Rumor: Drance of The Athletic Van - Mike Hoffman wants to go to team "x" but team "x" needs to move cap

[Dominicr]

The Clifford & De La Rose deals look stupid right now, as we could give Hoffman 3-4 and Dunn 2.5 if they weren’t on the books.

yeah I didn’t understand the Clifford deal unless they are getting rid of someone currently on the 4th line.

 

[Langdon Alger]

Go back to Ottawa for fun

We don’t want him.

 

[SneakerPimp82]

The Clifford & De La Rose deals look stupid right now, as we could give Hoffman 3-4 and Dunn 2.5 if they weren’t on the books.

Push comes to shove, one of their contracts can be moved to create some cap space. It's not as if Hoffman was guaranteed to sign with the Blues, so they took some steps to shore up the roster.

 

[CaliforniaBlues310]

The Clifford & De La Rose deals look stupid right now, as we could give Hoffman 3-4 and Dunn 2.5 if they weren’t on the books.

Wrong. The players specifically asked Army for a guy with sandpaper like Clifford. He explained it on the Cam & Strick podcast.

de la Rose is also going to go to the Taxi Squad the second Hoffman, Tarasenko, or Kostin get added to the roster. MacEachern too if two of those guys are added.


The Blues have $5,416,152 in cap space to create this roster:

Hoffman-O’Reilly-Perron
Schwartz-Schenn-Kyrou
Sanford-Thomas-Tarasenko
Barbashev-Bozak-Sundqvist
Blais, Clifford

Krug-Parayko
Scandella-Faulk
Dunn-Bortuzzo
Gunnarsson

Binner
Husso

Taxi squad:
F- MacEachern, de la Rose, Kostin/Poganski/Walker

D- Mikkola, Santini/Perunovich

G- Gillies


To act like we can’t make room for both is just false.

 

[Vektor]

The Clifford & De La Rose deals look stupid right now, as we could give Hoffman 3-4 and Dunn 2.5 if they weren’t on the books.

I doubt the Blues expected Hoffman to be available at Christmas when they signed those players. That's just hindsight.

 

[SneakerPimp82]

I doubt the Blues expected Hoffman to be available at Christmas when they signed those players. That's just hindsight.

I'll push back ever so slightly and say that the Blues probably expected Tarasenko to go on LTIR, and Steen as well. Steen didn't show much improvement with regards to the injury during the playoffs and beyond, so I think they knew both of those contracts would give them some flexibility. Clifford's and JDLR's deals are minimal and movable if need be, so I'd call it good planning by the Blues and maybe a little foresight too.

 

[Stupendous Yappi]

yeah I didn’t understand the Clifford deal unless they are getting rid of someone currently on the 4th line.

Clifford is Steen’s replacement in the 4th line. They knew he was not going to be available. But the roster is deep enough that the 4th line guys are going to be fighting for ice time.

 

[nickdawg95]

he's signing in STL

HeHeHe

 

[Dominicr]

Clifford is Steen’s replacement in the 4th line. They knew he was not going to be available. But the roster is deep enough that the 4th line guys are going to be fighting for ice time.

I understand he is steens replacement...just feel like we could fill that from within. I’m not against the Clifford signing....just not for it although I’d rather Clifford than de la rose.

 

[TheImpatientPanther]

HeHeHe

Nice call. Was looking for your post to congrats ya

 

[BlueOil]

I understand he is steens replacement...just feel like we could fill that from within. I’m not against the Clifford signing....just not for it although I’d rather Clifford than de la rose.

this season will be almost exclusively interdivisional games. increased familiarity, the series style match ups, and frequency of play are likely to increase the rivalries and aggressiveness on the ice. blues won't mind having clifford out there.

 

[nickdawg95]

Nice call. Was looking for your post to congrats ya

Lets just say i know people who know people

 

[Em etah Eh]

Lets just say i know people who know people

Any guesses on the contract amount?

 

[Number1RedWingsFan52]

Any guesses on the contract amount?

Thinking in the neighborhood of 1 year $4.0 million give or take.

 

[nickdawg95]

Any guesses on the contract amount?

4.5

 

[logik47]

According to Pierre Lebrun, Habs were in on Hoffman then gave Perry a contract when MH signed with the Blues.

 

[Karl Eriksson]

We don’t want him.

probably would breach some sort of cyber bullying peace bond.

 

[nickdawg95]

4.5

Hehehe

 

[bluemike]

i realize this . but the problem for stlouis was giving pieterangelo 7 years , its my bet they figured hes too old ands played too many games for him to have 7 top seasons left in him and that the say last 3 he'd be a way lesser player with a huge cap hit . mean while krug a bit younger and essentially with 3 fewer seasons of abuse to his body makes them believe in 7 years he could still be a wise old o zone quarterback very beneficial to the offense . gms have gotten stung too many times giving oldish guys big long term contracts , shorter terms are going to be the new trend

No, actually the Blues DID offer Petro 8 years/$64 mil. The problem was he wanted half his salary paid up front and management refused (rightly so). So Vegas tossed half their team to sign to a ridiculous contract and they'll soon be fishing the puck out of their own net often because of it. Good riddance to the slob.

 

[Falco Lombardi]

No, actually the Blues DID offer Petro 8 years/$64 mil. The problem was he wanted half his salary paid up front and management refused (rightly so). So Vegas tossed half their team to sign to a ridiculous contract and they'll soon be fishing the puck out of their own net often because of it. Good riddance to the slob.

The vitriol some Blues “fans” have towards Alex Pietrangelo is mind boggling.

 

[bluemike]

The vitriol some Blues “fans” have towards Alex Pietrangelo is mind boggling.

Everything I said in my post is true, and the vitriol deserved.

 

[Laus723]

Everything I said in my post is true, and the vitriol deserved.

lol, slob? That’s not deserved. He went somewhere that gave him what he wanted apparently, may make him an a-hole in *your* mind, but slob??

 

[Bluesnatic27]

No, actually the Blues DID offer Petro 8 years/$64 mil. The problem was he wanted half his salary paid up front and management refused (rightly so). So Vegas tossed half their team to sign to a ridiculous contract and they'll soon be fishing the puck out of their own net often because of it. Good riddance to the slob.

Pietrangelo is a slob for wanting a signing bonus?

Almost the entirety of O'Reilly's contract is signing bonus, does that make him a slob?

 

[Canovin]

Did Hoffman sign a PTO or a contract with Blues?

 

[sh724]

Did Hoffman sign a PTO or a contract with Blues?

PTO with the understanding a contract will be signed on the first day of the season