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Coyotes Acquire Sharks’ 2016 4th Round Draft Choice & 2017 3rd Round Draft Choice in Exchange for Letunov & 2017 6th Round Draft Choice
http://coyotes.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=886527
Coyotes Acquire Sharks’ 2016 4th Round Draft Choice & 2017 3rd Round Draft Choice in Exchange for Letunov & 2017 6th Round Draft Choice
Yeah that might make sense. Though I'd be surprised if Staal waived for LA.
Yeah that might make sense. Though I'd be surprised if Staal waived for LA.
I'm amazed at the number of people who are okay with retaining half of Staal's salary for the next 5 years.
wow... relatively minor, no?
I'm amazed at the number of people who are okay with retaining half of Staal's salary for the next 5 years.
I'm not overly enthused with it but if it returns something of value, I would be open to it.
I wonder if a team like LA would consider a player like Girardi at half his salary for the remaining years. They traded fro Scuderi at the deadline. Added Luke Schenn. Girardi is better than both of those guys.
I know that may be hard to believe but Girardi at 2.75 may have some value knowing he had a bad year due to injuries last year. He's not meant for a puck moving style but LA doesn't play that style anyways.
What the hell, Arizona?
Isn't Letunov a solid prospect?
how else do you get out of that contract? He's not a fit on this team, and we already have Girardi who is a major problem.
Question: Can you retain salary for 5 years? I thought there was a time limit on salary retention on any one traded player.
San Jose wins in a landslide.
Three things that are important for context:
1. That 2016 4th is now transferred to Philly, allowing AZ to keep their '17 3rd
1A. For Arizona this means they effectively dealt Letunov and a 6th for two 3rds.
2. If Arizona traded Letunov (who's clearly a better asset than two 3rds) and had to add a 6th rounder to get a bite, it's probably because he's not interested in signing in Arizona and may opt to go the free-agent or Europe route, regardless. I suspect Arizona was not an option for him, and San Jose is making a little bit of a gamble, hoping they can convince him to sign with them.
3. Arizona acquired this player for Zbynek Michalek two deadlines ago. Michalek re-signed in Arizona a few months later. Letunov was basically a freebie for the Coyotes anyway.
So while San Jose is the winner here, Arizona isn't really the loser. One team won and the other broke even.
Staal still has some value. Retaining 2.85 mil for 5 years is stupid.
Apparently there's something to the Letunov thing where Arizona owed Philly a pick:
even if you trade him, youd have to take salary back, so it's not like you can simply move a $5.7M contract without taking anything abck