage in player and was our leader scorer, the team has no interest in moving him out for garbage. He is maybe 1 million overpaid at most, 30 goal scoring centers are 100% worth a $5 million contract in UFA (Kevin f***ing Hayes got 7), even with the reduced cap, we aren't going to trade him for crap just because he's struggled for not even a third of the season, in which he still has more points than f***ing Mika Zibanejad.

he'll return some assets and a cap dump. Ducks might have to retain, but yes, the proposals have been god awful. I saw Ladd for Rico and Ladd didn't even play in the nhl while Rico was about to drop 30 with 11 games left

 

[MMC]

he'll return some assets and a cap dump. Ducks might have to retain, but yes, the proposals have been god awful. I saw Ladd for Rico and Ladd didn't even play in the nhl while Rico was about to drop 30 with 11 games left

Yeah no question we'd have to take salary back, but the deal won't be anything close to a straight up swap with another overpaid player that hasn't been good in years. Absolutely no reason we would do that over just keeping Henrique and hope he gets back to 19-20 form

 

[Reddwit]

i believe that if hes healthy detroit , in desperate need of a centerman , claims him

Not with that contract.

 

[Vitto79]

Will be interesting to see if they eat a few million on a trade

 

[Perennial]

Just like when Tyler Johnson was put on waivers, I would think Henrique goes unclaimed as well...

 

[Perennial]

I could see Buffalo swapping Okposo for Henrique...

Eichel
Cozens
Henrique

That's a decent 1-2-3 down the middle if Henrique rounds back into form

 

[Shultzyfeelinirie25]

Frans Neilson and a pick for Adam I think they both have 4 years left

 

[zar]

Except, Henrique was actually good last season. Neal has been garbage for a while.

What does last year have to do with current and future performance expectations?