Sabres sign Radim Mrtka to His ELC

[GoPuckYourself]

4 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

He is not that bad 🙃 - Really should see improvement of him with Kessering ( if they don't put him with Dahlin).

1 can only hope.

[LGR4GM]

3 hours ago, DarthEbriate said:

The NCAA distinction is important because now his access to money is Rochester. I definitely think we're seeing:

25 Seattle -> 26 Rochester -> 27 Buffalo (definitely more than just a 2-game look), and then one more season (2028-29) remaining before RFA.

He gets paid to play for Seattle

[DarthEbriate]

7 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

He gets paid to play for Seattle

Not $832,500 annually, though.

[Thorny]

I don’t know why and I know almost nothing about him but I feel like he could become a Seabrook like player 

[shrader]

Too lazy to read.  Is he Rochester eligible?  I have no idea exactly when he crossed the ocean.

[DarthEbriate]

13 minutes ago, shrader said:

Too lazy to read.  Is he Rochester eligible?  I have no idea exactly when he crossed the ocean.

He's a CHL player, so age 20 -- until the new CBA kicks in and then he could be assigned at age 19 with an exemption.

He joined Seattle in the middle of the 2024-25 season.

[shrader]

22 minutes ago, DarthEbriate said:

He's a CHL player, so age 20 -- until the new CBA kicks in and then he could be assigned at age 19 with an exemption.

He joined Seattle in the middle of the 2024-25 season.

That's not exactly how it works though.  Alex Nylander was a CHL guy too, but since he was "on loan" (I forget if that's the proper language) from his Swedish team, he wound up in the AHL immediately after being drafted.  Mrtka was with a pro Czech team last year too.

[LTS]

22 hours ago, Thorny said:

I don’t know why and I know almost nothing about him but I feel like he could become a Seabrook like player 

Well... you've been accurate in other posts.  But I dare not hope you are right because hope isn't a strategy. 🙂

[LGR4GM]

22 hours ago, DarthEbriate said:

He's a CHL player, so age 20 -- until the new CBA kicks in and then he could be assigned at age 19 with an exemption.

He joined Seattle in the middle of the 2024-25 season.

The new cba kicks in for 2026. He's gonna play 1 more CHL season and then he can go to the AHL.

[Taro T]

1 hour ago, LGR4GM said:

The new cba kicks in for 2026. He's gonna play 1 more CHL season and then he can go to the AHL.

Presuming the CHL agrees to that change to their agreement with the NHL.

[shrader]

2 hours ago, Taro T said:

Presuming the CHL agrees to that change to their agreement with the NHL.

That's the part I've been wondering about the whole time.  It's not a CBA issue, it's a transfer agreement issue.