TheStranger
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If the Pens are one of the teams trying to shed salary, does anyone think Orpik might be in play?
This would be my pick if he's available at all.
If the Pens are one of the teams trying to shed salary, does anyone think Orpik might be in play?
What's the situation with regard roster size (Dater mentioned this)?
Do we have to dump some players in order to bring others on to the roster? Or we can just place Zanon on LEM and that would be sufficient?
Avalanche executive vice president of hockey operations Joe Sakic and coach Patrick Roy, however, indicated that Friday figures to be an uneventful day around the Pepsi Center.
"You can only have 23 guys signed, but we'll see (if) and where we can improve the club," Sakic said.
From my understanding, we don't have to dump anyone to sign someone tomorrow (if we wanted to sign someone).
A quick count on CapGeek.com shows that the Avs have 43/50 Contracts signed, and that's before they most assuredly sign MacKinnon. So that would place them at 44/50. With Roy saying that Bigras "could surprise and make the team out of Training Camp" let's just count him for argument's sake as well. That's 45/50 contracts signed.
But then this quote from Sakic came out, has me concerned that they won't be doing anything at all tomorrow:
The 23 man roster just has to be finalized before the start of the season, that's why team's have training camps and roster cuts, and so on and so forth.
Unless I'm missing some rule I didn't know about, the Avs should be able to sign a player or 2 for the Defense tomorrow to help shore it up. Will they? If they sign anyone, I expect it to be 1 Defenseman.
I'm not worried about the number of contracts they have.
Zanon and Hunwick will be bought out, Olver can be shipped off to a cap-strapped team needing depth, one of our goalie prospects can be traded for a pick, etc etc.
We have 22 roster contracts and 17 non-roster contracts, which totals 39.
Add Mack and there's 40.
Vincour is gone, L. Walker is gone. That leaves Connolly, Malone, Chouinard and G Walker as the remaining RFAs. Even if we qualify them all (I doubt all but Malone are locks) that only makes 44 contracts IF they're all qualified, which they won't be. There is no reason to keep Chouinard and Walker around.
Bob McKenzie @TSNBobMcKenzie 5s
Hal Gill (NSH), Johan Hedberg (NJ) and Greg Zanon (COL) also on unconditional waivers, presumably for buyout purposes.
A small voice in my head is telling me to prepare myself for tomorrow. I think it's possible that they'll end up trading for one of the big RFA defenders, using our 2014 1st as bait.
My dude, you say this like every trade deadline eve/draft eve/free agency eve. I love it.
My dude, you say this like every trade deadline eve/draft eve/free agency eve. I love it.
I'd try to sign Ballard to a 2 year 5 million(2.5AAV) and/or trade minimal assets for meszaros
Wild already signed Ballard, meh anyways.