Confirmed Signing with Link: [WSH] Devante Smith-Pelly (1 Year, $650K)

[tade]

Makes sense. Isn't 650k league minimum?

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[Skinnyjimmy08]

crazy hes a 2way deal type guy now

 

[hockeykicker]

Off to ahl he goes to replace vrana

 

[JoVel]

I thought he was much better than that. Guess I've not been following much. His statline definitely doesn't look great.

 

[WesMcCauley]

He looks like an octopus when he is skating. Hands and feet Are just all over the place

 

[llamateizer]

I thought he was much better than that. Guess I've not been following much. His statline definitely doesn't look great.

he was on fire when he was traded by MTL to NJD.

 

[hockeykicker]

Yea sounds like an ahl deal

 

[trick9]

I don't mind this. As cheap as you can get and a two-way contract. Should add some competition.

 

[TMLeafs18]

Solid move for Washington they will have to keep filling out their roster with moves like this to save room in the cap. Hopefully he can contribute in their bottom six.

 

[Hivemind]

Serves as competition for depth spots in WSH, but ultimately will serve as a body in Hershey to replace all the talent they'll lose to graduation.

 

[Agalloch]

So WSH lost Johansson, Alzner, Williams and Shattenkirk.

They brought DSP thus far.

 

[hockeykicker]

So WSH lost Johansson, Alzner, Williams and Shattenkirk.

They brought DSP thus far.

Two of those Washington was happy to lose (alzner and shatty)

 

[Taranis_24]

So WSH lost Johansson, Alzner, Williams and Shattenkirk.

They brought DSP thus far.

Don't forget Schmidt too. No clue what GMBM is doing?

 

[Roshi]

BMac keeps on working the 2017 off-season magic.

hopefully the guy enjoys chocolate.

 

[Roshi]

So WSH lost Johansson, Alzner, Williams and Shattenkirk.

They brought DSP thus far.

They also brought Peluso and Graovac!

 

[hockeykicker]

Don't forget Schmidt too. No clue what GMBM is doing?

There's a thing called the salary cap

 

[Agalloch]

There's a thing called the salary cap

He should have traded Ovechkin.

 

[Zippy316]

If he can cut some weight and get faster, he'd be a solid depth option.

I'd imagine he has a nice start to his career with the Capitals and then falls off a cliff soon after, similar to what happened with his torrid start with the Devils.

 

[Hivemind]

When even the DSP to Hershey thread becomes about Ovechkin

 

[ovikovy817]

Hershey boy.

 

[Pick87your71Poison]

There's a thing called the salary cap

Yeah, but he could have protected Schmidt in the expansion draft and just lost Johansson there instead of losing Schmidt and then trading Johansson anyway for only picks (not even including a 1st).

 

[Zenon Konopka Jr]

In the thunderdome that is the metro, at least Washington has taken a step back.

 

[ovikovy817]

The Washington Capitals have signed forward John Albert to a one-year, two-way contract.

Another AHLer 650k/220k 1 year 2 way

 

[tony d]

Depth signing here for the Caps. Should be a 4th liner for them.

 

[BiPolar Caps]

Yeah, but he could have protected Schmidt in the expansion draft and just lost Johansson there instead of losing Schmidt and then trading Johansson anyway for only picks (not even including a 1st).

This is the thought process that I don't get. If the Caps opted to go the 4-4-1 approach (Ovechkin, Backstrom, Burakovsky, Kuznetsov, Niskanen, Carlson, Orlov, Schmidt and Holtby) what's the guarantee that McPhee would have picked Johansson. He could have just as easily picked Tom Wilson who currently earns 2 million dollars and such a move by McPhee would not have eased the cap problem for the Capitals. Schmidt being a RFA will probably get a contract in the neighborhood of 3 and that would have still forced the Capitals to have do something in order to address the cap issue.