Canes will gladly keep KK as their Staal replacement.

Would you like Jordan Staal instead? There's no price you're going to want to pay that'll get you Kotkaniemi

Tough fan base you Carolina fans, half of you want him gone the other half thinks he's untouchable.

He won't waive

I can promise you no one wants Kotkaniemi gone, we ALL want him to live up to his deal. This has been a bad year, bit its been the only year in Carolina he's struggled so there's no reason to give up on him

Then why do I see Carolina ACGMs attach picks to move him?

Massive overpayment for kotkaniemi

That's great Calgary doesn't want him anyhow.



Yeah half want him gone the other half are crazy homers.

I think hes like sharky, would be better with better linemates and more ice time

That's what Carolina thought when they overpaid him... That didn't work out very well for them.

I've got us giving up pretty much a 3rd round pick, if it doesn't work out he's easily bought out, only an 850k penalty against the cap.

6th and he's yours.

Deal

No thanks. His AAV is about twice what he's worth for 6 more years. Carolina is stuck with him unless they pay through the nose to dump him.

Never made by Canes fans, lmao

Carolina has Graves?! huh didn't know

If they could be rid of Kotkaniemi and also bring back a 2nd, I’d be elated.

Other Canes’ fans on here are ridiculous in their defense of him.

Just look at spockrocks comment. Love how you think you talk for all canes fans

I speak for most Canes fans... but like every fanbase, we have our resident Skip Baylisses

in a world with not enough legit NHL defensemen... hand us Graves for nothing LOL

Like most fan bases, we have realists and know-it-all blowhards.

So glad you didn't miss my point, and thank you for agreeing I'm a realist

Couldn’t be further from the truth. I’ve been reading your idiotic and homer-ific ideas for years.

You are the biggest joke poster on this site, with too big an ego to even see how stupid your opinions are.

I’ll say again, if the Canes could dump Kotkaniemi for a 2nd, they’d be elated.

LMFAO, this is why you are the joke of Canes CapFriendly. Kotkaniemi's not going anywhere, and if you had even a basic understanding of how the Canes operate, you'd know that. This is his first non 40 point pace season in Carolina, it's his first down year, and he's been incredibly unlucky. He's got extremely strong underlying numbers, and the Canes are THE most analytically run organization in the league. He's going nowhere, like it or not. Not yet. Revisit this in 2 years before his NTC kicks in, and it might be different, but there's 0 reason to dump him right now

There’s $4.8M reasons to dump him, and those $4.8M reasons need to be allocated elsewhere. The underlying numbers mean nothing if he’s only giving you 30pts a season at $4.8M.