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Forum: Armchair-GMFeb. 6, 2020 at 10:34 p.m.
Thread: DAL EDM and DET trades
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Toddyd77</b></div><div>There is way too much retainage going on here. and why would both teams retain in one trade?
Dallas is looking for a scoring forward not a defenseman.
Retainage aside why would we do the Edmonton trade. Why would Edmonton want it? Gagner is overpaid for a 4th liner. Russel to be honest I think is worse than JJ is now. He really is only known for blocking shots and if you are 5ft 10 and only 170 lbs with no elite skating or offensive ability what good are you really. I don't even see Russel as an upgrade of Riikola or Ruhwedel.
Rodrigue seems a decent goalie prospect but the Pens have plenty of goalie depth so not a need.

Glendening would be a decent pickup.</div></div>

PIT has plenty of goalie depth? Sorry, but, with who? D'ORIO is the youngest at 20 and unless he's playing 3 card Monty with the league, he's not the answer. The rest are 25+ years old.
Forum: Armchair-GMFeb. 6, 2020 at 10:31 p.m.
Thread: DAL EDM and DET trades
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Toddyd77</b></div><div>There is way too much retainage going on here. and why would both teams retain in one trade?
Dallas is looking for a scoring forward not a defenseman.
Retainage aside why would we do the Edmonton trade. Why would Edmonton want it? Gagner is overpaid for a 4th liner. Russel to be honest I think is worse than JJ is now. He really is only known for blocking shots and if you are 5ft 10 and only 170 lbs with no elite skating or offensive ability what good are you really. I don't even see Russel as an upgrade of Riikola or Ruhwedel.
Rodrigue seems a decent goalie prospect but the Pens have plenty of goalie depth so not a need.

Glendening would be a decent pickup.</div></div>

If DAL needs a scoring forward to save their season, wow. They have approx. 32 mil invested in 4 forwards, that's problem 1. 2nd, they have 3 top 5 D that are paid like they should be and the rest are 6-7 D. Schultz rounds out their top 4 and give them a much more mobile D.
Forum: Armchair-GMFeb. 6, 2020 at 10:24 p.m.
Thread: DAL EDM and DET trades
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>CPH</b></div><div>I wouldn't do any of these trades. I will also admit there's players in there I know nothing about but to me that means we probably don't need them.

Also, why would both sides of the Edmonton trade retain salary....? Lol</div></div>

Since PIT has the extra cap room with G being out, use it as a tool to gain more assets. None of the retained money goes beyond this year. Rodrigue isn't on paper anything special but he has one thing the team needs. He is a goalie. A simple look at the team will tell you that PIT NEEDS goalie depth. Gagner is a cap dump and Russell isn't a bad 3rd pair D at 2 mill. EDM retains on Russell for next year when PIT needs relief and PIT retains this year when EDM is crying to make the playoffs.
Forum: Armchair-GMFeb. 1, 2020 at 8:08 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMJan. 31, 2020 at 11:31 a.m.
Thread: After the deadline
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>pharrow</b></div><div>they can get more than Roslovic for Schultz.
There was a study on how teams pick their NTC teams. One of the biggest issues for them was taxes, not teams being playoff teams.
Teams tend to rule out canadian teams due to the high tax rate. They tend to prefer teams in FL and NV where there is no state income tax. I'm sure Seattle will be into that group coming up.</div></div>

I wonder how that would work tax wise on salary retention if he were to be traded to a Canadian team or a state with higher/lower taxes. Does the trading team that retains send a check to the player for the salary or do they send it to the team that the player was traded to? To clarify, does the player pay taxes for the retained salary where the contract was signed or the new city.