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Colonel_Green

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Forum: NHL SigningsJul. 10, 2023 at 4:43 p.m.
Thread: San Jose Sharks signed Filip Zadina (1 Year / $1,100,000 AAV)
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>jr400</b></div><div>
What I don't understand is how he got here. CapFriendly says his contract was terminated by Detroit. Obviously that made him a UFA, but how can a team terminate a guy's contract without buying him out? The last time I remember a team terminating a contract was when Evander Kane faked a covid test or something like that, which I assume violated something in the contract terms which allowed the team to walk away from it. Does anybody know under what conditions a team can terminate a player's contract? What did Zadina do to get his contract terminated without Detroit having to buy out the remaining two years? (I know it was past the buyout window, but I thought that meant they were stuck with him until the next buyout window if nobody else wanted to take on his contract.)</div></div>
A player and team can mutually agree to terminate their contract at any time. In this case, Zadina didn't want to play in the AHL, so he asked to terminate, and the Red Wings assented.
Forum: NHL SigningsJul. 5, 2023 at 11:50 p.m.
Thread: Montreal Canadiens signed David Reinbacher (3 Years / $2,116,667 AAV)
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Not_Isles5513</b></div><div>My issue with the signing is that they didn’t take Michov. It just seems like Hughes and Gorton has done everything they can to minimize the impact of their top picks. After all, the five guys taken immediately after Slafkovsky are all better than the former #1 overall pick. Then you have the Dach and Newhook trades where Montreal overpaid for non-premium talents. Franchise looks like a mess rn imo.</div></div>
Who turns out to be the best of the high picks in the 2022 draft remains to be seen. They aimed for the BPA.

In what world did they overpay for Dach? Pretty much everyone loves the Dach acquisition, which effectively cost them one of their many left D prospects or the chance to pick 13OA in a relatively weak draft year; the chances that Nazar or whoever else they could have picked at that rank turn out to be not as good as Dach are high.
Forum: NHL TradesJun. 27, 2023 at 2:51 p.m.
Thread: (COL/MTL) - Newhook for Fairbrother, 2023 1st (FLA), 2023 2nd (MTL)
I’m kind of surprised we’re trading for a 5’10 centre given all the reports about the front office wanting to add more size. Whatever the case, we’ll see how it plays out. The front office’s pro scouting has been good thus far.

Makes the draft a bit less interesting from our perspective, though, now we only have one high pick instead of three.

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>OldNYIfan</b></div><div>The team that wins biggest out of this trade is Winnipeg, because now Montreal is out of the PLD sweepstakes and the Jets have the leverage.</div></div>
Huh? How does it help Winnipeg if they no longer have another major team bidding against the Kings?

Not that it matters, since it sounds like the deal is mostly done.

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>sensonfire</b></div><div>IMO, a fair deal for Newhook would be Fairbrother + one of the two picks, not both. </div></div>
Fairbrother, with his injury history, isn’t really a noteworthy prospect at this point. He’s closer to a throw-in.
Forum: NHL SigningsJun. 20, 2023 at 10:04 p.m.
Thread: Montreal Canadiens signed Sean Monahan (1 Year / $2,000,000 AAV)
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Leafsfan98</b></div><div>If you've played organized hockey (not meant to be an insult, just more of a scenario that you could understand where I'm coming from), and you had the option to sign with 2 teams: one team will use you to try and win for sure, that's why they are approaching you and one team may or may not use you or might send you off to another team... Which team would you rather sign with?</div></div>
When Montreal is actively recruiting free agents for more traditional long-term contracts in a few years, I'm not sure why anybody would be concerned that a few years earlier the team gave a guy they took in as a cap dump an extra year to try a mutually beneficial arrangement. The team isn't trying to win now. In the future, they will be; nobody signs guys to long-term contracts just to trade them immediately.