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2024-25 NHL Misc. Thread

andyt said:
And the KHL season has already started, so Georgiev‘s and Samsonov’s options are pretty limited.
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Yeah, KHL rosters are notoriously fluid so I'm pretty sure they can hook on with somebody in Russia is they decide to go that directions. I'm with CC though. They may just hang around on direct AHL deals to see if an NHL keeper gets dinged up or shot into the sun.
 
As for Roslovic, I don't really see an obvious Top 9 slot for him in Carolina as I think they want to lock Blake into a role on one of the two scoring lines, having committed that $5 mil AAV hit to him in the long term. With Ehlers in the mix, there's just nothing here for him other than high quality replacement part. Maybe that's better than what he's getting offered elsewhere, I don't know. So long as it's a 1 or 2 year deal, Carolina's got the space to plug in that kind of salary but that's a luxury option for an extra Top 9 guy. Maybe he would see it as a better option than playing more minutes for a worse team and hoping for another deadline deal. He's done that before, after all.
 
The Habs traded Carey Price and a 2026 5th rounder to the Sharks for dman Gannon Laroque. He’s in the last year of his entry deal and is unlikely to play. He had double hip surgery in 2022 and missed all of last season. But his contract will be buried in Laval, so the Habs freed up all of Price’s $10.5 million cap hit.
 
Derek Ryan announced his retirement. One of the few good things to come out of the Bill Peters era.
 
Alex Formenton, who was one of the London 5, has signed a contract to return to HC Ambri-Piotta in Switzerland. The contract runs through the December international break with an option to extend it to the end of the season. He didn’t sign his QO from the Senators but the deadline in 2022 and played the rest of the 2022-23 season for the Swiss team and re-signed with them for 2023-24 and played until taking a leave of absence in January 2024 when the charges were announced.
 
That the Sharks felt the need to post a public personal statement when he was simply quitting to take another job is just beyond weird to me. I figured it was for health reasons, as he's already had to leave a couple of jobs because of concussion issues from his playing days. But ... nope. Just heading to New York. Also, who the heck leaves one front office job for another in freaking September? The whole thing is weird.
 
The Flames signed goalie Dustin Wolf to a 7 year/$7.5 million AAV extension. He’s going into the last year of a 2 year/$850k AAV deal. He took over as the Flames starter last year after bouncing between the AHL and NHL for the prior 2 seasons.
 
While I'm fairly high on Wolf, I'd really like to see him play well in the NHL two years in a row before committing to that level of dosh. So many goaltenders run hot and cold, especially early in their careers. Still, better to have a plausible young keeper than having to keep sniffing around other organizations for answers the way Carolina's done for the last 7 or 8 years.
 
andyt said:
The Flames signed goalie Dustin Wolf to a 7 year/$7.5 million AAV extension. He’s going into the last year of a 2 year/$850k AAV deal. He took over as the Flames starter last year after bouncing between the AHL and NHL for the prior 2 seasons.
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$7.5 million AAV? Wow, just seems high for that body of work to date.

On the plus side, Wolf was a seventh round pick no less, a diamond in the rough, never say never to those late round picks sometimes panning out. they are not always junk choices.
 
CanadaCanes said:
On the plus side, Wolf was a seventh round pick no less, a diamond in the rough, never say never to those late round picks sometimes panning out. they are not always junk choices.
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His build (skinny, almost scrawny frame, looks like Richie Cunningham) and unconventional background (LA Kings youth program) have always held him back when it comes to drafts, but he has always leveled up quickly as the competition level has risen. And now, playing under the radar in Calgary kind of keeps his profile lower than it should be. Yeah, it's a thin resume ... but a very impressive one. If he stays on his current arc, Wolf has a chance to be the next great American goaltender after Quick and Hellebuyck. I like his upside more than Swayman's and something's been off with Oettinger the last couple of years.
 
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I wonder if there are any players in the NHL with Kawhi Leonard style no-show jobs with corporate partners of teams for a ton of money that is really just way to pay a player more money without those pesky salary cap rules?
 
WHAT??!!
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Report: Wild's Kirill Kaprizov rejects NHL-record contract offer

The Minnesota Wild and Kirill Kaprizov reportedly didn't see eye to eye in their most recent crack at making a deal.
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The Wild star turned down an eight-year, $128-million extension offer on Tuesday, hockey insider Frank Seravalli reported on Wednesday.
The contract would have been the highest in NHL history in both average annual value ($16 million) and total earnings.
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cmaleski2 said:
I wonder if the Canes will ever pay a goalie $7+ million per year as long as Tom Dundon is the owner.
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If he's the right guy, I don't see why not. Dundon doesn't seem to have anything against paying anybody who earns it. His front offfice has just done a crap job scouting and drafting tendies.
 
NoMich said:
I wonder if there are any players in the NHL with Kawhi Leonard style no-show jobs with corporate partners of teams for a ton of money that is really just way to pay a player more money without those pesky salary cap rules?
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Well, if there are, then good luck to the sycophantic idiots in the hockey media figuring it out.
 
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