Proposal: Kraken take Price and flip him?

[Canadian Game]

Step 1: Seattle drafts Price in expansion
Step 2: Seattle trades Price to Toronto at 50% retention
Step 3: Seattle watches the world burn

 

[GM Armchair]

Omg this take is so tired.

Price wants a cup right? Do you not think he'd waive the NMC a second time to go play for a true contender? My guess is he would. No matter who retains, he's making 10.5 per. So go play for a winner, all you have to do is waive to do it.

Then he could do that any time. He doesn’t have to do it during an expansion draft.

 

[To Be Determined]

Really? For price at 50% retained?

the post you replied to saying carolina would be interested said price at 7.5 million, not 50%.

he had a great run in the playoffs, but he has been pretty average for years. his performance over his last few seasons says he isn't worth 7.5.

fwiw, his contract term and age (to me) mean he isn't worth spending assets on at 50% - maybe if the contract wasn't buyout-proof.

 

[Got One Cup]

Step 1: Seattle drafts Price in expansion
Step 2: Seattle trades Price to Toronto at 50% retention
Step 3: Seattle watches the world burn

Step 4 : Toronto gets knocked out 1st rd

 

[goldnblack]

Then he could do that any time. He doesn’t have to do it during an expansion draft.

The difference is Montreal HAD to expose a goalie here.

 

[Canadian Game]

Step 4 : Toronto gets knocked out 1st rd

Might make it more stomach churning for Habs fans. Watching Carey Price, who is so well loved and many want to see win a Stanley Cup, go down with the rival team. It’s a combination of uncomfortable, cringeworthy, and awkwardness.

Overall it’s unrealistic but just the thought of Seattle entering the league and creating immediate chaos is entertaining lol

 

[Got One Cup]

Might make it more stomach churning for Habs fans. Watching Carey Price, who is so well loved and many want to see win a Stanley Cup, go down with the rival team. It’s a combination of uncomfortable, cringeworthy, and awkwardness.

Overall it’s unrealistic but just the thought of Seattle entering the league and creating immediate chaos is entertaining lol

Agree, it would be must see TV. HF would explode.

 

[goldnblack]

I'm no leafs fans, but surely we agree that Toronto with Price beats Montreal without Price.

 

[Ace]

I'm no leafs fans, but surely we agree that Toronto with Price beats Montreal without Price.

Naw. They’d find a way to lose.

 

[Baksfamous112]

Impossible to do and most likely the reason why Bergevin left Price unprotected. If Montreal left Allen unprotected, Seattle could potentially flip him for a high draft pick. Currently Price comes at a 10.5M cap hit (Francis said cap space was the biggest currency they had) and a NMC so Seattle can’t flip him for assets after picking him unless Price waives again which is highly unlikely.

With Price being left unprotected, it seems every single Seattle’s options from Montreal are high salary players that aren’t worth their contract. Bergevin would be more than happy to get Drouin or Byron’s contract off the books for free and get cap flexibility. Worst case scenario, Kulak gets taken and we save 1.85M for a guy who didn’t even have a regular roster spot during the off-season. Smart move from Bergy

Claim him, retain him at 50% and send him back to MTL for a premium.

That’s agains the NHL expansion draft rules. It would be nixed by the league

 

[Suntouchable13]

I'm no leafs fans, but surely we agree that Toronto with Price beats Montreal without Price.

Same team that got shutdown by Elvis Merzlikins and Joonas Korpisalo the previous year. The Leafs problems are deeper than just facing Price.

 

[Kudo Shinichi]

Omg this take is so tired.

Price wants a cup right? Do you not think he'd waive the NMC a second time to go play for a true contender? My guess is he would. No matter who retains, he's making 10.5 per. So go play for a winner, all you have to do is waive to do it.

-No guarantee he waives.
-No contending team have 10.5 M of capspace free.
-The list of teams Price would be willing to go would likely be very small so that would hurt his trade value a lot.

Seattle will only pick Price if they want him to play for their team.

 

[Number1RedWingsFan52]

I'm no leafs fans, but surely we agree that Toronto with Price beats Montreal without Price.

Naw the Leafs would still find a way to screw the playoffs up.

 

[BarracudaMtl]

No way Price accept to lift is NMC toToronto...

 

[HuGo Sham]

Step 1: Seattle drafts Price in expansion
Step 2: Seattle trades Price to Toronto at 50% retention
Step 3: Seattle watches the world burn

lots of wet dreaming in this post

 

[HuGo Sham]

I'm no leafs fans, but surely we agree that Toronto with Price beats Montreal without Price.

and habs certainly get by TB if point, kucherov and vasilevskiy. i love hypotheticals

 

[BergevinBurner]

What if Seattle wanted Price all along?

They pretended like they wanted Allen and set the asking price to not take him so high that Bergevin would expose Price instead.

It may have been a 5D chess move by Seattle to get them to expose Price

 

[Mersss]

Price being expose, I,ve said it NUMEROUS time, was a win-win.

Habs keep most of their good guy.

If he gets taken, Bergervin starts a rebuild for 2022 and 2023 top picks, MTL would aim at Wright BEdard Michkov Savoie etc... Easilly being a bottom 5 team and let the kids play. Now with Weber gone, makes it that easier

Price loves WSH state, spends his summer there, and leaves MTL circus, win for him.

Bottom line Totally genius, works PERFECTLY with Habs plan. Now let's just hope he leaves so we free ton of cap space, and aim at Wright and Michkov / Bedard

 

[Cogburn]

Montreal signed him to that anchor, let them deal with it.

 

[Ignatius]

I would love to have Carey Price on the Pens, even at full price song long as we can Kucherov him during the season and then bring him back for the playoffs.

 

[Captain97]

Step 1: Seattle drafts Price in expansion
Step 2: Seattle trades Price to Toronto at 50% retention
Step 3: Seattle watches the world burn

As much as I'm on team chaos in the real world I would be very sad here as Price in a leafs Jersey would look so wrong.

Good thing he has an NMC and prbly wouldn't waive to go to TO similar to Gorges

 

[Karl Eriksson]

Close this thread lol

nailed it

 

[sisseton]

Wonder if Seattle could takes price, retain some salary and then trade him back to MTL for a pick(s) or player(s) LOL.

 

[King Woodballs]

The league says Seattle can’t send price back to
Montreal.
but Can price go back to Montreal through a third team
Kraken - TBA - Habs?

 

[Kojo]

Wonder if Seattle could takes price, retain some salary and then trade him back to MTL for a pick(s) or player(s) LOL.

A lot of people are saying that this would be against the rule. What they can do is trade a few draft picks so that Seattle select Kulak or Drouin instead.