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He will simply be IR'd. Being placed on BF-LTIR is meaningless until the team payroll will exceed the salary cap. And players can be retroactively placed onto BF-LTIR, so teams only invoke it when their team salary is about to go over the cap. That is because a team doesn't gain the player's full salary's worth of relief, but rather only the potion that they'd be over the cap. So, with an $82MM cap and a team with a $2MM player ready to go on BF-LTIR, if the team brings up a player raising the team payroll to $83MM when they invoke BF-LTIR, they can only go to $83MM w/ their cap and only gain $1MM in cap relief (not the $2MM of the player's full salary). They'd rather have the payroll at $84 w/ the BF-LTIR guy when they activate it to gain the full $2MM in relief.

PS - One further point, Muckler trading for whom he considered the best goalie in the league doesn't mean he considered Hasek a "scrub." It simply reinforced that he was too stupid to understand what he'd lucked into and was akin to the Bills drafting Spiller in the 1st round when they already had Jackson & Lynch. Sometimes GMs outsmart themselves trying to upgrade that which doesn't need upgrading.

And again, Muckler being a ####ing idiot doesn't make Hasek a scrub nor mean it was the prevailing sentiment. Guess who was between the pipes when "May Day" occurred? Guess who let in at least 1 bad goal in 4 straight 4-3 losses (3 of which came in OT)? It wasn't the guy that wore a full cage. Had Muckler not been a MFing idiot, that team could've won the Stanley Cup.

Of course he was considered ####ing expendable. They had a good chance to lose him for nothing because of the expansion draft and they had another goalie heading into his third season after having played 70+ games as a rookie cleaning up on the league hardware and then being the primary starter on a run to the Finals. By your definition, Gretzky was a "scrub" as HE was "expendable." When you have Montana & Young or Favre and Rodgers, necessarily one of them becomes "expendable." It doesn't make one a "scrub." Dude, stop digging. 😉

Jokiharju didn't get burned often when paired w/ Power because Power could cover for his mistakes. Power's mistakes burned him, because Joki could not return the favor. Give Power a partner that he can make the mistakes that come from being young in the best league in the world and watch him take his game to another level. Dahlin picked up his game post-AS game but it got even better when he got Samuelsson as a partner (swapping to the side he'd played in junior didn't hurt any either). Having a guy you can trust to do what he's supposed to/ needs to do works wonders for a young guy. Heck, Joki himself was looking very solid when he had Scandella to cover for his mistakes.

You never saw 81 in the Shatanic Goatheads play? Could've sworn you had. 😉

You said Hasek was considered a scrub which is serious hyperbole at its most favorable reading and a significant mischaracterization . Forgive any misconstruing of your meaning.

If he's re-signed, that's where he should be looking for an apartment.

No they didn't down in the prospect pool, but they have 4 young guys on the big squad that can play C, 5 if Asplund is included. So, yes, it's a need but 1 would've addressed the need. It's like saying they have no LHD in the system. They have 3 young studs in Buffalo & the adequate young guy in Bryson. Even if Johnson & Pilut don't arrive it isn't as pressing a need as G was and RHD still is at the prospect level.

Have to believe it was BPA. Forton said all 3 were well in the top 1/2 of their 1st round draft board. And the goalie had a 1st round grade as well. (Though need & a dearth of other viable candidates temper the validity of that particular ranking IMHO.)

It's the fool's gold of those extra "generational" players that goad GMs into full tear down mode. Expecting they'll regret it as much as the Sabres do. Adams should definitely kick the tires there (expecting he is) as the Sabres have prospects that they know won't make their own team because there are too many guys the same age that fit their plans better. But Chicago's cupboard is bare and they'll need players while waiting for the Saint Berard to arrive.

They & the NHL apparently don't have the KHL paperwork proving he's no longer encumbered yet. Until they have that, there's nothing they need to do to retain his rights; their paperwork remains on file.

Wonder why they put the photos up in a different order than they were listed in the tweet? (And for the handful of non-regulars here, that's R2, UPL, & Murray, followed by Goalofsson in the photos.)

They had what they thought was a future HoFer in Belfour. And they were only allowed to protect 1 goalie. They weren't getting a king's ransom for him. And the Hawks didn't trade him for Beauregard. They ended up w/ Ruuttuu and the pick that became Daze. The amazing thing wasn't him getting through 1 expansion draft unclaimed, it was his getting through a 2nd one as well. (Muckler was in full blown moron mode.) And again, getting exposed to an expansion draft doesn't mean you are considered a "scrub" unless guys like Fluery were scrubs too. Heck, Luongo at a similar stage of his career after having been the 4th overall pick could only bring back Parrish & Kvasha and the Aisles had to throw in Jokinen to get even that. Young goalies that haven't established themselves in the NHL bring back underwhelming returns. It doesn't make them "scrubs." IMHO, it was a poor analogy. What leagues have Malcolm Subban been hands down the best goalie in the league? And yes, he made ONE Hasekesque save in Buffalo, but given the injury he suffered later that game, his ability to do that again is very much in question.

