2014 Offseason League Signings and Trades

[rrasco 1,312]

According to bleacher report Washington or Minnesota for niskanen.

How the hell can Minnesota afford Suter, Parise, Vanek and Niskanen? That would be over half their cap on 4 players.

Edited July 1, 2014 by rrasco

[Nyquistfan14 489]

How the hell can Minnesota afford Suter, Parise, Vanek and Niskanen? That would be over half their cap on 4 players.

And koivu and pommonville

[GoWings1905 2,694]

I don't even like soccer in the least bit and now I'm more excited for the game than anything Holland has delivered today.

I hope Babs just death stares Holland every time he passes him for the next year.

[Dabura 12,207]

We could do a lot worse. We could trade Tatar for potential and have Myers turn out to be a taller version of Brendan Smith. Forever a bonehead.

If I'm going to take a gamble on talent, I'll bet on Sproul. He doesn't cost me anything to acquire.

Myers has had his issues, but he's not the first player to have issues. (And playing for the team and organization he plays for does matter in trying to establish how good he really is and how good he really could be.) You're talking up Tatar when he's had one good season in which he faced relatively easy competition and got tons of o-zone starts and pretty much had zero real expectations weighing on his shoulders. He and Jurco are still largely unproven, and their trade value may be at all-time highs.

I'm not saying I'd necessarily pull the trigger. Myers' contract scares me. But I'd consider it. I love Sproul and genuinely believe he's a future #3 or #2 or maybe even #1, but, realistically, he's at least a couple years from being a guy who can make a difference.

Edited July 1, 2014 by Dabura

[LeftWinger 4,949]

"Not everyone signs on July 1st guys...c'mon...Kenny Has A Plan!"

Well, at least you slappies cannot say "its not even July yet..." anymore...whats the next one in order? It's only training camp? It's only Decemeber? Wait til the deadline?

[kipwinger 8,520]

I smell a Commie plot! This has got to be Soviet payback for stealing Fedorov in '89. Putin's replaced the real Ken Holland with a look alike, cloned in a jungle laboratory a la "Boys From Brazil".

[matt198913 932]

As far as I'm concerned Holland has done the best job he could unless he trades away a young player for garbage. Free agebts don't want to come here? Fine build a winner from within then. Draft well. Develop even better. All things he has oversaught durring his tenure.

[e_prime 1,936]

Bob Duff ‏@asktheduffer 1m

#devils sign G Scott Clemmensen, who gets to do what he couldn't do in previous NJ stints - replace Martin Brodeur.

[wings4thecup06 504]

How the hell can Minnesota afford Suter, Parise, Vanek and Niskanen? That would be over half their cap on 4 players.

Well they can go over the cap until the preseason ends, so they'll have all summer to offload.

[ShanahanMan 473]

As far as I'm concerned Holland has done the best job he could unless he trades away a young player for garbage. Free agebts don't want to come here? Fine build a winner from within then. Draft well. Develop even better. All things he has oversaught durring his tenure.

And then trade them away for washed up centermen for a 5-game playoff run.

[Dabura 12,207]

At what point does Babs call Kenny reminding him what he said at the end of the season? If this is how it's gonna be I don't blame Babcock, or anyone else (including core players) for wanting to leave.

I'm starting to think Kenny maybe kinda sorta wants Babs gone after this season. Blashill ascends, Babs goes somewhere where the GM actually listens to him. Both parties win, I guess.

[kipwinger 8,520]

Myers has had his issues, but he's not the first player to have issues. (And playing for the team and organization he plays for does matter in trying to establish how good he really is and how good he really could be.) You're talking up Tatar when he's had one good season in which he faced relatively easy competition and got tons of o-zone starts and pretty much had zero real expectations weighing on his shoulders. He and Jurco are still largely unproven, and their trade value may be at all-time highs.

I'm not saying I'd necessarily pull the trigger. Myers' contract scares me. But I'd consider it. I love Sproul and genuinely believe he's a future #3 or #2 or maybe even #1, but, realistically, he's at least a couple years from being a guy who can make a difference.

Absolutely right. And we're not paying either one of them (Jurco and Tatar), 5.5 million dollars a season while they work on living up to their potential. We're also not giving up good assets to get them either.

Their potential costs nothing to nurture. Myers costs a lot of cap space, and some real good assets.

[ogreslayer 1,069]

I smell a Commie plot! This has got to be Soviet payback for stealing Fedorov in '89. Putin's replaced the real Ken Holland with a look alike, cloned in a jungle laboratory a la "Boys From Brazil".

Commie plot you say?

[rrasco 1,312]

Well they can go over the cap until the preseason ends, so they'll have all summer to offload.

Then who is going to play? Are they going to ice 1 line?

Vanek-Parise-Koivu

Suter-Niskanen

[matt198913 932]

And then trade them away for washed up centermen for a 5-game playoff run.

He traded a guy who may not have seen the ice even this year.

[Nyquistfan14 489]

Just sign del zotto at least he can move the puck

[LeftWinger 4,949]

Hey, there is always Heatley...but heck, he'll probably sign in Minny for $1M rather than come here for $5M...Minny still has $13M avail. Give Niskanen $7M, that leaves $6M to sign 5 more forwards for under $1M...they'll do it too.

[kipwinger 8,520]

Commie plot you say?

I KNEW IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

[AtomicPunk 296]

I've been checking this to see if this day was all a bad dream.

It isn't.

I expect a rash of BS worthless signings to make us try and forget that nothing happened. And the return of Cleary.

I'm out.

[matt198913 932]

Keep a cool head. Sometimes its the moves that don't get done

[gcom007 1,465]

As far as I'm concerned Holland has done the best job he could unless he trades away a young player for garbage. Free agebts don't want to come here? Fine build a winner from within then. Draft well. Develop even better. All things he has oversaught durring his tenure.

It must be really easy to live life with such low expectations. I'm truly envious. And I'm only being half-sarcastic, which is what's really sad.

[ShanahanMan 473]

Keep a cool head. Sometimes its the moves that don't get done

Oh seriously give me a break.

[wings4thecup06 504]

"Not everyone signs on July 1st guys...c'mon...Kenny Has A Plan!"

Well, at least you slappies cannot say "its not even July yet..." anymore...whats the next one in order? It's only training camp? It's only Decemeber? Wait til the deadline?

I'll put my hand up here. It is July, and I'm content actually. Right now, we haven't made a stupidly ridiculous signing to try and get an overpriced, over rated upgrade who would barely help us. This way, we've got a better chance of having more kids contribute and transitioning the team into allowing them to take us forward in the future.

I'm probably one of the few left here who are quietly confident this team will be a lot better than last season.

[kipwinger 8,520]

At this point, as long as Holland doesn't start giving away our good young talent, I can still laugh this off. Yes I hate it, yes we're still terrible, yes it's another year down the drain. But at least there's still hope for some nondescript period in the future when things will be good again.

I'm really finding the humor it in.

But let him trade away one young asset. I'll riot.

[LeftWinger 4,949]

I forget who that drunk guy was but in three words, he summed up Ken Hollands efforts as a GM since Scotty left...and it should be etched on his headstone....ready? All together now!

that's the JUCK ******* POTT!