Confirmed Trade: [LAK/CHI] Olli Maatta (18.37% retained) for Brad Morrison

[Blackhawkswincup]

People are trying to give Bowman excuses "Oh a flat cap" , etc , etc

The reality is Maatta was pure cap dump for Pens only for the fool we call a GM to trade a good cheap young player for his contract while not having Pens retain even a single penny on deal

Now a year later Maatta had a good year and strong playoff and the fools trades him away for nothing while also retaining on top of it because of his piss poor cap management

I cant wait to see what the next mistake from the fool is

 

[KingsFan7824]

I am saying he could have held out longer.

The draft and free agency are in a couple days. They have to sign Strome and Kubalik. Figure out what else to do. Bowman doesn't have a ton of time. If he's the more desperate side of the transaction, waiting isn't going to help him.

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

The draft and free agency are in a couple days. They have to sign Strome and Kubalik. Figure out what else to do. Bowman doesn't have a ton of time. If he's the more desperate side of the transaction, waiting isn't going to help him.

On flip side your GM wanted a top 4 D that he was offering actual assets for one

Stanley should have been able to at very least get Kings to take full contract given how he is giving them a top 4 D for free

 

[KingsFan7824]

On flip side your GM wanted a top 4 D that he was offering actual assets for one

Stanley should have been able to at very least get Kings to take full contract given how he is giving them a top 4 D for free

As you said though, the Hawks have cap issues. If you can find a way to not give up an asset for something you want, that's the way to go. I'm not saying retaining was a good option, but Bowman was clearly needing to get rid of a little over $3m. Desperate people do desperate things.

 

[Michel Beauchamp]

And Contract Slot

What contract slot ?

Morrison is under contract next season...

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

Reading up on Morrision

He literally is a nothing prospect

Cant even help the Hogs

Trade has no redeemable quality for Hawks knowing this idiot we have as GM is likely going to do something even worse like trade for Matt Murray and give him contract

 

[Steve Zissou]

Will be nice if Kings can still find a top 4 LHD to pair with Doughty – only problem being what they are willing to let go.

I still think they will be using their 2nd rounders to move up in the draft. They need quality not quantity at this point.

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

Maatta must've been horrible for Chicago if he at 3.3 Million can only get back an ECHLer.

So mad that the Penguins got Kahun for Maatta and then traded Kahun for 12 games of Conor Sheary

Maatta hasn't seemed to be good for 2, or 3 years now.

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

Maatta was actually good for Hawks this past year and had strong playoff

He came to Chicago as cap dump (After JR abused Stanley in trade somehow not even retaining a cent and getting a good young player) and turned his game around

And now he was given away by Stanley with Hawks left somehow eating cap and getting an absolute joke of a hockey player back

 

[The Madrigal]

LMAO, Maata is terrible.

 

[Rorschach]

Furious. Kings did very well here. Second pairing rock all day. He’s a very quiet player that makes so many little plays that people who have played will appreciate. He’s great at nothing but rock solid no matter the situation. HATE.

You live up to your name, good sir.

 

[Esq]

Still a fan of Olli. I hate that he’s getting passed around like a journeyman D when he can still be a serviceable top-4

I'm a fan as well, but against a fast opponent, he really struggles. More like a 5/6 on a good team.

 

[Rorschach]

Maybe the best part will be, when we deal him for a pick in his UFA year, we’ll get even more than we gave up for him.

 

[krutovsdonut]

normally bowman gets a guy back in these deals, but morrison looks like a dead contract slot

 

[66-30-33]

Maybe Pens can do a similar deal for JJ?

 

[Oddbob]

The draft and free agency are in a couple days. They have to sign Strome and Kubalik. Figure out what else to do. Bowman doesn't have a ton of time. If he's the more desperate side of the transaction, waiting isn't going to help him.

Still a bad trade. They are even worse than last year now and gave up an NHL player for nothing and still will have no cap room to fill in Maatta being gone.

 

[Mick Jagr]

This has to be his last stop before people realize he isn't more than bottom pair D, right?

 

[Mick Jagr]

Maybe Pens can do a similar deal for JJ?

Maatta is 7 years younger, one year less on his deal, has cup to his name and better upside. Doubt it.

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

This has to be his last stop before people realize he isn't more than bottom pair D, right?

He wasn't traded because of performance

He was good on Hawks 2nd pairing this past season and stepped his game up in playoffs

If not for cap mess Stanley created he would have been back with Hawks

 

[Mick Jagr]

He wasn't traded because of performance

He was good on Hawks 2nd pairing this past season and stepped his game up in playoffs

If not for cap mess Stanley created he would have been back with Hawks

You don't know it yet, but this was addition by subtraction. He's vastly overpaid for what he actually brings to the table.

 

[ClydeLee]

He wasn't traded because of performance

He was good on Hawks 2nd pairing this past season and stepped his game up in playoffs

If not for cap mess Stanley created he would have been back with Hawks

He was standardly always 3rd pairing. You don't need to hype him up higher.

He found a steady fitting with Koekkoek as a solid 3rd pair. But his play is not something you can see, on this team, peaking higher. If he has a great pair he could be #4 still. But performance did matter because id Mattaa was better than Murphy or DeHaan trying to trade one of them would of been the move pushed to make and kept Mattaa.

 

[Uncle Scrooge]

People are trying to give Bowman excuses "Oh a flat cap" , etc , etc

The reality is Maatta was pure cap dump for Pens only for the fool we call a GM to trade a good cheap young player for his contract while not having Pens retain even a single penny on deal

Now a year later Maatta had a good year and strong playoff and the fools trades him away for nothing while also retaining on top of it because of his piss poor cap management

I cant wait to see what the next mistake from the fool is

Instead of putting all the blame on him, how about the other 29 "fools" who didn't want to offer anything, even a late draft pick with no retention, to acquire a serviceable #4 defenseman?

You can't just put all the blame on Bowman without offering better solutions to free up cap space (which by the looks of it didn't exist).

 

[notheroic]

Wow, there's some people really overrating Maatta's contribution on Chicago. He was awful for a lot of the year. He had a better end, for sure, but he was slow, was never going to be more than a 3rd pairing defenseman, and had a bad contract.
Olli did well in the bubble, I will give him at least that. But overall, this needed to happen. If this pushes a little more towards a Crow signing with Mitchell on the way(good chance he was going to break camp anyways.) then that's good.

This is all about getting Crawford back under contract.

 

[KingsFan7824]

Still a bad trade. They are even worse than last year now and gave up an NHL player for nothing and still will have no cap room to fill in Maatta being gone.

Cap issues tend to result in having to make bad trades, yes. Or not necessarily bad trades, but ones that tend to keep you standing still. Looking at the options Bowman had, De Hann might be more difficult to trade than Maatta, probably wants to keep Murphy, Saad isn't easy to move, Smith has just 1 year left, but he's 32. Bowman is limited in what he can do, so you take what you can get.

 

[cupcrazyman]

Maatta was traded for a guy who played 17 games in the ECHL last year? Wow.

For a second i thought you typed 17 games in the ECW lol