Confirmed Trade: [COL/CAR] Caleb Jones for Cal Burke

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[Forge]

Callahan Burke sounds like a pompous rich guy in a Jane Austen novel.

 

[BonMorrison]

Callahan Burke sounds like a pompous rich guy in a Jane Austen novel.

nyesssssssss

 

[JoeSakic13]

Callahan Burke sounds like a pompous rich guy in a Jane Austen novel.

Cal Burke is such a cake eater

 

[FlameChampion]

What was the point of Carolina signing Jones in the first place? He was never going to make Carolinas defense in the first place. Weird.

- To the people who are quoting me. Its not a big deal either way lol.

 

[Roomtemperature]

Why

 

[John Mandalorian]

Callahan Burke sounds like a pompous rich guy in a Jane Austen novel.

Have often said he sounds like a doctor from a daytime soap opera. But that works too.

 

[AslanRH]

Perhaps JFMJ put in an additional good word on Caleb's behalf

 

[GirardSpinorama]

Carolina doesnt have a AHL team?

 

[Ararana]

What was the point of Carolina signing Jones in the first place? He was never going to make Carolinas defense in the first place. Weird.

And they trade him to another team with a completely stacked D lineup.

He might steal JJ's job at 6D when JJ inevitably sucks ass

Toews - Makar
Byram - Manson
Girard - JJ/Jones/Malinski

 

[AhosDatsyukian]

What was the point of Carolina signing Jones in the first place? He was never going to make Carolinas defense in the first place. Weird.

can never have too much depth

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

What was the point of Carolina signing Jones in the first place? He was never going to make Carolinas defense in the first place. Weird.

He was signed when it seemed like a Pesce or Skjei move would happen. Once the Canes decided to stand pat, it made no sense to have him as an 8/9D, and they're undoing it by basically just giving him away.

 

[GirardSpinorama]

And they trade him to another team with a completely stacked D lineup.

He might steal JJ's job at 6D when JJ inevitably sucks ass

Toews - Makar
Byram - Manson
Girard - JJ/Jones/Malinski

The 6th spot for carolina is significantly better.

 

[Finlandia WOAT]

What was the point of Carolina signing Jones in the first place? He was never going to make Carolinas defense in the first place. Weird.

Carolina played two preseason games on the same day, and needed vets to meet minimum vet quota for a preseason game

 

[Zirakzigil]

Guessing the Avs have some lingering injuries on their defense. Surprised they didnt nab someone from the jackets.

 

[AslanRH]

Guessing the Avs have some lingering injuries on their defense. Surprised they didnt nab someone from the jackets.

they do and as Avs history prooves, will always have at least 1 injured dman.
I think CBJ probably want something of value for their guys, and I don't think the Avs saw much of a future for Burke at the NHL level so it didn't cost them anything in the end.

 

[Super Hans]

10 years late, but Sakic and company finally brought Popeye's kid back to Denver.

 

[TheReelChuckFletcher]

What was the point of Carolina signing Jones in the first place? He was never going to make Carolinas defense in the first place. Weird.

They wanted to test out some lefty depth, but they clearly still prefer Coghlan as the 8D on the team.

This is a good move for Caleb Jones, and I would not be surprised if it was done as a pseudo-favor. Jack Johnson is currently the 6D, and if this guy can even play halfway-decently, he'll be back in the NHL at least semi-regularly.

 

[TheNumber4]

Jones sucks. MacK won’t forgive his inability to execute plays.

 

[cwede]

Carolina doesnt have a AHL team?

correct.
Chicago did not renew relationship, will operate as an independent AHL team
Canes been assigning demoted players to various AHL and ECHL teams
for example, with Vasilevskiy hurt, Canes assigned Kochetkov to Syracuse(TBL affiliate)

 

[GirardSpinorama]

Interesting. Currently the Avs brought up Annunen and Tufte to use up Frankie's cap. Might change but strange for now since we need 7D.

 

[Mrfenn92]

Depth doesn’t hurt

 

[WhataKnight]

Carolina doesnt have a AHL team?

Yeah; IIRC Carolina’s philosophy leans towards prioritizing the Cup while the Chicago Wolves (former affiliate) wasn’t pleased with what they intimated was poor attention to development.

Dundon (Canes owner) wants to make a new AHL team supposedly.

 

[CraigBillington]

10 years late, but Sakic and company finally brought Popeye's kid back to Denver.

They thought they were a Barkov away from getting the entire top 4 of the 2013 draft. Oops

 

[TheReelChuckFletcher]

Yeah; IIRC Carolina’s philosophy leans towards prioritizing the Cup while the Chicago Wolves (former affiliate) wasn’t pleased with what they intimated was poor attention to development.

Dundon (Canes owner) wants to make a new AHL team supposedly.

You have it backwards. The Wolves are the team that wants to play veterans over prospects. This is very likely going to lead to a 33rd AHL team so that the Canes can actually develop their prospects and the Wolves can permanently stay as AHL rogue actors to pay and ice the likes of Tynan/Poturalski/Terry/Dalpe/etc.