NHL trades, rumors, banter, free agency etc

[Daniel]

Chatter about PK to NJD.

Official

https://www.tsn.ca/nashville-predators- ... -1.1326920

[Jim]

Hartman RFA rights from Philly to Dallas for Pitlick. 4th team in 16 months for Hartman.

[brwi]

Canes trade dman de Haan to Hawks for forward prospect Aleksi Saarela(was playing for AHL Checkers last 2 yrs so Carolina seen plenty of him), dman Gustav Forsling and goaltender Anton Forsberg(NHL backup at best). Hawks now have quite a lot of dmen on the roster.

[ville5]

Wow did VGKs get a bargain. William Karlsson, whose best season is about 15 points better than Skinner's, signs for 8 years and only $5.9 million AAV. Karlsson 2nd best season is only a few points behind Skinners best season btw.

[Jim]

Wow did VGKs get a bargain. William Karlsson, whose best season is about 15 points better than Skinner's, signs for 8 years and only $5.9 million AAV. Karlsson 2nd best season is only a few points behind Skinners best season btw.

Maybe because before last year he had full seasons of 9 goals and 6 goals. Possibly even he knows that the 43g 78pt season was an astounding fluke that he will in no way be able to keep up. He could possibly be laughing his way to the bank right now. Or, he figures making $60M+ over his career will be far more moneythan he will ever have need of and really, honestly, doesn't care about market value.

[ville5]

Wow did VGKs get a bargain. William Karlsson, whose best season is about 15 points better than Skinner's, signs for 8 years and only $5.9 million AAV. Karlsson 2nd best season is only a few points behind Skinners best season btw.

Maybe because before last year he had full seasons of 9 goals and 6 goals. Possibly even he knows that the 43g 78pt season was an astounding fluke that he will in no way be able to keep up. He could possibly be laughing his way to the bank right now. Or, he figures making $60M+ over his career will be far more moneythan he will ever have need of and really, honestly, doesn't care about market value.

I doubt he will score 45 again. But maybe the 13 minutes Torts was giving didn't allow him to succeed? Anyhow, the point was how overpaid Skinner was lol.

[ville5]

Carl Soderberg to Arizona. Friedman says Soderberg and Connauton involved. No specifics yet.

[KG]

Carl Soderberg to Arizona. Friedman says Soderberg and Connauton involved. No specifics yet.

Looks like it's Soderberg to Arizona for Connauton and a 3rd in 2020.

[Jim]

Colorado has 5 NHL level forward signed.

5

[KG]

Colorado has 5 NHL level forward signed.

5

They'll certainly be busy this off season. Between that and roughly $40mill in cap space!

[ville5]

Luongo retires. Vancouver gets hit with recapture penalty. I think it's $3 million hit for 3 years?
Hasn't played in Vancouver for 6 years lol.

[ville5]

Damn, that doesn't seem like a lot for Haula. Wake up Jimmy!

[Jim]

Damn, that doesn't seem like a lot for Haula. Wake up Jimmy!

... 'cause the Pens have $2.75M in cap space to use for Houla...?

[ville5]

Damn, that doesn't seem like a lot for Haula. Wake up Jimmy!

... 'cause the Pens have $2.75M in cap space to use for Houla...?

Bye bye Simon and one of our excess D.
More if need be.

[Jim]

Damn, that doesn't seem like a lot for Haula. Wake up Jimmy!

... 'cause the Pens have $2.75M in cap space to use for Houla...?

Bye bye Simon and one of our excess D.
More if need be.

Still need 23 roster fills.

[ville5]

Renaud LaVoie says a Colin Miller to Buffalo deal is being worked on.

[ville5]

Frank Seravalli(tsn) says Mike Smith has chosen Edmonton.

[Daniel]

Frank Seravalli(tsn) says Mike Smith has chosen Edmonton.

Toronto - Ottawa trade finally happened

Ottawa gets:

D Nikita Zaitsev
F Connor Brown
F Michael Carcone

Toronto gets:

D Cody Ceci
D Ben Harpur
F Aaron Luchuk
2020 3rd-Round Pick

[Jim]

Zuccarello will be 32 when the season starts... $6M for 6 years...

20g once his career. 60p once in his career (same year, 15-16)

[Jim]

Simmonds $5M to NJ. Yikes!

[ville5]

https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/aho ... urricanes/
Interesting stuff on Montreal's offer sheet.

[Jim]

https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/ahos-agent-offer-sheet-not-easy-decision-hurricanes/
Interesting stuff on Montreal's offer sheet.

It's basically:
7/2019 $11,300,000 + $700,000 over the year
7/2020 $9,870,000 + $700,000
7/2021 $6,950,000 + $750,000
7/2022 $5,250,000 + $750,000
7/2023 $5,250,000 + $750,000

Yeah, it's a lot up front each year, but at $80M payroll is about $6.7M a month anyway. Yes, you have to lump in July, but then each month his additional salary is almost nill.

If they don't match, that team needs to be moved.

[ville5]

Good luck with that:

Dennis Bernstein

@DennisTFP

An American holiday doesn't prevent us from having inside stuff for you.... LA have recently kicked tires on Edmonton RW Jesse Puljujarvi. But apparently cost of doing business is taking on Milan Lucic contract, something LA not inclined to do at this time

1:00 PM · Jul 4, 2019 from Los Angeles, CA · Twitter for iPhone

[ville5]

Botts scores a Marcus Johansson for 2 years, $4.5 mil per.

[Jim]

Ferland $3.5Mx4

HA!