[Signing] Wild re-sign Filip Gustavsson

[-Vintage Canuck-]

 

[coryberg]

Tidy piece of business for Minny. This could be the best value in the league if he continues his pace from last season.

 

Interesting canuck connection....Filip was drafted by the penguins with the pick that was sent along with bonino for Sutter. We acquired this pick by trading Bieksa to Anaheim.

[Alflives]

Alf’s empties were asked if this guy was any good. Their response:

[Ghostsof1915]

26 minutes ago, coryberg said:

Tidy piece of business for Minny. This could be the best value in the league if he continues his pace from last season.

 

Interesting canuck connection....Filip was drafted by the penguins with the pick that was sent along with bonino for Sutter. We acquired this pick by trading Bieksa to Anaheim.

So we lost a foundational player for a foundational player? 

[Caboose]

Another epic Pierre Dorion fail. 

[HighOnHockey]

19 minutes ago, Caboose said:

Another epic Pierre Dorion fail. 

Yeah this one was pretty brutal. The sad thing is most of their top scouts are former goalies and they've been a goaltending factory for the rest of the league for the past decade, but they just can't seem to pick the right ones to keep.

[KoreanHockeyFan]

Bargain deal. Reminds me of the deal Demko's signed to.

[Diamonds]

It definitely felt like Gustavsson was a "goalie of the future" and one to watch for a while but for whatever reason things never seemed to click in Ottawa. Excited to see if he can continue the emergence he had with Minnesota last year.

[Guest]

8 hours ago, coryberg said:

Tidy piece of business for Minny.

Hello Drancer 

[Guest]

So Minny have 1.6 million to sign three players?  Interesting...  

 

By my count, there will be 6 teams with more then 5 million of cap space to enter into the season and...  24 teams with 2.5 million or less! Never seen the league so tight up against the cap since the cap was brought in!

[King Heffy]

13 minutes ago, VancouverHabitant said:

So Minny have 1.6 million to sign three players?  Interesting... 

That's what happens when your GM is an idiot and creates a ton of dead cap with buyouts.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, King Heffy said:

That's what happens when your GM is an idiot and creates a ton of dead cap with buyouts.

Yeah, people keep praising that move but it's going to sink all their chances of winning with Kaprizov in his prime.  

 

Kaprizov will be 28 when they no longer have 14 million of dead cap, and by that point they will have a 36 year old Jared Spurgeon and a 32 year old Jonas Brodin eating up 13.5 million of their cap space.  

[coryberg]

1 hour ago, VancouverHabitant said:

Yeah, people keep praising that move but it's going to sink all their chances of winning with Kaprizov in his prime.  

 

Kaprizov will be 28 when they no longer have 14 million of dead cap, and by that point they will have a 36 year old Jared Spurgeon and a 32 year old Jonas Brodin eating up 13.5 million of their cap space.  

Would it be that much better with Suter and Parise eating up more than their buyout costs?

 

It was a penny pinching decision for the ownership and a minimal cost performance wise. They are in a pinch because they signed those contracts 6 years ago, they aren't in a pinch for buying them out.

[mll]

3 hours ago, King Heffy said:

That's what happens when your GM is an idiot and creates a ton of dead cap with buyouts.

They would have been even worse off cap wise if they didn't buy them out.  Parise was already being a healthy scratch including in the playoffs.  It was the choice between 15M healthy scratching Parise/Suter vs buying them out and the opportunity to adjust the culture and move on.  Those buyouts allowed them to keep Fiala for another year (- the dead cap was 5M in year 1) and maximise his return after he reached ppg.  

 

It was also a dressing room/culture issue.  Parise/Suter were vets of 1000 games and were the leaders on their team at their peak (Staal/Koivu too) - they still thought they were those players.  You could see Boudreau doing windmills trying to get them to come off the ice as they extended their shifts.  Yeo couldn't even set the pairings he wanted.  There are also a lot of stories of a torn dressing room.  Was already brought up under Fletcher.  Fenton noted it as well as Guerin.  Players coming in now say that it's been one of the tightest dressing rooms they've seen.  

 

Guerin admits that it's not realistic to contend with that much dead cap but insists that they are a better team after those buyouts and has pointed out to culture issues that needed to be fixed.  He's building up their prospect pool while Evason is getting them to play and have the approach they think they need to win a Cup.  The hope is to go for it once those buyouts come off the books.