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If theyre looking at him there must be plans for another move/buy out/waive somoeone
Maybe they know something about Ericsson/Daley, health-wise.
If theyre looking at him there must be plans for another move/buy out/waive somoeone
Green has a full NTC until February 1, 2020.Yeah, Hanzal like I said goes on LTIR as well, I like Honka as well, I don't think we end up getting much more than that for Green and I would much prefer to get a deal like this done and dusted now and remove the possibility of Green getting injured part way through the season.
An alternative is to hang someone like Frans Nielsen out there instead, they get from him what they probably want from Hanzal, albeit for a little bit more money but we can hold on to some of that and they have him for another couple years beyond this one. Also we get the benefit of opening up a roster spot for another forward.
I agree the Wings don't really need him, but why worry about the cap space? Wings are more than $4 mil under the cap and have the option of adding Zetterberg and Franzen to LTIR if needed to open up some more space.Please no. Eats cap space for something the team already has.
I agree the Wings don't really need him, but why worry about the cap space? Wings are more than $4 mil under the cap and have the option of adding Zetterberg and Franzen to LTIR if needed to open up some more space.
I'm more worried about the log jam at defense than the cap number. That will be better next year too, though, as Green, Daley and Ericsson have their contracts expire.
But even so, I'm not at all worried about the "log-jam". It's a jam of a bunch of not good options. The Wings have Hronek, Cholo, Seider, and DDK who look like locks to be here. The Wings have a "log jam" of defensemen like literally every team in the NHL does. Right this second, without losing a beat, the Wings could cut Joe Hicketts and Vili Saarijarvi and nobody would miss them. Just like outside of the lunatic fringe about it, nobody actually misses Xaiver Ouellet and Alexey Marchenko here. Sure, it sucked that XO flamed out and that Marchenko was probably the best D we had of that crop that came through starting in 2011, but they're all less than footnotes in the history of the team.
I miss Marchenko.
I agree the Wings don't really need him, but why worry about the cap space? Wings are more than $4 mil under the cap and have the option of adding Zetterberg and Franzen to LTIR if needed to open up some more space.
I'm more worried about the log jam at defense than the cap number. That will be better next year too, though, as Green, Daley and Ericsson have their contracts expire.
I'd like the team to keep cap space open for beneficial trades.
If the team is taking on a mediocre player, I'd like them to be paid for it.
That was a bit harsh on my side. Marchenko was a good defenseman. Such a shame that they went with Sproul over him essentially and then shipped out Sproul shortly afterwards too. He was basically the perfect bottom pairing D if the rest of your lineup was actually filled with guys who were up to the role they were given.
However, losing a good bottom pairing D isn't why a team is at the bottom of the standings. Many many NHL players would be good bottom pairing Ds.
So I do miss Marchenko in that he was seemingly a good guy and a decent hockey player (also, he wore the number I always wear), but he was almost literally the dictionary definition of a replaceable bottom pairing guy.
Losing a cheap bottom pairing D doesn't put you in the bottom of the standings.
Losing a cheap bottom pairing D while paying your bottom pairing $7.5M does explain why you have a high cap while finishing last.
Hutton to LA.
Can we stop talking about him now?
https://www.tsn.ca/los-angeles-king...enceman-ben-hutton-on-one-year-deal-1.1367344