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Re: What is <i>up</i> with your team? –– non-SCF edition

From: (Anonymous)
Well, he's probably not going to get caught transporting drugs across the border.

Re: What is <i>up</i> with your team? –– non-SCF edition

From: (Anonymous)
Yeah, he was the one I thought they'd keep too. Now I'm thinking either Demers or Russell -- or none of them. It's not like they don't have internal options.

Re: What is <i>up</i> with your team? –– non-SCF edition

From: (Anonymous)
I was thinking Russell, but lbr it's gonna be Jordie...

Re: What is <i>up</i> with your team? –– non-SCF edition

From: (Anonymous)
Oh please god no

Re: What is <i>up</i> with your team? –– non-SCF edition

From: (Anonymous)
Nicole would flip the fuck oouuttt.

Re: What is <i>up</i> with your team? –– non-SCF edition

From: (Anonymous)
They need to harvest all the narrative power of two brothers winning a cup together to appease the hockey gods.

Re: What is <i>up</i> with your team? –– non-SCF edition

From: (Anonymous)
Probably just pumping him up for trade hopes. Unlike with the Mike Richards situation, there's no advantage to buying him out this year versus next year. There is instead advantage to waiting in terms of how much the buyout would cost and for how long he'd be on the cap. Additionally, Brown may not be worth his cap hit, but he's still one of only 10 Kings that got double digit goals, and I'm not sure those are points they can afford to lose as low-scoring as they are.

Re: What is <i>up</i> with your team? –– non-SCF edition

From: (Anonymous)
SA

Downside, of course, of Tiffany being right.

Re: What is <i>up</i> with your team? –– non-SCF edition

From: (Anonymous)
The rules require teams to expose a goalie who is signed for the 2017-18 season. This gives them a goalie to expose they won't mind losing.

Re: What is <i>up</i> with your team? –– non-SCF edition

From: (Anonymous)
They're going to keep one of them. Let Honka, Lindell, and Backman marinate a little more, I think.

Re: What is <i>up</i> with your team? –– non-SCF edition

From: (Anonymous)
Lindell's NHL ready. There's also Nemeth, who deserves to be a regular, and Oleksiak, who at least deserves a chance to see if he can be a fixture in the lineup or not.

Re: What is <i>up</i> with your team? –– non-SCF edition

From: (Anonymous)
ayrt - color me even more confused.

So here

This seems obvious expansion draft bait to me. Because you have to offer up a goalie in the expansion draft,

My point is, if we're going whyyyy canes: They don't "have to offer a goalie" in the sense that I'm using it. It is, of course math, that if they have two+ goalies who meet the criteria that they can only protect one (and who the hell knows what's up with AHL/prospects at this point) but in the hypothetical where they didn't have those goalies under those contracts, it's not like the NHL will say "you, Hurricanes must sign a goalie meeting X criteria so that you can offer one to the draft gods."

But I will say on rereading AIRT, again, they seem to be mostly talking about the amount of cap that must be exposed, rather than roster positions, in which case I have no problem with the suggestion that cam was signed to be part of that pool, and that's where "bait" comes from.

Re: What is <i>up</i> with your team? –– non-SCF edition

From: (Anonymous)
DA I think they might try to get Lindell up this year, but I also think they might hang on to one of the UFAs. Personally I think they should keep a vet and flip Jamie O. They obviously don't really want to play him and another year of him warming the seats in the press box wouldn't be doing anyone any favours.

Re: What is <i>up</i> with your team? –– non-SCF edition

From: (Anonymous)
I don't know how anyone thought it wouldn't be Jordie given that it's a contract year for Jamie. They're going to send his brother to another team and expect to sign Jamie to something reasonable before next summer? No.

Re: What is <i>up</i> with your team? –– non-SCF edition

From: (Anonymous)
Okay I've just missed that in what I've read, then.

Re: What is <i>up</i> with your team? –– non-SCF edition

From: (Anonymous)
I still want Rig to be sent to the Bruins, if only so we can get Chara trying to mentor him.

Re: What is <i>up</i> with your team? –– non-SCF edition

From: (Anonymous)
I don't know about you, but I like to think that the captain of my favorite NHL team is a grown ass man who doesn't need his brother around in order to sign a contract that will give him millions of dollars. It would be one thing if Jordie was even a decent player, but considering he's an AHL-level player who's been in the NHL for three years now due to his last name...

Re: What is <i>up</i> with your team? –– non-SCF edition

From: (Anonymous)
You're wrong, though. The teams are literally required to offer a goalie. Not in a mathematical you-can-only-protect-one-sense, but in an "every team is required to have a goalie available that the expansion team could draft" sense.

Re: What is <i>up</i> with your team? –– non-SCF edition

From: (Anonymous)
http://www.generalfanager.com/teams/expansion

This looks like fun. We should have a mock expansion draft on meme. Each team gets a different nonny (or team of nonnies, if necessary) to say who they're protecting and then meme tries to build the best team from whose left.

Re: What is <i>up</i> with your team? –– non-SCF edition

From: (Anonymous)
He's a decent third-pairing guy, that's all he is. Alright. That doesn't mean he belongs in the AHL.

(Frankly, I'd love for him to get off this team so that his haters can stop saying that he's only here because of his last name. Do you know who we also drafted before Jamie? James Neal's brother, who didn't make it.)

Re: What is <i>up</i> with your team? –– non-SCF edition

From: (Anonymous)
He could get those millions of dollars from other teams, though. Teams that *would* be willing to also have Jordie. It's not like he has to choose between Jordie and millions. It's tougher if he wants to go to a contender, but even then he'd probably have some options.

Re: What is <i>up</i> with your team? –– non-SCF edition

From: (Anonymous)
I'm still not seeing where general manager came up with the goalie thing, but okay. It's not in either of their source articles.

Re: What is <i>up</i> with your team? –– non-SCF edition

From: (Anonymous)
na

I'm not a Stars fan, but I saw it described as "his worst fault is being good enough for the NHL."

Re: What is <i>up</i> with your team? –– non-SCF edition

From: (Anonymous)
Da

It is a math thing, though. They're allowed two configurations for protection and only allowed to protect one in both. General forums just spells it out.

Re: What is <i>up</i> with your team? –– non-SCF edition

From: (Anonymous)
ayrt

I mean... you're using a lot more hypotheticals than there are? We can, in fact, know that their AHL pool isn't great and aren't protected by ELCs, and a new team isn't going to want a goalie fresh from the CHL/NCAA. It's not if they have two goalies who meet the criteria, they will. The NHL aren't forcing the Canes to make their goalie seem appetizing nor making the Knights to snatch Ward, but if they can make a piece they don't necessarily want or need in the long term look more appetizing than Hanifin or Aho or Faulk, whoever, that's a smart move.