Dreger: DeAngelo Trade could happen Between 24/48 Hours (MOD WARNING IN OP)

[HabsWhiteKnightLOL]

If Rangers are not interesting in retaining back salary, what incentive do teams have now to trade for DeAngelo when they could have had him for free from waivers.

Teams clearly want to trade them an anchor contract back just to get rid of his yee yee ass

 

[ChaoticOrange]

I can't speak for calgary, anaheim, and detroit fans.

Hell no from this kings fan. The kings are at 47/50 contracts and have the cap space to have claimed him outright on waivers. I would like to think that this points to the kings not being one of the teams interested in him.

The kings already have Lias Andersson on the team who was a teammate of DeAngelo. One ranger reclamation project is enough. I don't even know how they got along.

I was going to say something about Matt Tkachuk in Calgary being an asshole and thereby the Flames working on cornering the market on assholes, but you know what - everything I've heard about Tkachuk points to him being a stand up human being off the ice and an all around good dude if he's not playing hockey against your favourite team. DeAngelo is... not. Not even close.

No team's fans should be excited to get this guy if they end up trading for him.

 

[Finlandia WOAT]

Wouldn't DeAngelo have to sit in quarantine for two weeks before he would be cleared to play?

 

[Terry Yake]

I can't speak for calgary, anaheim, and detroit fans.

Hell no from this kings fan. The kings are at 47/50 contracts and have the cap space to have claimed him outright on waivers. I would like to think that this points to the kings not being one of the teams interested in him.

The kings already have Lias Andersson on the team who was a teammate of DeAngelo. One ranger reclamation project is enough. I don't even know how they got along.

oh for f*cks sake please don't let it be anaheim. this team has enough issues as it is

 

[cwede]

...what incentive do teams have now to trade for DeAngelo when they could have had him for free from waivers.

in flat Cap world, unilaterally adding almost $5M Cap Hit creates challenges

 

[HBK27]

I hope his off to the KHL!

What a mess of a post. Way to completely butcher the formatting options on this site. How about you clean that up a bit and not try to add your own comments into someone's post that you are quoting or at least use the quote options to break it up.

 

[Kakko Schmakko]

I hope his off to the KHL!

I am just glad Devils did not claim him, what a mistake.

 

[Empoleon8771]

I can't speak for calgary, anaheim, and detroit fans.

Hell no from this kings fan. The kings are at 47/50 contracts and have the cap space to have claimed him outright on waivers. I would like to think that this points to the kings not being one of the teams interested in him.

The kings already have Lias Andersson on the team who was a teammate of DeAngelo. One ranger reclamation project is enough. I don't even know how they got along.

The fact that the Rangers aren't willing to retain salary and are already threatening to buy him out makes me think that no one is seriously interested in him, beyond a swap of bad contracts.

 

[MXD]

Whoever gets Tony, is going to be thrilled. He is not a teachers pet... Big deal. You win cups with heart... and he has loads of it! I hope he thrives wherever he ends up. Dubas should be licking his chops.

What did he ever win?

 

[BigDaddyLurch]

What did he ever win?

...Douchebag of the Year maybe...he'd definitely be in the running...

 

[Canuck86]

DeAngelo for Bennett and?

 

[OgeeOgelthorpe]

I'm gonna call it now.

NYR: Sam Bennett, Nikita Nesterov
CGY: DeAngelo

 

[Nanuuk]

DeAngelo for Bennett and?

Not happening.

 

[Nanuuk]

I'm gonna call it now.

NYR: Sam Bennett, Nikita Nesterov
CGY: DeAngelo

Neither will this.

 

[Lt Dan]

Whoever gets Tony, is going to be thrilled. He is not a teachers pet... Big deal. You win cups with heart... and he has loads of it! I hope he thrives wherever he ends up. Dubas should be licking his chops.

A team wins cups from everyone buying in to the system and playing as a unit.
A team doesn't win cups with a malcontent on the team who tries to fight his teammates

 

[Eternal Leaf]

I'm kinda surprised Calgary is one of the potential teams.

Not from a hockey perspective, but everything else.

A franchise whose greatest player of all time is Jarome Iginla seems like an odd fit for a player with Deangelo's history.

 

[3074326]

In 1968 was it socially acceptable to suspend a guitarist and singer if he did not appropriately lip-sync the televised song?

..what?

I guess I don’t understand why we are suddenly talking about what was right and wrong in the 60s.

 

[voxel]

DeAngelo for Bennett and?

Lucic?

 

[DCDM]

I'm kinda surprised Calgary is one of the potential teams.

Not from a hockey perspective, but everything else.

A franchise whose greatest player of all time is Jarome Iginla seems like an odd fit for a player with Deangelo's history.

Not to mention we just had the whole Bill Peters fiasco. Seems unwise to willingly go down a similar route such as that again.

 

[Ishad]

Frans Neilson (50% retained) for ADA

 

[voxel]

I'm kinda surprised Calgary is one of the potential teams.

Not from a hockey perspective, but everything else.

A franchise whose greatest player of all time is Jarome Iginla seems like an odd fit for a player with Deangelo's history.

ummm... a team that with Kneeordano and RatBoy. DeAngelo would fit perfectly.

Edmonton is the one with a long history of Black players - Fuhr, Anson Carter, Georges Laraque, Mike Grier and two others I've long forgotten Sean Brown and Joaquin Gage. And now Darnell Nurse and Caleb Jones. Iginla is also from Edmonton

 

[Alklha]

Buying out his contract at the end of the season will leave the Rangers with $883k of dead space for the following two seasons, which is very manageable.

While I do think that the Rangers would probably be willing to retain some salary, it probably doesn't make much sense to be retaining more than 30%. Equally, if they go the route of getting an ugly contract then it can't extend beyond this season as just buying ADA out at the end of the season would be better than an ugly contract on the books for 21/22.

It's not like they are completely over a barrel here.

 

[theVladiator]

If Rangers are not interesting in retaining back salary, what incentive do teams have now to trade for DeAngelo when they could have had him for free from waivers.

Rangers have the buyout option, which isn't too expensive, so there isn't enough pressure for them to force them into taking bad contracts or retaining DeAngelo's salary. As you pointed out, it's also clear that the 8 teams that could potentially absorb DeAngelo's cap hit and take him without giving up any assets, passed on that option.

Where does it leave us? I would say in a place where the assessment of this thread's title is most likely not much more than a hype job by DeAngelo's agent. Hopefully Dreger got somehow compensated for his contribution to that campaign.

 

[Canuck86]

Not happening.

True, even with his bad rap it seems like teams are intersted in him, so he holds MORE value than 18 yr old 0 chin up sam bennett

 

[Srsly]

DeAngelo for Bennett and?

Derek Ryan might make sense. It’s weird having a three million dollar cap hit on the taxi squad. I can’t see the Flames giving up much more than just Bennett for DeAngelo given his reputation and image around the league though. Sure he can put up points but he’s been struggling and makes for bad pr...especially for a Canadian hockey club with Canadian media pressure.