greenrebellion

Jersey trades for LA's seventh so they can draft Brodeur's son. Martin announced the pick...pretty cool.

Doesn't matter what he wants, he was unmoveable. Now that he's full time starter again and the team's only option, Luongo will be great for them.

Management didn't want to buy him out and he became un-tradeable especially after the latest CBA introduced the early retirement cap penalties.

Anyone else played around with this? http://www.capgeek.com/recapture-calculator/ Assuming Franzen and Zetterberg follow normal aging curves, the end of this decade could get pretty ugly as we'll either be on the hook for their full cap hit or a decent sized cap recapture penalty. This becomes less severe if the cap moves up as it has in the past, but as a hypothetical if both Franzen and Zetterberg retire in 5 years, here's what the numbers would like like. Zetterberg (assumes 2018 retirement) 2018-19 through 2020-21 - Penalty of $4,300,000 per year Franzen (assumes 2018 retirement) 2018-19 through 2019-20 - Penalty of $2,954,545 per year So for two years we'd have a penalty of over $7 million before Franzen dropped off and then we'd have one year worth of penalty left on Zetterberg. And if they don't retire, then we'd still be absorbing the full $10 million hit between the two of them presumably with both players being marginal fourth liners towards the end of their contracts. I know people have been discussing these concepts in various threads, but I hadn't seen the numbers laid out like this hence my post. Anyone else concerned?

This doesn't work. If you trade Franzen in (pick a year) and then he retires in 2018, you still get penalized. Go play with the calculator and you'll see what I mean as it has a built in trade function. In fact, in some cases, trading them can make the penalty even larger since the years at the end (when salary is below the cap hit) actually reduce the potential penalty. But even if they don't retire, you still end up with $10 million worth of cap hit towards the end of the decade that most likely isn't producing anywhere close to $10 million worth of production. Zetterberg and his back issues. Franzen and all his injury issues...who knows how effective these guys will be late in their careers. Eliminating the ability to retire and get rid of the cap hit really screws the teams over that signed these contracts...which is ridiculous because they were perfectly legal contracts at the time.

According to this report, he's showing no concussion symptoms. http://triblive.com/sports/penguins/3776163-74/penguins-crosby-alternate#axzz2PWqSZf7g

Look at the bright side, every game matters! For most of the past 20 years I've taken the regular season for granted, but this year pretty much every game feels like a playoff game. Enjoy the ride...

I am surprised Dallas moved him, guess they are fully giving up on playoffs this year. I'd love to have gotten Jagr, but as others have rightly pointed out, price was too high. Would Jagr have improved our chances at a cup, yes, would we still have been quite the longshot to win it all, most definitely. Not worth a pick and two prospects (assuming the two prospects Boston gave up are decent).

Dallas isn't going to move him, they are still in the playoff hunt.

Diamond dozen? Doggy dog world?

Good point, I didn't realize that at first glance.

The big question is what do we do with Franzen. The contract is brutal and he just doesn't seem to care anymore. During the regular season everyone was saying "but at least he's a playoff performer," but now he's not even that. One lucky goal and invisible besides that despite playing with arguably one of the best players in the game.

Go Kings Go. And I'm rooting against Pittsburgh.

Honestly, I'd like to see him retire. I have fantastic memories of Lidstrom's career and I want to remember him near his best rather than watch him slowly turn human.

Agreed

I would rather have shorter travel

I feel much more comfortable going against Chicago in the first round than I do Nashville, so I'm rooting for the Blackhawks. Plus the shorter the travel, the better, if we are going to make a long cup run. (Not that Nashville travel is bad but if we end up in sixth we have San Jose, Phoenix or Dallas)

Pittsburgh - that team is so freaking deep that it will take a miracle imo for anyone to knock them out. I think they would be strong competitors without Crosby playing, with him playing, forget about it. Just give them the cup now

Unless your name is Crosby.

Shoot for that sixth seed boys!

I'm all for playing Dallas, but rooting for sixth seed could backfire if San Jose wins the Pacific!

He's my second favorite player behind Dats...such a bummer. Doesn't look good, I'd be shocked if he was back for the start of the playoffs.

A Wings win is always good, but a Wings win that contributes to keeping San Jose out of the playoffs? Priceless... Win in regulation boys.

Ugh for sure. I fear this team the most out of anyone.

Surprised we didn't get Brunnstrom, he's still in GR right?