TheBigKahuna
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And here we sit, with another pile of bargain basement scraps.
Torts unloads on JR...this is great stuff!
https://www.thescore.com/nhl/news/1565600Tortorella
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These supposed superstars like Johnson who have to "join" a winning culture kill me. Great players don't have to JOIN a winning culture, they make a winning culture. Just maybe Jack, you're part of the reason it's not been a winning culture wherever you've been.
Johnson is not, and has never been a superstar player in this league. He never panned out to his potential. He just signed as the 5 defenseman in Pittsburgh.
The NHL is not the NBA where one player can change a team's fortune as your best player is just one out of 6 guys on the ice and plays 1/3 of a game. McDavid is the games best player, right now, and Edmonton sucked this year. Is that on him? A winning culture in the NHL requires multiple star players in the current game and good overall depth.
And here we sit, with another pile of bargain basement scraps.
Except for Faulk's supposed 15-team NTC kicked in without action taken to adjust our newly-found right-shot D-man overload after the draft-day Hanifin (left-shot) for Hamilton (right-shot) trade.
Seems we picked up an upgrade on the right side, to be sure (Hamilton > Faulk). But had no plan in place prior to that June 30 deadline to make the balancing adjustment needed afterward.
Twitter was abuzz late last night that Erik Karlsson was traded to Tampa in a blockbuster. Then a bunch of hockey media types pulled it back and said still in the works. Tampa was looking for a third team to get involved for a cap dump of a big contract. Let’s see what today brings.
If Tampa pulls off that deal they are going to have Hedman AND Karlsson AND McDonagh (and Sergachev)? Are you kidding me?
They would like a dance partner to take Bobby Ryan. At some point the Canes can't keep just adding wingers if they really want to have Zykov and Svechnikov in the lineup. There would have to be some pretty darn good something or other also coming the Canes way before we should entertain being a dumping spot for Bobby Ryan. A REALLY good sweetener.
If you are thinking, 'hey, maybe its Tampa that needs to move one of their current sizable contracts elsewhere, maybe the Canes can get something useful from them?' (that was my first thought) .... Ondrej Palet, Tyler Johnson and Alex Killorn all have full NTCs.
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Dreger is saying Tampa needs to free up cap room. They want to dump Ryan Callahan somewhere. He has a "16 teams you can trade me to" NTC. I would say the same thing I said above about taking on Bobby Ryan...there would have to be a really really great sweetener involved before I would consider taking Callahan (if he even has the Canes on his list). I like the idea of having such a great character guy like Callahan...you want to talk about a culture change, have guys like Ryan Callahan around. But his contract is ridiculous for what he brings now and we really don't need another RW who doesn't really score goals anymore.
If we take on a big contract winger, we'd have to either get a center in the deal or follow up with a secondary move for a center. CM is right ... you've only got 8 spots on the wing and we've got most of them well filled as it is.
Still, we SHOULD be positioned to take advantage of our cap flexibility and SHOULD be looking to shark our way into a deal that helps us if one pops up. Even if it means you make one move to turn around and make another one later.