Around the league (signings, RFAs injuries)

[SKYO]

Hawks Canes make a trade:

Bickell and Teravainen traded for picks.

Hawks finally found a taker for Bickell.

http://www.tsn.ca/hawks-trade-bickell-t ... s-1.508157

That shit is insane!

Teuvo Teravainen a 21 years old center who just scored 13g/22a last season, with humongous upside traded just because of Bickell??

For a 2nd and 3rd.

[Island Nucklehead]

Hawks Canes make a trade:

Bickell and Teravainen traded for picks.

Hawks finally found a taker for Bickell.

http://www.tsn.ca/hawks-trade-bickell-t ... s-1.508157

That shit is insane!

Teuvo Teravainen a 21 years old center who just scored 13g/22a last season, with humongous upside traded just because of Bickell??

For a 2nd and 3rd.

Expansion draft, salary cap and the Panarin effect.

[Hockey Widow]

Good move for both teams, for very different reasons.

Carolina gets a good, high potential, young centre plus a 3rd/4th line role player to play a hard game, or they can still buy him out and absorb his cap hit easily.

Chicago gets cap relief, two picks to replenish the cupboards, a little potential expansion draft protection, for a team still very much contending. The Hawks still have a lot of work to do to get everyone under contract. They need to create depth on D. I can see them making more room as the summer goes on.

On rumour floating around is that Chicago is on Malkin's trade list. Although I can't see the Hawks absorbing his cap yet, could they make room? Would they want to make room for him?

[Strangelove]

Bowman got caught with his pants down (expansion + flat cap + bad Bickell contract)

... and Francis bent him over a barrel and showed him the 50 states!

[Mickey107]

Good move for both teams, for very different reasons.

Carolina gets a good, high potential, young centre plus a 3rd/4th line role player to play a hard game, or they can still buy him out and absorb his cap hit easily.

Chicago gets cap relief, two picks to replenish the cupboards, a little potential expansion draft protection, for a team still very much contending. The Hawks still have a lot of work to do to get everyone under contract. They need to create depth on D. I can see them making more room as the summer goes on.

On rumour floating around is that Chicago is on Malkin's trade list. Although I can't see the Hawks absorbing his cap yet, could they make room? Would they want to make room for him?

Difficult to see how the Hawks could do it.
Not that I've heard anything and not that I know Malkin's list but it seems to me, for a bunch of reasons, the natural place for him to go would be Detroit....

[Island Nucklehead]

On rumour floating around is that Chicago is on Malkin's trade list. Although I can't see the Hawks absorbing his cap yet, could they make room? Would they want to make room for him?

You'd have to ditch one of Kane or Toews. No way you can have $30M tied up in 3 players.

[Arachnid]

On rumour floating around is that Chicago is on Malkin's trade list. Although I can't see the Hawks absorbing his cap yet, could they make room? Would they want to make room for him?

You'd have to ditch one of Kane or Toews. No way you can have $30M tied up in 3 players.

Maybe they are planning on getting rid of that raper...er....rapper DJ Kane....

[Island Nucklehead]

On rumour floating around is that Chicago is on Malkin's trade list. Although I can't see the Hawks absorbing his cap yet, could they make room? Would they want to make room for him?

You'd have to ditch one of Kane or Toews. No way you can have $30M tied up in 3 players.

Maybe they are planning on getting rid of that raper...er....rapper DJ Kane....

It would be nearly criminal to do so after the season he just had.

[Hockey Widow]

As expected, leaves place Cowan on waivers for the purposes of buying him out.

[Tciso]

As expected, leaves place Cowan on waivers for the purposes of buying him out.

General Fanager shows a huge savings on cap space for the buyout. Wtf? We save $1 million if we buyout burrows, and they save $3 million. Are we structuring our contracts wrong??

[Blob Mckenzie]

Good trade by the Canes. This is what cap space can do for a team.

Francis is a genius.

[Island Nucklehead]

As expected, leaves place Cowan on waivers for the purposes of buying him out.

General Fanager shows a huge savings on cap space for the buyout. Wtf? We save $1 million if we buyout burrows, and they save $3 million. Are we structuring our contracts wrong??

Since he's under 26 his buyout is only 1/3 of the contract value. Anyone over 26 has to cough up 2/3rds. Cowen was due $4.5M this year. So his buyout cost is only $1.5M, spread over twice the term remaining on the deal ($750K per).

[Madcombinepilot]

Bowman got caught with his pants down (expansion + flat cap + bad Bickell contract)

... and Francis bent him over a barrel and showed him the 50 states!

Bowman can't hear the sound Francis laughing of the bad Bickel contract because of all the Stanley Cup rings in his ears.

[Island Nucklehead]

Carolina re-ups Ward. 2 years, $3.3M per.

[Carl Yagro]

2 more years of Cam Ward?! Genius. Dust off #12 for the captain's return too.

Their backup must be sorely Lacking. Wonder if you can get a 3rd rounder for him?