Confirmed with Link: Hurricanes sign Jesper Fast - 2m per/3 years

[DougieSmash]

Fast is a RBA type player to the max.

Hard working relentless forechecker, good two way game

 

[DaveG]

A LOT of teams taking this approach this offseason, for good reason

 

[Unsustainable]

A LOT of teams taking this approach this offseason, for good reason

Surprised its not 3-2-1

 

[WreckingCrew]

I agree.

I doubt they’d sign Fast without having some sort of salary moving deal in their back pocket. Especially considering they may have Fleury and Foegele take them to arbitration.

Gotta be Dzingel, he's going to be easiest to move and was a regular scratch. I'm guessing to start our lines will be something like
Svech - Aho - TT
NN/Foegs - Troch - Nachos
NN/Foegs - Staal - Fast
Ginner - Geek - Marty
Depth tweener & Chicago will pay for it

Unless we can dump Nino and get Hoffman or something and drop Svech to line 2

Good deal, 2 years probably would have been better but pretty low risk move

 

[Wolfpuck]

Very nice!

 

[DaveG]

Surprised its not 3-2-1

Why? A lot of contracts are going low value year one simply because of concerns about lower attendance. Normally it would probably be 3-2-1, or 2.5-2-1.5, but without income certainty next season teams absolutely want to limit how much they spend until attendance is back to normal.

 

[AhosDatsyukian]

Nice signing. As others have mentioned, I would've preferred 2 years, but I can't complain at all for that value. Curious to see which forward, if any, that we move.

 

[Buenos Necas]

Deal McGinn, perhaps, then move Martinook to the left?

I also wonder if Foegs may be giving them a bit more trouble re-signing than anticipated since he's arb eligible. Would be on brand for the borg to use that "problem" to fix another one, like goaltending maybe.

Edit: Deadline just passed and it's Foegs, Fleury, Bishop, and Forsling for arbitration.

 

[spockBokk]

Gotta be Dzingel, he's going to be easiest to move and was a regular scratch. I'm guessing to start our lines will be something like
Svech - Aho - TT
NN/Foegs - Troch - Nachos
NN/Foegs - Staal - Fast
Ginner - Geek - Marty
Depth tweener & Chicago will pay for it

I dunno, I’d rather they move Niederreiter, but have to admit that would be much harder

 

[A Star is Burns]

Pretty much the exact deal I expected if we signed him. Seems like a good fit.

 

[MinJaBen]

I think we signed our Kraken.

 

[CanesFanBudMan]

Don’t know much about him but seeing that he wore an A on the rangers the past 3 years must mean head a pretty good locker room guy

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

Just me or is that a pretty darn good cap hit for this guy? That’s Martinook/McGinn money for a guy I expect to be a line higher in the lineup.

 

[smoneil]

Don’t know much about him but seeing that he wore an A on the rangers the past 3 years must mean head a pretty good locker room guy

I don't know any Rangers fans who are happy that he's gone. We were resigned to it, thinking that he was looking for the Hagelin contract at 3 or 4 million per. Much loved in the locker room. Will be a phenomenal "team" guy. He's got some good aspects to his game, but he always plays better than the sum of his parts. You got a really excellent bottom six guy here at an absurdly good price.

 

[AD Skinner]

Hope skjei buys him a beer sometime before camp starts

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

I think we signed our Kraken.

Maybe. Or our McGinn replacement.

 

[Machinehead]

You'll always hear about guys who "do the little things" and generally that's Hockeynese for "this guy actually does nothing but I like him."

Jesper Fast is actually that. He contributes a lot of things that go unnoticed and he compliments scorers extremely well.

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

Why? A lot of contracts are going low value year one simply because of concerns about lower attendance. Normally it would probably be 3-2-1, or 2.5-2-1.5, but without income certainty next season teams absolutely want to limit how much they spend until attendance is back to normal.

On the other hand, the risk of playing a shortened season would mean paying a fraction of this year’s salary, no?

If players end up getting paid half their salary this year, you’d rather “not pay” $1.5m than $.5m.

Seems like it’d primarily be cash flow that prevents you from going 3-2-1 (since it’s $6m total at the end of the day anyway), and with Dundon it doesn’t seem like that’s an issue for us anymore.

Far be it from me to understand the CBA and how any of this works though, I might be mistaken.

 

[RangersFan1994]

Smart signing. Rangers will miss him more than they realize by what he does on the ice. Won’t score much but always gives an effort although kinda fragile but cause he always is working hard.

 

[RangersFan1994]

Don’t know much about him but seeing that he wore an A on the rangers the past 3 years must mean head a pretty good locker room guy

And I don’t get why they did not resign him. Not much of a raise. Rangers will regret this one.

 

[RangersFan1994]

Too long.

He is not old. Not like it is a 5 year deal. Underrated player

 

[htdoc]

Wouldn’t it be super low salary in year 1 because the escrow is going to be insanely high percentage due to lower revenue in year 1? so the player will lose less money overall if their salary is lower this upcoming season than in following seasons that will have fans in the stands and higher revenues.

cap may be 81m, but actual revenues will be nowhere near the level needed to translate into a real 81m cap and players keeping their actual salaries... if escrow is 50%, he loses $500k in year 1 based $1m actual salary versus $1.5m if year 1 is 3m actual salary in a 3-2-1 deal structure.. I imagine most of the new contracts being signed are structured this way

looks like a good deal for us and a good piece to add... ideally not great it is 3 years but likely the price to pay to get the AAV at 2m overall...

 

[Big Daddy Cane]

Nino-Aho-Turbo
Svech-Tro-Necas
McGinn-Staal-Fast
Foegele-Geekie-Marty

There's a more defensive look to it; it's more 18/19 than 19/20. I wonder if that's intentional or if there's more surgery to be done there, beyond trading Dzingel.

 

[CanesFanBudMan]

There's a more defensive look to it; it's more 18/19 than 19/20. I wonder if that's intentional or if there's more surgery to be done there, beyond trading Dzingel.

This allows us to have a much more defensively solid bottom 6

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

There's a more defensive look to it; it's more 18/19 than 19/20. I wonder if that's intentional or if there's more surgery to be done there, beyond trading Dzingel.

Im a fan of trading Chaisson for Dzingel. Chaisson is big at 6’4, decently physical, front of the net guy, RHS and a PP scorer. One year 2.1 million left with Edmonton.