Quoting: Affectionate_Side_64
Take a step back and think about it though. Not only is Goodrow cheaper, but he's also a roster player on NYR, which Campbell would not be. Campbell very clearly does not have the tools to be an all-star, not now and certainly not in the future, and the Rangers have Shestyerkin already. Why would the Rangers have more need for Campbell than the Leafs if he supposedly has all star potential, especially if they're trading Samsonov?
Quoting: Affectionate_Side_64
Take a step back and think about it though. Not only is Goodrow cheaper, but he's also a roster player on NYR, which Campbell would not be. Campbell very clearly does not have the tools to be an all-star, not now and certainly not in the future, and the Rangers have Shestyerkin already. Why would the Rangers have more need for Campbell than the Leafs if he supposedly has all star potential, especially if they're trading Samsonov?
I take your points, but my premise is that goalies are up and down at the best of times. You can get a three million dollar free agent that wins you the cup, or you can pay ten million for a guy who underperforms for years and looses the starting job to a guy making league minimum. But then ten million dollar guy suddenly gets hot and takes a 17th place team to the finals.
So Campbell has all the physical tools still, as far as I know. He rises and sinks, from all star to AHL, based on his confidence. NYR are set for starting goalie, and have found stardust this year with Quick, but Quick illustrates this phenomenon. Played himself off the Kings, who aren’t bursting with goalie talent, but bounces back for this quarter season at age 39. But at that age, even the up and down goalie rule applies less and less. You become a down and down-further goalie.
Campbell could be stashed in the AHL as an insurance policy for four years for any team and brought back up when needed and when cap space permits, knowing he would always pass through wavers. The big factor in this scenario though is that to do this you would have to have lots of cap space for up to four years, and I chose NYR since there are few teams with contracts as bad as that of Goodrow. Maybe Vlasic in San Jose or Pageau for NYI are other options.
I find these deals intriguing, trying to find alternate teams to trade your bad contracts to. I don’t really understand why huge buyouts like OEL in Vancouver or the cap hell the Wild voluntarily put themselves through occur. It seems like a lack of imagination, or perhaps lack of patience, on the part of NHL GMs that they do this. Here on armchair GM I guess the easy out is just to say, trade them to Chicago or Arizona with some pics and prospects, or maybe this year it’s trade them to the Ducks or the Sharks. But it’s more interesting to try and think of hockey trades where both sides would get some benefit from the players involved.