Confirmed with Link: Vrana traded to STL

[lhsgolf19]

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[JediOrderPizza]

Best of luck Vrana!

 

[Nut Upstrom]

Good for him. I don't care what the return is, he just needed to get out of here.
I really hope he finds his game again and keeps his life on the rails.

 

[RedWingzz]

Amazing that we had to retain half and still only got a 7th....

I'm kinda shocked no contender out there wanted to gain a sniper at low cost, but I guess the off ice issues are not worth the gamble.

 

[Ed Ned and Leddy]

Gosh dude, I still do not understand exactly what went so wrong here.

 

[Roomba With a Bauer]

Woof. At the end of the day the Mantha trade turns into Mantha for Cossa and Buchelnikov.

At least Mantha has also fallen off a cliff. Cursed trade.

At this point you have to wonder what the hell was going on with Vrana. Was he killing puppies or something?

 

[JediOrderPizza]

Are we retaining next year as well?

 

[datsyukfan]

Are we retaining next year as well?

Yep. What a waste.

 

[SoupNazi]

I suspect he'll be out of the league at the end of his contract. But I wish him the best.

 

[lhsgolf19]

Yep. What a waste.

Lol huh, come on man

 

[Roomba With a Bauer]

We went into the season expecting to have two 30 goal wingers in the top six and leave the season with neither of them. I don't like all of Yzerman's moves but you can't blame him for whatever happened with Vrana and Bertuzzi this season.

 

[JediOrderPizza]

Yep. What a waste.

Eh it's still better than a buyout, Panik and Nielsen come off the books then Kader reduces from 2.3 to 1mil.

 

[redwings8831]

Staying with the Blues AHL team.

 

[lhsgolf19]

Btw, Yzerman ain’t dumb

If he could have gotten a better deal from some one he would have… no one wanted him… league knows something

 

[better Red than Dead]

Maybe now we will hear what went wrong with Vrana finally

 

[Henkka]

Man, was that value really low.

Pure negative.

Kind of tells how Yzerman will want to clean the lockerroom. Something was wrong. We don't know what it was. Maybe some day someone will leak.

 

[kliq]

It’s shocking how a guy went from being a perceived top line forward (or at worst top 6) to being worth a 7th round pick seemingly overnight.

Wish the guy the best, but there is more to this story.

 

[Roomba With a Bauer]

Maybe now we will hear what went wrong with Vrana finally

I think it's bad enough that you'll never really find out what it was. Like Vrana was holding satanic rituals and doing pounds of blow every night with midget Russian prostitutes. Whatever problem he had was bad enough that a historically player friendly organization all but shot him into the sun.

 

[SoupNazi]

Maybe now we will hear what went wrong with Vrana finally

I doubt we'll ever hear.

 

[RedWingzz]

Are we retaining next year as well?

Yes...

Dead cap space, not like it really matters because we won't be a cap team. With all these moves, I was all excited to go glance at upcoming UFAs...what a letdown.

Hopefully Yzerman has some trades up his sleeve to acquire current day NHL talent in the off-season, otherwise I don't see us being a playoff team for at least 2 more years. The UFA forwards are not impressive at all.

 

[WaW]

This pretty much substantiates that the off ice issues are probably as bad or worse than many here have imagined. I get why some people might be upset about the return considering we don't actually know what the issues are, but I think we should take a minute to applaud the organization for safeguarding the nature of the issues (whatever they are) from the public and to protect Vrana's privacy. It can't be easy to do that in this day and age.

 

[Kyleftlx]

as a fanbase, we are probably going to be upset because vrana is better than a 7th round pick and he just hasn’t been able to play for one reason or another, but ultimately if the team was planning to move on anyway, both a buyout or burying the deal in the AHL would be worse for the team’s cap situation than retaining 50%. the buyout would also impact the team for 2 years after this one.

 

[Eye of Ra]

i guess zadina is next

 

[datsyukfan]

i guess zadina is next

Don’t trade Zadina he’s worth more than we will get

 

[WaW]

I think it's bad enough that you'll never really find out what it was. Like Vrana was holding satanic rituals and doing pounds of blow every night with midget Russian prostitutes. Whatever problem he had was bad enough that a historically player friendly organization all but shot him into the sun.

That's an interesting way of looking at it to say the least. They kept it completely under wraps and no one still knows what the issues were that got him forced into the player assistance program. That's something to applaud, not bash the organization for. Keeping things like this a secret in the social media era is f***ing difficult.