Obviously there’s concerns for the player but from a team perspective, I don’t think the return would be big enough to be any riskier than not having pan out. We’re talking about a fairly modest return, especially if the Jackets aren’t looking to take salary back. Who knows what will happen though. The CBJ UFA situation could change the game plan quite a bit in the summer, depending on the outcome.
As was brought up in the Lucic thread, he's an incredibly cheap buyout. I think a team like Ottawa would scoop him up on the cheap if they had the opportunity.
We wouldn't be giving him away for free in any case.
An even worse 32-year-old on a contract that's similar in cap hit and duration? Why would we ever consider that?
Given that Andy Mac's contract ends after next year, this would be a definite maybe.
Could be made to work.
Give me a ****ing break. If it's less than the NHL minimum salary, it's not cap relief. And the pick is a joke.
Don't swear at me because you are wrong. The Blue Jackets need cap yo keep Bob Panarin and Duchene this deal saves you almost 2 million dollars and a mid round pick for this glorified scrub
Two mil over five years is not a relevant savings. Not when we can save even more by just buying Wennberg out at 1/3 and thereby getting $4.5m in cap space to go with it. If you're going to come up with an offer, you have to do better than the buyout option. Abdelkader is considerably worse than the buyout option, and a 3rd round pick does not substantially change that.
Taking salary back isn't expressly forbidden, but it's going to be difficult to pull it off - especially if there's term involved. I can tell you from the start that even thinking of Eriksson is going to get a deal torpedoed, for example, and offering someone like Jay Beagle wouldn't do much better.
Taking salary back isn't expressly forbidden, but it's going to be difficult to pull it off - especially if there's term involved. I can tell you from the start that even thinking of Eriksson is going to get a deal torpedoed, for example, and offering someone like Jay Beagle wouldn't do much better.
He was #3 on my "no way nohow" list, although I figured I'd stick to two examples only.
That makes figuring out a deal problematic, because the biggest reason we'd want to trade Wennberg is to recoup missing picks. We're more than set at RW (and right-shot wingers in general) for a very long time, and the same is even more true of defensemen at every position. C could become a problem if we can't retain Duchene, and LW can become a problem because of Panarin's probable departure, but both of those could also potentially be patched by, y'know, not trading Wennberg. So.
