Florida has to many Dman rn especially once Ekblad and Montour comeback.

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Kulikov
Mikkolla
OEL
Forsling
Mahura
Montour
Ekblad

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Extras: Kulikov, Mahura


If Carolina cant work on an extension they want to move him or else lose him for nothing like Hamilton

Pittsburgh doesnt have the cap space nor anything Carolina would want plus divisional rivalry

Meanwhile Toronto has something Carolina wants WN, SEA has cap space and some nice forwards (Bjorkstrand, Burakovsky, Eberle, etc), and NSH seems to be in no mans land where they are adding and subtracting

That makes less than zero sense. Seriously, why should a team get bonus cap space for signing a bought out player? Did you really logically think that through before posting? It should cost a team 2 cap dollars for everyone over the buriable amount you should be punished rather than rewarded for being bought out the player gets rewarded because teams would throw a boat load at a player knowing it only costs 1.2 ? That's an utterly mind-boggling concept

RBA has shown that he's been able to keep him in check and the guys in the locker room like him so I really wouldn't be worried about the Off Ice Stuff

What off-ice or locker room issues did he have in Philly? Where is all this garbage about 'character' coming from?

Anyone saying no shouldn't let their biases get in the way.

In Carolina, at least to my knowledge, the drama was almost nonexistent

Oh we will. I'm going to post something about it in the Pens area of the site, he's as good as ours

I'm pretty sure there were "character" issues/concerns leading to him being dumped by all of Tampa, Arizona, and the nyr despite playing well on the ice. I don't know about anything from Philly one way or the other. Apparently torts was dissatisfied with his play on the ice.

But yeah the character concerns have clear origins

The Rangers waived him in 2021 in February because of too many incidents and wouldn't even let him near their ahl team. They bought him out when able in July. This is not some witch hunt against conservative people. They wanted him out of their organization.

Similarly Tampa dumped him to zona despite him looking like a quality prospect for off ice concerns reportedly.

Massive W since this keeps Hurricanes front office from trading for EK65.

In what world this is a no?

Florida needs depth because those guys get injured every year.

I'm still not hearing any specifics. When. you (not you personally) attack someone's character, there should be specific evidence, no? The only thing I remember from NY was a fight with Georgiev and an internet hoax involving K'Andre Miller. Nothing I've seen or heard tells me the Phi buyout had anything to do with off-ice issues. It seemed to be a hockey decision. Seems to. me like he has a history of underperformance, not character issues.

Paying a very good top 4 offensive defender 1.6 Million to play on your 3rd pairing is a steal.

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needed to tack on the extra 75,000 to not be too on the nose

if they get bought out then they were overpaid, if he is only worth league min they should have paid him league min.

He was suspended from his junior team for calling a teammate a slur.

This should also boost Aho powerplay scoring

Really?(I agree that the blue line is one of the best in the NHL but, what issues did Burns have, I thought he was great)

Burns is very much a one-trick pony with that howitzer of a shot. He's not so great at moving the puck around to create openings and the best PP the Canes have had possibly ever was actually when DeAngelo was the QB. If the Canes can get the powerplay from where it was to top 5, they become a dominant force in all 3 phases of the game (ES, PP, PK).

It's unlikely we'll ever get the full details of any incident until many years later in biographies and the like, but there is a lot of smoke of teams wanting nothing to do with him. Reportedly Tampa wanted to dump his rights for character reasons. As above NYR wanted him out of the organization and not even playing with their ahl team. That suggests there are issues with who he is. If you're looking for incontrovertible proof you won't be able to find it. But there is a lot of smoke here to use the analogy you mentioned earlier

The way he was portrayed in the media, as racist and whatnot, was a witch hunt scenario due to his political beliefs. I didn't say the Rangers bought him out because of his political views, but they were also under pressure from the media after it came out that he made fun of Georgiev, or whatever.

The Rangers suck though. Let's not forget Trouba is their captain and both Kakko and Lafreniere are busts.

Plenty of his teammates have gone on record saying he is a good teammate. Carolina just signed him again... not at 5M a year though.

I see nothing wrong here and I think he gets too much hate from people on the internet who have no idea what they're talking about.

1. In Philly the source of the drama should be obvious

2. How long have you been watching hockey? His off ice issue were well documented