Confirmed with Link: Connolly, Riley Stillman and Henrik Borgstrom plus a 7th Rd pick in exchange for Carlsson/Wallmark

[Pigge]

You can never have too many Swedes.

 

[Gizmo Tkachuk]

What’s our cap space at now?

-ghoste

Serious answer:

 

[ucanthanzalthetruth]

What’s our cap space at now?

-ghoste

 

[violaswallet]

Playing in Liiga. Playing pretty well but the hype from him has certainly fallen off. He was arguably our best prospect at one point. I think being with Kane would do him well though.

Very skewed distribution of returns: could become legitimate top 6 center which is valuable. Likely not but more useful for Chicago now than a 2nd

 

[CursedCats]

Now do the same with Yandle and Bobrovsky lol.

 

[FinlandPanther]

Does anyone know if the 7th was our or Winnipeg’s? Makes a huge difference ​

 

[Little Bobby Boo]

Remember when Tallon didn't want to trade Borgstom for McDonagh or Mark Stone?

 

[FinlandPanther]

Very skewed distribution of returns: could become legitimate top 6 center which is valuable. Likely not but more useful for Chicago now than a 2nd

I agree I still have hope for Borg and learning from Kane would be amazing for him. He still has potential, he just has to adjust to the nhl.

 

[WaitingForThatCab]

I like Borgstrom, but moving Connolly was great.

 

[ucanthanzalthetruth]

Oh Connolly had 2 years after this left?! Yeah I like this more now. I imagine Wallmark is just for contract limit purposes.

 

[violaswallet]

I agree I still have hope for Borg and learning from Kane would be amazing for him. He still has potential, he just has to adjust to the nhl.

Yep: Lundell and Luo made him irrelevant. I think he could have taken the step if he came back this year but he didn’t want to

 

[iam76]

I am ecstatic about this! Legitimately. I was up late last night crunching buyouts and retentions, seeing how much dead cap we’d have. He was able to trade connolly who not only has one, but two more years and at 3.5per....he trades him for a player thats an upcoming rfa? I could careless about wallmark but that is fantastic for us! Literally dumped his contract just in exchange for stillman and borg, and I’m sorry, I like stillman but he was never going to be a full timer here. Same with borg. I do that trade all day. Huge getting that contract off the books. Zito at it again!

this could open up to us having cap to resign or extend players

 

[Gentle Man]

Kinda savage, kinda not?

 

[FlaPanthers11]

I’d wager this is much less of clearing space for this deadline and much more of clearing space for the next two years.

 

[Gizmo Tkachuk]

 

[Chaos2k7]

No downside to this deal

 

[Chaos2k7]

Click bait.

Keep Eichel far away from here please. As captain and what seems to be CEO over the last few years some of the blame must fall on him.

 

[jonu]

Had the space before Ekblad was hurt. This is much more than Risto space.

I was under the impression the issue was with Risto having another year on his contract after this year, hence the cap clearing. High chance I'm wrong though

 

[WaitingForThatCab]

If we're going to take a swing on a talented guy with a dark cloud hanging over his head, I'd go hard after Laine instead.

His value has never been / will never be lower than it is now. And of course the GREAT temptation: "Barkov and Q can fix him." It's there, and it's real.

And I don't even want us to go after Laine.

 

[FrolikFan67]

this could open up to us having cap to resign or extend players

The fact he dumped that contract without taking anything back or even a comparable contract is fantastic. Those komarov rumors made sense, very similar contracts and I thought that was the only way they’d be able to get rid of Connolly. Not taking any salary back in exchange for stillman and borg? Say no more, toss in a 7th rounder for your troubles.

now we’re down to Yandle, Stralman and Nutivaara as the contracts we look to shed now and in the offseason. Bob’s not even a thoufht right now, we’ll cross that bridge in 3yrs or so

 

[Gentle Man]

Would be nice if Zito gets all his deals done before Monday so the new guys can at least squeeze in a practice + game in Dallas.

 

[SJSharksfan39]

Click bait.

Keep Eichel far away from here please. As captain and what seems to be CEO over the last few years some of the blame must fall on him.

The more Hall is in the league the more he becomes that journeyman player. I was surprised when I heard Buffalo was thinking about trading Hall. It feels like he's being traded at every deadline. Keep him away from this core group in Florida.

 

[Desert Panther]

I'm guessing (hoping) for Savard and Laine, not Hall.

 

[Chaos2k7]

Would Cbus be interested in a Nuti reunión?

@ViD

 

[JEFFREY87]

The more Hall is in the league the more he becomes that journeyman player. I was surprised when I heard Buffalo was thinking about trading Hall. It feels like he's being traded at every deadline. Keep him away from this core group in Florida.

A less effective trade deadline player he reminded me of is - Lee Stempniak. Seemed every yr he was traded lol

 

[pb1300]

If we're going to take a swing on a talented guy with a dark cloud hanging over his head, I'd go hard after Laine instead.

His value has never been / will never be lower than it is now. And of course the GREAT temptation: "Barkov and Q can fix him." It's there, and it's real.

And I don't even want us to go after Laine.

If anyone can get Hall or Laine going, it’s Barky. I’d take Laine because they are friends, and younger, but Hall would cost considerably less.