Confirmed Trade: [OTT/CHI] Sens trade Zack Smith to Chicago for Artem Anisimov

[icekoob]

Cap trade plain and simple. Smith may have a home on 3rd/4th line but we’re pretty set on centers...

 

[Sens With Benefits]

I loved Smith in Ottawa. He was a heart and soul player who contributed on the PK. His career high of 25 goals was kind of fluky but he can provide spot duty in the top 6 as a winger. However he has had a bunch of injuries that have slowed him down. He's also a nice guy off the ice too I've ran into him a couple of times.

One of my favourite fights ever. He can really throw them.

Him and Shaw on a line will be fun to watch.

 

[De Montreal]

How many new players on Chicago?

Maatta, De Haan, Lehner, Shaw, Smith, Nylander. Am I missing some?

 

[LEAFANFORLIFE23]

Mel U.K. Took on money? that is amazing

 

[Tuggy]

 

[inthe6ix]

Once he went up on waivers last year, that was Zack's death knell with the Sens. Getting Shaw back and now Smith with some edge will make the Hawks a little heavier to play against.

Arty got pushed out by Strome's emergence; when he was going way back when, that PAK/AK72 line was unstoppable but at 4.5 AAV for a bottom-6 player, no bueno.

 

[Ace Card Bedard]

How many new players on Chicago?

Maatta, De Haan, Lehner, Shaw, Smith, Nylander. Am I missing some?

Carpenter

 

[Slyfox]

Like this trade a lot for the Sens

 

[Nick Hansen]

CHI saves some cap and OTT some money. That's about it.

 

[jonlin]

Chicago paid Anisimovs 2M signing bonus July 1. Anisimovs real $ this year is 2M and next year 3M even his caphit is 4,55M. Smiths caphit is 3,25M and real dollars the same / year. Ottawa saves 1,5M in cash and Chicago 1,3M in cap/year

 

[QuadDeuces]

Can we interest Melnyk in Andrew Ladd? Bonus paid, $13 million left on his contract for 4 seasons, but a $5.5m/year cap hit. Think of the savings, Eugene!

 

[justafan22]

Want to take a guess at how much of Anisimov's yearly salary is in signing bonuses?

 

[Taluss]

Someone made this purposel on HF, nice job to whoever that was!

 

[seafoam]

Hickey for Anisimov.

 

[Captain Mountain]

Seems like a loss for Chicago, no?

Why?

They save over a million against the cap this and next season, which can't hurt given that they need to re-sign DeBrincat and Strome, and currently don't have any goalies signed.

Anisimov and Smith are both in clear decline, I'm not sure this effects much roster-wise for either team.

 

[One Winged Angel]

Must be a cap clearing move for Chicago, because Smith is worse than Anisimov at this point.

 

[Jamie Winston]

So Chicago is weird?

Jokiharu for a bust
2+3 for Shaw
Anisimov for a player they could have got for free a few months ago and who is overpaid.


I'm not liking their direction. I don't see what Smith does for them.

You talk as if artem had value... and no one is losing sleep over the Shaw trade. Have a hard time seeing a 61 point pace guy with a two way gritty game at 3.9 mil getting less then a 2nd and a 3rd. We even got more when we traded him when he was a 30 point player. Not to mention the player that we eventually got out of that trade.

 

[branch]

Bowman got fleeced by Dorion

 

[Riptide]

That’s an interesting way to say “Artem Anisimov has a signing bonus in his contract that was paid on July 1st.”

So in addition to saving around 1.5m in salary (due to the 2019 SB likely already being paid), he gets someone who can be a quality top 3 center. Not a bad deal. I personally like Smith better as a player, but I can see how AA could help Ottawa a lot more.

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

Chicago got a little worse to save 1.3 mil cap space
Ottawa got a little better to spend 1.3 more in cap but 1.25 less in actual money.

Ottawa made the floor. YAY!

 

[The Devilish Buffoon]

Lol Damn, I called this one a couple of weeks back

pat pat

That’ll show my ex I wasn’t “wasting my life away on pathetic little online forums”

 

[HOPE]

Shaw as a 3C?

 

[Esq]

AA was mostly awful last year, and was helpless in his own end. It's a even trade.

 

[Esq]

Shaw as a 3C?

Or Dach makes the team.

 

[Filthy Dangles]

AA has 2y @ 4.55
ZS has 2y @ 3.25

Smith's contract is also a lot more palatable via buyout Smith buyout vs Anisimov buyout (idk if this is a realistic possibility). Another cap from from the Blackhawks. Ottawa gets the better player, Chicago gets a little more cap space to navigate.