Confirmed Signing with Link: [CAR] Jake Gardiner to the Carolina Hurricanes (4 years, $4.05M AAV)

[ToDavid]

I'm sorry what, that's an amazing deal.

 

[Bounces R Way]

Cheap cheap

You wonder how a team that needed him more couldn't beat that. There's a lot of teams with much poorer bluelines out there.

 

[SoundAndFury]

That is an amazing contract all things considered. Don't know why would Gardiner sign one like that but he has his reasons, I guess.

 

[Mick Jagr]

What a sweetheart of a deal. Wow. Nice more Carolina!

 

[Patmac40]

Damn, what a deal for the Canes. And what a blueline.

 

[Drew4u]

The Habs gave Chariot 3.5 for 3 years yet couldn't match this ? Is there more to this or is MB actually clueless ?

 

[justafan22]

Faulk, I would guess.

Easiest trade piece that has significant salary.

 

[seafoam]

Soooo

Gardiner. Faulk
Slavin. Pesce
Xxxx. Hamilton?

They probably separate Salvin and Pesce, they are their two best defenders.

 

[X66]

Carolina is looking to fill their team with “good but not great” players apparently

This is what, their 6th top 4D?

Such incredible depth but other than Aho and maybe Slavin there’s no real game breakers on the team.

Interesting to see how far they go this season.

?

For starters, adding good players is never a bad thing lol.

Secondly, there are great players on the team, and some with the pedigree to be great.

Aho
Svechnikov
Necas
Slavin
Teravainen coming off a 75+ point season.

Then they have a bunch of players that are much better than just 'good' players.

But their goaltending still blows.

 

[Blender]

Orrrrr it wasn’t meant to be a game sheet for game 7?

Looked like a depth chart to me.

 

[DanielBrassard]

What a sickening deal, great job from Carolina getting him for this price.

 

[Legion34]

Looked like a depth chart to me.

Ok. I guess I control who goes
On the ice when???? Awesome.

Hall. Subban. Hughes. Benched.

Zajac. You’re up.

 

[82Ninety42011]

Great signing in term and dollars hope other GM's are seeing this!!

 

[SI90]

The canes are monsters. Some nice wheeling and dealing we’ve seen from them.

 

[duxfan1101]

They have to be trading a dman for some forward help, right?

 

[Master P]

Good deal for Canes.


Can everyone else start signing now? Pretty pls

 

[SeaOfBlue]

Excellent signing. Gardiner is well worth this amount. Shocked that other teams couldn't better this offer.

With his back, they probably did not want him on a 4 year deal.

 

[NiL8r87]

That's a great deal.

 

[Vitto79]

He must of caved for 4 yrs which at this point is not a bad deal for peace of mind lol

 

[Drew311]

Just glad the Habs didn't get him. Man the Canes defense is going to be scary.

 

[Trap Jesus]

Carolina's blueline is ridiculous, it's so well-balanced between offensive/defensive minded players.

 

[Nithoniniel]

That's terrific for Canes. Wow.

He's not complete trash, but he's needs to be heavily sheltered and given pure offensive minutes to be effective. As soon as you rely upon him too much defensively, you start to lose games (or in the Leafs' case, playoff series).

What? He's already been far from sheltered and without "pure offensive minutes" and been very effective.

 

[DaveG]

What the actual f***?

Faulk trade incoming?

 

[CantLoseWithMatthews]

Literally goes to show you how the Toronto media play a role. Gardiner is 10x the dman Myers is and got half the contract. This made my entire day. So pumped.

yes, I am glad Gardiner is at least out of the division. It also goes to show he was probably waiting for the Leafs, and it's unfortunate things didn't work out there

 

[JoelWarlord]

Habs give Chiarot 3.5x3 on day one and they can't beat 4x4 for Gardiner with over 8M in cap space. Absolutely infuriating.