Halak essentially did the Canucks a favour by taking a low base salary and an easy to hit bonus. It lets them slide the bonus to next season if they’re over the cap. Which they most likely will be. To try to punish him now by sitting him to avoid the bonus is bush league
He signed a contract in good faith. He’s played well and is 2 games away from reaching his bonus with more than half the season remaining. There’s no hockey reason to sit him for the remainder of the year. I’m sure the NHLPA would have something to say If Vancouver tried to do that just to avoid paying a bonus.
How do you think it would look to agents and upcoming free agents if the team elects to sit Halak after 9 games despite him playing very well just to avoid paying out a bonus he will absolutely earn. If it was me I’d sign with any other franchise that didn’t obviously screw over their players.
He’s already played 8. Think Demko is going to play every game left in the season? Management isn’t petty or unprofessional enough to screw Halak out of his bonus by sitting him the rest of the season
Keep in mind that Crosby signed his contract before term limits came in. His contract was pretty heavily front loaded. He’s only due to make $3m a season for the next 3 years (after this one). Had that not been the case Pittsburgh may not have been able to assemble those cup teams
Why would San Jose do this? Kane is in the minors, away from the team. If they retain 50% on him they only end up saving $2.35m cap compared to. keeping him in the minors. Do you think they’re going to willing to part with a high (currently 14OA) 1st to save $2.35m on the cap?
They’re 2nd in the league with fewer games played than the other leaders. They also have the best goal differential at +33. I doubt they’re willing to sell the farm to fill a hole that doesn’t exist
Carolina gave up a 1st and a 3rd to sign Kotkaniemi.
So you’re asking them to give up This years 1st. Last years 40th OA, 2020’s 13th OA and this years 3rd for a year and a half of Miller.
I can’t see them dropping that big a haul when they’re already dominating the league.
Also. Kotkaniemi has no reason to sign a contract between $3-4m. His AAV on his last contract was $3.45m and he’s due a qualifying offer of $6.1m this offseason. You could probably get him to sign for $5m ish with some term. But less seems unreasonable.
Carolina doesn’t have a 2022 1st. It belongs to Montreal as part of the offer sheet compensation (and will likely end up in Arizona since Montreals first should be a top 10)
Vancouver is currently making use of LTIR overages and not accruing cap space. They won’t be in a position to take on $5m of extra cap space unless they give a way to dump more cap somewhere else
Kotkaniemi is by no means a soft player. I’m not saying it’s a trade Vancouver should make. But terming Kotkaniemi as small and soft is patently incorrect
I meant the only way he comes over while the Canucks still own his rights is if he chooses to terminate his KHL contract a year early and buy it out himself.
He’s got another season left on his KHL contract beyond this year and Vancouver only own his rights until this summer. The only way he comes over is if he buys out his own contract. I don’t think it happens
That’s not how qualifying offers work since the CBA extension signed last summer. For contracts signed after July 10,2020 they’re now 120% of the players previous AAV. Front loading or rear loading the contract no longer has any bearing on the eventual qualifying offer
It’s the Ben Chiarot that pretty much every insider says will be traded for a 1st and who currently sits atop TSN’s trade board. But by all means use +\- as a measure of his worth. Lol.
My point was, and is, that Myers makes zero sense for a rebuilding team. Rebuilding teams don’t trade for 31 year old $6m D with 3 years of term left. Especially when they’re already over the cap and the deal has them taking on an extra $1.75m cap