Thus the "(d)oubt he can." 😉

He was considered a scrub? Really? He was the best goalie in the 3rd best league in the world for 1/2 a decade. His stats were near the top in every league he ever played in including those NA ones he finally got to play in after the Iron Curtain fell. That he was considered expendable by the team he was on when that team had a 2nd year goalie who'd set team & league records as a rookie & got the majority of the starts on a run to the Final when there was an expassion draft & teams could only keep 1 goalie did NOT make him a scrub. (Without the expansion draft, Winnipeg isn't desperate to protect Beauregard & Chicago & Buffalo don't work out that deal.) Muckler being too dumb to realize what he lucked into isn't a knock on Dom either. That's squarely on Muckler and still chafes to this day. What useful pieces could Puppa, Andreychuck, & a 1st turned into that could've helped the Sabres past the Habs rather than another goalie? Really doubt Subban will be anything more than a tweener/ poor team's backup goalie. Too bad for him because he seems like a really good team guy.

It certainly appears they put need over BPA here w/ this pick and 2nd round by concensus is a reach on him. BUT he was, per Forton, their highest rated goalie by far and THEY'D ALREADY DRAFTED THREE OTHER PLAYERS. Adams rarely speaks of Portillo post Frozen Four when he actually got to talk to Portillo about his plans. Prior to that he seems to have spoken fairly often about him and even said right before the Frozen Four that the Muchigan HC thought he was the team's MVP & best player. He also said prior to the Frozen Four that he was OK w/ any of the college kids going back to school. You don't pull up anecdotes like that then forget the guy even exists overnight if he didn't say something/ give off a vibe that said there's a real chance he walks.. Which makes Levi their only true prospect. Agree w/ @Eleven that UPL is either NHL ready very soon or never and he isn't really in the prospect category anymore. So, w/ only 1 prospect and having already grabbed THREE other skaters that are fairly universally regarded as good picks, what is wrong w/ tking this kid when they did. Especially considering that Seattle was definitely going to take a goalie before the Sabres would pick again AND their 3rd & 4th round picks were supposedly 2nd round quality. They don't draft in a vacuum & it seems whichever of their analytics guys is the lead game theorist nailed it. Adams has now used 2 high-ish end assets (1/2 of Reinhart & 41st overall in what appears to be a deep overall draft) to land who he & his staff considered to be the best available prospect goalie in the year he obtained the rights to the goalie. Have no issue w/ that. Have tremendous issue w/ his lack of being able to pull that maneuver off for a non-prospect. Per GA, they've possibly landed 5 NHLers. That's fantastic. Yes, they still have 0 RHD prospects, but... They have IIRC 3 2nd round picks next year. Where's a good spot to draft D-men typically? Yep. Can see the RHD prospect pool restocked then.

Which is ironic because Murray has never come close to playing as well as he did w/ Bales as his coach. Reminds of how Zhitnik was legendary for putting shots into the blues & oranges and then the suites & 300s. Mike Ramsey made him change his stick blade & suddenly he could hit the net (the little one w/ the red border not the huge one hanging above the glass). Ramsey moves on to Minny and Zhitnik goes back to the blade he was more comfortable with & Jochen Hecht loses an ear. Moral of the story: sometimes hockey players are too ####ing stubborn to see what's good for them.

His last name wouldn't happen to be Botterill by any chance? 😉

Didn't notice the floor arrangement, but at the NHL Draft, typically when looking out from the stage, the team w/ the 1st pick is to the front right.

2021-22 Team: Kamloops Blazers (WHL) Date of Birth: August 26, 2004 Place of Birth: North Vancouver, British Columbia Ht: 6-foot-0 Wt: 176 pounds Shoots: Left Position: Defence

Fallout from Ken Linesman's legal challenges to the NHL Draft keeping 18 and 19 year olds unemployed.

You talking Buffalo or Seattle? Thought Buffalo has 3 2nd next year.

He can, but that's 2 years away. Portillo can walk in 1 year. Levi will be here.

Well, QBs drafted in the NHL are pretty much ALWAYS overdrafts. 😉