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NHL Off-Season 2015 |OT| With the first pick the LA Kings are proud to select...
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Kuro Madoushi
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kostco to SNES two way deal
CreeperBlocks
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Nice Hair Though
demosthenes
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Reported or rumor?
User 479360
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Kostco?
CrazedArabMan
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Detroit pushing hard for Green, Get R' Dun Kenny!
Fata1moose
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:lol And there I thought he was just demanding a trade, he actually got it.
demosthenes
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Twitter? I see nothing.
ZeroGravity
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He hasn't signed yet, but they were saying on air it's close and that's what it'll be around.
phew. sarcasam meter is broken apparently.
gaming_noob
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Kessel @ 8M/y >>>>> O'Reilly @ 7.5M/y'. Sabres are going to regret this.
demosthenes
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I see Hodgson signed w/ Nashville was that before or after the buy out?
bonesmccoy
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Green, Franson and Ehrhoff still out there.
HadesGigas
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He wasn't a free agent until the buy out.
demosthenes
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Oh gotcha. Thought I saw something about claiming him on waivers versus waiting.
Fata1moose
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You mean Kessel at 6.8>>>>>>ROR @ 7.5. :lol Leafs
demosthenes
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Does PIT only get the 6.8 cap hit or the full 8 and Leafs are just the ones cutting the check?
CreeperBlocks
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Coldnoodle
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At least you don't have to worry about your captain becoming the next Steven Gerrard because of inept management.
demosthenes
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No I'm just wondering the $$ value. Leafs retained ~$1.2/year. Do they just cut the check or do they retain the cap hit too?
bonesmccoy
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demo, iirc its retained AAV - so the Leafs will carry that 1.2m on their cap until the contract ends.
IceColdnoodle. You can't blame Stevie for Joe Allen.
IceColdnoodle. You can't blame Stevie for Joe Allen.
Cap hit, that's how it works. Pens cap hit would be $6.75x 7 years Leafs have 1.25 for 7.
Cap hit
ZeroGravity
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They pay 1.2 million every year for the rest of the contract, and it counts against the cap.
We get to carry that all the way until the contract ends
Hopefully pens make the playoffs, kessel scores 0 goals and has 0 assists and they buy him out
Coldnoodle
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User 479360
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In a perfect world...
The shitty part is that we're paying Kessel 1.2 million/year for the remainder of his deal.
bonesmccoy
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demosthenes
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Haha thanks for all the replies.
Kessel @ 6.8 for that long seems really good for Pitt. Have no idea what the other players are like though.
Kessel @ 6.8 for that long seems really good for Pitt. Have no idea what the other players are like though.
Unhandled Exception
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He was never demanding a trade. All that matters to him is money bro, it's been obvious for a long ass time.
Leafs basically traded one of the top scorers in the NHL for nothing but high bust potential prospects.
Not a single blue chip in the return and likely a poor 1st draft pick
CreeperBlocks
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A Serious Man
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Not really news, but Pens officially sign Plotnikov to an ELC.
THE CHOSEN ONE
gaming_noob
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They free up 6.8M in cap space and a player that's not popular in the dressing room..
Lol Steve Simmons, is that you?
User 479360
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I hope you end up being wrong. Please be wrong.
At least we got rid of the personality and his lesser care about winning or being a team player.
Fata1moose
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That's why I never wish for these kind of things to happen. A bunch of Leaf fans saying they couldn't wait to clear out the defensive cupboard of Pittsburgh and that didn't exactly happen.
I thought we would get bent over in the Buffalo deal (Sakic's track record) and was pretty happy with what we got. Always better to be pleasantly surprised.
Yet he takes losing pretty badly, you think he'd want to take a bit of a discount to give his team a chance to win, but nope. At least Duchene has that philosophy.
Unhandled Exception
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Congrats on that Kessel deal bro. Can't wait to see what Phaneuf brings in. :lol
Well the more I think about the Kessel trade the more I'm tolerating it. Keyword is "tolerating" - I don't think it's a very good trade.
It's not a home run and I'm disappointed by that. But I don't think it's a tragic fleecing. Kapanen is a great prospect and the Leafs are pretty much guaranteed Pitt's 2016 1st round pick. Stop moaning about the conditions on the pick. Pittsburgh will not miss the playoffs next year. Plus the blow of this trade was softened thanks to dumb reporters. Everyone thought we gave Pittsburgh our 2nd round pick. Instead we gave them their 2nd round pick back. So we'll go into next year's draft with two 1st, and we still have our inevitably high 2nd.
I don't know anything about Spaling and Harrington.
It's not a home run and I'm disappointed by that. But I don't think it's a tragic fleecing. Kapanen is a great prospect and the Leafs are pretty much guaranteed Pitt's 2016 1st round pick. Stop moaning about the conditions on the pick. Pittsburgh will not miss the playoffs next year. Plus the blow of this trade was softened thanks to dumb reporters. Everyone thought we gave Pittsburgh our 2nd round pick. Instead we gave them their 2nd round pick back. So we'll go into next year's draft with two 1st, and we still have our inevitably high 2nd.
I don't know anything about Spaling and Harrington.
Kessel would've worked so well in Babcocks coaching..