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November 04, 2021
SportsFilter: The Thursday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
I guess we get to see now whether the "locker room cancer" narrative has any merit. Vegas has had pretty exceptional chemistry since day 1. If that continues once Eichel starts suiting up, it would sure seem to torpedo the Sabres characterization of Eichel. Not that they would care.
posted by tahoemoj at 11:42 AM on November 04, 2021
Isn't Las Vegas going to be in cap hell next season? Getting Jack Eichel will help in this regard how?
posted by NoMich at 01:32 PM on November 04, 2021
Trade is puzzling from a Vegas standpoint. Tuch was one of their top players on an amazingly cap friendly contract. And they give up Krebs who is still developing and basically making the league minimum for the next 2 seasons. In return they get a single player counting twice as much as the 2 he is replacing who has a very serious injury and a less than stellar reputation. Looking at the cap breakdown the Knights are starting to look as badly constrained as the Leafs with 5 players accounting for half of their payroll with 3 of these being No Move contracts. Yikes.
posted by cixelsyd at 06:18 PM on November 04, 2021
Yikes indeed. I see cap killing deals like those and it serves to remind me that the Hurricanes were right not to match New Jersey's deal for Dougie Hamilton. The dude is going to dominate for the next few seasons, but that contract is going to kill them after that.
Getting a GM job in a hard cap league has got to be some sort of deal with the devil. "Oh sure, you can be a GM in a pro sports league, but it will be in a hard cap one. LOLOLOLOLOL"
posted by NoMich at 09:56 PM on November 04, 2021
I see cap killing deals like those and it serves to remind me that the Hurricanes were right not to match New Jersey's deal for Dougie Hamilton.
See: Karlsson, Erik
posted by tahoemoj at 12:09 PM on November 05, 2021
Wow. Cap hit of $11.5 million per season with about five seasons left to go? /shudder
posted by NoMich at 12:46 PM on November 05, 2021
Buffalo Sabres trade Jack Eichel to Golden Knights