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Originally Posted by MarkGio
Poirer, Shinkaruk, Kulak, are all retained by Vegas until they're 26-27 years old.
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Or until they are lost on waivers. None of them appears to have significant trade value at this point, so Vegas would have to find room for them on their 23-man roster or risk losing them for nothing.
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Hell even Brouwer provides at least a warm right shooting body for 3 more seasons.
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And costs $13.5 million over that time, while performing (so far) like a replacement-level player.
There's a reason why so many Flames fans are praying that Vegas is dumb enough to take Brouwer off our hands.
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If Vegas really needed a centre, they could just tell Treliving they're taking Poirer but will settle with Kulak if they get Stajan for a 7th. Treliving takes that and runs.
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Why is it an advantage to lose Kulak and Stajan in order to keep Poirier? At the moment, we are hoping Poirier recovers from his problems sufficiently that he doesn't turn out a total bust. But it's just that, a hope. He hasn't proved a thing yet.
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But Vegas wont do that. They'll just sign college or KHL or NHL free agents to be their centre depth if need be. They WILL NOT waste an expansion pick on Stajan. McPhee would have to be ######ed.
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He'd have to be even dumber to waste an expansion pick AND $13.5 million on Brouwer.
Poirier is a complete question mark, and therefore unlikely to be worth using an expansion pick on.
Kulak is an AHL defenceman at this point, who showed last season that he was not up to a regular NHL job yet, and since he is now waiver-eligible, his trade value is basically zero. Vegas will have dozens of bona fide #4-6 NHL defencemen to choose from, and only so many roster spots for them. I don't see the value in Kulak either as a roster player or as trade material.
Vegas might want Shinkaruk, but he, too, is waiver-eligible and has proved very little at the NHL level. If they are sufficiently hard up for offence from the wing, they may take him as a roster player, but they won't be taking him as trade bait.
Everything depends on what the other 29 exposed lists look like. Centre is liable to be the hardest position to fill, since most teams will be protecting seven forwards and will naturally tend to prefer players at the more valuable position. McPhee is likely to find plenty of options on the wing, but not nearly as much at centre – and I very much doubt he is going to have free agents or KHLers centring all four lines in October.
Stajan may be garbage from McPhee's point of view, but at least that piece of garbage is the same shape as a hole that needs to be filled. That alone puts him one step ahead of the rest of the Flames' garbage.