rawkdrummer Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 hey OP... I'm cool with Booth, Red says you're a dumbass! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
combover Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 well lets see raymond had his back broken so you can't really judge him on last season, the fact he played at all is impressive. booth was actually playing good when he got kneed in colorado. giving up on players too early is a great way to ruin the franchise. Ballards a good d-man but AV clearly has a dislike for this guy based on that i would move ballard. his contract looked bad but after what guys where signing for last season i'd say it's market value. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King of the ES Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 Yup, completely disagree. We gave up Sturm (cap dump) and Samuelsson (decent) for Booth who is a great player in my books who brings, heart, speed, skill, size, strengt and lot of different dynamics to our line-up. Booth is a beauty and I have no idea how you came up with this ridiculous idea that he's a "cap dump"?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King of the ES Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 Are there people out there that actually believe Sturm & Samuelsson for Booth was a bad trade for Vancouver? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King of the ES Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 Entertaining thread read... Booth wasn't a cap dump. It is the Florida Panthers we are talking about - cap space is a non-issue - they always have galaxies of cap space - but you might say they are a budget conscious team haha - which has a bottomless pool of emerging prospects to pay in the near future... Samuelsson - 3 million Sturm - 2.25 million Booth - 4.25 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jai604 Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 Booth didn't play a full season with the team yet and it took him a bit to adjust to the team and when he found his game injuries occured. You can't expect him to be the best player on the team with only a year being here. Booth and Kesler together showed potential, having both on their A-game and we finally have a solid 2 lines that could take us to the finals :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the boards Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 Wow, I miss hockey... Raymond can go, but Booth? Would totally depend upon what comes back, or what RFA/UFA we would spend the money on... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPRYP Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 yeee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldnews Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 Samuelsson & Sturm's contracts expired July 1, 2012; David Booth's salary expires on July 1, 2015. Big difference. The goal of this move, from Florida's perspective, was to simply get rid of David Booth's contract - a cap dump. If it wasn't a cap dump, we would've had to part ways with picks, prospects, or other consideration. All we had to give up was Marco Sturm, who's signing made zero sense to begin with, and Mikael Samuelsson, a veteran also on an expiring contract. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ossi Vaananen Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 NO MOAR RAEYMUND Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CookieCrumbs Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 Yes, me. Best move would've been to not sign Sturm to begin with, and to hang on to Samuelsson. David Booth is not worth $4.25M per year. Florida knew this, which is why they traded him for two veterans on expiring contracts (cap dump). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uber_pwnzor Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 well Booth..that's 4.5 million tied up in a Detroit Red Wing.. Booth to Detroit for Todd Bertuzzi and the one and only Brenden Morrison..just kidding.. Detroit doesn't have the rights to Brenden Morrison that's like not gonna happen and then Markus Naslund comes out of retirement to solidify the other 2 million Naslund 2M Morrison 1M Bertuzzi 2M for 4.5M David Booth I would trade that in a heartbeat... but then Canucks dot com. would get all mad at me..and stuff.. would make a 5M dollar great 3rd line tho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeanBeef Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 I'm not sure what you two are talking about, Booth was Florida's best winger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smashian Kassian Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 Uhh, no. He was on their third line at the time and Fleischmann(sp?) And I believe it was Bergenheim were both above him in the depth chart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CookieCrumbs Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 A fan on their message board said that he was Florida's best winger? And so? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cIutch Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 its funny when one idiot on here speaks up the other idiots get all confident and all of a sudden you got like 5-6 goofs all saying the same stupid crap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CookieCrumbs Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 You're not the best candidate to call other people "idiots". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canucksbiggestfan Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 No! No! You guys have it all wrong! Booth was definitely not a cap dump, but Reinprecht on the other hand was. Booth was actually liked by the fans and he was great for them. He and Stephen Weiss were really good friends, it seemed like. They traded Booth because they wanted a solid veteran presence in their line up. They needed to fill out some holes they had. If anything it was a steal of a deal for us. I mean Booth is about to hit his prime soon and will dominate, along with Kesler. If Kassian gets up to speed within the next 2 years, then we are going to have one hell of a line with Booth-Kesler-Kassian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King of the ES Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 Tallon made it clear that he wanted more veteran presence to mix with the Panthers youth (and also has Howden on the wing) - Tallon received good value in Samuelsson - Booth was not a cap dump. The Panthers were balancing their lineup and budget - and the fact that they have a whole stable of young marquis prospects who are not going to be cheap to re-sign - and they don't have the budget (to repeat, they have oodles of cap space) factors in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King of the ES Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 But we did sign him. Edit: So just to be clear, and assuming no other trades happened, you think keeping Sturm and Samuelsson would have been better for the team than having Booth? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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