GDT: Three words. Just Win Baby! @ Penguins

[Unsustainable]

Yeah, I was looking at Cap. And the Canes are below the Cap floor when you look at roster players (because of retention/buy outs).

Current cap: $59.6M
Buyouts/Retention: $4.7M
Total without buyouts/retention: $54.9M
Cap Floor: $55.4M

What’s are real salary vs cap? Kruger is like 4m hit but only paid 1.75m

 

[Joe McGrath]

What’s are real salary vs cap? Kruger is like 4m hit but only paid 1.75m

Actual salary is $60.6 mil but that includes almost $5 million in dead money from Wiz, Semin, and Lack

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

What’s are real salary vs cap? Kruger is like 4m hit but only paid 1.75m

According to cap friendly, close to the cap: $60.6M including buyouts/retention.

Faulk (contract escalates) and Williams (higher in year 1) are higher than cap

 

[GoldiFox]

What’s are real salary vs cap? Kruger is like 4m hit but only paid 1.75m

Kruger has a $3 million Cap hit and a real salary of $3.475 million. He just got paid $2 million of that in a signing bonus before the trade this year. So I guess that amount can be subtracted from Boom Boom's salary above.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Ah..good point AMO. I didn't remove that.

 

[GoldiFox]

It is a bit frustrating to me that the Canes have both 1) An atrocious NHL offense and 2) two top-5 AHL goal scorers who haven't seen one NHL game this year.

Aho - Driver
Skinner - 3rd shift Driver
McGinn - Aspiring Metallurgist
Staal - Passenger
Lindholm - Passenger
Teravainen - Passenger
Ryan - Passenger (sadly probably the closest to being a driver out of the entire passenger group)
Williams - Passenger
Rask - Passenger

The Canes have one consistent offensive player and he is currently injured. At some point they are going to have to take a flyer on a forward willing to get the puck on net in a meaningful way.

 

[tarheelhockey]

I'm not even sure how I feel about Derek Ryan anymore. Would it be worse to get rid of him or to keep him? I'm so confused.

 

[Stickpucker]

The real question is..are we better than last year?

Lindholm, TT, and Aho are....but results are worse.

 

[tarheelhockey]

The real question is..are we better than last year?

Lindholm, TT, and Aho are....but results are worse.

At one point it looked like we were making baby steps, but I'm not seeing it in the grand scheme of things. Looks like a group that's treading water due to half the group taking steps forward and the other half taking steps back.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

The real question is..are we better than last year?

Lindholm, TT, and Aho are....but results are worse.

Skinner, Faulk, and to an extent Slavin/Pesce (slightly) are worse as is the PK which balances that out.

Even so, the results aren't better or worse than last year if I did this correctly. Last year on 1/24/17 the Canes were 21-19-7 for 49 point in 47 games. Right now, they are 21-19-8 for 50 points in 48 games. Scary how close those numbers are.

 

[Chrispy]

According to cap friendly, close to the cap: $60.6M including buyouts/retention.

Faulk (contract escalates) and Williams (higher in year 1) are higher than cap

Darling's contract is also higher than his 4.15M cap hit this year and next:
2018: 4.75M
2019: 4.75M
2020: 4.1M
2021: 3.0M

 

[Joe McGrath]

The real question is..are we better than last year?

Lindholm, TT, and Aho are....but results are worse.

People seem to forget that they got above average goaltending from Ward last season until the 2nd week of January. 34 GP .915 SV% 2.28 GAA.

Edit: Above average for the Hurricanes not for the actual NHL.

 

[SaskCanesFan]

I'm not even sure how I feel about Derek Ryan anymore. Would it be worse to get rid of him or to keep him? I'm so confused.

I'd like to replace Derek Ryan with a better player, absolutely. But the issue of weak center depth and him being over slotted isn't his fault. I think somebody made a comparison in the off season that his production is very comparable to a guy like Bonino, and he just got paid 4(ish?) times more. If you have an actual first line center, then Staal, Ryan looks acceptable as a 3C, at least for the short term.

 

[The Stranger]

People seem to forget that they got above average goaltending from Ward last season until the 2nd week of January. 34 GP .915 SV% 2.28 GAA.

Edit: Above average for the Hurricanes not for the actual NHL.

.915 was above average for the actual NHL last season (.913).

 

[Joe McGrath]

.915 was above average for the actual NHL last season (.913).

I was inferring for a starter, but you are correct.

 

[garnetpalmetto]

At one point it looked like we were making baby steps, but I'm not seeing it in the grand scheme of things. Looks like a group that's treading water due to half the group taking steps forward and the other half taking steps back.

On the whole there's some very marginal improvement in terms of the overall on-ice performance At this point last season we had 49 points whereas this season we have 50 points. We were also in the midst of a 5-game pointless streak at this time last year, our longest skid up to that point. Thus far our longest pointless streak has been 3-games. So in some regards it's baby steps.

 

[Joe McGrath]

Is there a team that looks any less competent with an extra player than the Hurricanes?

The Hurricanes have as many 6 on 5 goals as anyone else in the league.

 

[Unsustainable]

We don’t have that guy, that other teams say, well that f***er is going to score on us.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

We don’t have that guy, that other teams say, well that ****er is going to score on us.

You mean a rookie who hasn't scored his first NHL goal?

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

We don’t have that guy, that other teams say, well that ****er is going to score on us.

For me, the worst I’ve ever had that feeling was in the first round of 05/06 against Montreal. My stomach was in knots every time Kovalev had the puck.