Who is going be the backup? Dorion?
Dorion...
Waives Smith right before season starts => puts him back on the top line.
Goalie has an embarrassing game => waives him immediately.
The guy has zero concept of how to handle team psychology. No wonder his room was a cluster**** last season. It won't become any better going forward.
Good, he's terrible and pretty much cost us both games he played so far as well as many last year.
Just try something else, it can't really be that much worse at this point.
Not that anyone is going to pick him up, but maybe we're willing to eat his salary in the minors with a cheap replacement.
Dorion...
Waives Smith right before season starts => puts him back on the top line.
Goalie has an embarrassing game => waives him immediately.
The guy has zero concept of how to handle team psychology. No wonder his room was a cluster**** last season. It will get only worse going forward.
Dorion...
Waives Smith right before season starts => puts him back on the top line.
Goalie has an embarrassing game => waives him immediately.
The guy has zero concept of how to handle team psychology. No wonder his room was a cluster**** last season. It will get only worse going forward.
Dorion...
Waives Smith right before season starts => puts him back on the top line.
Goalie has an embarrassing game => waives him immediately.
The guy has zero concept of how to handle team psychology. No wonder his room was a cluster**** last season.
If he gets bought out come June, they'll pay 1.4 million over 2 years on the cap for his buyout vs 2.4 million in 2019-20 for his regular salary. It's worth it.
But then you still need to fill that spot with a contract. If Hogberg becomes our backup, we're spending $835k instead of $70k. We're only saving ~250k by buying out Condon.
Dorion...
Waives Smith right before season starts => puts him back on the top line.
Goalie has an embarrassing game => waives him immediately.
The guy has zero concept of how to handle team psychology. No wonder his room was a cluster**** last season. It will get only worse going forward.
It's more of even in a rebuild year next year again, they aren't going to have both Condon and Anderson on the roster. I said a buyout, because taking the penalty > giving up an decent asset (2nd rounder/b level prospect) to trade with Anderson
Why not? I don't understand the logic here. If we can't trade away Anderson without getting anything back in return, we won't trade him (unless, ofcourse, Melnyk mandates it for financial reasons). If we aren't trading Anderson away, why do we need to buyout Condon?
Anderson already requested a trade, so maybe it's in the back of his head.
If the team is rebuilding, I'd like to see Gustavasson gets games than a 37 year old anderson.
A) Anderson has denied he asked for a trade. Besides, even if he did, we aren't forced to trade him. If he has negative value, we're not going to trade him.
B) No, I DON'T want to see Gustavsson get some games if he's not ready. As of right now, he's absolutely not ready. We shouldn't destroy his development.
*next year. not this year. I want to see prospects, not another damn season of the same crap