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Pittsburgh probably isn't the greatest inspiration for this tongue in cheek comment...

Eklund's science blog needs to happen.

Late round picks out of eastern europe in the 80s weren't late round picks due to a lack of talent.

I don't remember the specifics at the time of the trade, but injuries also factor into this. I know there have been stretches this year were there were also a handful of guys on standard IR. Those count to the cap in full, there's no relief there. We can question the follow-up move all we want, but I think it's safe to assume that this trade was made in order to bring in Frolik. If this was done in the heart of that injury run, they very well could not have taken on a penny of salary. We can fault the GM all we want, but the blame for injuries can't be placed on mim. You're saying retaining salary for 30% of the season, but they traded Scandella with around half of the year left to go. So if you're suggesting they take on that money at that point, that's additional money to the cap and every penny adds up quickly when things are tight. Retaining money at that moment was going to bring on some significant limitations moving forward. It may very well have been too much. Now, should they have held onto him longer and potentially maximize the return? It's easy to answer that one today in a vaccuum and ignore all the variables. I want to wait and see how the deadline shakes out before I pass judgement on this one.

It was done in order to take Frolik. Yeah, I know you're suggesting that shouldn't have added him at all, but he wanted a forward and he more than likely couldn't retain money and add that forward.

The Sabres are up against the cap. Montreal is in the bottom 3rd. So there's more to the decision of taking on money than you're suggesting here. Also, if they take that money on then, they then can't take on any more in a later deal. So again, it's not as straightforward as you'd think.

It should be in the neighborhood of $1.5 million in total cap space that they used on Scandella for the entire season. I'm selectively rounding here, but he was with them for around a quarter of the season (so $1 million in cap space), and now they're taking on half of the cap hit for the remaining ~quarter of the season (so another $0.5 million in cap dollars). In terms of real dollars, they took on a little extra because his contract was backloaded and he's making more than $4 million this year. But whatever the exact numbers are, it's fairly low in exchange for moving a draft pick up 40 or so slots.

It does add up if that's the amount of space they needed. They have a decent chunk of money on LTIR and it was probably never about an exact balancing of the cap dollars. That and the maximum that LA could have taken back on the Toffoli deal was $2.3 million, so it does wind up coming pretty close to Schaller's figure.

If Zombieland has taught us anything, it's that you'd be far safer if you did have that three year supply of twinkies. Granted, things would be far less entertaining, but you would be safe.

Anyone with a non-entry level NHL contract needs to clear waivers before being assigned to the AHL. He didn't have one of those until today. So he needs to clear waivers to be assigned there. Edit: I'm being a bit loose with who is required to clear waivers, but that is the case for Leier.

That's also the answer to the earlier question. Signing him did not require waivers, but it is needed to assign him to Rochester now that he has signed. My initial thought was that they signed him so that he could be retained via qualifying offer at the end of the year. But looking at capfriendly, he's a UFA at the end of the year, so that's out. So I'd expect some shuffling around the roster in the upcoming week. They have plenty of space in terms of the 50 contract max, so why not.

Add center(s) and assume nothing of Cozens. If he does show up and deliver, BOOM, depth.

They have space to work with this year. They're in the bottom half of the league in terms of cap hit. It's the summer where they might have to play a few games as they have a handful of ELC contracts expiring.

Each time they show that stat I'm quickly reminded that I'm staring at a list of hall of famers. And on top of that, they played in higher scoring eras. Now he just needs to hold that course and continue to get better. He doesn't need to join Rick Hampton on that list (yeah, had to google him because the name never rang a bell).

It's one of those diseases that actually travels backwards in time.

Ok Rex.

How on earth does he know that name? Did he spend some time in the area early in the career?

Who could have seen this coming?

The argument is that the PA exists and such a suspension would never stand. It’s not worth the effort to the league to try it.

How reputable can NEJM be if I’m in there??

This is the absolute worst time possible to refuse to report. He’s going to play it by the book right now in hopes of a trade going through. If the deadline passes and nothing happens, that’s when he’d walk out if he didn’t want to be in Rochester.

It definitely was a big deal and then glad they did it. But the fact that he was back from the other suspension for about 30 minutes also helps. Didn’t he just get a recent contract extension too?

Ok. I didn’t realize they use the “termination of contract” terminology for what I’ve always identified as being released. When I hear termination I think of a Berglund situation where the contract was violated. So yeah, they can go that way if agreed upon, but the majority of the money still hits the cap (what’s the amount you can stash, something around 800 or 900k?). If people need a recent example, it’s Kovalchuk in LA, but that one was a 35+ deal so it’s slightly different. That thing is hitting them for $6.5 million even next year.

Have you met China?

Why would he do that? He loses the money that way. I think what most people are picturing is the Sabres releasing him (which is their decision, not his). In that case, he’s free, he gets his money, and the team saves a minimal amount of cap space. But as was mentioned upthread, typically when a player is waived with the intent to release, the media catches wind of it right away.