Marc Staal.....
Wings were dumb but also teams had cap space back then and supposedly Wings valued him as a legit player (weird). No team has space now. I think the NHL should allow compliance buyouts.
Marc Staal.....
But more teams will have cap space.
Flyers,Bruins or Jets.
Its pretty funny that the team thats the best fit for him right now both in positional need and cap situation is the Ottawa Senators.
Perhaps a sign and trade would work for them to take a bad contract + picks
That’s no different than team offloading a cap dump onto the Senators and team X signing Hoffman. The only diff would be Sens could retain on Hoffman and get even more value... like a top prospect.
I disagree about compliance buyouts. It's an unfair advantage to rich owners in this environment, and the league hit them hard enough by having the owners get less than 50% HRR in the coming years by forcing the cap to stay up while freezing escrow.Wings were dumb but also teams had cap space back then and supposedly Wings valued him as a legit player (weird). No team has space now. I think the NHL should allow compliance buyouts.
Team X is going to look real good next year by adding Hoffman.
Thomas Drance of the Athletic Vancouer who also used to be employed by the Florida Panthers says he has been told Mike Hoffman definitely has chosen a team he wants to go to. Called them team "x"
Drance then says the only problem is team "X' needs to clear cap space before signing Hoffman. Hoffman's camp has given team X a grace period before they eventually have to sign one of the other offers. Apparently Hoffman has like 5 offers from 5 different teams.
Drance strongly suggested that team "X" is the Vancouver Canucks but hasnt been able to confirm it himself.
It sorta fits the clues tho as Canucks have a need in the top 6 but also is up against the cap.
I guess if we see someone like Virtanen, Sutter, Baertschi or Roussell traded soon then we can perhaps expect a Hoffman to Vancouver signing soon.
Friedman reported yesterday that Hoffman is possibly looking at a show me deal. It would be smart for Hoffman to sign with the young offensive Canucks to pump up his stats. He would either play beside Elias Pettersson or Bo Horvat
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Carolina makes sense
If Hoffman is looking to oad stats in cash in next year were the market could change for him, there are about a dozen teams ahead of Vancouver were he could play
Another little tid bit that fits this puzzle
Apparently Virtanen and Canucks have an extentsion signed but are awaiting to sign it to give Benning a couple of extra days to trade salary otherwise it looks like they will use that 2nd buyout window to move cap and buyout Sutter or Baertschi?
This might be what Hoffman's camp is waiting for?
I bet you it's Rangers or Isles
Assuming it’s vancouver....
Vancouver pieces they are trying to unload have no value.
Virtanen and Gaudette are unsigned RFAs. 1 of thrm could be signed in the $2Am cap space but not both. If both signed they’d have 15F
If they try to LTIR Ferland they have Peterson and Hughes they can use against it.
If the strategize doing this...
Right now 13/6/2 with about $2Am in space
Send down Peterson and Hughes to be
11/5/2 with around $3.9M in space
Sign Gaudette to $1M
Sign/ promote 7D for $900K
12/6/2 with $2.M in space
Say Hoffman signs at $5M thry need to create $3M in space.
Trade Suter at 25% creates about $3M in space
Virtanen coukd be mived innthat deal or seoarstly with nothing on the roster coming back other than a $900K 7D
Hoffman wants to be closer to Ottawa. He wants to join the Habs. Habs looking to ship a few guys out. One being Byron to sign him.It's probably Montreal and they are trying to move Tatar and Byron.