smaller market teams sometimes have a problem making a profit even at the cap floor.
if they feel they can field (ice?) a competitive team at $7.5M under the floor (due to having a lot of young players on entry level contracts for example) they will absorb a "free" cap hit in exchange for picks or giving away actual money they have to pay.
getting a big free agent is money they have to spend in the future. spending that money could bankrupt the team.
Vitale is $1.1M per season with 1 year remaining.
Eek-o-nomix!
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This is a tricky way to keep their payroll as low as possible. It was needed because the NHL has a mnimum salary cap as well as a max.
Good move by Holland. 'Zona must have really wanted that D-man, because they were taken for a ride with that trade!
Understanding zona's situation this is a good trade for both.
The wings pick up a $1.1M contract in actual money. Won't hit against the cap cause he will likely be in the minors all season but it still has to be paid.
Zona won't be anywhere near the cap at any point this season so the dats contract is free to them.
To zona this deal looks like
Get:
16th pick
$1.1M in free money
Give
20th pick
54th pick
That's not bad for them.
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Yeah they are in the running. WIll they land him? That's another story lol
I just stopped laughing about the Stamkos concept to Detroit.
That's not happening.
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There sadly isn't any team willing to get Howard when lot of other goaltenders are available which are better/cheaper/younger.
The move gives the Red Wings the cap space needed to make a pitch for center Steven Stamkos in free agency on July 1, if he doesn't re-sign with the Tampa Bay Lightning. The Red Wings are all-in on Stamkos and are expected to offer him a maximum seven-year deal, perhaps for as much as $70 million.
Is it really that far-fetched?
What's funny about it? Detroit is rumored to be a major player.
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I am sorry I don't have your Detroit myopia when it comes to Stamkos or all things hockey. I just don't see it happening. Family is from Toronto, Leafs can figure it cap wise, he's a fit with Matthews coming in and the endorsement money in Toronto would far exceed anything he could make in any other market. Connect the dots.
It's not difficult to see him in Toronto if (and this is a big if even he goes FA) he just doesn't just ultimately renew for a boatload of money in Tampa.
Remember when your former coach wasn't ever going to Toronto either? I read a year of posts about that. Of course, your team is way better with the new guy, right?
This Shanahan/Lamoriello/Hunter regime is not the old Leafs and I would not discount them.
Do you really think it's static with Shanahan/Lamoriello/Hunter running the deal going forward?
It's not unlike the scenario when Michigan got Hackett (and made Brandon leave, for which, as a season ticket holder I am eternally grateful). Competence replaced incompetence.
You do win for effective smart remark. So well played on that.
Mark Hunter
If you follow Junior hockey at all in Canada you know his capacity in assessing talent among the juniors and bringing them to London. At a talent evaluation level, Hunter is legit (a quick look at London Knights draft picks since he's owned that team is pretty compelling). This should translate to the next level.
Lamoriello is the real deal and has the rings to prove it. Shanahan, to me, is actually more of the wild card in that whole mix. Where Hunter is proven in Juniors and Lamoriello is proven in the league Shanahan was just a very solid player (not much of a character guy according to Craig Janney...)
But basically Harold Ballard followed by a bunch of lackey owners (Steve Stavros I'm looking at you) then corporate ownership and finally they more or less seem to have lucked into Shanahan (who I'm not really cool with), Lamoriello (who is proven) and Hunter/Kyle Dubas (solid).
Please adjust your Wings colored glasses.
Wings have had so much success and yet, there I was last year, sitting up front for an original 6 opponent. Bought my tickets day of game and without issue.
Great teams but the support is front runner. #truth
Leafs been bad since '93 but the support remains. I wonder how you'll frame it when the Leafs are winning?
I can get tickets to any game in Detroit easy.
I attended games at the Joe in the 80's Reed Larson era also. It was even easier then but the same concept applies.
It's a front runner fanbase. I guess that happens when you make the playoffs all the time.
We'll see how things go with the Leafs. Remind me in a year if I'm wrong.
Closer than I'd like though...
underrated
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