Friedman: Panthers trying to trade Keith Yandle

[neelynugs]

yandle makes less in real $ than his cap hit, which probably makes jacobs tingly in
weird places. but even dumping moore+, it seems unlikely. b's will roll with the young
kids on the left side and see how it goes.

 

[tictactoe]

For JVR and Braun or Hagg

 

[Gurglesons]

I mean everyone knew that Perry was gonna be a taxi squad player.

I don't think that is true.

 

[Dread Clawz]

I don't know a lot about FLA. Who will replace his 45 points on D?

If Ekblad gets to play pp1, he'll easily score at a 50 point pace. He scores 40 pts. a year with no pp time.

 

[Toronto makebeleifs]

I mean, I guess it goes with the off season motif of smaller market teams trying to dump salary. Yandle is an odd one, because for what he brings, he's in line with what his peers are making. It's the years left and age that make it a tougher buy. That said, I start the bidding at a first, then whoever is the highest bid after that. First and a near ready defence prospect maybe?

 

[Poppy Whoa Sonnet]

Capfriendly says Yandle has a NMC. He's also 34 and paid for 3 more years at 6.3 million per. A trade will be real hard to orchestrate.

 

[DFC]

It feels like Keith Yandle must be 50 because I swear he's been in trade rumors for at least 30 years.

 

[Mickey Marner]

Threatening to sit him to break his ironman streak is about as classy as Jokinen's display case.

 

[Bevans]

If Ekblad gets to play pp1, he'll easily score at a 50 point pace. He scores 40 pts. a year with no pp time.

Okay, and the other 35 points?

 

[Seachd]

Did Elliott say this

Yes, as mentioned in the tweet.

 

[ucanthanzalthetruth]

Threatening to sit him to break his ironman streak is about as classy as Jokinen's display case.

Why should the gm make his team worse for a streak? Hes unplayable.

 

[pucksakes666]

They should just buy him out and he can go on chiclets all the time now

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Yeet Candle

 

[Dread Clawz]

Threatening to sit him to break his ironman streak is about as classy as Jokinen's display case.

He should play harder then. This is his fault.

 

[Fatass]

yandle makes less in real $ than his cap hit, which probably makes jacobs tingly in
weird places. but even dumping moore+, it seems unlikely. b's will roll with the young
kids on the left side and see how it goes.

We’ve been hoping Loui Erickson making way less in real dollars than his cap hit (1 million owed, while counting 6 on the cap for this season) would help get him traded too. Maybe FLA can get Yandle to retire, and move him to a management job?

 

[Dread Clawz]

Okay, and the other 35 points?

The Panthers are trying to be a harder team to play against even if it means not scoring as much. If they can jettison Matheson and Yandle in one offseason, that's huge. Between Ekblad and a healthy Weegar, they should still have sufficient offense from the backend.

 

[BWJM]

Threatening to sit him to break his ironman streak is about as classy as Jokinen's display case.

The Jokinen's dispay case was a nice touch.

Why should the gm make his team worse for a streak? Hes unplayable.

I've been out of the loop for a little bit... but how is he unplayable? Defensive liability or something?

 

[FrolikFan67]

For his point totals and pp ability, yes his cap hit isn’t bad, it’s the fact he’s not a good defender that hurts the team though and that’s why they would like to move him. Along with the fact he still makes 6.35per for another 3yrs and would like those dollars available for other players they may target in the future.

I highly doubt they’re legitimately threatening to end his streak. But more so hoping that adding more bodies like this and showing that they’re going in a different direction with Ekblad on the top pp unit and even other players on the 2PP unit, more like “we know you have that streak, but we can’t necessarily guarantee you’ll play every game, we have younger guys we’d like to try and I cant guarantee when or how much ice time you’ll get”. More or less something along those lines. And hopefully if the streak is that important, he’ll be willing to waive to go somewhere that wants him more

 

[GermanSpitfire]

Has to be an equally bad contract going the other way.... Boston makes some sense, John Moore for Keith Yandle?

 

[Bevans]

I bet Yandle played half the season injured. Insisted on playing through it to protect his streak against the advice of the team. Sucked and they felt it burned the team.

They feel like he jeopardized the team for the sake of his streak, so now they don't mind using his streak against him.

 

[WrinkledPossum]

Something around Goligoski or Kessel for Yandle makes sense. Doan just became apart of Yotes mgmt and loves Yandle.

Goligoski for Yandle+2nd or retention? Goligoski is owed 4M this year and is then off the books. Looks like Yandle is owed 2.75M assuming his signing bonus has been paid, then 5.25M and 5.2M.

Or Kessel straight up for Yandle.

 

[violaswallet]

Something around Goligoski or Kessel for Yandle makes sense. Doan just became apart of Yotes mgmt and loves Yandle.

Goligoski for Yandle+2nd or retention? Goligoski is owed 4M this year and is then off the books. Looks like Yandle is owed 2.75M assuming his signing bonus has been paid, then 5.25M and 5.2M.

Or Kessel straight up for Yandle.

Kessel for Yandle is the fairest trade I can think of! Florida gets out of a year and can use Kessel on 2PP. I think someone earlier proposed something like
Random player +Kessel for Yandle and Connolly which I think is fair!

 

[Henkka]

Capfriendly says Yandle has a NMC. He's also 34 and paid for 3 more years at 6.3 million per. A trade will be real hard to orchestrate.

The salary seems to be 5.4M for those last 3 years.

But caphit is problematic.

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Oh, that signing bonus was already paid, so 3M less for 3 years.

4.4M real salaries on average.

 

[PullHard]

Was thinking Neal/ Kessel as possible trade targets

 

[HabsWhiteKnightLOL]

I don't think that is true.

Well here in Montreal we did. Since we know whos the 4th line lol.