Quote:
Originally Posted by Fighting Banana Slug
Totally agree, but I am struggling what they can get out of a sign and trade. It just seems to me he is either satisfied with the Canes offer, or he simply signs elsewhere (which I would think would be north of $8/year).
|
All they can offer is they 8th year, so basically similar to trading signing rights. I suppose if he says to another team "I like your $8M but I need 8 years" then they have to go to Carolina and say they will offer some sort of picks for Carolina to sign him and trade him to them.
Frankly, I'm not sure why they don't just pay him his money. If they're are worried about Necas and Svechnikov it seems a bit overblown to me. Their other D are all on good contracts, their top forwards are not super expensive, their goalie contracts are going to be sorted assuming they sign Ned to a decent contract and go with a cheap backup.