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msun30 said:
Well a team just took on a worse player than Briere making more money without surrendering a bad contract.
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The Habs had basically their entire team off the books this off-season and could afford to make such a move.

What team can add a guy like Briere right now without giving up any significant contracts?
 
msun30 said:
Says who?
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I don't think it's a stretch to say that Philly would be willing to deal Briere if it meant shortening the cap hit down the line. Especially if it meant adding a little more depth on the wings or on the blueline. They currently have three centres making 5+ million. That's a lot of money tied up long term into one position.
 
PlayerToBeNamedLater said:
I don't think it's a stretch to say that Philly would be willing to deal Briere if it meant shortening the cap hit down the line. Especially if it meant adding a little more depth on the wings or on the blueline. They currently have three centres making 5+ million. That's a lot of money tied up long term into one position.
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I just don't know. I've been waiting for this sort of move to happen for a long time -- it's been five years since the cap came into effect -- and we are still yet to see that sort of swap made. It is possible? Certainly. But I don't think it's likely. And I think that the Gomez trade proves that any contract is tradeable without having to take on substantial dollars under the cap.
 
The Habs had basically their entire team off the books this off-season and could afford to make such a move.

What team can add a guy like Briere right now without giving up any significant contracts?
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Why would a 10-4-1 team that doesn't seem to have any holes be looking to deal their third best forward in a mid season trade?

I think they'll look to ship out Briere in the off season regardless. They will have to clear space to re-up Emery (or find another goaltender) and eventually to hang on to Van Rimsdyck. But then you're in the same situation that the Rangers were in last off season while trying to trade Gomez. Teams will have the cap space at that point, and they won't have to give away Briere by taking on another bad contract or two.
 
msun30 said:
That contract is a real albatross, and taking it off the Flyers' hands would almost be akin to the Habs giving the Rangers a mulligan by bringing in Gomez. It just isn't worth it.
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Nah.

Briere is a PPG+ guy when he gets top minutes, Gomez is a 60+pt guy.

Totally different level of player.

and Briere makes less money.

and, of course, we would never be giving up a top prospect in the deal like the Habs did, and we'd have to be dumping some bad contracts of our own back on them as well.
 
Jonas Gustavsson may soon be signing an extension, because the Toronto Maple Leafs fear losing him to an offer sheet next offseason.

The Ottawa Sun's Bruce Garrioch writes, "There would be more than an NHL GM or two who wouldn't mind put the screws to Burke by signing The Monster to an offer sheet worth $5 million a season."

A league executive said, "Don't think for a second there wouldn't be a lineup of teams again offering up big money if he gets to restricted free agency."
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There isn't a big enough market for goalies for teams to overpay finacially and give up assets using the offer sheet strategy. Just this past offseason alone, Anderson, Emery, Biron were signed for very little because there just wasn't a big demand for goalies.
 
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I can't think of many teams that A) can afford a 5+ mill dollar goalie and B) Need a 5+ million dollar goalie. Most teams already have their starters locked up for next year.

If the some team does decide to make an offersheet, the Leafs do have the right to match anyways.
 
I'm sure Burke will sign him asap - in fact, I'm sure they probably already had a contract extension worked out in principle before Gusto signed in the first place.

and they'll obviously match any offer sheet.
 
It is still a big concern that the guy took an eternity to make up his frikkin mind in the summer ... and then only signed a one-year deal.
 
the CBA doesn't allow a 24 year old rookie to sign anything other than the deal he signed.

he signed for the max amount and the max length he was allowed to.
 
and as for taking a while to make his mind up....his mother died this summer...I don't really blame him for putting everything else on the back burner for a bit after that.
 
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