And the tradition continues. Six NHL Dmen? Cowan and Minten on the team in October? Samsonov is getting a better offer from some team.

i agree but i get the sense sammer wants to stay here.

If he was going to get a better offer he would have gotten picked up off waivers

Not at he time because teams were worried about his play as it was so bad when considering his cap hit. This offseason his recent stats are much much better. Plus there is a cap increase.

Yep should see the amount of people wanting to spend 6m on a LD lul wen we got 4 already

Sorry you can't whine about other bad ACGMs while also sending away Nick Robertson for nothing.

What future does he have with this team? I don't understand people wanting to keep him around.

He's good at producing on the third line, and is going to be less than 2 million AAV. 6th highest on the team for PTS/60.

I don't think Cowan/Minten are fully ready and shouldn't be relied upon to be ready.

That second point is the only reason I could see us keeping him. His production is fine but it doesn't really fit the style our 3rd line should play. Perhaps next year, there's a better scenario for him where he isn't playing with a defensive liability in Domi, but also isn't playing with an offensive liability in Kampf. He also just isn't anywhere close to being ready to compete in the playoffs. I think he'd be killed against a team like Florida/Boston if he played this season. Only reason I'd be content with keeping him at this point is if we could elevate his usage so he puts up better numbers, increasing his value, and trading him for something of larger valuu. With big minutes and with good players, I could see him being a 50-60 point guy (that we don't need).